High Voltage SID Collection: Update #74
Date: December 20, 2020

Resulting Version: 74
 Previous Version: 73

After this update, the collection should contain 53,669 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     786 new SIDs
      55 fixed/better rips
       1 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     180 SID credit fixes
      17 SID model/clock infos
       7 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      25 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
      10 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories

We are always looking for others to help make HVSC a better collection.
If you find any errors or have new rips to add, please email:

 iAN CooG  <hvsc (sid) c64.org>

Thanks to all the people who have helped to make HVSC the collection that it
is today, without your help it would be a much tougher task.


SID RELATED NEWS:


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# SoedeSoft SidMaster #
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SIDmaster is a virtual synthesizer for the popular DAW: Reason. It emulates the
SID 6581 or SID 8580 sound chip of the popular Commodore 64 home computer of the
eighties and nineties.

SIDMaster is made by SoedeSoft who also made the music editor SoundMaster on the
Commodore 64 in the 80s.

Although SIDMaster looks compact and doesn't take much space in your rack, all
registers of each of the 3 voices can be controlled simultaneously.

Besides simply emulating the SID chip, it also implements all kinds of effects
that were popular in the days when musicians made game or demo tunes for the
C64, to get greater sounds.

Features:

The C64 6581 SID chip has 3 voices, each voice has:

- Attack Decay Sustain Release control.
- Waveform selection (triangle, sawtooth, pulse, noise, or any combination)
- Pulse width can be modulated by the control wheel.
- Built-in arpeggiator, which can be different per voice
- Waveform effects (alternates waveforms/frequencies sequentially)
- Ring modulation and sync options (modulates / syncs one voice with another)
- Note transpose and detune

One filter which can be enabled per voice:

- It can be configured as lowpass, highpass, bandpass or notch filter
- Cutoff frequency, and resonance, which can be modulated by the control wheel
  and velocity.
- Resonance can be modulated with the control wheel.
- LFOs for the pulse width, frequency of each voice and one LFO for the filter.

Play modes are:

- Monophone: use all 3 voices simultaneously to create richer, layered sound
- Polyphone: operate as a 3-voice polyphonic synthesizer.
- Keyboard control: pitch bend, legato / slide

Check it out here:

https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack-extension/soedesoft-sidmaster/


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# ARMSID firmware 2.12  #
# ARM2SID firmware 3.12 #
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A new firmware update has been released for the ARMSID and ARM2SID.

ARMSID/ARM2SID is a replacement of the MOS6581 and MOS8580 sound chip used in
the Commodore C64. It is minimalistic (in simplicity of circuit and use, not in
function and power).

The following has been changed:

- Fixed setting of the lowest filter frequency for MOS6581 emulation (sometimes
  the simulation did not match the settings).
- Digifix in MOS8580 emulation is now configurable.
- Fixed inner analog offsets in the MOS6581 emulation.
- A small fix in tone counters updates in the fast changes.
- Faster release of the data bus after reading cycle.
- Fixed a bug from older versions in the values generation of the register OSC3
  during a noise waveform.

Get the new firmware here:

https://www.nobomi.cz/8bit/armsid/index_en.php
https://www.nobomi.cz/8bit/arm2sid/index_en.php


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# SID Factory II Beta #
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SID Factory II is a cross-platform music editor made by Thomas Egeskov Petersen
(also known as Laxity) for editing SID music that can be played on a C64.
It is a successor of SID Factory which runs natively on a C64.

The latest beta is now available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

A lot of changes have been made in the last 6 months.

Check it out:

http://blog.chordian.net/sf2/


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# Sidplayfp 2.0.3 #
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Libsidplayfp (and its console frontend sidplayfp) is a fork of sidplay2 born
with the aim to improve the quality of emulating the 6581, 8580 chips and the
surrounding C64 system in order to play SID music better.

Changes in this release:

- Improve man page [bugs:#36]
- Refactor and improve config path checking

Get the new version here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sidplay-residfp/


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# CGSC v1.40 #
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The Compute Sidplayer Collection has been updated and contains now 15659 MUS
files, 4318 STR files and 5400 WDS files.

Get the collection here: http://www.c64music.co.uk/


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# AIMP Sidplay 1.2.1 Plugin for AIMP #
######################################

Zbigniew Ross (Zbych) released a new version of his AIMP plugin for playing
SID files in AIMP.

The plugin is based on libsidplayfp/ReSidfp library.

The following has been changed:

- Fixed bug causing AIMP crash when file from playlist was deleted outside AIMP.
  It was not possible to run AIMP again after such action.

Get the plugin from here:

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=197564


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# SIDedit v4.02+ #
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Jürgen Wothke released a new version of SIDedit. It's a patched version of
LaLa's ancient SIDedit v4.02 from 2004.

The following has been changed:

- Added "List all files" option so that binaries can be loaded without having to
  rename them to "*.prg" first.
- Added browsing support for Windows folder names containing non-ASCII
  characters.
- Patched so it works with Perl and module versions still available today.
- Got rid of the annoying perl2exe "trial version" popup.

You can get the source code and program from here:

https://github.com/wothke/SIDedit


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# Hoxs64 v1.1.0.5 #
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Hoxs64 v1.1.0.5 has been released. Hoxs64 is a C64 emulator for Windows written
by David Horrocks.

The following has been changed:

- Cartridge system 3 fix plus other related cartridge register address
  comparison fixes.
- Corrected DirectX pixel sampler mode from D3D11_TEXTURE_ADDRESS_WRAP to
  use D3D11_TEXTURE_ADDRESS_CLAMP to fix graphical artifacts seen at the
  boundaries of the display area.

Get the new version from: http://www.hoxs64.net/


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# TitchySID  #
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TitchySID is a music player based on TinySID. It is written in MASM32 and it can
play SID chiptunes from the Commodore 64.

It currently only supports PSID format files, but other formats will be added in
the future. It aims to be the smallest SID player library available which can be
added easily to any development project on Microsoft platforms.

TitchySID can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/Stat-Mat/TitchySID


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# WebSid (WebAudio version of Tiny'R'Sid) #
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WebSid is a JavaScript/WebAudio based C64 emulator / music player. It allows to
play .mus and RSID/PSID format *.sid music files. 

The emulator logic is written in C/C++. This code is then cross-compiled into a
JavaScript library suitable for the Web.

WebSid is also used by online players like DeepSid and SIDAMP.

A couple of changes were made recently:

- CIA/IRQ/NMI implementation now passes Wolfgang Lorenz's 6502 test suite.
- Performance improvements to make the emulator significantly faster. Depending
  on the song played, CPU load reduction for single SID songs is between 33-50%.

Check it out: https://github.com/wothke/websid


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# defMON V20200918 #
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defMON is a music editor for the Commodore 64.

Changes in this release:

- When muting voices in 2SID mode, the visual representation of which channels
  that are currently on/off was incorrect (e.g. muting VOC0 for SID1 would make
  the label VOC0 disappear for SID2 as well.).

You can get the editor from here:

https://www.vandervecken.com/defmon/doku.php?id=download:download


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# JITT64 1.0.4 #
################

JITT64 (Java Ice Team Tracker) is a tool for creating music with the SID chip
used into the Commodore 64.

This tracker is for making music without using low raster time, but instead
gives you a possibility to make very complex instrument definition. You have
freedom in creating your music!

The following has been changed:

- Song: after loading a song stops a previous song being played
- Option: change Nimbus class as per Java package (now works again)
- Option: add equal temperament scale, normal scale (Zarlian) and Pythagorean
  scale with custom A4 frequency values
- Option: add flat look & feel
- Pattern: replace instrument in selection with current
- Player: accept a custom table of frequencies passed at runtime
- Player: optimize AD and SR instruments code if they are used in common way
- Player: fix conditional compilation that skip all commands after 11
- Player: fix 0.5X speed CIA timer
- Packer: generate custom table of frequencies as per option
- Packer: fix missing optimization error for first command of pattern

Check it out: https://iceteam.itch.io/jitt64/devlog/163574/jitt64-104


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# DeepSID #
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DeepSID is an online SID player made by JCH of Vibrants. It emulates music
created for the Commodore 64 home computer. It supports nice features like:

- Toggling between WebSID/jsSID/SOASC for SID playback.
- SID player and year display for each song.
- Creature and play playlists.
- Rating folders and SID files.
- Comment / Discuss SID files
- Profile / CSDb / GB64 / Player / STIL / Piano / Graph view.
- Search through HVSC / STIL.
- and much more.

Almost every day changes are made and are put online. See the Changes tab for
the full change log.

Check it out: http://deepsid.chordian.net/


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# SID Known v1.20 #
###################

Wilfred Bos has released SID Known v1.20. This version supports now HVSC #74.
SID Known is a command line tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from
SID and PRG files.

This tool can be used if e.g. you want to know which SID tune is used in a
specific C64 demo or C64 game, or you have a SID tune found or ripped and you
want to know if it is already in your SID collection.

SID Known can be used to identify music but it also helps to find out which
tunes are not in the High Voltage SID Collection. If you find music not found
by SID Known, it would be appreciated if you report this to the HVSC crew
(https://hvsc.de) or post it in one of the CSDb forums (https://csdb.dk) like
"SIDs that aren't in HVSC yet".

Get the tool here: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=198254
