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  • 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 …
  • 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.
  • Khyron (Paul Schultz) personkosmic musician from Cincinnati who by 1997 built synthesizers at the revived Moog Music and had moved from tracking to MIDI sequencing. The main source is Jeremy Rice's interview in TraxWeekly #111 (source: …
  • Linus Walleij personMember of the C64 group Triad and author of MIDIslave, "the MIDI program for C64", through which he "learned how SIDplayers worked"; he wrote "A SID player routine", pseudo-code for a MIDI-driven sid player, at the …
  • little-scale personSebastian Tomczak, chipmusician and prolific tutorial writer, whose 2008 blog post How to: Prepare Samples and Create LSDJ Kits is still the reference the chipmusic-org kit threads point at five years later — …
  • 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 …
  • defMON wiki — DIN/MIDI/LSDj/Nanoloop sync, stereo SID, manual BPM tables summaryThe defmon wiki's hardware pages: Scannerboy's user-port sync adapter (with the assembly code to drive it from your own programs), the 2SID stereo feature set, and frantic 's defBPM calculator/tables (2013-03-02) that …
  • little-scale — $1 Nanoloop MIDI Sync (2009) summaryThe minimum viable sync box: one CMOS chip and no microcontroller , syncing nanoloop to MIDI clock. It is the design people actually built, and the comment thread is a good record of what goes wrong.
  • little-scale — Sync Options for Game Boy Music (2008) summaryThe census of Game Boy synchronisation as it stood in October 2008: eighteen devices, what each one can and cannot do, and who made it. Nothing else in the wiki maps this territory.
  • little-scale — the Arduino Game Boy sync boxes: syncThing, Sync Tank and the AU$15 build (2008) summaryThree months in which a breadboard became a documented build anyone could copy for about AU$15. The important content is the pin-level wiring , which differs between lsdj and nanoloop and is stated nowhere else in the …
  • little-scale — USB MIDI Game Boy Sync for $16, and DIN sync 24 (2011) summaryThree years after the Arduino boxes, the same job with no MIDI socket, no optocoupler and no power supply: a Teensy 2.0 that the computer sees as a MIDI device. This is also where the wiki gets a Game Boy link-plug …
  • OpenMPT manual — Zxx Macros summaryHow the Zxx (and smooth \xx ) commands drive openmpt 's built-in resonant filter, plugin parameters and external MIDI — the PC tracker's equivalent of a SID filter table ( filter-programming ).
  • 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 …
  • SIDin #10 — Goattracker 2: a cover in the table-based GT2 (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summaryTognon's look at goattracker 2 in mid-2006 — "now tables based and so it can compete with the best C64 music tools available" — done by making a cover of Haddaway's What is Love in it, from a MIDI file, on Linux. A …
  • TW #111 — Interview with Khyron (again =) (Jeremy Rice) summaryJeremy Rice catches khyron of kosmic on #trax — "a respected name in the Demoscene" who, the introduction says, was there when "the #coders people wanted all the musicians to stop flooding the channel with music talk …
  • 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 #8 — Interview with Blaze Runner (Populus) summaryPopulus 's "last minute" live interview with blaze-runner , music coordinator of PURE, about "subjects that don't get around much": copyright registration and going commercial, plus an AWE32 workflow in a GUS-dominated …
  • 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.
  • Walleij — A SID player routine (MIDI-driven player design, note tables, hard restart) summaryDesign notes, in pseudo-code, for a MIDI-controlled sid player, written on request from Michael Kleps (the "M.K." of the extended Soundtracker module signature and author of the QuadraSID VST). linus-walleij learned how …