If you look at the main picture, that device near the top of the board (between the DIN sockets and the cardedge socket) that looks like a VFD is actually the "tube" - it's some crap that Korg came up with a few years back, it's a low-voltage "tube" based on one of Noritake's Vacuum Fluorescent Displays. Vp can be 5V and Vf can be under a volt, like a hearing aid tube. It has lots of harmonic distortion for the moron that thinks smash clipping makes sound "rich."
The other tube option they have looks like a real tube circuit, probably uses those shit sino tubes but it has a power converter on it, I assume to get a real plate voltage of around 150VDC.
It has lots of harmonic distortion for the moron that thinks smash clipping makes sound "rich."
As a guitar player this peaked my interest. Indeed they do make effects pedals with this Korg Tube. Now I want one.
isn't cheap tho.
I just noticed it is all to run an fpga based sid recreation as well, what an odd project.
Hasn't been a new SID for what, 30 years?
1992 was the last year I have seen for the 8580. My point is why not just got all fpga with the option for a real sid at this point. There is the elite64 that is fpga based and the c64 reloaded that is cpld base with all the custom chips required, I just dont see what void this fills besides "look at the glowing tubez u guyz".
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