#debate
- 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 …
- Realism in tracked music concept"Realism" was the 1990s PC-scene word for modules that try to sound like a recording of real instruments or a commercial production — large, carefully sampled instruments instead of the few-kilobyte waveforms of a …
- TW #113–#118 — The Scene and the Commercial Market: the commercial-tracking debate summaryBehemoth lectured on demos and tracking to 40–50 people at his college's electronics department (most over 30; one asked "how a computer was able to sound 'not like a computer'") and concluded with five reasons tracking …
- TW #24, #25, #64, #65 — the sample-ripping debate (Mhoram, Psibelius, Kristian Eriksen, Beacon) summaryFour articles a year apart on "the dreaded 'R' word": taking samples out of other people's modules. The first two (1995) argue etiquette, the second pair (1996) argue copyright. Together they are the scene's own …
- TW #33 — 4Channel Lives On (Trixter) summarytrixter 's reply, printed in the "Amiga Debate" section, to a correspondent who said Amiga MODs are as obsolete as the Wright brothers' plane.
- 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").
- TW #43–#45 — the Demonews ratings argument (Light, Trixter / Hornet) summaryLight of kosmic (an artist, "not a musician") watched two friends fall out on #trax over "the cdrom ratings" and wrote that the five-star system in Demonews and the 00index files makes lesser trackers give up; trixter …
- TW #7 — The Importance of Music Theory (Future Assassin) summaryA personal essay by an 18-year-old tracker who plays by ear and never had a lesson — the earliest traxweekly piece in the theory-versus-ear argument that flared up again in #37–#40 ( s-tw039-chord-theory-debate ).
- TW #70–73 — the realism debate (#trax log, Behemoth, GBlues, Alan Robinson, Raphael, Sturm, brn, It-Alien, Purple Haze, Necros) summaryA #trax argument about a tracked saxophone, printed as TraxWeekly's second survey question ("is 'realism' something viable for tracked music?", replies to Psibelius), followed by three issues of answers; Behemoth's …
- TW #76 — Realism in MODs (Behemoth) summaryA reply to a #70 argument (Necros, in_tense and others) about "realism" in tracked music. Behemoth samples his own instruments from a Korg X5 rather than reusing "three or four Purple Motion samples"; reproducing a …
- TW #9 — Samples, Lameness, Preconceptions, and Fluffy Bunnies (Necros) summaryA reply to Perisoft's piece in #8: why necros , once a "siner-synth" purist, became "a loop junkie".