#editor
- Asterion Sid Tracker toolA native C64 tracker by Asterion of the group Tinnitus, version 1.0 released in 2004 on a disk with the editor and its instructions, a packer/relocator and example tunes. Everything sits on one screen (only 8 pattern …
- CheeseCutter toolA cross-platform SID music editor in the jch-editor lineage, by Abaddon ("Timo" per scarzix 's interview; Finnish coder-musician; Damage → Fairlight 2003 → solo → triad 2012–2017): the 0-series opened JCH-editor work …
- CyberTracker toolA native C64 sid tracker with a FastTracker II -like interface, by Cyberbrain (source: s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview ) . The wiki knows it only through user testimony in the sidin interviews of 2004–2010: easy to …
- defMON toolfrantic 's native C64 sid music editor — in iLKke's words "the only true tracker for the C64 (as opposed to sound 'editors')": there are no instruments, no effect commands and no per-purpose tables, only one sound table …
- DigiOrganizer toolA C64 editor and player by Polonius of the group Padua (code banner "DIGI-ORGANIZER BY POLONUS/PADUA") that adds a fourth, sampled voice to a normal single-speed tune made in any other editor: 4-bit samples packed two …
- DMC toolDMC is a family of C64 sid music editors of the 1990s and the wiki's archetype of the duration-based school — sidin #13 frames the editor divide as duration-based (DMC) versus tracker-style (JCH) (source: …
- Future Composer (C64) toolThe scene editor of 1988 built on the first maniacs-of-noise player: "Another player cracked: Future Composer! It's released by Finnish Gold. It's the first TMC/MON player, but Finnish Gold had made an editor for it. …
- GoatTracker toolGoatTracker 2 is "a tracker-like C64 music editor running on Win32 or Linux platforms" by lasse-oorni (Cadaver), GPL, that drives a reSID emulation ( Dag Lem 's, with Antti Lankila's distortion model) or real HardSID / …
- Iseq (Steve Judd's C64 music editor, 2002) toolStephen L. Judd's C64 music editor and player of 2002 (version "01.0 1/2002", released at www.ffd2.com/fridge/iseq on 2002-05-31 and announced on comp.sys.cbm on 2002-06-09) — deliberately not a tracker : notes run left …
- JCH editor & NewPlayer toolThe native C64 music editor and player family of JCH (Jens-Christian Huus, Vibrants) — the most influential of the private 1980s editors: scarzix , Drax and goto80 composed in it, laxity wrote its last player generation …
- JITT64 (Java Ice Team Tracker) toolA cross-platform tracker for the sid written in Java by stefano-tognon (ice00), the editor of sidin , and documented by him in SIDin #13 (2010-06-28) from the user's side and from inside the player. Its distinguishing …
- LSDj (Little Sound Dj) toolA tracker that runs on the game-boy itself (as a cartridge ROM), written by johan-kotlinski ; version 9.2.6 dates from May 2021. It drives the four channels of the game-boy-apu — PU1, PU2, WAV, NOI — through a song → …
- Ninjatracker toolA native commodore-64 music editor by lasse-oorni (Cadaver), written so that his games could have music with low rastertime and memory usage ; version 2 (2.0–2.03, dated August–September 2006 by the SIDin news; the #11 …
- Odin Tracker toolA native C64 sid tracker, attested in the wiki from June 2002 to 2010 purely through user testimony: recommended in the same breath as goattracker during the iseq debate, called user-friendly in 2004, an inspiration for …
- Popcorn (Chris Campbell) personCanadian high-school tracker who edited traxweekly through most of 1995 — between its founder populus , who handed him the job, and psibelius , who succeeded him — conducted six of its early interviews, and was a member …
- Populus (Nicolas Roberge) personCo-founder of traxweekly and its first interviewer; member of epinicion and defiance ; computer-science student. The main source for this page is his farewell interview of June 1995 (source: s-tw016-interview-populus ) .
- Psibelius (Gene Wie) personEditor and publisher of traxweekly (the 1997 staff sheet lists "Editor: Psibelius (Gene Wie)"; issue #50's introduction is signed Gene Wie, TraxWeekly Publishing — sources: s-tw106-a-little-panning , …
- Rockmonitor toolThe scene's unofficial extension of soundmonitor with a sampled drum track, made by The Dutch USA-Team in 1987: "Dutch USA-Team take Soundmonitor from Chris Hülsbeck … and adds a digi-drum routine to it, so you can edit …
- SID Factory II toolA sid music editor documented here through chordian 's tutorial. Its data model is the familiar one — instruments as byte rows, a wave table , a pulse table and a filter table, sequences in tracks with +++ (gate held) …
- SID-Wizard toolSID-Wizard is a music tracker that runs on the commodore-64 itself and drives the sid chip. Written by hermit (Mihaly Horvath); version 1.8 is from 2018. It borrows the GoatTracker-like concept and keys and ideas from …
- sid-wizard-vessel toolm64's (Mario 64 / MARiO64) fork of sid-wizard 1.8.7 for anarkiwi's Vessel MIDI interface: external MIDI tempo sync IN plus a live-act feature set — free repositioning in the orderlist during synced playback, pattern …
- Soundmonitor toolchris-huelsbeck 's music editor for the C64, written in the summer of 1986 as a front end for his Musicmaster play routine and published by 64er as a type-in "Listing des Monats" in issue 10/1986 — "the most popular …
- Stefano Tognon (ice00) personItalian programmer, editor and sole regular author of the free SID e-zine sidin (2002–2015), and author of the Java tracker jitt64 — the "Java Ice Team Tracker", hence the "Ice Team" in the name and the handle ice00 …
- 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 …
- 64'er 10/1986 — Musik wie noch nie: the Soundmonitor article and manual summaryThe article with which 64er published chris-huelsbeck 's soundmonitor as its "Listing des Monats" (listing of the month) in October 1986 — the editor that started the C64 tracker era and the first documentation of his …
- CSDb forum: Huelsbeck TFMX? (2006) summaryA short thread that settles what the scene knows about the C64 tfmx editor: nothing of it ever circulated.
- SIDin #1 — Iseq music composition program: the comp.sys.cbm threads and Steve Judd's Commando cover (2002) summaryTognon reprints the June 2002 comp.sys.cbm/alt.c64 argument over Steve Judd's iseq — "a new kind of music player for the C64", "very different respect all the other players around" — and then Judd's own cover of …
- SIDin #11 — SID Factory vs Ninjatracker (Stefano Tognon, 2007) summaryTwo native C64 editors "released about the same day": laxity 's SID Factory (the 2007 ancestor of sid-factory-ii ) and lasse-oorni 's ninjatracker V2 . Tognon documents the data formats of both — the SID Factory …
- SIDin #6 — Asterion Sid Tracker v1.0 reviewed (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryTognon's walkthrough of a native C64 tracker released in 2004 by Asterion of the group Tinnitus: a one-screen editor whose instrument lives in a 13-parameter sound table with independent wave and arpeggio macros, whose …
- SIDin #6 — Inside DigiOrganizer, Polonius's 4-bit sample editor (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryTognon's manual-plus-disassembly of digiorganizer , "a great peaces of software wrote by Polonius of Padua for making 4bit sample music using SID volume register": an editor that adds a fourth, sampled voice — drums, …
- VGMPF wiki: Soundmonitor, TFMX Editor (C64) and The Great Giana Sisters (C64) summaryThree VGMPF pages that together describe the editors chris-huelsbeck used on the C64 and what happened to the great-giana-sisters music between editor and game.