Sidstation in 2021?

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#1

Cheers! Got an offer for a Sidstation for a horribly high price. Not sure, if it would add any value to my current set.

Moreover: Display values appear after turning the knob (bug?).

Any opinions on a Sidstation in 2021?

Cheers

flo

#2

Horribly high price … I’d give it a miss

There are other Sid options … therapsid are at least still in production
You could probably buy a c64,monitor and messiah cartridge too.

#3

Two much Space required for the C64 Option. Therapsid is an emulation like on MnM?

#4

Even better, you can source your own SID for it, I think it’s compatible with pretty much any of them.

#5

Seems to be discontinued…, :expressionless:

#6

It’s a magical box but I’d probably give it a miss. Trying to fit more than a decade old digital device into your workflow would be much more painful. You can get a therapsid and put your own sid chip in it. and it’s a recent one so less pain when controlling it with ableton, a4, minilogue etc.

If it wasn’t a digital device I wouldn’t even reply but digital devices can get a bit tiresome with newer machines.

My two cents ofc.

#7

The SID chips go bad as well, there’s a good chance you’d end up replacing it with an FPGA clone or something.

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#8

This One?

#9

If you get your own SID chips and send them to Twisted Electrons they will put them in the TherapSid. It was discontinued only because they ran out of sid chips.

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#10

Any experience of this or anyone else?