#live
- Randomization and probability (MayBe, RandomiZe) techniqueLetting the tracker decide: notes that play only sometimes, table hops that happen with a probability, and command values with a random offset. Cheap variation for hi-hats, fills and long loops — every pass sounds …
- Live tracking — performing with a tracker concept"You cannot perform tracking live" (Behemoth, 1997) drew four answers that together describe how sceners actually did it: pattern switching on cue, live instruments over the module, channel muting, and playing a …
- Synchronisation with other gear conceptRunning a chip tracker in lockstep with another Game Boy, a drum machine, a DAW or a modular. Both focus trackers support it natively.
- 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 …
- Esper Division groupA two-man Montreal band — Francois-Jean de Brienne (melodies) and Alexandre Jean-Claude (rhythms) — that performed live with lyrics sung over tracked pieces; "no handle", the band's name is the name. The single source …
- Goto80 personAnders Erik Carlsson, Swedish chip musician and researcher, founder of the demoscene group Hack n' Trade — and defMON 's first user (2008) and live-improvisation champion: "I mostly improvise by typing on a keyboard. …
- 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: …
- 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 …
- chipmusic.org — LSDJ live performance thread (2010) summaryWhat live mode actually gives you, argued out by people who tour with it.
- goto80.com — defMON posts and the Improv page summaryThree short blog posts (2009–2020) and the undated Improv page from goto80 's own site — first-hand statements on defmon 's authorship, its evolution as a live instrument, and his from-scratch improvisation practice 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 …
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP5: Shortcuts and Workflow (video, 2016) summaryKey combinations and the habits built on them: the clipboard, cloning, marking, key repeat, and live transposition. Filmed with an on-screen controller visualiser (gamepadviewer.com) so the button presses are visible.
- sid-wizard-vessel README — MIDI sync IN and live-act features for SID-Wizard summaryThe README of m64's fork of sid-wizard 1.8.7 for the Vessel MIDI interface : "A SID-Wizard version for the Vessel MIDI interface, with features for using in a live act" — external MIDI tempo sync IN , free movement in …
- 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 #114 — Live Tracking (xiagox) summaryA reply to Behemoth's claim (#113) that "you cannot perform tracking live" (see s-tw114-commercial-tracking-debate ).
- TW #115 — Tracking Semantics (Exxon) summaryExxon's reply to Behemoth's five reasons ( s-tw114-commercial-tracking-debate ), from Vienna.
- 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 #29 — Faces in the Crowd #5: Esper Division (DennisC) summary"Faces In The Crowd: The Publication — Interview #5": DennisC (Dennis Courtney; the header prints master-of-darkness 's address maz@io.org next to his name, evidently a copy-and-paste slip) with Francois-Jean de …