#impulse-tracker
- Instrument envelopes (volume, panning, pitch) techniqueIn impulse-tracker (and FT2) an instrument wraps a sample with envelopes — volume, panning and, in IT, pitch — drawn as nodes over ticks, optionally with a sustain loop that holds while the note is on and a normal loop. …
- Lead articulation (velocity, legato, late vibrato, drop-off) techniqueMaking a sampled or synth lead sound played : per-note volume (velocity), legato slides between notes, vibrato that arrives late, staccato and grace notes, an echo, and the "drop-off" at the end of a big note. A tracked …
- MIDI output from trackers (Impulse Tracker macros) techniquePlaying an external synthesizer from the pattern: a MIDI instrument sends NOTE ON/OFF with the note and volume column, and MIDI controllers (volume, modulation, pan, program change, sysex) are written as macros — Zxx …
- New Note Actions (NNA) techniqueimpulse-tracker 's answer to channel scarcity: when a new note starts in a channel, the instrument's NNA says what happens to the note still playing — cut , continue , note off (release) or note fade — and the old note …
- Effect command crosswalk (MOD / XM ↔ S3M / IT) conceptThe PC and Amiga trackers use two alphabets for the same jobs: protracker 's numbers 0 – F (kept by fasttracker-2 's xm-format , which adds letters) and scream-tracker-3 's letters A – Z (kept and extended by …
- 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 …
- DUET toolm64's tracker: " impulse-tracker and sid-wizard on one grid — two real trackers, one clock, one save button." A complete IT engine and a complete SID-Wizard 1.97 engine in one Zig program, plus two synths of its own …
- fisherman (Matt Overington) personAustralian tracker living in Bangkok in 1996 and member of MindTap, interviewed by zinc for "Faces in the Crowd" as an unknown — the single source for this page (source: s-tw060-interview-fisherman ) .
- IT module format (.it) formatThe module format of impulse-tracker , documented by its author in ITTECH.TXT (in raw/impulse-tracker/ ; summary s-ittech ). Everything an .it contains beyond an S3M — instruments with envelopes, NNAs and duplicate …
- Jeffrey Lim (Pulse) personAuthor of impulse-tracker . In TraxWeekly he appears as "Pulse": Zinc credits "the neat extras Pulse has put in Impulse Tracker" (panning/volume swing, panning default; source: s-tw075-it-percussion-tips ), and in issue …
- Liam the Lemming (Liam Hesse) personLiverpool tracker of S!P and Mach One, known for catchy piano-led tunes and the disk AutoEmotive ; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of August 1996 (source: s-tw066-interview-liam-the-lemming ) …
- Mental Floss (Andrew McCallum) personToronto techno musician of kosmic (from about 1994) who played tracked music live at raves and put out the album Grey Matter ; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of February 1998 (source: …
- Pinion (Ryan Hunt) personMusician of ACiD, pHluid and Lucid (pinion@netcom.com, www.acid.org/phluid) and author of the "Impulse Tracker Tip of the Week" column in traxweekly #81–#89 (December 1996 – February 1997): reverb from looped tails and …
- Skaven personMusician of future-crew , one of the two names (with purple-motion ) that the 1995–97 PC scene treats as its founding influences: Phoenix was inspired by "Maelcum, Skaven, and Deus" (source: s-tw001-interview-phoenix ) …
- Vegas (T.J. Lerner) personMusician of the group Mystique in 1996, an impulse-tracker user who saved as S3M, and one of the scene's pro-theory voices. The main source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of June 1996 (source: …
- DUET docs: sessions, formats and round-trips (summary) summaryThe file-format contract of duet (m64's own tracker, not yet published): what each file kind holds, the four session kinds and what SAVE writes, the byte-identical round-trips, the project container's law, and what .wav …
- DUET docs: the grid and the two sides (summary) summaryFour user pages of duet (m64's own tracker, not yet published): the SID half ( the-duet.md ), the sid-wizard half ( sid-wizard.md ), the impulse-tracker half ( impulse-tracker.md ) and the shared pattern editor ( …
- DUET README (summary) summaryThe README of duet , m64's tracker (v0.1.0-alpha). Ingested first for the basics; the repo's docs/ and SID-Wizard research followed on 2026-08-30 — see s-duet-docs-grid-and-sides , s-duet-docs-formats , …
- Impulse Tracker HINTS.TXT — Hints for Composers (summary) summarySeven short contributions shipped with impulse-tracker .
- Impulse Tracker ITTECH.TXT — technical reference (summary) summaryThe byte-level description of the it-format used by every IT player since (libopenmpt, Schism, duet ): header, instrument, sample and pattern layouts, the volume and slide formulas, the channel-allocation procedure and …
- Impulse Tracker User's Manual — IT.TXT (summary) summaryThe manual shipped with impulse-tracker : introduction and technical limits, running the program, the pattern editor with the complete effect list, order list and channel settings, samples and sample functions, …
- Schism Tracker wiki and README summaryWhat the schism-tracker project says about itself: a free reimplementation of impulse-tracker on top of a modified ModPlug engine, why IT deserved a clone, a FAQ in Storlek's voice, links to fonts, other trackers and …
- tracker-history release notes (ProTracker, FastTracker, Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker, Schism, OpenMPT) summaryClaudio Matsuoka's dataset of tracker releases — name, author, date with its evidence (exit messages, file dates, changelogs, Wikipedia), and "based on / influenced by" links — for the six trackers this wiki covers. The …
- TW #100 — Tracking on Impulse (Pulse) summaryjeffrey-lim 's follow-up to #98, answering Steve Gilmore's letter in #99 and speaking up for triton .
- TW #103 — Interview with Mikmak (Behemoth) summaryBehemoth's "first contribution to Trax-Weekly as a staffer": an IRC interview with mikmak , author of the MikMod and MikIT module players — chosen because "most people know only him by name, but not too many know about …
- TW #105 — Interview With A Couple Of Newbies (Behemoth) summaryBehemoth interviews two beginners — Exokai (Dan Aley, 13, San Diego, a month in the scene) and Sonalore (Kevin Malin, 15, Marietta GA, listening for a year and a half, tracking for a year without a release) — "to give …
- TW #106 — A Little Panning (Airon) summaryA conversion chart between Impulse Tracker's two ways of writing panning: the volume-column pan (0–64) and the Xyy effect ( 00 – FF ). Reading the chart, the relation is simply volume-column value = Xyy ÷ 4: X00 = 0, …
- TW #109 — Interview: Skaven (Zinc) summaryzinc 's first interview in months: skaven of future-crew , "a tracker who needs no introduction", back on #trax after a long absence.
- TW #119 — Interview with Mental Floss (Zinc) summaryzinc interviews mental-floss of kosmic , "a long-time tracker we all know and love", in the last issue of the archive — his first TraxWeekly interview, "lovingly edited" by Zinc. The useful core is how he plays tracked …
- TW #42 — Impulse Tracker v1.01 (Pulse) summaryjeffrey-lim 's release note for IT 1.01 (January 1996): a bug when saving a song with an empty order list (pattern 0 is not decompressed on load — press Alt-Backspace to restore it), fixes for the retrig command on the …
- TW #44 — Impulse Tracker Trivia (Random) summaryA coder's musing on a sentence in the impulse-tracker documentation about sound-card autodetection.
- 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 #57 — Interview with Catspaw (Zinc) summaryzinc 's "conversational style" interview with catspaw of Rat, at quarter to one in the morning, Seattle time.
- TW #58–59 — The Finishing Touches (Catspaw) summarycatspaw 's two-part guide to "the finer technical points of writing module-based music", in ST3/IT notation ( | C#5 16 48 H83 | = note, sample, volume, effect). Greg Heo later pointed readers here for frames and tempo.
- TW #60 — Faces in the Crowd: fisherman (Zinc) summaryzinc interviews fisherman, "who I hadn't heard of before", and closes with the column's charter: "The scene is full of faces, and unless we are as famous as [enter famous person here], we can get lost in the crowd. FITC …
- TW #62 — Interview with Vegas (Kal Zakath and Kleitus) summaryKal Zakath (jtown) and Kleitus interview vegas of Mystique, an IRC capture from "several weeks" before NAID '96; the preface adds that his NAID entry "The Path Taken" was selected by the jury and finished 15th, and that …
- TW #66 — Interview with Liam the Lemming (Kal Zakath) summaryKal Zakath interviews liam-the-lemming , "a very accomplished musician and one of the most popular #trax personalities", in an IRC log with the interviewer's own remarks cut and "some rearrangement ... for clarity".
- TW #75 — IT Percussion Tips (Zinc) summaryzinc 's techno-oriented advice for Impulse Tracker 2.06 ("most of them will probably be useful with earlier versions, and even in other trackers").
- TW #81–89 — Impulse Tracker Tip of the Week #1–8 (Pinion) and More Impulse Tracker Tips (Pulse) summarypinion 's series, started because "Impulse Tracker has too many features that are not utilized to their full potential", with a correction and extra tips from IT's author jeffrey-lim (Pulse).
- TW #86 — Wrecking Samples with Impulse Tracker (Graham the Happy Scum) summaryThree tricks in IT's sample window (F3): smoothing — Alt-E (resize with interpolation) to length +1, then −1, damps high frequencies; a crude noise gate — Alt-A to unsign, Alt-M amplify to ~103–104 %, Alt-A again, which …
- TW #87 — Interview with Perisoft (Pizza Head) summaryPizza Head's first interview for TraxWeekly, an unformatted IRC log that psibelius printed uncorrected; the subject is perisoft , interviewed before in #11 (May 1995) and known in the wiki from necros 's 1995 reply to …
- TW #94 — Stereo Samples with Impulse Tracker (Zinc) summaryWhy and how zinc uses stereo samples instead of panned mono ones.
- TW #96 — Studio Tracking Tips (Zinc) summaryzinc adapts Future Music's "50 Top Studio Tips" (issue 50) to tracking — some forty short rules on sampling, mixing, arrangement and habits.
- TW #98 — Impulse Tracker Investment (Pulse) summaryjeffrey-lim on why he wrote and released impulse-tracker , and on being abused for asking US$30 for the stereo WAV writer.
- TW #98 — Impulse Tracker MIDI (Airon) summaryAiron's guide to IT's MIDI output: what the tracker sends, which controllers matter, and how to write them as Zxx / SFx macros.