CHIPSHOP [Free Chiptune Sample Pack] Download

A free sample pack crammed with over 800 individual samples and 70+ Loops. All recorded directly from the C64, Atari St and Nintendo Gameboy. The pack contains 844 samples.

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Gameboy [Nanoloop, LSDJ]

• 91 x Bass, Synth, Lead, Perc and SFX Hits
• 117 x Sampeld Drum Hits

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SID [Cynthcart, Retroskoi]

• 61 x Bass, Lead and SFX Hits

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YM2149 [Various]

• 36 x Bass Hits
• 48 x Custom FX
• 124 Drum Hits
• 145 x Multi-samples [5 Instruments over 5 octaves]
• 29 x White Noise Hits
• 29 x Sampled Hits
• 110 x SFX Hits
• 54 x Synth Hits
• 70 x Loops [22 Full Loops and 48 Drum/Synth Loops]

DIY Commodore 64 (C64) Paddle for Cynthcart

If you have Cynthcart, you may not know that a `paddle` enables you to control filter cutoff and assign another control on two knobs.  There are a number of tutorials on this, but most of them are very convoluted with errors. So, here we go:

You Need:

• 2 x 240k LOGARHYTHMIC potentiometers*
• 9-Pin cable (female connector)**
• Enclosure
• Wires
• Soldering Iron/Solder
• Multimeter

First identify the wires that are connected to the female connector. You can do this using a multimeter and a wire placed in the relevent holes. The holes you need to hook up are: Pot1, Pot2 and +5v.

This site explains the pinouts http://old.pinouts.ru/Inputs/ControlPortC64_pinout.shtml

Now, solder the wires to the potentiometers making sure there with be enough slack to fit them into the enclosure. Both get Pot1/2 and the +5v.

Once they`re soldered, get the enclosure drilled with two holes. I used an old joystick base for my enclosure (It looks like a robots face!)

Attach the pots to the enclosure, close it and put the caps on. Test it, then you`re done!

*with 480k I found they only have an effect for 50% of rotation.
**make sure you have a connector that features the correct pins - the one in the picture is from a C64 joystick and doesn`t have pins for the paddle controls.