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  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • Daedalus (Brian Bennetts) personTheatre student and part-time actor from the Los Angeles area who started tracking at 26 with ModEdit and scream-tracker-3 ; a member of Neophyte and epinicion and a Tangerine Dream disciple. The single source is his …
  • 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 ) …
  • Quantam Porcupine (Joshua Shagam) personPianist, coder and scream-tracker-3 tracker from New Mexico who started on Music Construction Set on the commodore-64 , and who prefers songs "optimized for as few channels as possible". Spelled "Quantam" in traxweekly …
  • S3M module format (.s3m) formatscream-tracker-3 's format (1994), documented by sami-tammilehto in TECH.DOC (summary: s-st3-tech-doc ). Compared with mod-format it added per-sample tuning (C4Spd, the frequency of middle C), up to 32 channels (16 …
  • shawnm (Shawn, NOISE) personHead of the Quebec group New Objectives In Sound Exploration ( noise-group ), an orchestral-percussion student at McGill who tracked in scream-tracker-3 and preached ear over theory and "do what you hear" over the …
  • VadimVS (Vadim Shustov) personRussian scream-tracker-3 user from Simbirsk who joined N.O.I.S.E. in February 1996 and tracked heavy, pop and disco tunes on borrowed hardware with samples ripped from other modules. The single source is his short …
  • Scream Tracker 3.2 User's Manual (ST3.DOC) summaryThe manual of scream-tracker-3 , written by Kalle Kaivola ("Edge") for "those who have worked with similar programs before" — a musician, "not a coder". Four chapters: introduction, a brief guide with the complete …
  • Scream Tracker 3.20 File Formats And Mixing Info (TECH.DOC) summary"The OFFICIAL information on s3m format and much more" — the S3M header, the instrument/sample header, the AdLib instrument layout, the packed pattern format, the STIMPORT and SIMPLEX exchange formats, the …
  • 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 #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 #114 — Live Tracking (xiagox) summaryA reply to Behemoth's claim (#113) that "you cannot perform tracking live" (see s-tw114-commercial-tracking-debate ).
  • TW #12 — Advanced Tracking Tips (Necros) summarynecros 's first tips column, "for people who already have mastered the basics", written in scream-tracker-3 notation with a conversion chart for ProTracker/FastTracker: Axx / Txx → Fxx , Gxx → 3xx , Hxx → 4xx , Dxx → …
  • TW #41 — Interview with Shawn (shawnm / NOISE) summaryDennisC interviews Shawn (IRC nick shawnm ), head of the small group New Objectives In Sound Exploration ( NOISE ), an orchestral-percussion student who tracks in scream-tracker-3 . The same shawnm wrote "Serial …
  • TW #50 — Interview with VadimVS (NOISE) summaryA short interview, cut off when zinc ran out of time, with vadimvs , a Russian scream-tracker-3 user who had just joined N.O.I.S.E. — one of the few voices from Russia in the archive, tracking on borrowed hardware with …
  • TW #52 — Interview with Daedalus (Neophyte / Epinicion) summaryzinc interviews daedalus , a 28-year-old theatre student and Tangerine Dream devotee who came to tracking through ModEdit and scream-tracker-3 after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; conducted "very very late at night" in …
  • TW #54 — Interview with Quantam Porcupine summaryzinc interviews quantam-porcupine (properly "Quantum Porcupine", as he points out at the end), a 17-year-old pianist-turned-tracker who came from Music Construction Set on the C64 through Whacker Tracker to …
  • 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".