5:34 most 80s thing you'll ever hear

Gives a whole new meaning to "KEYboard"

5:35 you couldn't have the quintessential 80's sound and not play such a classic.. Not only do you have a solid foundation of musical chops, but your abilities in both electronics and programming are quite inspiring.

As a pianist/composer AND a technerd. This interest me. This interest me GREATLY!

Can we please have more "Dave brushing his cat" montages

Wow man, I'm impressed by the scope of your technical knowledge. This is an awesome channel.

Was not expecting a C64 modern software designed by you. Nice.

Loved it when you played jump

I remember writing my own software to play music on my freshly bought PET-2001, somewhere around 1978. The PET didnt have any soundchip so i had to code everything (machinecode) using the Userport. Ofcourse it didnt have all the features a SID chip had, but i still managed to get some nice sounds (including glissando, vibrato) from it, using the small keys on the keyboard. Spend hours of playing that thing. It was great! Still love the older Commodores...

amazing video as always! Can't wait to see more of your Sidkeys program!

I never tire of the creativity and specific explanations you provide in your videos. thank you.

Man I love this channel David! I hope you keep making these videos. A perfect combo of retro fun and excellent presentation and production.

A little off-topic: what a beatiful Cat you have. And thanks for the Video, is very informative, as usual.

I just HAD to laugh with the "loading intermissions" at 4:16 and 5:57.

Holy cow, we leave really close together. I recognize the shopping center you were at. It's close to my house.

I used to have the Sight and Sound version of this for my old C64 back in the day. I had forgotten all about its existence. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

This is very cool, it's a lot like the mini-analog synth I own.

This video brought up my hopes in humanity!🙂

You are getting better and better in these reviews! Please keep it up!

I've been a fan of this channel (and your other one) for months, and I had no idea that you had the chops to be writing kick-#$@ music software for ancient computers in assembly code. That looks hella impressive, man!

i do love hearing Ultima being played. 8-)

Pretty cool you are writing your own software for the C64.

This video is awesome! The music systems sound surprisingly good

Amazing! I'm really enjoying this channel. I'm looking forward to more.

2:17 ultima 6, so iconic, iolo knew his craft.

6:00 perfectly fits with the music

Wow, you Sir have awesome skills! Programming music software and games for such old computers and composing cool tunes to boot. And those loading time montages are simply hilarious.

That is the most awesome thing I have seen in quite a while!

I may finally get the old C64 out from under my bed and start messing with it if I had the keyboard.

5:34 my tiny mind exploded. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

I can't seem to escape hearing the Ultima 6 intro theme when watching your videos. :) Great Video!

Just discovered your channel. Love this so much!

For those wondering what game the song at 8:25 is from: Warhawk for the Commodore 64

0:30 jesus does anybody else hear that high frequency sound

Kudos to the gent behind this channel. It's one thing to carry on about something on KZfaq, but it's quite another to knuckle down and do something about the limitations of the subject matter as he did with his own software. The know-how on display here is heartening to see. Too many poseurs and not enough wow-ers on KZfaq. I was lucky enough to come across a cib Commodore Music Maker many, many years ago at a pawn broker, literally sold as a toy in that section alongside crappy remote control cars, etc. for absolute peanuts. While I did not have a C-64 at the time, the gear-head in me jumped for joy. Especially as the SID station came out at about that time and had me highly intrigued. With the carts and software available today, I am glad I didn't walk out of that shop empty handed.

nice vid. Good to see people still developing for such platforms. Watching these vids are inspiring me to do something musical, I'm just not sure what yet though :)

3:35 DROP THE BASS

Have you ever tried circuit bending, if so can you do a live demo or show what you have done. Thank for the great videos!

Your voice is very calming. I love your videos!

What a great review, well done, entertaining and informative. The sound expander is cool, but I think part of the magic of the SID chip is it's limitations. SID Keys is also very cool, congrats.

@5:44 JUMP!!!

Awesome video as always David! But what I'd like to know is the actual loading time for the Sight & Sound and Kawasaki software. Although it's pretty clear that it must be quite long... :P

Nice video, I happen to have an 'incredible musical keyboard' in my parent's basement, my father used the commodore 64 (with the audio chip mod, of course) back in the day to produce soundtracks for this documentaries. Your video has great historical value, thanks!

I love that music so much. Great videom im glad I found you second channel after subbing on 8 bit guy about a year ago.

5:17 The exact same sound of my computer's fan XD

give that pitch vibrato pitches love vibrato

How am I just seeing this now!?!? So many memories. I had the Sight and Sounds keyboard for my C64 many many moons ago. lol Awesome video as always.

I just want to thank you, you have really inspired me. I don't even know in what why. But I feel as if you're my motivation for each day :)

Any more info on SIDKeys? I would really love to get my hands on it.

You should make an episode on the SNES sound chip.

Great video! Looking forward to seeing that software!!

Awesome job, congrats David!

oh gosh, tell me about it. It took me forever to get my 2 unicorns.

What is the name of the game at 8:25? You really went above and beyond with this video.

Wow, just awesome! Quite an interesting add-on with a good idea behind, and then even own SW written for it! Well composed video, too, poking fun at the old toaster's ridiculously low data throughput :) (with its original SW, that is, due to the messed up serial port ending up requiring bit-banging the data through)

Wow that piece of code looks pretty impressive. I'm looking forward to the next episode!

what is this soundtrack that he plays on 2:12

It took me 30 years to reveal that I do not need the ",1" when loading on C64 (as I have just learned it from someone, but nobody knew what was it for) :)

Excited to see your software in action! I'm a long time chiptune artist so any new software is always exciting. Just as a small correction (as I understand it) when you can play multiple notes (one per oscillator) through a single processing chain it's called paraphonic. I believe the C64 SID would fall under this.

SID music is so beautiful - such nice tones ... and so flexible ! :-) THANKS for a great video ! :-)

Did anyone notice the INCREDIBLY painful high-pitched hum at 0:30? It's driving me insane!! >o

Can you do an episode about HOW ON EARTH YOU MANAGED TO LEARN AND USE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE?!

Awesome channel! Keep up to good work.

Super fascinating video! Well done, sir :D

00:38 New version on comodore????? You know it's 2016?? Just joking,keep up great work

any info how to get 7:00 set up on my machine? that would be so much fun

I am all about mic-ing instruments but I find your channel very interesting!Kind of want to get some of this 80's/early 90's gear

I hope you've continued support for your software, it looks like an actual synth interface rather than choosing 3 "instruments". Really impressive!

Like the little Van Halen part classic 80s

Can I get Sidkeys

I didn't think I would care much for this channel but I subbed anyways since I'm more interested in the technical/circuit board side of things. Now, I want to dive in and start making some retro chip tune type of music. Love this channel : )

I LOVED your waiting to load montage!

Video has cat... C Can Can't resist giving it a thumbs up aaaagh :D

*Long load times.* Aw come on, it's not that bad, it's a part of the experience of 8-bit systems. If you want smokin' load times on a c-64, copy your stuff over to a solid state drive and let it run, run, run. But if you want to keep it pure, then a 1581 3.5" drive may be in the wings waiting for you./

Great video, waiting for next part.

Wish I could DOUBLE like! Can't wait for your video of your own SID Keys software :)

0:30 Holy shit, do you have a Cathode Ray TV on or something because that sound is annoying!

THE 8 BIT COMIC SANS IS KILLING ME

"Jump" chords on a C=64... priceless. You've just made my day;)

Wow i remember having a version of this for the ZX spectrum back in the day called the music machine interface.So much fun

Wait, did you ever pick up 4 cards? Cheater!

What's the tune at 2:21

love this stuff I had it all and the sci max and all the sci, Dr T and korg and Yamaha. I had 2 yamaha cx5m. tons of music maker software for c64. yamaha and Atari. man I miss all that. and more. being a music loving nerd was the best. great vids play on.

Unbelievable that this stuff is still usable! That's awesome!

Hey can you do an addendum to this video about the Cynthcart? www.qotile.net/cynthcart.html Your software looks interesting as well. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Cats! More cats!

nice video as always. thanks for making them

really liked it when you show the different effects & modes, like the new "electro" music

Great video, thank you for posting it!

I had one of these! Thanks for the memories.

Very enjoyable content once again!

great work! you are my hero

great video! what an interesting piece of software.

Very nice mods and work snuck in at the end, definitey going to burn a few hours chasing your projects down

Your software seems so great; if I had that keyboard, I'd be ready to type it in just to try it.

This is good stuff. Thanks, David

43 year old here. Awesome! Keep up the good work.

I wrote software on the VIC-20 way back in the early 80's called Del's Piano. However, I don't why I didn't call in Del's Organ, because it was meant to replace my Bontempi organ after it bit the dust. I could have probably adapted it for that. However, my VIC-20 along with all the tapes, were lost when I moved in 86, so everything was lost :(

Yeah! can't wait for the new videos.

Love this channel. Thank you...