#chiptune
- 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, …
- Chiptune — what the word means conceptTwo related things share the name:
- Compos — music competitions in the tracker scene conceptA compo is a competition with a deadline, a rule set and a vote; in the 1990s PC scene they ran on IRC, by e-mail and at parties, and they were the main way a tracker got quick, public feedback. The one this wiki has …
- 20 Minute Chip Compo (20mc) eventAn IRC competition, held on EFnet channel #ChIpCoMpO from September 1995, in which trackers had twenty minutes to make a chiptune from a shared sample pack; organised by amusic (Sotiris Varotsis, Bass Productions, …
- ChipMusic.org publicationThe chip-music community forum (chipmusic.org) whose Nintendo Handhelds and General Discussion boards hold much of the lsdj folk knowledge of the 2010s: command semantics, drum recipes, table methods, save-file swapping …
- Clef (Phil Sweeney) personAustralian pianist, coder and chiptune specialist: twice a 20-minute-chip-compo winner, author of the menu chips on the epinicion disks, winner of the 16k music compo at OZ'96, and an impulse-tracker convert from …
- DennisC (Dennis Courtney) person"Faces in the Crowd" interviewer of traxweekly from October 1995 to January 1996 and the author of "Chiptunes Aren't Dead!" (#38), the reply to Szalemandre's "The Death of the Chiptune". The sources are his six …
- Necros (Andy Sega) personThe most-cited PC-scene musician in traxweekly : Andy Sega, 19 in March 1995, a computer-science major with a philosophy minor, co-founder of the five-musicians with Mellow-D after leaving kosmic ("it is kinda silly to …
- The Modsquad groupBongo Jongo, Spessartini and Neon Hunter (modsquad@juno.com), authors of the four-part satirical chiptune "seminar" in traxweekly #77–#81 (November–December 1996) and of a musicdisk "Potato Chips" with "like 500k of …
- 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 …
- TW #26–#33, #50 — the 20 MeEnUhTz Chip Compo column (AmusiC) summaryThe weekly column of the 20-minute-chip-compo (20mc): its origin story, the rules, the voting system and its changes, three result tables from autumn 1995, and — in #50 — why it stopped after Christmas 1995 and came …
- TW #37–38 — The Death of the Chiptune / Chiptunes Aren't Dead! summaryA two-part exchange from December 1995 that documents what "chiptune" meant in the PC tracker scene and the effect of the 20-minute-chip-compo .
- TW #41 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Mick Rippon (DennisC) summaryDennisC interviews mick-rippon , a music student from Newcastle, Australia, with three years of Amiga tracking behind him and three months on the internet — the interview traxweekly 's FITC editor had promised in #34 …
- TW #5 — Interview with TheHacker (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn's first appearance in traxweekly ("I've been with TraxWeekly since the first issue, but this will be the first … something involving me appears"): thehacker of kosmic asked to be interviewed by IRC message, and …
- TW #55 — Interview with Clef (Catch 22, ex-Epinicion) summaryzinc interviews clef , a 17-year-old Australian pianist, coder and chiptune specialist — twice a 20-minute-chip-compo winner, author of the menu chips on the epinicion disks, winner of the 16k music compo at OZ'96 — who …
- TW #64 — Potted Tracking History (Ganja Man) summaryA scener's oral history by ganja-man of lok , written in an afternoon; useful as the scene's own account of where trackers and "chip tunes" came from, not as a checked chronology.
- TW #77–81 — A Chip Off the Block / Chiptune Seminar, parts 1–4 (The Modsquad) summaryA four-part, mostly satirical "seminar" on making chiptunes by the-modsquad ; the editor noted he was "not that enthused". Parts 3 and 4 are almost entirely nonsense (paper boats, Elvis, nail collections, "encryption"); …