The C64s sound chip was the best. Other sound chips at the time were designed by the usual chip designers. The C64s sound chip was designed by someone who knew about synthesisers.
While not perfect and produced in a rush, it was still competant.
Other sound chips did bleeps, the C64's chip has selectable waves, envelopes, PWM (pulse wave modulation), ring modulation and a multi mode filter.
So don't talk such rubbish and say the BBC model B had this, it didn't. It used the SN76489 which has the usual 3 square wave generators plus one white noise generator.
Contrast this with the SID specs:
* three separately programmable independent audio oscillators (8 octave range, approximately 16 - 4000 Hz)
* four different waveforms per audio oscillator (sawtooth, triangle, pulse, noise)
* one multi mode filter featuring low-pass, high-pass and band-pass outputs with 6 dB/oct (bandpass) or 12 dB/octave (lowpass/highpass) rolloff. The different filter-modes are sometimes combined to produce additional timbres, for instance a notch-reject filter.
* three attack/decay/sustain/release (ADSR) volume controls, one for each audio oscillator.
* three ring modulators.
* oscillator sync for each audio oscillator.
* two 8-bit A/D converters (typically used for game control paddles, but later also used for a mouse)
* external audio input (for sound mixing with external signal sources)
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Beeb had better sound? don't be stupid
The C64s sound chip was the best. Other sound chips at the time were designed by the usual chip designers. The C64s sound chip was designed by someone who knew about synthesisers.
While not perfect and produced in a rush, it was still competant.
Other sound chips did bleeps, the C64's chip has selectable waves, envelopes, PWM (pulse wave modulation), ring modulation and a multi mode filter.
So don't talk such rubbish and say the BBC model B had this, it didn't. It used the SN76489 which has the usual 3 square wave generators plus one white noise generator.
Contrast this with the SID specs:
* three separately programmable independent audio oscillators (8 octave range, approximately 16 - 4000 Hz)
* four different waveforms per audio oscillator (sawtooth, triangle, pulse, noise)
* one multi mode filter featuring low-pass, high-pass and band-pass outputs with 6 dB/oct (bandpass) or 12 dB/octave (lowpass/highpass) rolloff. The different filter-modes are sometimes combined to produce additional timbres, for instance a notch-reject filter.
* three attack/decay/sustain/release (ADSR) volume controls, one for each audio oscillator.
* three ring modulators.
* oscillator sync for each audio oscillator.
* two 8-bit A/D converters (typically used for game control paddles, but later also used for a mouse)
* external audio input (for sound mixing with external signal sources)
* random number/modulation generator
I think the C64 wins.