Vintage chip synth.

[Klopfenpop]

Hey guys,

I'm hoping your engineering minds might help me figure out the best course of action. I want to control the sounds made by vintage game system chips. How hard would it be to modify a synth by putting, say, an NES chip in it? Would it even work or does an NES sound chip need a data signal?

[Lofi Ninja]

Midi NES: http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php

Midibox SID (Commadore 64) : http://www.ucapps.de/index.html?page=midibox_sid.html

Last link is probably what you are looking for.. Althou it's not NES..

[skrasms]

[Klopfenpop]

From what I here, the midiNES is pretty far backordered. My friend Brian is in a band called I Fight Dragons that uses chiptunes live, and he's ordered one over a year ago and still hasn't received it.

I wonder if any one has put a midines (plugged into NES circuit board) inside of a keyboard and rerouted all the control to controls in the keyboard shell. I might end up doing this. Anyone have any thoughts or cautions?

I'll need to figure out how to get the GUI onto a screen in the shell as well.

I'd love to hear anyone's thought's on this.

[Klopfenpop]

*hear
*thoughts

[Klopfenpop]

After looking more closely at the SID MIDIbox, that's way more than I need. Anyone know of a good diy project without the sequencer? Just the midi controls?