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- bryface personChip musician on chipmusic-org . The wiki knows him from one place so far: the 2013 ghost-channel thread, where he confirms the technique from independent practice and states its cost.
- 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 …
- nitro2k01 personGame Boy hardware and software specialist, and one of the recurring technical voices on chipmusic-org — the person who answers why the chip does that , usually with the register-level reason.
- chipmusic.org — Advanced LSDj Tutorial: The Ghost Channel (2013) summaryThe thread accompanying tyler-barnes 's video tutorial ( s-tylerbarnes-ghost-channel-tutorial ), and the place the name ghost channel comes from. Its value beyond the video is the reply by nitro2k01 , which supplies the …
- chipmusic.org — C64 Music for Dummies (ant1's SID-Wizard 1.0 tutorial, 2012) summaryA forum tutorial that takes a complete beginner from starting sid-wizard 1.0 (released 2012, on SourceForge) to an exported .sid , by making three instruments, a pattern, an orderlist and a SID-Maker export; updated the …
- chipmusic.org — CheeseCutter video tutorial thread (2014) summaryA short thread announcing scarzix 's video tutorial series for cheesecutter — the series the SIDin #14 interview mentions ( s-sidin14-scarzix-interview ). Its main value: the complete list of four tutorials (the scout …
- 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 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 …
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ FAQ thread (2010–2011) summaryA catch-all question thread on chipmusic-org from the LSDj 3.9–4 era. Beside hardware chatter (cartridge power problems, keyboard wiring, USB transfers) it settles several command questions that the manual leaves …
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ kit creation and kit volume threads (2013) summaryThe community's working version of little-scale 's tutorial ( s-little-scale-lsdj-kits ), in Audacity rather than Peak, plus the thread where everyone agrees the stock kits are too quiet.
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ live performance thread (2010) summaryWhat live mode actually gives you, argued out by people who tour with it.
- chipmusic.org — lsdj wav channel release? (2013) summarySomeone who had used lsdj for a year asks why a volume envelope that gives a release on the pulse channels does nothing on the wave channel. The answer is the frame-envelope method — the wave channel's volume envelope …
- chipmusic.org — Noise snare / Complete Drum Kit on Noise Channel threads (2014) summaryTwo chipmusic-org threads from late 2014 on making drums in lsdj 's noise channel alone, with concrete instrument settings and tables from several members, and the recurring advice that drums are best spread over …
- chipmusic.org — sid music hints'n'tips (2013) summary4mat opens by pointing at a CSDb thread of SID tips "with contributions from Jammer, Jeff and many others" (link not preserved) and at "a really good article" on the waveform differences between 6581 and 8580 (link not …
- chipmusic.org — speech synthesis thread (2012) summarySomeone asks whether a three-to-four-minute spoken-word piece is possible with lsdj 's SPEECH instrument. The answers are the only first-hand account of the speech instrument in this wiki, and they are discouraging in a …
- chipmusic.org — the defMON megathread (2014–2026) summaryThe de-facto support forum, changelog and design diary for defMON , run for twelve years by its author frantic himself. He opens on 2014-06-08 ("If you are one of those people who tried it out and actually did …
- chipmusic.org — Wav Instrument Tutorials for LSDJ (2014) summary"Specifically I want to create a flute wave instrument, but all the tutorials I find are just about kick drums and snares." The answers are the wiki's best sourced material on articulating a wave instrument, plus a …
- chipmusic.org — What are the typical C64/SID sounds/instruments? (2015) summaryA keyboard player joining a video-game cover band (in the vein of Press Play on Tape or Machinae Supremacy) asks which sounds make a SID tune sound like a SID tune, and how to fake them on a rompler (Yamaha MOXF6, Korg …
- CSDb forum: Huelsbeck TFMX? (2006) summaryA short thread that settles what the scene knows about the C64 tfmx editor: nothing of it ever circulated.
- Lemon64 threads: SID and ADSR re-triggering? (2008) / Hard restart – what's the story? (2015) summaryTwo short Lemon64 forum threads that between them give the practical understanding of the sid envelope problem behind hard-restart . In the first (2008, 4 posts) a game coder cannot retrigger a sound effect; lasse-oorni …
- Lemon64: How does one learn SID sound design these days? (2020) summaryA returning C64 user with an Ultimate64 has found sid-wizard ("reminds me of ScreamTreacker/ImpulseTracker in terms of composition") but cannot turn what he knows about subtractive synthesis into instrument values — the …
- Lemon64: SID-Wizard instrument recommendations? (2021) summaryA thin thread. The opening question — do you use, tweak or make sid-wizard 's example instruments, and what are your tips? — got no answer at all; the only instrument in it, a bass drum, was posted as an image that the …