#timing
- Multispeed (framespeed) techniqueCalling the player routine more than once per frame. sid-wizard supports up to 8× framespeed, i.e. 400 Hz SID control instead of 50 Hz, which gives finer resolution for pulse-width-modulation , filter-programming and …
- Sample looping (perfect loops, sustain loops, long loops) techniqueTwo very different things: looping a short cycle so a sampled note sustains forever, and using long loops (drum breaks, guitar riffs) as building blocks that must stay in time with the song. The loop is what separates a …
- Shuffle, swing and FunkTempo techniqueDelaying every second 16th slightly turns a stiff pattern human — shuffle/swing. Trackers do it with groove or speed settings rather than with note positions (source: s-037-lab ) .
- Intense Tech #06 — Groovy Groove and Tick Tricks, Part 1 (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism on lsdj timing: what a tick is, how grooves assign ticks to lines, a numbering convention that makes G commands readable, per-channel swing, and phrases lengthened with H ( intense-tech ).
- Intense Tech #07 — Groovy Groove and Tick Tricks, Part 2 (Defense Mechanism) summaryMore lsdj groove tricks from intense-tech : slow tables, Hop + Groove combinations, 3/4 time and triplets from grooves, and a two-channel delay made of nothing but grooves ( defense-mechanism ).
- OpenMPT manual — Song Properties (and Tempo Swing) summaryThe global switches of a module in openmpt : format conversion, the playback flags (linear slides, fast volume slides, filter range, IT old effects, compatible Gxx, ProTracker mode, Amiga limits), mix levels, the three …
- SIDin #4 — Ripping a BASIC program into RSID: Telengard (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryHow Stefano Tognon turned a BASIC-only rip of Telengard (Avalon Hill, 1983) — a text adventure whose sound is written entirely in BASIC, without interrupts — into machine code a SID player can run: every BASIC statement …
- TW #25 — Loops and Extended Samples (The Zapper) summarythe-zapper defends long samples and loops ("texture, presence and some kind of feel") and explains how to make them sit in time.