I know, right? I feel we're losing something as chip technology and software continue to advance. I think these days, everything is so seamless and intuitive that we forget just how much our computers can do. I know a few people that don't even know how to properly use a file manager, because they do everything in their browser.
@@MaxUgly What? Web tech is amazing! It sucks in many ways, but is kind of the same magic as the keyboard of this episode. Weird people making weird things with tech is not suppose to be used with? Anyways, Linux is awesome... and so are you buddy.
@@SRG-Learn-Code I'm with you 100% I am actually happy so much is done in the browser. Specifically because it frees us of having to use a certain os. Torvalds brought that up in some recent interview. However, most of the true fun is in a terminal or ide or playing with stuff people have built. Some of my first and fondest memories were when I first started using Linux and being in synaptic for hours on end like "whoa! Look at all this stuff!" And playing with all types of things, many of which I had no idea what it was for. You are awesome too, friend!
I love it when Veronica releases a video because you just know you are going to learn something. I have made a few PC keyboard overlays out of cardboard and paper before. But of course there are as many PC keyboard types as there are fish in the sea. But that plastic overlay for the C64 is way cool. Great video Veronica.
I owned one of these from new in the UK about 1989 approx. They were £99,99 brand new sold in WH Smith stationers who were the main high street retailers for home computers back in the day. Have fun!
At 26:21 as you view the keys from underneath, it looks like that high "B" white key is intentionally designed to strike the two keys on the C64 keyboard. It has an extra little striker on the edge that the other white keys don't.
Amazing video Veronica :)... I too know so many people going through tough times at the moment, I'm not sure what going on in da world but keep strong and keep making such wonderful content. Live long and prosper 🖖
This is cool! Only down side is that it reminded why I was often envious of my friends who had a C64 (one of them had a similar musical keyboard overlay), its music capabilities were so much better than my Apple IIe.
I remember seeing that being advertised in Compute's Gazette. I wanted that sooooo bad when I was kid in the 80s. The I saw that there was a MIDI interface, and I wanted that, too. Now I have a keytar with a wireless midi interface that would have blown my 15 year old mind.
I share a similar memory: also remember having peered at an ad of the c64 piano keyboard gadget in late 1980s yet never had seen it in live use until watching this delightful video! (Veronica: haha, I noticed that your c64c doesn't have the original "64c" keyboard but a unit swapped from a breadbin model)
@@VeronicaExplains Yeah, you could just make something 3D printed that sits in the grooves of the breadbin right behind the keyboard. You could also add some buttons as well if you needed some for MSSIAH.
Gotta say it, you seem to be enjoying yourself WAY more in this video than usual and your editing style seems more relaxed too, really dig the fun side of ya showing :D
Two examples of what you could order came in your box. Booklets of sheet music, one type with simpler songs and the letters shown, and one type with just usual sheet music.
lol love your channel as someone that loves tech but was born to late to enjoy the start of the computer world it is fun to learn where others started thanks
Love it, Veronica. I've always appreciated that you bring your own music to your channel, and can't wait to hear what more you'll do with this. Just noticed your MST3K reference on your end card... Very awesome.
Funny how different we are, I had an Amiga before I had a C64, so I was completely used to playing straight on the qwerty's, and when I got my C64 with one of those overlays and was playing around with Sound Odyssey, more often than not, I would take the overlay off. But then again I'm just a pretend musician who doesn't read music.
Never seen such software and keyboard musical attachment before, cool classic digital gadgets of the near past. It would be cool to see a video with music that you created with such digital device. Thanks for sharing! 😺🥰⭐️💎🎹🎶🎶🎶💃
I had the Commodore Music Maker software and keyboard overlay in the 80s and it looks very similar to your Incredible Music Keyboard overlay. I must have had the Incredible Music Keyboard software too at some stage because that Kawasaki Rhythm Rocker demo certainly triggered a memory, I've seen those software demos before :-) My software of choice for making electronic music back then was The Music System. I had a Jellinghaus MIDI cartridge to connect my external equipment to the C64. A few years ago I reverse engineered the Jellinghaus cart and have made some modern replica MIDI carts. I've also recently re-unboxed my Siel Sound Buggy (made in Italy) which is an external sound module for the Commodore 64 that plugged into the User Port. It sounds very much like a cheap 80s home keyboard with bass, accompaniment, drums and melody. It also came with a keyboard overlay but it is not compatible with other software (Commodore Music Maker, SynthCart, MSSIAH) as it starts one key to the left. The Siel software was also MIDI compatible and could be controlled with external keyboards AND play external sound devices as well.
Thought provoking. Lovely to see your enthusiasm. As I’m more interested in music than computers, it encouraged me to look up what alternatives were around, at this time. From 1983 Clavinova (YP40) and, if you must, DX7, were available (both made by Yamaha). If I remember right, the Clavinova had 32 note polyphony (?) And…I have a device that was made 30 years before the Commodore…(3 note polyphony 🙄) It is touch sensitive and has ‘infinite’ polyphony, and looks lovely - an old upright piano!! 🎹 😂😂 I too love hyperlinks👍
For anyone who doesnt have original hardware, I highly recommend Plogue's C64 plugin. Its not a sample pack or some half baked sound alike. Its a bit accurate emulation with almost fanatical attention to detail. They even emulate different variants of SID chip.
i had this as a kid but my mother got rid of my fathers commodore stuff when i went into the Army. recently my uncle gave me his so i couldnhave one again, i want to goof around with chip tunes. as a kid that Kawasaki demo was so cool to me lol so many memories. and its a music making software not a game. the demo is just like other music demos, a music video on commodore. the keyboard is not amazing, its incredible :P
7:56 New Berlin. That’s suburban Milwaukee. Interestingly, I can’t find anything about that company online. I wonder if I know anyone who worked in tech in Milwaukee in the 80s.
I had a Commodore 128 and got the Incredible Musical Keyboard by Sight and Sound for it.. I loved the demo for Ryo Kowasaki's Synthesizer that came with it. I'd love to see your Messiah Cartidge demonstrated. I gave my C=128 to my brother when I switched to MS-DOS computers (because that's what we used at work - the DOS machine was a bit of a dissapointment compared to the sound and graphics of the C=64 / C=128).
Hi Veronica, nice name by the way! I've just seen this piano framework in a BBC archive video called '1984: Cutting-Edge Personal Computer Tech.' It was just uploaded.
Will you be soldering in a second SID sometime soon? IIRC the makers of the Messiah cartridge also sell a dual SID board. Also, there's a device out there called the MidiSID from PeacockMedia (the creator runs the MIDI IN channel here on RUclips) that may unleash some more 8-bit musical possibilities, though to be honest it's a bit on the pricey side.
The slide piano sounded like a jump sound effect in a game. Also, I wonder if anyone ever made an overlay like this that fits the 64C. Particularly in Europe where they're more common because the majority of sales happened later in the computer's lifecycle.
I have the THEC64 Maxi from Retro Games. And I also have the Incredible keyboard. It fits on it as well and works perfectly with it, and it’s a lot of fun!
Oh, I remember when this came out - I think maybe I fooled around with one at one time, but don't remember it well. I did try several times to bring my C64 into my music work, but never really found a great way to do that. I had the Yamaha CX5m with it's full-size keyboard at the time, which was more fun.
To be truthful, I missed these day of the early era of home computers, with the C64, Vic20, C128, Apple II, II+, //c, //e and //gs and the IBM PC. XT and AT.
Great little track at the end! I hadn't thought about it, but yeah - it's easy to lose track of where you are in the keyboard when all you have is QWERTYUIOP, and you don't really want that in a live show.
I can imagine so. It's simple enough construction. Just need some key tension and a building material that will stand up to that level of flexing (or the patience to reprint broken parts!)
21:51 - hmmmmm... I admit, my curiosity is a bit piqued by the idea of a messiah (sp?) cartridge video... though at the same time, I have no anticipation of ever having a C64, let alone the cartridge, so... I guess it'd just be for edutainment, but then, you've been known to embrace that framing, so... sure, why not? ;) [Low pressure, though. I won't miss it if it's not there, but I'll enjoy it if it is.]
Yes,please make a video about the Mssiah cartridge because the Sidekick I just ordered comes with Prophet64, which is the predecessor of Mssiah (and is really cool because it has the Prophet synthesizer font)
This is the type of stuff that makes computing feel like computing. The newer stuff somehow lost that beige patina that gave things character. God I'm old.
Have you checked out the cynthcart prg? I really like the sounds it comes with and you can modify and save your own. The program is free, but you can also buy a cartridge and once you know how to use the program, you can use it without a monitor, just bring your breadbin with the keyboard overlay and the cartridge and you are ready to rock.
This doesn't fix the issue of visibility on stage at all, but I've recently been annoyed by having to re-plug my MIDI around when controlling various instruments myself. MIDI splitters tend to go one way, but I've found a couple of fairly cheap and small MIDI _routers_ which look like they should let me send everything out to and from my synths without worrying about whether the computer can record the MIDI data. (I tried to do it all with MIDI-thru chaining, but I ended-up needing at least one split or loop which didn't work out.) I don't have any yet so I can't speak for their quality, but I'm hoping to get one this winter and simplify my cabling effort!
I wanted one of those as a kid but couldn't afford it. Instead I reworked the code to map each octave on 3 cols X 4 rows of keys to not only get an extra octave compared to the the piano keyboard but just random key pressing sounded far more musical! I think perhaps it mapped out the scales in a more accessible manner, IDK I'm not a muso. 🙂
I’m definitely interested in a MSSIAH video. I own one and can’t figure out it out (doesn’t help that I have no modern tracker experience), and none of the existing videos on RUclips are any good.
Interestingly enough, Ryo Kawasaki has some pedigree! Per Wikipedia [1], he "was a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist, composer and band leader, best known as one of the first musicians to develop and popularize the fusion genre and for helping to develop the guitar synthesizer in collaboration with Roland Corporation and Korg." Alas! he passed beyond The Rim in 2020. [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Kawasaki#1979%E2%80%931990_(as_inventor_and_programmer)
How to play your C64 live via MIDI controller so people can see it (theoretically): Ultimate 64 + transparent 64C case + internal LED strip + MSSIAH & MIDI controller. The Ultimate 64 settings control the RGB LED strip to provide SID visualization. Prop up the C64 so it’s visible to the audience. Disclaimer: I have all of these components but haven’t actually tried it yet. This might be possible with the Incredible Music Keyboard also, but only if you find a translucent breadbin case and the overlay doesn’t obscure the LEDs too much.
I wish I had picked up one of these back in the day, before our breadbin died. (We replaced it with a C128, which wouldn't fit the incredible keyboard.) I never got the hang of playing the normal keyboard directly.
I would definitely like to know how to connect a midi keyboard to a c64c and try and make music with it. It’s a pity the keyboard overlay wasn’t made for the c64c, especially since music maker used to be bundled with the c64c
Different overall. I have an Atari 1040 fm + Cubase 2. How do I transform that music (.arr) to next level Cubase? Sorry if this is not the place to ask this.
BAND.
Oh hi!
Well, it beats the hell out of The Sticky Bits... 🤭
The Stop Bits!
Just wanted to thank you so much for the superb captions, especially the descriptions of your laughs. much appreciated!
You are welcome! They are a critical piece of the infrastructure around here. :)
And musical lingo, too! Brilliant! Thanks, @@VeronicaExplains!
#NoMoreCraptions. :)
We have forgotten how amazing computers are.
I know, right? I feel we're losing something as chip technology and software continue to advance. I think these days, everything is so seamless and intuitive that we forget just how much our computers can do.
I know a few people that don't even know how to properly use a file manager, because they do everything in their browser.
Browsers take the soul out of the pc it seems
@@MaxUgly What? Web tech is amazing! It sucks in many ways, but is kind of the same magic as the keyboard of this episode. Weird people making weird things with tech is not suppose to be used with? Anyways, Linux is awesome... and so are you buddy.
@@SRG-Learn-Code I'm with you 100% I am actually happy so much is done in the browser. Specifically because it frees us of having to use a certain os. Torvalds brought that up in some recent interview. However, most of the true fun is in a terminal or ide or playing with stuff people have built. Some of my first and fondest memories were when I first started using Linux and being in synaptic for hours on end like "whoa! Look at all this stuff!" And playing with all types of things, many of which I had no idea what it was for. You are awesome too, friend!
The SID is one of the top ten triumphs of the 20th century!
I love it when Veronica releases a video because you just know you are going to learn something.
I have made a few PC keyboard overlays out of cardboard and paper before. But of course there are as many PC keyboard types as there are fish in the sea. But that plastic overlay for the C64 is way cool.
Great video Veronica.
I owned one of these from new in the UK about 1989 approx. They were £99,99 brand new sold in WH Smith stationers who were the main high street retailers for home computers back in the day. Have fun!
I had one - don't remember paying that much - thought it was about 30 quid
@@raythomas4812 you are right. They were £29.99
At 26:21 as you view the keys from underneath, it looks like that high "B" white key is intentionally designed to strike the two keys on the C64 keyboard. It has an extra little striker on the edge that the other white keys don't.
Amazing video Veronica :)... I too know so many people going through tough times at the moment, I'm not sure what going on in da world but keep strong and keep making such wonderful content. Live long and prosper 🖖
Thank you so much! It is appreciated.
This is cool! Only down side is that it reminded why I was often envious of my friends who had a C64 (one of them had a similar musical keyboard overlay), its music capabilities were so much better than my Apple IIe.
Neat!!
It really is!
Loving the content. Look forward to the next one!
I remember seeing that being advertised in Compute's Gazette. I wanted that sooooo bad when I was kid in the 80s. The I saw that there was a MIDI interface, and I wanted that, too. Now I have a keytar with a wireless midi interface that would have blown my 15 year old mind.
I share a similar memory: also remember having peered at an ad of the c64 piano keyboard gadget in late 1980s yet never had seen it in live use until watching this delightful video!
(Veronica: haha, I noticed that your c64c doesn't have the original "64c" keyboard but a unit swapped from a breadbin model)
You can add a potentiometer onto your IMK and plug it in so you can use that live. I personally like that option a lot.
I could! I just don't think I'd want to drill through the original plastics. What I am imagining is perhaps 3d printing something.
@@VeronicaExplains Yeah, you could just make something 3D printed that sits in the grooves of the breadbin right behind the keyboard. You could also add some buttons as well if you needed some for MSSIAH.
21:56 of course I want to see a video on that cartridge!
Air Supply - brings back memories. Memories of terrible live concert experiences where I sacrificed my music sensibility for a girlfriend.
18:24 trying to apply vibrato by wiggling the keys, like a true guitarist 😆
I can't not!
We need to crowdfund Veronica an Osmose ;)
Gotta say it, you seem to be enjoying yourself WAY more in this video than usual and your editing style seems more relaxed too, really dig the fun side of ya showing :D
Two examples of what you could order came in your box. Booklets of sheet music, one type with simpler songs and the letters shown, and one type with just usual sheet music.
This is an incredible video, I'm so glad I found your channel!
Wow - I still use older tech than this for funsies - but for some reason....this one got me. I had forgotten, and now I feel old.
lol love your channel as someone that loves tech but was born to late to enjoy the start of the computer world it is fun to learn where others started thanks
Thank YOU for watching!
Love it, Veronica. I've always appreciated that you bring your own music to your channel, and can't wait to hear what more you'll do with this.
Just noticed your MST3K reference on your end card... Very awesome.
I’d attend the Stop Bits as one of the attractions at Veronica’s UBetcha Upper Midwest Retro Hardware Swap and Synth and bait shop
Funny how different we are, I had an Amiga before I had a C64, so I was completely used to playing straight on the qwerty's, and when I got my C64 with one of those overlays and was playing around with Sound Odyssey, more often than not, I would take the overlay off. But then again I'm just a pretend musician who doesn't read music.
You are wonderfully creative! :)
And yes, it would be fantastic if you made a video about the MSIAH cartridge as well.
Never seen such software and keyboard musical attachment before, cool classic digital gadgets of the near past. It would be cool to see a video with music that you created with such digital device. Thanks for sharing! 😺🥰⭐️💎🎹🎶🎶🎶💃
I had the Commodore Music Maker software and keyboard overlay in the 80s and it looks very similar to your Incredible Music Keyboard overlay. I must have had the Incredible Music Keyboard software too at some stage because that Kawasaki Rhythm Rocker demo certainly triggered a memory, I've seen those software demos before :-) My software of choice for making electronic music back then was The Music System. I had a Jellinghaus MIDI cartridge to connect my external equipment to the C64. A few years ago I reverse engineered the Jellinghaus cart and have made some modern replica MIDI carts.
I've also recently re-unboxed my Siel Sound Buggy (made in Italy) which is an external sound module for the Commodore 64 that plugged into the User Port. It sounds very much like a cheap 80s home keyboard with bass, accompaniment, drums and melody. It also came with a keyboard overlay but it is not compatible with other software (Commodore Music Maker, SynthCart, MSSIAH) as it starts one key to the left. The Siel software was also MIDI compatible and could be controlled with external keyboards AND play external sound devices as well.
Lovely video, the patreons list with music is a hit. 👍🏼😃
Thought provoking. Lovely to see your enthusiasm.
As I’m more interested in music than computers, it encouraged me to look up what alternatives were around, at this time.
From 1983 Clavinova (YP40) and, if you must, DX7, were available (both made by Yamaha).
If I remember right, the Clavinova had 32 note polyphony (?)
And…I have a device that was made 30 years before the Commodore…(3 note polyphony 🙄)
It is touch sensitive and has ‘infinite’ polyphony, and looks lovely - an old upright piano!! 🎹 😂😂
I too love hyperlinks👍
For anyone who doesnt have original hardware, I highly recommend Plogue's C64 plugin. Its not a sample pack or some half baked sound alike. Its a bit accurate emulation with almost fanatical attention to detail. They even emulate different variants of SID chip.
Awesome, really enjoyed this video! And yeah, I'd love to see one on the MSSIAH if it's anywhere near as interesting as this was. :)
Very entertaining. I wish I would have that skill. Never approached music instruments in my life, unfortunately. Greetings from Ukraine.
Thanks for the kind words!
i had this as a kid but my mother got rid of my fathers commodore stuff when i went into the Army. recently my uncle gave me his so i couldnhave one again, i want to goof around with chip tunes. as a kid that Kawasaki demo was so cool to me lol so many memories. and its a music making software not a game. the demo is just like other music demos, a music video on commodore.
the keyboard is not amazing, its incredible :P
I love hyperlinks - thanks for the mention! :)
Thank you for mentioning the band in your video, we appreciate you!
Thats neat as heck! I knew the Atari ST was popular with musicians but didn't know c64 was too.
7:56 New Berlin. That’s suburban Milwaukee. Interestingly, I can’t find anything about that company online. I wonder if I know anyone who worked in tech in Milwaukee in the 80s.
Cool video. I am going to send this video to my older brother who owned a Commodore 64.
Flash back to the 80s 😊
Thank you for this Video. It was pretty interesting and funny. I had to immediately listen to Axel F. Very nostalgic. :)
16:35 that first piano note you played…it reminded me of something but I can’t place it.
yes! yes! yes! i would LOVE to see more about C64 music related things!
I love hyperlinks!
That box art is Eightiestastic!
It maybe "cheating" but when i was making music, my favorite VST plugins were the SID imitations. I loved the SID sound.
"Even if you not played any music before..." that is a very strong statement 😅😅
I had a Commodore 128 and got the Incredible Musical Keyboard by Sight and Sound for it.. I loved the demo for Ryo Kowasaki's Synthesizer that came with it. I'd love to see your Messiah Cartidge demonstrated. I gave my C=128 to my brother when I switched to MS-DOS computers (because that's what we used at work - the DOS machine was a bit of a dissapointment compared to the sound and graphics of the C=64 / C=128).
Hi Veronica, nice name by the way! I've just seen this piano framework in a BBC archive video called '1984: Cutting-Edge Personal Computer Tech.' It was just uploaded.
Will you be soldering in a second SID sometime soon? IIRC the makers of the Messiah cartridge also sell a dual SID board.
Also, there's a device out there called the MidiSID from PeacockMedia (the creator runs the MIDI IN channel here on RUclips) that may unleash some more 8-bit musical possibilities, though to be honest it's a bit on the pricey side.
The slide piano sounded like a jump sound effect in a game. Also, I wonder if anyone ever made an overlay like this that fits the 64C. Particularly in Europe where they're more common because the majority of sales happened later in the computer's lifecycle.
Oh my goodness, New Berlin! The city I grew up in ❤
Your sponsorship hints made me laugh.
OMG 🤭 "I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ME". Very ahem "subtle". Those who are old enough will get this 🤭
I have the THEC64 Maxi from Retro Games. And I also have the Incredible keyboard. It fits on it as well and works perfectly with it, and it’s a lot of fun!
Oh, I remember when this came out - I think maybe I fooled around with one at one time, but don't remember it well. I did try several times to bring my C64 into my music work, but never really found a great way to do that. I had the Yamaha CX5m with it's full-size keyboard at the time, which was more fun.
I always imagined that Harold's instrument on the Red Green Show was part C64, but upon checking it out just now, i see i was mistaken.
As an old school tracker, I'm definitely interested in hearing more about the Mssiah cartridge. IT2 > FT2 😊
The real question is… When are The Stop Bits playing 1st Ave? Ok ok. The Entry? Ok fine some person’s sketchy basement?
To be truthful, I missed these day of the early era of home computers, with the C64, Vic20, C128, Apple II, II+, //c, //e and //gs and the IBM PC. XT and AT.
Great little track at the end! I hadn't thought about it, but yeah - it's easy to lose track of where you are in the keyboard when all you have is QWERTYUIOP, and you don't really want that in a live show.
When using computers was fun. ❤
This looks like an improved version could be 3d printed.
I can imagine so. It's simple enough construction. Just need some key tension and a building material that will stand up to that level of flexing (or the patience to reprint broken parts!)
Yayyyyyyyy! C64!
21:51 - hmmmmm... I admit, my curiosity is a bit piqued by the idea of a messiah (sp?) cartridge video... though at the same time, I have no anticipation of ever having a C64, let alone the cartridge, so... I guess it'd just be for edutainment, but then, you've been known to embrace that framing, so... sure, why not? ;) [Low pressure, though. I won't miss it if it's not there, but I'll enjoy it if it is.]
So cool Veronica 😂🎉
Yes,please make a video about the Mssiah cartridge because the Sidekick I just ordered comes with Prophet64, which is the predecessor of Mssiah (and is really cool because it has the Prophet synthesizer font)
Yes, please do a video on the MSSIAH cartridge!
This is the type of stuff that makes computing feel like computing. The newer stuff somehow lost that beige patina that gave things character. God I'm old.
Have you checked out the cynthcart prg? I really like the sounds it comes with and you can modify and save your own. The program is free, but you can also buy a cartridge and once you know how to use the program, you can use it without a monitor, just bring your breadbin with the keyboard overlay and the cartridge and you are ready to rock.
This doesn't fix the issue of visibility on stage at all, but I've recently been annoyed by having to re-plug my MIDI around when controlling various instruments myself. MIDI splitters tend to go one way, but I've found a couple of fairly cheap and small MIDI _routers_ which look like they should let me send everything out to and from my synths without worrying about whether the computer can record the MIDI data. (I tried to do it all with MIDI-thru chaining, but I ended-up needing at least one split or loop which didn't work out.)
I don't have any yet so I can't speak for their quality, but I'm hoping to get one this winter and simplify my cabling effort!
Well, I sent away for the poster in the 80s, still waiting for it lol
would love to see a mssiah cartridge video
I wanted one of those as a kid but couldn't afford it. Instead I reworked the code to map each octave on 3 cols X 4 rows of keys to not only get an extra octave compared to the the piano keyboard but just random key pressing sounded far more musical! I think perhaps it mapped out the scales in a more accessible manner, IDK I'm not a muso. 🙂
I’m definitely interested in a MSSIAH video. I own one and can’t figure out it out (doesn’t help that I have no modern tracker experience), and none of the existing videos on RUclips are any good.
I love hyperlinks
Me too! :)
Not bad for the time...nice retro accompaniment for modern music...
I don't remember now, if this keyboard was made also for the shape of C64C model too...
AND it has both octaves!
19:08 I had to double check that it wasn’t the first Wednesday of the month at 1pm lol
In high school I experimented with a 555 chip that I turned into an audio oscillator. Before I could invent a synth, Kraftwerk beat me to it.
Interestingly enough, Ryo Kawasaki has some pedigree! Per Wikipedia [1], he "was a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist, composer and band leader, best known as one of the first musicians to develop and popularize the fusion genre and for helping to develop the guitar synthesizer in collaboration with Roland Corporation and Korg." Alas! he passed beyond The Rim in 2020.
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Kawasaki#1979%E2%80%931990_(as_inventor_and_programmer)
How to play your C64 live via MIDI controller so people can see it (theoretically): Ultimate 64 + transparent 64C case + internal LED strip + MSSIAH & MIDI controller. The Ultimate 64 settings control the RGB LED strip to provide SID visualization. Prop up the C64 so it’s visible to the audience. Disclaimer: I have all of these components but haven’t actually tried it yet. This might be possible with the Incredible Music Keyboard also, but only if you find a translucent breadbin case and the overlay doesn’t obscure the LEDs too much.
Great video, my cat rates it at one cat nap....
I'll plug my fav modern production SID song, look up: Ninja 9000 - Commander Moira
(Beware of the bass that kicks in at 1.20 mark)
On 1:03 what is this for a c-64 program on the display on the right side?
ah okay MSSIAH
I wish I had picked up one of these back in the day, before our breadbin died. (We replaced it with a C128, which wouldn't fit the incredible keyboard.)
I never got the hang of playing the normal keyboard directly.
The farmer and the dell. The farmer and the dell.
He types and types and types and types, on the dell all day.
I would definitely like to know how to connect a midi keyboard to a c64c and try and make music with it. It’s a pity the keyboard overlay wasn’t made for the c64c, especially since music maker used to be bundled with the c64c
Yes please on a Mssiah vid!!
Letting you know :)
New subscriber. I am using Mssiah to make music. I have midi support, but I wish to have that keyboard too 😊
So, I hear that you are in a band..... 😊
BAND
Different overall. I have an Atari 1040 fm + Cubase 2. How do I transform that music (.arr) to next level Cubase?
Sorry if this is not the place to ask this.
Did the book include "Au Clair de la Lune"?
Have you checked out the Therapsid? It's pretty rad!
14:38 hmm I wonder if those two are still around.
Awwww I loved 😍
So Veronica when will you be building a C64 into a keytar? Great video as always keep up the good work!!
Oh, yeah, I had one of those - who needs midi, anyway... Though fairly sure mine was a commodore branded device...
pls mssiah cartridge video!
I just watched a 30 minute video, , and I barely heard any music at all. Please use the SID chip to make music, and please share.
I literally did this at the end of the video, not to mention the oodles of SID synthy sounds peppered throughout.