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    From Ben Collver@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 18 16:25:12 2023
    "It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate
    quite primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn't
    sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms?
    Well, actually it will, if you remove the church. And if you connect a Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker in a large hall, it will
    sound like an organ."

    https://www.linusakesson.net/music/reverberations/

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Ben Collver on Sun Feb 19 09:07:06 2023
    Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
    And if you connect a Commodore 64 home computer to a loudspeaker
    in a large hall, it will sound like an organ."

    https://www.linusakesson.net/music/reverberations/

    As it happens I recently read an article from the 60s about
    electronic organ design and one of the main complicating factors
    was all the separate oscillators required to allow a sufficient
    number of notes to be played simultaneously. The Commodore 64 could
    only play three notes plus noise at once, so in this regard it was insufficient. Indeed, reading the web page, I see that the author
    somehow wired up a second SID chip to the C64 being used, and all
    but one of the pieces required the use of both SIDs. But anyway,
    they did a great job.

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