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  • Chip samples — tiny looped waveforms techniqueIn a sample tracker, a "chip" is a very small looped sample — a single waveform cycle or a few hundred bytes of a real instrument — that stands in for a sound-chip voice. A chiptune module is built from nothing else, …
  • Sample offset tricks techniqueThe sample-offset command ( 9xx in ProTracker/MOD, Oxx in impulse-tracker ) starts a sample partway through — in units of 256 bytes, so 00–FF covers 64 KB (the SAx high-order command extends it in IT). Three classic …
  • Chiptune — what the word means conceptTwo related things share the name:
  • Commercial tracking — selling and producing tracked music conceptCan a module be a product? traxweekly argued it out in October 1997 – January 1998 after Behemoth's "The Scene and the Commercial Market". The useful residue is a list of real cases, a production workflow for …
  • Effect command crosswalk (MOD / XM ↔ S3M / IT) conceptThe PC and Amiga trackers use two alphabets for the same jobs: protracker 's numbers 0 – F (kept by fasttracker-2 's xm-format , which adds letters) and scream-tracker-3 's letters A – Z (kept and extended by …
  • Live tracking — performing with a tracker concept"You cannot perform tracking live" (Behemoth, 1997) drew four answers that together describe how sceners actually did it: pattern switching on cue, live instruments over the module, channel muting, and playing a …
  • Sample ripping conceptTaking samples out of other people's modules — with a ripper such as GetSamps v2.42 by Zab [Hardcode], or by loading the module in a tracker — and reusing them in your own songs. In the 1990s PC scene it was both …
  • The PC tracker scene 1995–98, as it saw itself conceptWhat traxweekly 's writers said about where tracking came from, how music moved around, who judged it and where it was going. This is the scene's own narrative, mostly written by teenagers in an afternoon; for checked …
  • 4mat personScene musician-coder whose 512-byte Empty won the tiny-sid-compo 512-byte category in 2005, and one of the most-quoted voices in the wiki's chipmusic.org threads — dissecting SID tunes from siddump logs, posting the …
  • Chris Hülsbeck personGerman composer (born 1968-03-02 in Kassel) who wrote his own C64 driver in 1985, won 64er 's music competition with shades in 1986 and then gave the magazine soundmonitor , the editor with which the C64 tracker era …
  • Dustbin (Stefano Palmonari) personItalian game composer from Ferrara (31 years old in December 2004) who taught himself the SID at 15 from taped Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel tunes, got hired by Simulmondo at 17 on the strength of a first rockmonitor tune …
  • Jan Harries (Rambones) personDanish demo-scener, C64 music ripper and composer (born 1969-01-12 in Nyborg): a founder of the demo group The Supply Team (1985–89), author of the Ripped-Off (C64, 1987–88) and Ripp Off (PlaySID, 1991–95) rip series, …
  • Lars "ZAP" Hamre personAuthor of the original protracker (Amiga Freelancers, with Anders Hamre, Sven Vahsen and Rune Johnsrud): the first version on 1990-05-04, 1.0A released in August 1990 "Full of bugs", 1.0B/C, 1.1A (December 1990, …
  • Leinad (Daniel Falk) personSwedish composer of the Amiga era (from 1989, most active 1990–91) who by 1995 tracked on a PC for the games of MAGE, the small development outfit he ran with friends, and wrote multimedia for a living. The single …
  • Mick Rippon personComposition student from Newcastle, Australia, with three years of Amiga ProTracker and, from mid-1995, ST3 and FT2 on the PC; interviewed by DennisC for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in January 1996, after FITC's …
  • Mikmak (Jean-Paul Mikkers) personDutch programmer, author of the MikMod and MikIT module players; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of June 1997 (source: s-tw103-interview-mikmak ) .
  • MOD module format (.mod) format"The first file format for tracked music on the Commodore Amiga": introduced in a basic form by Karsten Obarski's Ultimate SoundTracker, extended by NoiseTracker and protracker with more effects, longer samples and more …
  • Peter "Crayon" Hanning personCoder and musician of Mushroom Studios / Noxious (with Anders "Dolphin" Ramsay and Daniel "Knotis" Sindahl, Rönninge, Sweden), who took protracker over from Amiga Freelancers: 2.1A (1992-04-16), 2.2A (1992-06-22; chord …
  • 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, …
  • Rainbow Arts group"The first big german games developer", which hired chris-huelsbeck on the phone after shades and had him in-house from February/March 1987: great-giana-sisters (label Time Warp), Katakis , R-Type , Turrican (sources: …
  • 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 …
  • The Zapper (Marc Girard, Force Ten) personMusician of Force Ten (zapper@autoroute.net), a group of friends from the Montreal suburbs that is also a real band (Zapper on bass and synths), and of the demo group The Apollo Project. Wrote "Loops and Extended …
  • U4IA / F8 (James Young) personBristol-based Amiga-generation composer of underground dance modules — over 150 released by 1996 — who quit as U4IA in 1994 and returned under the name F8; the single source for this page is his e-mail interview in …
  • Zalt (Tobias Garder) personSixteen-year-old Stockholm tracker ("zalt of groove.phenomena.mistery"), 2nd in the Icing'95 multichannel music compo, who came from Atari NoiseTracker to FastTracker 2 ; interviewed by psibelius in traxweekly #40 …