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@MagnarHarestad MagnarHarestad released this 16 Oct 10:35
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MagSID Editor 1.5 — 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-v1.5-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 14 free tunes for Import MIDI in midifiles/ — both also downloadable from the website.

What's new in 1.5

Arrange tools

Next to the DAW's tabs are four tools for the clips in the arrangement, with the piano roll's icons:

  • Object Selection — click a clip to select it, drag it to another place in its lane or into another lane. Shift+click marks a run of clips.
  • Erase — click a clip to take it out of its lane.
  • Split — click inside a clip to cut its pattern in two at that row.
  • Glue — click a clip to join it to the next one, or a marked run into one pattern. The clips it would join pulse softly under the mouse before you click, red when they would not fit in one pattern.

A pattern only that clip plays is cut or joined in place; a pattern other clips share is left alone and the result is new.

REC, CLICK, PUNCH and PRE-ROLL now sit together in the piano roll's tool row.

Import MIDI

  • Chords are read a bar at a time — or half a bar in 4/4 when the halves clearly hold two — with the bass and the tune counted too. A waltz's oom-pah-pah is no longer a chord per beat.
  • The upbeat is found: a file that starts on a pickup gets rest in front, so its bars line up — which also makes repeating bars cheaper.
  • Common major and minor chords get instruments first. Chords beyond the 16 instruments are no longer replaced by their nearest kept chord: their notes are picked out in the pattern, a 16th each, up to the next chord.
  • A Soundbank button per voice: hear the bank's sounds and pick one for that voice.
  • Better first choices: a bass line with few notes still goes to channel 1, a part named for the lead is the lead, and a bass keeps a bass sound whatever its MIDI program.
  • The song is named after the MIDI file, in the title bar and in Save As and Export.

The MIDI files are now 14 well-known tunes: The Entertainer is R. D. Tennent's four-part arrangement for recorders, whose separate lines suit three SID voices better than a piano's two hands, and the set has been trimmed to the tunes that import best.

See 1.4 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 ShareAlike — listed with credits in midifiles/README.md.

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