1989 - SIDMon (Amiga)

Main Screen

The first tracker featuring ‘synthesis’ for the Amiga. Very rough app, which didn’t have user friendliness high in it’s aims. With it you could create very tiny (filesize) tracks with synthetic instruments which resembled the very disntinctive sounds of the C64 SID chip. The program was based on the ‘Sound monitor’ programmed by Chris Hülsbeck. Hence the name SIDMon.

The app features waveform sound synthesis, sample playback (although it only had a few hardcoded samples), and a sequencer.

The app first saw the light of day in 1987, but it wasn’t until 1989 that we published it through Turtle Byte, a german publisher which turned out to be very untrustworthy (as was the norm for game publishers back in the day).

Pattern Editor Sample Editor Instrument Editor

A short time later we upgraded SIDMon to ‘The Digital Mugician’, a more mature version which we published at Thalamus

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