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@MagnarHarestad MagnarHarestad released this 16 Oct 00:17
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MagSID Editor 1.4 — a Windows tracker for Commodore 64 music, with a low-memory SID player.

Website: https://magnarharestad.github.io/MagSID/

Download and run

Download MagSID-Editor-v1.4-win-x64.zip, unpack it anywhere and run MagSID-Editor.exe. There is no installer.

  • Needs Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime for x64.
  • The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher: More info → Run anyway.
  • Demo songs are in SongData/ and 25 free tunes for Import MIDI in midifiles/ — both also downloadable from the website.

What's new in 1.4

The sound bank

  • SOUNDBANK on the DAW's instrument page opens the bank as a sheet of cards. Click a card to hear it, double-click or press its + to add it to the song. Each card shows what the sound is, the demo song it comes from, and whether it carries vibrato, a filter or a note program.
  • 25 sounds in three groups: 13 instruments, 6 drums — kick, kick bass, three snares and a hi-hat — and 6 arpeggios: a minor and a major chord, each at three speeds, with every note held one, two or three frames.
  • Every sound is played from a clean filter, so a filtered sound no longer colours the next one you try.
  • In Retro the instrument list has a header with +, a ▾ menu (new, from the sound bank, load from file, duplicate, open the bank folder), duplicate and delete — and a + New instrument row under the last instrument. The DAW's instrument strip has the same row, and it opens the instrument page.

The DAW instrument page, rearranged

  • Envelope and pulse knobs come first, under the name. The oscillator runs the full width above the wavetable, with a taller waveform, and the wave, note and filter programs run the full width under the 16-row instrument strip.
  • Sync and Ring are the same size as the waveform buttons. Noise plays alone: the SID silences noise combined with another waveform, so right-click no longer combines it.
  • Instruments are renamed in place — in the strip and in the title — instead of in a black box.

Fixes

  • Adding a note no longer stops an F3 pattern preview.
  • F2 from the arrange ruler starts where the ruler says, also inside a looped pattern; in Retro, F2 below the end of a shorter channel plays from that row.
  • Page Up / Page Down in Retro move 16 rows.
  • An instrument added from the bank is selected and shown at once.
  • An unnamed instrument shows as "Flute" in the DAW, as in Retro.
  • The line between the arrange lanes and the piano roll no longer drags.

See 1.3 for what came before.

License

MagSID Editor is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Its SID emulation is a C# translation of reSID by Dag Lem; it also includes NAudio (MIT). See LICENSE.txt and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md in the zip. Exported .sid files may be used freely. The tunes in midifiles/ keep their own licences — public domain or Creative Commons — listed with credits in midifiles/README.md.

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