#chords
- Chord arpeggio (the 0 3 7 trick) techniqueChips rarely have enough channels for real chords, so one channel cycles through the chord tones extremely fast. At roughly 25–50 notes per second the ear fuses them into one shimmering chord — the signature chiptune …
- Ghost channel (two notes in one wave) techniqueOne wave channel playing two notes at once. Instead of alternating between them in time, the two waveforms are added together inside the same single-cycle wave — a low fundamental with a faster wave riding on top of it …
- Chord inversions and voice leading conceptAny chord tone can be the lowest note. Take minor 0 3 7 , move the bottom note up an octave and re-measure from the new lowest note:
- Diatonic chords — why it is not always 0 3 7 conceptA triad = root + a third + a fifth, but "a third" comes in two sizes (minor +3, major +4) and the fifth is usually +7, sometimes +6 or +8:
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ Chord Cheat Sheet / Advice on Learning Tables threads (2015) summaryTwo chipmusic-org threads: LazierGunz's chord cheat sheet for C commands and arpeggio tables (an image; the discussion carries the values), and a beginner asking how anyone learns to write tables — answered by herr_prof …
- Intense Tech #03 — Don't Sleep on Z (Defense Mechanism, after Hypnogram) summarySeven worked examples of lsdj 's Z command by defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ), rewritten from a 2016 blog post by hypnogram : random vibrato, duty cycle, panning, gating, melody, chords and a sweep. The article is …
- Intense Tech #19 — New Noise and 9.1.0 News (Defense Mechanism) summarylsdj 9.1.0 reorganised the noise channel into ordered notes; defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) explains the new layout, offers a converter for old shape values, and lists the other 9.0.1–9.1.0 changes — P , C and V on …
- 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 …
- TW #1 — Modal and Chord Theory (Leviathan) summaryThe very first TraxWeekly article, written because "a lot of the self-taught musicians out there were really only composing by ear" ( leviathan ).
- TW #107 — Layman's Music Theory, part one (Zinc) summaryzinc , who has "absolutely no formal music training", writes the theory primer he wished existed: how to spell a triad from interval qualities. No further parts followed in the archive's TOC.
- TW #18 — Advanced Tracking Tips III: voicings (Necros) summaryHow necros turns a flat C–F–Dm–G progression, tracked as three root-position triads per chord, into C9 | Fadd2/C | Dm7 | Gsus4–G.
- TW #39–40 — Chord Theory? / Chord What? (Maelcum, Trixter, Basehead) summarySparked by Atlantic's review in #37 reporting a #trax argument (Aahz, basehead and necros vs. a tracker who said "chord theory is not required to write good music").