SID Vicious

Product Overview

This instrument is for Kontakt 5.2.1 and higher(full retail version of Kontakt is required(not the free Kontakt player) Utilising sounds taken from a Commodore 64 using various C64 synthesisers and a C64 synth of my own design created in C64 machine code. Sid Vicious also utilised the C64 sound sampler which is great for lo-fi sounds. The C64 was connected to a valve pre-amp, various analog filters and distortions and an Ensoniq Mirage to create a lo-fi, analogue sounding instrument. SID Vicious is not just another set of SID chip samples. The C64 output has been mashed up and 'dirtied' with some choice analogue devices, valves and a lo-fi sampler (Ensoniq Mirage) - There is even a really nice Ensoniq Mirage choir in the waveform lists. Do not expect really clean and hi-fi sounds from this, instead you should expect lo-fi, gritty sounds that are perfect for the ambient music producer, experimentalist and lo-fi music producer. If you like making ambient music or music silmilar to Boards of Canada, TRS-80, FREESCHA etc then SID Vicious will have lots to offer you. SID is also capable of making some very hard, aggressive sounds, hence the name VICIOUS. Some of the samples have been stretched across the entire key range to allow for all the weird and wonderful audio artifacts to come into play when samples are stretched across a wider keyrange. Comes with a selection of 125 presets. The 125 presets are varied and designed to get your musical j