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title: 'More sound for the C64: the Sound Expander'
date: '2026-09-29'
author: yann64
banner: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_sound-expander_hr_left_1.jpg
summary: The hardware gallery shows how far owners went to get more music out of their machine.
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The SID was already a remarkable chip, but that did not stop anyone from adding more. The [hardware tab](/museum/commodore-c64/hardware/) of the Commodore 64 shows the Sound Expander cartridge among more than forty peripherals and extensions.

Samplers, speech synthesisers, drum machines: the list says a lot about what people wanted to do with a home computer in the mid-eighties.