Feature | Description | 1st known use | best examples |
Buzz-Tone | Using YM envelop generator at very high frequency, emulates triangle or saw wave form. By a light shift beetween square tone and envelop generastor, sound evoluate in a very synthetic manner. Before this feature, ST tunes sound like hell !!! | Mad Max | Mad Max / Sowatt - TCB - Sprites |
Fine-ADSR | VBL 50/60 hz classic replay is remplaced by a 100-200 hz timer allowing finer volume envelop control | The Sound Machine ? | Tao / UCM12 Dark Angel / Mathematica Count Zero / Where's my Willy |
STF 4 bits Digi-Drum | 1 voice 4-bit drum samples drive by a very low frequency timer (6000 - 12000 hz) | Mad Max / Chambers of Shaolin | Mad Max / Wings of Death Synergy / Leif rullar Lotus / Synth Dream I |
STE Digi-Drum | Use STE DMA-sample for Digi-Drum. 4 voices could be play at the same time... | Jess and BeN | Jess / My 1st resonnant burp Throw it in a trash can Mad Max / Lethal Xcess Turrican II Griffon STE folies |
STF 4-bit Digi-Sound | 4-bit drum with sound (bass or guitar), with variable mixer frequency. | Mad Max | Mad Max / Ninja Remix Jess / Ze Hit |
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SID-Voice | Timer call switches LOW/HI output level. A light shift beetween timer and YM tone generator frequency, makes square ratio move slowly. It is equivalent to Buzz-Tone, except envelop is genrated by a timer. | Lap ? | Scavenger / DBA Mag #6 intro Big Alec / Bankok Knight Loader Jess / Middle Earth Theme Lap / Bird Mad Girl Show - Menu |
3 Controled 'SID' voice | Timer drives square generation. YM tone generator is no more used. Timer period is swap at each call beetween hi-level-period and low-level-period. That the only way to control exactly the square ratio. A great but too few used feature !! Ziggy experimantal replay routine used 3 voices like that but no others !!! I made a special patched version additionnal digi-drum. | Ziggy Stardust and Docland | Jess / Wave is my Passion Docland / Plasma and Transbeauce II Disk 1 hidden tracker |
Short (Sinus) wave table | Very short wave table, generated by linked timer calls at given frequency | Tao | Tao / Miner |
Full Digi-Synth | 4 bit sample generated by 3 timer on each voice. | Mad Max | Mad Max / Knuckle Buster |
Full controled Buzz-Tone | Like Buzz-tone but replay player is strickly synchronize; so phasing could be compensate in both direction. | Jess and BeN | Jess / See ya on falcon |
Sync-Buzzer | Restart envelop generator into timer. This great feature brought new timber to ST chip tunes. | Tao | Tao / UCM11 UCM12 |
Experimantal SID-Sync-Buzzer | Timer makes envelop generator alternate beetween 2 wave forms. Envelop frequency controls sound variation, note is driven by timer frequency. | BeN | Jess / TMB boot |
Identity | Benjamin GERARD |
A.K.A | BeN / The Overlanders / The Union |
Birth Date | 1973 |
Location | near Paris |