Love this - sounds like you've tamed the Polivoks perfectly :)

You're definitely having fun on one of your many synthesizers.

The Commodore 64 would have been one of my very early computers. I'm surprised to read that it could so much more.

For the small composition, I mainly used the Shruthi with Polivoks filter. Furthermore, 303 machines and SIDs were used specifically for the Arps. And there are a lot of hang-ups due to the use of the Tape Replicator and the Specular Tempus delay algos. Besides, the Speakjet and SPO256 are singing along again. And above all, they don't have a plan (limited by the ancient technique).

TTS decoded Lyrics:

"!Brain!"
"Sind wir nicht bereit? Es ist nicht so weit."
"Ich hab kein Plan."

"Macht nix. Nicht mehr weit."
"Es - ist - jetzt so weit!"

Kein Plan

Before the turnaround (fall of the wall), my parents brought a robotron KC85/3 computer home and I loved it. The sound could only be generated by 2 pulses waveforms, but despite all this, some of the original games had a freaky sound.

Meanwhile, I was playing with a friend with a Commodore 64. I always had a penchant for it and I was also interested in various chiptunes. Nevertheless, later I preferred to go to the roots - composing music with hardware. I handled a lot with the DMC tracker for the C64. I can not say if there was any documentation, but I remember that I found out how some parameters work with my old oscilloscope. I wrote some results for Richard Bayliss - Music Scene Tutorial. 

In 2006 I won the "Battle of the Bits - Winter Chip I" competition in the category SID - which earned me fifty 7" vinyls. At that time my interest in synthesizers of all kinds grew (but in general the focus for 8-Bit machines). 

Further hardware that I procured sequentially and still use today:
- Access Virus A and Virus b
- Korg ESX-1 ( JJ ECC83S tubes )
- Peavey Spectrum Analog Filter
- Waldorf 4-Pole - Ladder and Curtis
- Adafruit's x0xb0x ( modified marOS )
- E-MU Proteus 2000 + XL-Turbo + Roms
- MI Shruthi-1 SMR4-II, CEM3378, Polivoks
- Soulsby's Atmegatron + Odytron
- Behringer Crave ( purged PCB )
- Soundcraft Compact 10 and 4
- Cyclone Bassbot TT-303 v1
- Sixty four pixels CV.OCD
- Twisted Electrons AY3
- Ibanez Echo Shifter 2
- GFI Specular Tempus
- Barber Launch Pad
- Arturia Drumbrute
- Pioneer RMX 1000
- T-Rex Replicator
- T-Rex Replica
- Tapco Blend6
- DMG 01

- Midibox SEQ v4
- Midibox SID v2 ( 6581/8580 )
- Midibox DIY C64 Midi Controller
- Speech Chips: SPO256-AL2, Speakjet

.. and of course a real Commodore 64.

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