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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES Understanding the Medium

"Bob Yannes designed the SID chip with the ambition of making a multi-track polyphonic music synthesizer."

Newman documents Yannes's musical background and his stated ambition to make a multi-track polyphonic synthesizer rather than a conventional game sound chip.

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Source title Driving the SID chip: Assembly Language, Composition, and Sound Design for the C64
Source authors James Newman
Source year 2017
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