The HardSID is a family of sound cards, produced by a Hungarian company Hard Software and originally conceived by Teli Sándor. The HardSID cards are based on the MOS Technology SID (Sound Interface Device) chip which was popularised and immortalized by the Commodore 64 home computer. It was the third non-Commodore SID-based device to enter market.

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  • The HardSID is a family of sound cards, produced by a Hungarian company Hard Software and originally conceived by Teli Sándor. The HardSID cards are based on the MOS Technology SID (Sound Interface Device) chip which was popularised and immortalized by the Commodore 64 home computer. It was the third non-Commodore SID-based device to enter market. HardSID's major advantage over SidStation (apart from the fact that the SidStation has been sold out long since, with only few used pieces surfacing now and then) is that it is a simple hardware interface to a SID chip, making it far more suitable for emulator use, SID music players and even direct programming - SidStation only responds to MIDI information and requires music events to be converted to MIDI and back. The original HardSID (1999) was a card for the ISA bus (instantaneously anachronizing the item), containing a slot for one SID chip. From the beginning, HardSID has supported both the 6581 and the 8580 models of SID, including all revisions. The ISA model was subsequently replaced with a version for the PCI bus. As well as a standard 1-SID version, they launched the HardSID Quattro, which includes slots for four SID chips and a cooling fan. Two new models have been developed: the HardSID 4U, a USB device with sockets for 4 SID chips and the HardSID 4U Studio Edition with improved electrical isolation and screening to reduce noise in the signal. The units are expected to ship from April 2008. HardSID cards are supported by most modern SID music playing applications, including sidplay and ACID64 Player and some trackers such as GoatTracker. The ISA cards have official drivers for Microsoft Windows, and the PCI ones for Mac OS X as well as Windows. Unofficial drivers are available for Linux. Little information is yet available for the compatibility of the HardSID 4U, but it will ship with a Vista compatible driver and can be controlled via a VSTi interface. Separate MIDI drivers, which allowed any MIDI-capable instrument or sequencer program to drive the card, were available for both the ISA and PCI versions of the HardSID. The HardSID 4U unit has dedicated on-board CPU power, as opposed to the earlier HardSID units. This makes the 4U able to play SID-files with digi-contents at full speed and quality, without eating up your computer's CPU power. The older revisions depended on the player software's emulation to accomplish this, due to the lack of an on-board CPU or memory buffer. The result was virtually always a *very* high CPU load when playing digi-tunes.
  • Der HardSID ist die Bezeichnung für eine Reihe von PC-Soundkarten, die von der ungarischen Firma Hard Software produziert werden und im Original von Teli Sándor entwickelt wurde. Die HardSID-Karten basieren auf dem Soundchip SID (Sound Interface Device, Typ 6581 oder 8580) der Firma MOS Technology, der durch den Heimcomputer Commodore 64 in den 1980er Jahren bekannt geworden war. Im Vergleich zum - ebenfalls auf dem SID basierenden - eigenständigen MIDI-Synthesizer SIDstation des Musikelektronikherstellers Elektron handelt es sich beim HardSID lediglich um ein Interface zum Rechner, in den die Karte eingesetzt wird. Das erste Modell des HardSID von 1999 war für den ISA-Bus ausgelegt und enthielt einen SID-Steckplatz. Der SID selbst befand sich jedoch nicht im Lieferumfang.
  • HardSID - rodzina kart dźwiękowych, produkowanych przez węgierskie przedsiębiorstwo Hard Software. Karty HardSID konstruowane są w oparciu o układ MOS 6581 pochodzący z komputera Commodore 64. Ich przeznaczeniem jest obsługa dźwięku w emulatorach oraz odtwarzaczach chiptune. Zastosowanie oryginalnego układu dźwiękowego pozwala uzyskać pełną kompatybilność oraz wierność dźwięku, w przeciwieństwie do rozwiązań programowych. HardSID wspierany jest przez różnego rodzaju oprogramowanie. Przeznaczony jest również do pracy studyjnej.
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  • The HardSID is a family of sound cards, produced by a Hungarian company Hard Software and originally conceived by Teli Sándor. The HardSID cards are based on the MOS Technology SID (Sound Interface Device) chip which was popularised and immortalized by the Commodore 64 home computer. It was the third non-Commodore SID-based device to enter market.
  • Der HardSID ist die Bezeichnung für eine Reihe von PC-Soundkarten, die von der ungarischen Firma Hard Software produziert werden und im Original von Teli Sándor entwickelt wurde. Die HardSID-Karten basieren auf dem Soundchip SID (Sound Interface Device, Typ 6581 oder 8580) der Firma MOS Technology, der durch den Heimcomputer Commodore 64 in den 1980er Jahren bekannt geworden war.
  • HardSID - rodzina kart dźwiękowych, produkowanych przez węgierskie przedsiębiorstwo Hard Software. Karty HardSID konstruowane są w oparciu o układ MOS 6581 pochodzący z komputera Commodore 64. Ich przeznaczeniem jest obsługa dźwięku w emulatorach oraz odtwarzaczach chiptune. Zastosowanie oryginalnego układu dźwiękowego pozwala uzyskać pełną kompatybilność oraz wierność dźwięku, w przeciwieństwie do rozwiązań programowych.
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