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  • 0 3 7 lab toolA single-file browser app ( 037-lab.html , lives in ../037-lab next to this wiki) that teaches music theory in semitones for tracker musicians, built by m64. Named after the question "is the chip-arp formula 0 3 7 the …
  • Asterion Sid Tracker toolA native C64 tracker by Asterion of the group Tinnitus, version 1.0 released in 2004 on a disk with the editor and its instructions, a packer/relocator and example tunes. Everything sits on one screen (only 8 pattern …
  • Catweasel Mk4 toolA PCI card by Individual Computers — a floppy controller for Amiga and C64 disks with a digital-joystick port — that also carries two sid sockets , so a PC can play .sid files through a real 6581 and a real 8580 and …
  • CheeseCutter toolA cross-platform SID music editor in the jch-editor lineage, by Abaddon ("Timo" per scarzix 's interview; Finnish coder-musician; Damage → Fairlight 2003 → solo → triad 2012–2017): the 0-series opened JCH-editor work …
  • CyberTracker toolA native C64 sid tracker with a FastTracker II -like interface, by Cyberbrain (source: s-sidin13-tsm-freedom-interview ) . The wiki knows it only through user testimony in the sidin interviews of 2004–2010: easy to …
  • David Whittaker's player (the Panther driver) toolThe 1986 driver of david-whittaker as reverse-engineered by dmx87 from Panther (Mastertronic): a three-voice player without an instrument table — the timbre of a voice is whatever the last command prefixes in its …
  • 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 …
  • DigiOrganizer toolA C64 editor and player by Polonius of the group Padua (code banner "DIGI-ORGANIZER BY POLONUS/PADUA") that adds a fourth, sampled voice to a normal single-speed tune made in any other editor: 4-bit samples packed two …
  • DMC toolDMC is a family of C64 sid music editors of the 1990s and the wiki's archetype of the duration-based school — sidin #13 frames the editor divide as duration-based (DMC) versus tracker-style (JCH) (source: …
  • DUET toolm64's tracker: " impulse-tracker and sid-wizard on one grid — two real trackers, one clock, one save button." A complete IT engine and a complete SID-Wizard 1.97 engine in one Zig program, plus two synths of its own …
  • Future Composer (C64) toolThe scene editor of 1988 built on the first maniacs-of-noise player: "Another player cracked: Future Composer! It's released by Finnish Gold. It's the first TMC/MON player, but Finnish Gold had made an editor for it. …
  • HardSID toolA family of PC cards and later USB boxes that carry real sid chips , so a PC tracker or player can drive a genuine 6581/8580 instead of an emulation. The wiki knows the line through sidin 's news pages (2003–2010) and …
  • Iseq (Steve Judd's C64 music editor, 2002) toolStephen L. Judd's C64 music editor and player of 2002 (version "01.0 1/2002", released at www.ffd2.com/fridge/iseq on 2002-05-31 and announced on comp.sys.cbm on 2002-06-09) — deliberately not a tracker : notes run left …
  • JCH editor & NewPlayer toolThe native C64 music editor and player family of JCH (Jens-Christian Huus, Vibrants) — the most influential of the private 1980s editors: scarzix , Drax and goto80 composed in it, laxity wrote its last player generation …
  • JITT64 (Java Ice Team Tracker) toolA cross-platform tracker for the sid written in Java by stefano-tognon (ice00), the editor of sidin , and documented by him in SIDin #13 (2010-06-28) from the user's side and from inside the player. Its distinguishing …
  • Johannes Bjerregaard's player toolThe driver johannes-bjerregaard wrote for himself — in 1986 the only "scene composer with own player" SIDwave can name ( s-recollection-brief-history-of-sid ) — and kept when he joined maniacs-of-noise in 1988 …
  • libLSDj toolA library by 4ntler for reading and writing lsdj save files ( .sav ) and songs ( .lsdsng ), released with command-line tools for Mac and Windows (Linux users compile from source). defense-mechanism documented three of …
  • 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 …
  • LSDPatch (LSDPatcher) toolThe Java program (Java 8 or later; GitHub jkotlinski/lsdpatch ) that customises an lsdj ROM and manages its save: ROM upgrades, sample kits, fonts, palettes and — since it absorbed LSDManager — songs. defense-mechanism …
  • Martin Galway's player (the Ocean "macro-language" driver) toolThe 6502 music system martin-galway wrote at Ocean from 1984 ("there never was an editor … It was always assembler source files"; source: s-sidmusic-galway-interviews ), known from two reverse-engineered tunes: the …
  • Matt Gray's player (Driller / Dominator engine) toolThe 6502 music driver matt-gray wrote for himself from late 1986 after codemasters told him he needed one, and used for every C64 game from driller (1987) to Deliverance (1990). It is documented twice: Stefano Tognon …
  • MUSICFILE — the Maniacs of Noise driver toolThe C64 music driver charles-deenen wrote in 1987 for maniacs-of-noise — "Deenen programmed a music driver ('Musicfile') and a sound effects driver in Turbo Ass" — into which jeroen-tel , Marcel Donné and reyn-ouwehand …
  • Nanoloop toolOliver Wittchow's grid sequencer for the game-boy , and lsdj 's older sibling in the scene: the other cartridge people mean when they say "Game Boy music". This page holds only what the wiki's sources actually say about …
  • Odin Tracker toolA native C64 sid tracker, attested in the wiki from June 2002 to 2010 purely through user testimony: recommended in the same breath as goattracker during the iseq debate, called user-friendly in 2004, an inspiration for …
  • Paul Hughes's Ocean music driver (Jonathan Dunn's player) toolThe 1988 in-house music system of Ocean Software: "Oh wow (paroxism!) programming by Paul Hughes", with jonathan-dunn 's "Orchestration, blood, sweat & tears" — known from two original sources in the realdmx collection, …
  • Rob Hubbard's driver (the Monty on the Run player) toolThe 6502 music routine rob-hubbard wrote in 1985 and, per Anthony McSweeney's disassembly, "used (with small modifications) for his first approx. 30 tunes" — the player of monty-on-the-run , commando , Crazy Comets, …
  • Rockmonitor toolThe scene's unofficial extension of soundmonitor with a sampled drum track, made by The Dutch USA-Team in 1987: "Dutch USA-Team take Soundmonitor from Chris Hülsbeck … and adds a digi-drum routine to it, so you can edit …
  • 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 …
  • siddump toolA command-line utility that runs a .sid file ( sid-format ) in a small 6502 emulation and prints, frame by frame, what the tune writes to the sid registers — the tool C64 musicians use to see how an instrument is built …
  • SIDId toolLasse Öörni's player-identification tool: sidid.cfg holds byte-pattern signatures for about 1 300 named C64 players and editors, and sidid.nfo a note per entry with author, release year and a CSDb reference — which is …
  • Soundmonitor toolchris-huelsbeck 's music editor for the C64, written in the summer of 1986 as a front end for his Musicmaster play routine and published by 64er as a type-in "Listing des Monats" in issue 10/1986 — "the most popular …
  • SwinSID toolA hardware sound module that sits in the commodore-64 's SID socket in place of a real 6581/8580 — announced in early 2006 as a wavetable synthesizer with "almost full" sid compatibility, and present in the wiki's later …
  • TFMX toolchris-huelsbeck 's second-generation driver, born on the C64 in the summer of 1988 and carried to the Amiga (and later DOS, SNES and the N64's MusyX): instead of only "the typical rigid instrument table" it runs "a …
  • Turbo Assembler (C64) toolThe native C64 assembler that served maniacs-of-noise as its music editor: "The editor for both of us was easy: Turbo Assembler :)" — charles-deenen wrote the musicfile driver and SFX driver in it, and jeroen-tel , …
  • VICE toolThe commodore-64 emulator the sid-wizard manual assumes when running the tracker on a PC. Key equivalents given by the manual: C64 CONTROL = Tab, RUN/STOP = Esc, C= (Commodore key) = Control, ← (back-arrow) = Tilde or …
  • 0 3 7 lab — techniques & theory (summary) summaryProse and data extracted from 037-lab , a single-file browser app that teaches music theory in semitones for tracker musicians. Twelve "chip & tracker techniques" cards, eight theory cards, an interval table and the …
  • CheeseCutter — the repo, the man pages, and the release paper trail (2011–2026) summarycheesecutter carries almost no documentation of its own — the repo's AUTHORS and NEWS are empty, ChangeLog and doc/README just point to theyamo.kapsi.fi/ccutter ("for instructions on program use"), and that site has …
  • DUET docs: DUST and DUSK, the two synths (summary) summaryduet 's two own synths (m64's tracker, not yet published): DUST , a sid synth — one whole reSID per slot, three voices, table programs and a mod matrix on the patch's own clock — and DUSK , wavetable synthesis over the …
  • DUET docs: instruments, the mixer and the bounce (summary) summaryWhere sounds live in duet (m64's tracker, not yet published), what the built-in console does, and how audio gets out — from instruments.md , mixer.md and bounce.md .
  • DUET docs: libduet, the engine as a library (summary) summarydocs/dev/libduet.md — everything in duet that makes sound is the Zig module duet , with the C ABI libduet putting a C header over the same engine, "in libopenmpt's shape". Bytes in, samples out: the library opens no …
  • DUET docs: sessions, formats and round-trips (summary) summaryThe file-format contract of duet (m64's own tracker, not yet published): what each file kind holds, the four session kinds and what SAVE writes, the byte-identical round-trips, the project container's law, and what .wav …
  • DUET docs: the grid and the two sides (summary) summaryFour user pages of duet (m64's own tracker, not yet published): the SID half ( the-duet.md ), the sid-wizard half ( sid-wizard.md ), the impulse-tracker half ( impulse-tracker.md ) and the shared pattern editor ( …
  • DUET docs: the system clipboard and its text format (summary) summaryHow pattern blocks move between duet (m64's tracker, not yet published), openmpt , schism-tracker and any program that writes text to the OS clipboard. system-clipboard.md is the DUET-side reference; clipboard-format.md …
  • DUET README (summary) summaryThe README of duet , m64's tracker (v0.1.0-alpha). Ingested first for the basics; the repo's docs/ and SID-Wizard research followed on 2026-08-30 — see s-duet-docs-grid-and-sides , s-duet-docs-formats , …
  • SIDin #1 — Iseq music composition program: the comp.sys.cbm threads and Steve Judd's Commando cover (2002) summaryTognon reprints the June 2002 comp.sys.cbm/alt.c64 argument over Steve Judd's iseq — "a new kind of music player for the C64", "very different respect all the other players around" — and then Judd's own cover of …