#sampling
- Recording samples (sources, cabling, sound cards, rates) techniqueGetting a sound from a synth, CD, tape or microphone into a sample cleanly: the part of sampling that happens before sample-looping and multisampling . Cowboy's 1996 article is the wiki's source on the hardware chain …
- LSDj Wave Cruncher toolA command-line tool by Ada, alias DOTCNT (GitHub iLambda/lsdj-wave-cruncher ), that reduces a single-note sample to sixteen 4-bit wave frames — a .snt wavetable — so that the lsdj wave synth plays the timbre at any …
- The Zapper (Marc Girard, Force Ten) personMusician of Force Ten (zapper@autoroute.net), a group of friends from the Montreal suburbs that is also a real band (Zapper on bass and synths), and of the demo group The Apollo Project. Wrote "Loops and Extended …
- 64'er 2/88 — Von der Spielidee ins Regal (Rainbow Arts, with Hülsbeck) summary64'er visits rainbow-arts in Gütersloh to trace how a game is made — and sound comes last in the pipeline. Hülsbeck's segment is a four-question mini-interview taken while great-giana-sisters was new and To Be On Top …
- 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.
- Intense Tech #05 — LSDj Wave Cruncher Instrument Library (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) introduces a library of sample-derived wave-synth instruments for lsdj and the liblsdj tool that patches them into a save: the wave synth "as a rudimentary sampler".
- Intense Tech #08 — DOTCNT's LSDj Wave Cruncher (Defense Mechanism) summaryHow to turn a one-note sample into an lsdj wave-synth instrument with lsdj-wave-cruncher , by defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) — the companion of the library article s-intense-tech-05-wave-cruncher-instrument-library .
- little-scale — extracting samples from Game Boy and GBA ROMs (2010, 2012) summaryThe generic trick for getting audio out of any ROM, with the settings that work for the Game Boy Advance — and one worked result.
- little-scale — How to: Prepare Samples and Create LSDJ Kits (2008) summaryThe canonical kit-making tutorial, and the one the forum threads keep pointing back to. Its subject is the half the wiki did not have: what to do to a sample before lsdpatch ever sees it.
- little-scale — the chip sample packs (2008–2012) summaryBetween 2008 and 2012 he recorded a dozen sound chips onto disk, systematically, and gave the results away. As audio they are raw material; as documents they are a survey of what each chip can be made to do, because …
- little-scale — the LSDJ kit releases, and the stock kits extracted (2008–2014) summarySix years of giving lsdj kits away, from Street Fighter voices in 2008 to a louder TR-808 in 2014. Individually these are announcements; together they are the record of who supplied the scene's kits, and one of them …
- TW #27 — Interview with Zapper (The Finn) summaryThe Finn interviews the-zapper of Force Ten at 4:45 in the morning, Montreal time.
- TW #66 — Sound Recording (Cowboy) summaryAn engineering student's (NDSU, mechanical engineering with EE and CS; built his own speakers and sub) answer to "what is the best method of recording" for a tracker: the signal chain from source to sample, measured …
- TW #74 — Motherboard Sampling (Spieg) summaryA found-sound trick: an onboard SB16 Vibra picks up the computer's own electrical noise; with the input gain cranked, keystrokes, mouse movement and program loads each produce distinct noises ("the mouse would always …
- TW #84 — Perfect Samples: The Piano (Sklathill) summaryA do-it-yourself guide to sampling a piano (and, by extension, any sustained instrument).
- TW #90 — Interview with Cosmic/RR (Pizza Head) summaryPizza Head interviews cosmic of Radical Rhythms, "one of the reasons that I got me into tracking" — his songs "were all over the bbs's i called". A short IRC log.
- 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.