Comment Actually... (Score 2, Informative) 282
The SB Live (like the one in my pc) cannot pretend to be a better chip then a real one. Take these samples, recorded from two real sid chips:
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~johnt/temp/mech3.wav .mp3
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~johnt/temp/r1-mech3. wav.mp3
and compare it to the latest SID emulator (be it LittleSID 2, sidplay2, etc.) They dont come close to emulating real filter saturation as you can hear from the two mp3s. The mp3s also make it easy to realise why people say 'every chip sounds different' as these two chips definitely do.
Here's the link for the sid tune to load into an emulator:
http://gallium.prg.dtu.dk/HVSC/C64Music /Mueller_Markus/Mechanicus.sid
And here's the best emulator to date, http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~johnt/temp/mech3.wa
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~johnt/temp/r1-mech3
and compare it to the latest SID emulator (be it LittleSID 2, sidplay2, etc.) They dont come close to emulating real filter saturation as you can hear from the two mp3s. The mp3s also make it easy to realise why people say 'every chip sounds different' as these two chips definitely do.
Here's the link for the sid tune to load into an emulator:
http://gallium.prg.dtu.dk/HVSC/C64Musi
And here's the best emulator to date, http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/
