#arrangement
- Channel interleaving (one channel, two jobs) techniqueWhen channels are scarce, interleave: bass note on every even 16th, melody notes on the odd ones. Played fast, the ear separates them into two lines — a bassline and a lead — from a single channel. The same idea works …
- Song initialisation and looping techniqueMaking a module start and loop correctly in any player — the "finishing touch" most often forgotten, according to catspaw : default speed, tempo and pan positions in the song header apply only once, so a song whose last …
- Arrangement — think in 4s and 8s conceptAlmost all chiptune and EDM breathes in 4- and 8-bar phrases. Introduce or remove one element every 4 or 8 bars: drop the bass out, bring the drums in, transpose the whole thing up, add a counter-melody. Repetition is …
- Orderlist (sequence) conceptThe list that tells a tracker which pattern plays next; in C64 trackers each track has its own orderlist, so tracks can loop patterns of different lengths independently. Besides pattern numbers it can carry song-level …
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ Advanced Tricks thread (2012) summaryA chipmusic-org thread started by a tracker who had "PU1 as a kick, PU2 as the main melody, WAV as the lower notes, NOISE as hi-hat" and ran out of channels. The replies are the Game Boy scene's consensus on channel …
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ live performance thread (2010) summaryWhat live mode actually gives you, argued out by people who tour with it.
- Intense Tech #15 — Let's Mix It Up (and Down) (Defense Mechanism) summaryMixing with four channels and "four bits of dynamic range": defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) treats volume, stereo placement and frequency range as three separate levers in lsdj , and adds two volume tricks — a snare …
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP1: Instrument Retriggering (video, 2016) summaryThe first of six episodes, framed as "hidden tricks in LSDj that are probably in the manual but not necessarily gone over in enough detail". The subject is one fact with a long tail: a note and an instrument number are …
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP3: \"Isometric\" save-file walkthrough (video, 2016) summaryOne song taken apart screen by screen — his lsdj cover of Madeon's Isometric , used as a live opener. The framing is worth keeping: "when you have covers you don't have to focus on actual composition, you have to focus …
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP5: Shortcuts and Workflow (video, 2016) summaryKey combinations and the habits built on them: the clipboard, cloning, marking, key repeat, and live transposition. Filmed with an on-screen controller visualiser (gamepadviewer.com) so the button presses are visible.
- roboctopus — LSDJ & You: Echo Chamber (2014) summaryFour echo techniques for lsdj , from one that costs no channel at all to one that spends a second. The framing is arrangement, not effects: "Echoes can help fill an arrangement out and give it a greater sense of depth …
- TW #15 — Advanced Tracking Tips II (Necros) summarynecros adapts Jim Aikin's "Demo Tape Workshop" (Keyboard, June 1995) to tracked music: six lessons on structure, dynamics, melody, drums, harmony and samples.
- TW #32 — Not So Advanced Tracking Tips (Atlantic) summaryAtlantic's "confession" of the habits that slowed his own progress, sorted into five tracker types.
- TW #72 — Composing Whole Modules (Sir Nick / Deck Blasters) summaryA tracker of six years (Scream Tracker 2.25, several scream-tracker-3 versions, then impulse-tracker ) argues that editing music "in blocks of only few bars" makes tracked tunes monotonous.
- TW #87–#97 — Music Theory: A Modern Approach (The Modsquad, seven parts) summaryThis is satire , the sequel to the chiptune "seminar" of #77–#81 ( s-tw077-chip-off-the-block ): fake gear lists ("$450 TB-202", a Speak & Spell), "musical DNA", Elvis, juggling raves, a prison inmate given …
- TW #96 — Studio Tracking Tips (Zinc) summaryzinc adapts Future Music's "50 Top Studio Tips" (issue 50) to tracking — some forty short rules on sampling, mixing, arrangement and habits.