C64 Keyboard, deep modification

[Lethalis1234]

Haha i type around 90WPM average. I would love to type on that :)

[shicetube]

its synced



[Acid1K05]

:-)

[stupidsoft111]

nice

[normloman]

OH NO SOMEONE TOOK APART A WORKING COMMODORE 64

Who cares. These parts are much more worthwhile as an instrument. And it's not like the world has a shortage of working c64s. Go to ebay, or better yet, a garage sale.

Great instrument. Clever encasement.

[tnralliart2600]

Even so, why do people necessarily assume it was working? My old C64 probably won't even turn on these days. Last time I used it not all the keys worked, ran notably slower and was having lots of problems with power supply etc. Not to mention it's useless without a joystick (good luck finding one). At least putting the keyboard enclosure to good use like making an instrument to show off at nerd parties is better than keeping something that doesn't work. Then again, it may have worked perfectly.

[Gerardus1970]

A C64 can't run notably slower because the system is dependant on an accurate clock. Basically, if you're clock is slower, your display won't sync and you won't see anything on your display. You probably remember it being faster then it actually was because you ha more patience when you last used it ;-)

[bossinator666]

@tnralliart2600

old sega megadrive(genesis) gamepads work as well!!

[s3rris]

well SID chips are becoming hard to come by.

[popmomcorn]

why did u waste a c64?

[daskraut]

looks like you ripped apart a cheap keyboard and stuffed it into an old 64... what a waste of perfectly good computers ;)

[berrybakker]

Nope. He uses the SID synthesizer chip of the C64.

[debuglive]

Just a note (for people assuming the C64 is generating these sounds) This is not the SID chip! The sample rate is not low enough and there is no audible aliasing (which occurs when playing back digital samples; which is a hack anyway) If you look at his site you'll see it is just using the C64 keyboard via some homebrew electronics to trigger a drum machine externally via midi. If it used the SID chip I'd be much more impressed.

[swarm69]

thats the c64s sound and its brill :)

[Ironlord2015]

Right that's it, I shall report you to the AOC64 organisation "Abuse Of The Commodore 64" he he. Looks pretty cool actually, what exactly does it do though? Can you actually play your own stuff using the SID sounds? Or are all the lights and what have you just for show? Looks goos anyway.

[statz2]

cool

[LordOfJoy]

wow. I'm very impressed. good job.

[ballbagular]

to me it looks like a Korg MicroX... but I could be mistaken

[dannicool11]

what keyboard do u have there

[fibranijevidra]

Anny info?

[gardiavolo]

what keyboard is the one u have on the back?

[jambonbill]

I dont know why the sound do not sync with the video.

the original file is synced :/

[maraz666]

Take care to compress audio to NON-VBR MP3 (ie. constant bitrate, not variable) and sync problems should be gone.