<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:58 PM, M-.-n wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-GB" vlink="purple" link="blue"><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><div><span class="171184519-23092008"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Paul,</font></span></div><div><span class="171184519-23092008"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="171184519-23092008"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Not sure I'm 100% correct since I don't own any of them. However, a little history lesson: In the old days, since those chip where basically uber limited, people had to use tricks to make them sound more 'interesting' (people were writing whole tunes & FX on one chip!) .</font></span></div><div><span class="171184519-23092008"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div><div><span class="171184519-23092008"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">One of the big + of the setup was that those chips were connected to a main CPU that was able to change their parameters really fast creating complex timbre coming not from only the chip but rather from the combination of a fast controller and the chip. Hand in hand. These techniques are what make music on gameboy/sid/NES interesting (hum, at least for some of us) and the root what I was trying to achieve -and still am- with lgpt: applying it to samples. Maybe think of it as a modulation like LFO/Envelopes but a lot more complex since they where completely programmable.</font></span></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I think an example of this "sound" that paul might understand is if you turn the arpeggiator speed in the monomachine up to say x1. Right?</div></body></html>