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  • 0 3 7 lab toolA single-file browser app ( 037-lab.html , lives in ../037-lab next to this wiki) that teaches music theory in semitones for tracker musicians, built by m64. Named after the question "is the chip-arp formula 0 3 7 the …
  • ACID 64 toolWilfred Bos's SID player for HardSID and catweasel cards: instead of emulating the sid 's sound, it "emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor to run the code of a SID tune and controls the cards for playing the music on a …
  • Asterion Sid Tracker toolA native C64 tracker by Asterion of the group Tinnitus, version 1.0 released in 2004 on a disk with the editor and its instructions, a packer/relocator and example tunes. Everything sits on one screen (only 8 pattern …
  • Catweasel Mk4 toolA PCI card by Individual Computers — a floppy controller for Amiga and C64 disks with a digital-joystick port — that also carries two sid sockets , so a PC can play .sid files through a real 6581 and a real 8580 and …
  • CheeseCutter toolA cross-platform SID music editor in the jch-editor lineage, by Abaddon ("Timo" per scarzix 's interview; Finnish coder-musician; Damage → Fairlight 2003 → solo → triad 2012–2017): the 0-series opened JCH-editor work …
  • CyberTracker toolA native C64 sid tracker with a FastTracker II -like interface, by Cyberbrain (source: s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview ) . The wiki knows it only through user testimony in the sidin interviews of 2004–2010: easy to …
  • David Whittaker's player (the Panther driver) toolThe 1986 driver of david-whittaker as reverse-engineered by dmx87 from Panther (Mastertronic): a three-voice player without an instrument table — the timbre of a voice is whatever the last command prefixes in its …
  • defMON toolfrantic 's native C64 sid music editor — in iLKke's words "the only true tracker for the C64 (as opposed to sound 'editors')": there are no instruments, no effect commands and no per-purpose tables, only one sound table …
  • DigiOrganizer toolA C64 editor and player by Polonius of the group Padua (code banner "DIGI-ORGANIZER BY POLONUS/PADUA") that adds a fourth, sampled voice to a normal single-speed tune made in any other editor: 4-bit samples packed two …
  • DMC toolDMC is a family of C64 sid music editors of the 1990s and the wiki's archetype of the duration-based school — sidin #13 frames the editor divide as duration-based (DMC) versus tracker-style (JCH) (source: …
  • DUET toolm64's tracker: " impulse-tracker and sid-wizard on one grid — two real trackers, one clock, one save button." A complete IT engine and a complete SID-Wizard 1.97 engine in one Zig program, plus two synths of its own …
  • FastTracker 2 toolThe DOS tracker of triton — Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl — behind the xm-format . Work began in June 1993 "to write a music program that could set a new standard in the confused PC-scene"; the design idea: "Who want …
  • Furnace toolFurnace is a multi-system tracker by tildearrow and contributors (GPL-2.0, github.com/tildearrow/furnace) whose manual has a page on the commodore-64 's sid and one on its C64 instrument editor; only those two pages are …
  • Future Composer (C64) toolThe scene editor of 1988 built on the first maniacs-of-noise player: "Another player cracked: Future Composer! It's released by Finnish Gold. It's the first TMC/MON player, but Finnish Gold had made an editor for it. …
  • GoatTracker toolGoatTracker 2 is "a tracker-like C64 music editor running on Win32 or Linux platforms" by lasse-oorni (Cadaver), GPL, that drives a reSID emulation ( Dag Lem 's, with Antti Lankila's distortion model) or real HardSID / …
  • HardSID toolA family of PC cards and later USB boxes that carry real sid chips , so a PC tracker or player can drive a genuine 6581/8580 instead of an emulation. The wiki knows the line through sidin 's news pages (2003–2010) and …
  • Impulse Tracker toolThe DOS tracker by jeffrey-lim ("Pulse"), written in 100 % assembler during 1995–96 as "an extension to scream-tracker-3 " that kept ST3's quick interface and added everything fasttracker-2 had — envelopes, 16-bit and …
  • Iseq (Steve Judd's C64 music editor, 2002) toolStephen L. Judd's C64 music editor and player of 2002 (version "01.0 1/2002", released at www.ffd2.com/fridge/iseq on 2002-05-31 and announced on comp.sys.cbm on 2002-06-09) — deliberately not a tracker : notes run left …
  • JCH editor & NewPlayer toolThe native C64 music editor and player family of JCH (Jens-Christian Huus, Vibrants) — the most influential of the private 1980s editors: scarzix , Drax and goto80 composed in it, laxity wrote its last player generation …
  • JITT64 (Java Ice Team Tracker) toolA cross-platform tracker for the sid written in Java by stefano-tognon (ice00), the editor of sidin , and documented by him in SIDin #13 (2010-06-28) from the user's side and from inside the player. Its distinguishing …
  • Johannes Bjerregaard's player toolThe driver johannes-bjerregaard wrote for himself — in 1986 the only "scene composer with own player" SIDwave can name ( s-recollection-brief-history-of-sid ) — and kept when he joined maniacs-of-noise in 1988 …
  • libLSDj toolA library by 4ntler for reading and writing lsdj save files ( .sav ) and songs ( .lsdsng ), released with command-line tools for Mac and Windows (Linux users compile from source). defense-mechanism documented three of …
  • LSDj (Little Sound Dj) toolA tracker that runs on the game-boy itself (as a cartridge ROM), written by johan-kotlinski ; version 9.2.6 dates from May 2021. It drives the four channels of the game-boy-apu — PU1, PU2, WAV, NOI — through a song → …
  • LSDj Wave Cruncher toolA command-line tool by Ada, alias DOTCNT (GitHub iLambda/lsdj-wave-cruncher ), that reduces a single-note sample to sixteen 4-bit wave frames — a .snt wavetable — so that the lsdj wave synth plays the timbre at any …
  • LSDPatch (LSDPatcher) toolThe Java program (Java 8 or later; GitHub jkotlinski/lsdpatch ) that customises an lsdj ROM and manages its save: ROM upgrades, sample kits, fonts, palettes and — since it absorbed LSDManager — songs. defense-mechanism …
  • Martin Galway's player (the Ocean "macro-language" driver) toolThe 6502 music system martin-galway wrote at Ocean from 1984 ("there never was an editor … It was always assembler source files"; source: s-sidmusic-galway-interviews ), known from two reverse-engineered tunes: the …
  • Matt Gray's player (Driller / Dominator engine) toolThe 6502 music driver matt-gray wrote for himself from late 1986 after codemasters told him he needed one, and used for every C64 game from driller (1987) to Deliverance (1990). It is documented twice: Stefano Tognon …
  • MUSICFILE — the Maniacs of Noise driver toolThe C64 music driver charles-deenen wrote in 1987 for maniacs-of-noise — "Deenen programmed a music driver ('Musicfile') and a sound effects driver in Turbo Ass" — into which jeroen-tel , Marcel Donné and reyn-ouwehand …
  • Nanoloop toolOliver Wittchow's grid sequencer for the game-boy , and lsdj 's older sibling in the scene: the other cartridge people mean when they say "Game Boy music". This page holds only what the wiki's sources actually say about …
  • Ninjatracker toolA native commodore-64 music editor by lasse-oorni (Cadaver), written so that his games could have music with low rastertime and memory usage ; version 2 (2.0–2.03, dated August–September 2006 by the SIDin news; the #11 …
  • Odin Tracker toolA native C64 sid tracker, attested in the wiki from June 2002 to 2010 purely through user testimony: recommended in the same breath as goattracker during the iseq debate, called user-friendly in 2004, an inspiration for …
  • OpenMPT tool"A third-generation tracker" for Windows (runs in Wine on macOS and Linux): the open-source continuation of olivier-lapicque 's ModPlug Tracker, which grew out of his mid-1990s ModPlugin browser plugin and went open …
  • Paul Hughes's Ocean music driver (Jonathan Dunn's player) toolThe 1988 in-house music system of Ocean Software: "Oh wow (paroxism!) programming by Paul Hughes", with jonathan-dunn 's "Orchestration, blood, sweat & tears" — known from two original sources in the realdmx collection, …
  • ProTracker toolThe Amiga tracker that fixed the 4-channel mod-format and the effect numbers every later tracker inherited. Written by lars-hamre ("ZAP") of Amiga Freelancers on the basis of NoiseTracker (first version 1990-05-04, …
  • reSID toolDag Lem 's software emulation of the sid chip — the engine inside vice , goattracker and the sidplay2 branch of the sidplay player family, and the source code in which the SID's envelope ("ADSR delay") bug is …
  • Rob Hubbard's driver (the Monty on the Run player) toolThe 6502 music routine rob-hubbard wrote in 1985 and, per Anthony McSweeney's disassembly, "used (with small modifications) for his first approx. 30 tunes" — the player of monty-on-the-run , commando , Crazy Comets, …
  • Rockmonitor toolThe scene's unofficial extension of soundmonitor with a sampled drum track, made by The Dutch USA-Team in 1987: "Dutch USA-Team take Soundmonitor from Chris Hülsbeck … and adds a digi-drum routine to it, so you can edit …
  • Schism Tracker tool"A free and open-source reimplementation of impulse-tracker " for Linux, macOS, Windows and anything SDL runs on, keeping IT's keyboard-driven interface and "finger feel" on top of "a highly modified version of the …
  • Scream Tracker 3 toolThe DOS tracker by sami-tammilehto ("Psi") of future-crew , freeware, behind the s3m-format : 3.01 beta on 1994-04-18 ("S3M format, 16 channels, GUS, Adlib"), 3.20 on 1994-12-06 and 3.21 on 1994-12-25, descended from …
  • SID Factory II toolA sid music editor documented here through chordian 's tutorial. Its data model is the familiar one — instruments as byte rows, a wave table , a pulse table and a filter table, sequences in tracks with +++ (gate held) …
  • SID-Wizard toolSID-Wizard is a music tracker that runs on the commodore-64 itself and drives the sid chip. Written by hermit (Mihaly Horvath); version 1.8 is from 2018. It borrows the GoatTracker-like concept and keys and ideas from …
  • sid-wizard-vessel toolm64's (Mario 64 / MARiO64) fork of sid-wizard 1.8.7 for anarkiwi's Vessel MIDI interface: external MIDI tempo sync IN plus a live-act feature set — free repositioning in the orderlist during synced playback, pattern …
  • siddump toolA command-line utility that runs a .sid file ( sid-format ) in a small 6502 emulation and prints, frame by frame, what the tune writes to the sid registers — the tool C64 musicians use to see how an instrument is built …
  • SIDId toolLasse Öörni's player-identification tool: sidid.cfg holds byte-pattern signatures for about 1 300 named C64 players and editors, and sidid.nfo a note per entry with author, release year and a CSDb reference — which is …
  • SIDPLAY toolThe family of SID-music players that grew out of the Amiga's PlaySID: Michael Schwendt's SIDPLAY for the PC, the libsidplay/libsidplay2 libraries and their front-ends (Sidplay2/w on Windows, XSIDPLAY on Unix, SIDPLAY …
  • Soundmonitor toolchris-huelsbeck 's music editor for the C64, written in the summer of 1986 as a front end for his Musicmaster play routine and published by 64er as a type-in "Listing des Monats" in issue 10/1986 — "the most popular …
  • SwinSID toolA hardware sound module that sits in the commodore-64 's SID socket in place of a real 6581/8580 — announced in early 2006 as a wavetable synthesizer with "almost full" sid compatibility, and present in the wiki's later …
  • TFMX toolchris-huelsbeck 's second-generation driver, born on the C64 in the summer of 1988 and carried to the Amiga (and later DOS, SNES and the N64's MusyX): instead of only "the typical rigid instrument table" it runs "a …
  • Turbo Assembler (C64) toolThe native C64 assembler that served maniacs-of-noise as its music editor: "The editor for both of us was easy: Turbo Assembler :)" — charles-deenen wrote the musicfile driver and SFX driver in it, and jeroen-tel , …
  • VICE toolThe commodore-64 emulator the sid-wizard manual assumes when running the tracker on a PC. Key equivalents given by the manual: C64 CONTROL = Tab, RUN/STOP = Esc, C= (Commodore key) = Control, ← (back-arrow) = Tilde or …