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  • Orderlist (sequence) conceptThe list that tells a tracker which pattern plays next; in C64 trackers each track has its own orderlist, so tracks can loop patterns of different lengths independently. Besides pattern numbers it can carry song-level …
  • Tracker conceptA tracker is a music editor where the song is a vertical grid: time runs downward in rows , each pattern is a block of rows for all channels, and an orderlist says which patterns play in which order. A row cell holds a …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • FastTracker 2 toolThe DOS tracker of triton — Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl — behind the xm-format . Work began in June 1993 "to write a music program that could set a new standard in the confused PC-scene"; the design idea: "Who want …
  • Furnace toolFurnace is a multi-system tracker by tildearrow and contributors (GPL-2.0, github.com/tildearrow/furnace) whose manual has a page on the commodore-64 's sid and one on its C64 instrument editor; only those two pages are …
  • GoatTracker toolGoatTracker 2 is "a tracker-like C64 music editor running on Win32 or Linux platforms" by lasse-oorni (Cadaver), GPL, that drives a reSID emulation ( Dag Lem 's, with Antti Lankila's distortion model) or real HardSID / …
  • Impulse Tracker toolThe DOS tracker by jeffrey-lim ("Pulse"), written in 100 % assembler during 1995–96 as "an extension to scream-tracker-3 " that kept ST3's quick interface and added everything fasttracker-2 had — envelopes, 16-bit and …
  • 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 …
  • LSDj (Little Sound Dj) toolA tracker that runs on the game-boy itself (as a cartridge ROM), written by johan-kotlinski ; version 9.2.6 dates from May 2021. It drives the four channels of the game-boy-apu — PU1, PU2, WAV, NOI — through a song → …
  • 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 …
  • Ninjatracker toolA native commodore-64 music editor by lasse-oorni (Cadaver), written so that his games could have music with low rastertime and memory usage ; version 2 (2.0–2.03, dated August–September 2006 by the SIDin news; the #11 …
  • 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 …
  • OpenMPT tool"A third-generation tracker" for Windows (runs in Wine on macOS and Linux): the open-source continuation of olivier-lapicque 's ModPlug Tracker, which grew out of his mid-1990s ModPlugin browser plugin and went open …
  • ProTracker toolThe Amiga tracker that fixed the 4-channel mod-format and the effect numbers every later tracker inherited. Written by lars-hamre ("ZAP") of Amiga Freelancers on the basis of NoiseTracker (first version 1990-05-04, …
  • Schism Tracker tool"A free and open-source reimplementation of impulse-tracker " for Linux, macOS, Windows and anything SDL runs on, keeping IT's keyboard-driven interface and "finger feel" on top of "a highly modified version of the …
  • Scream Tracker 3 toolThe DOS tracker by sami-tammilehto ("Psi") of future-crew , freeware, behind the s3m-format : 3.01 beta on 1994-04-18 ("S3M format, 16 channels, GUS, Adlib"), 3.20 on 1994-12-06 and 3.21 on 1994-12-25, descended from …
  • SID Factory II toolA sid music editor documented here through chordian 's tutorial. Its data model is the familiar one — instruments as byte rows, a wave table , a pulse table and a filter table, sequences in tracks with +++ (gate held) …
  • SID-Wizard toolSID-Wizard is a music tracker that runs on the commodore-64 itself and drives the sid chip. Written by hermit (Mihaly Horvath); version 1.8 is from 2018. It borrows the GoatTracker-like concept and keys and ideas from …
  • 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 …
  • Stefano Tognon (ice00) personItalian programmer, editor and sole regular author of the free SID e-zine sidin (2002–2015), and author of the Java tracker jitt64 — the "Java Ice Team Tracker", hence the "Ice Team" in the name and the handle ice00 …
  • 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 …
  • chipmusic.org — the defMON megathread (2014–2026) summaryThe de-facto support forum, changelog and design diary for defMON , run for twelve years by its author frantic himself. He opens on 2014-06-08 ("If you are one of those people who tried it out and actually did …
  • Creating Chiptunes with SID-Wizard, Second Edition (summary) summaryA 75-page e-book (document version 1.0, 11 February 2014, written for sid-wizard 1.6) by witchmaster with chapters by hermit taken from the 1.2/1.4 manuals. Its stated purpose: explain "some stuff left out that SID …
  • defMON wiki — features, interface overview, seqED key map summaryThe unofficial documentation of defmon , frantic 's C64 sid music editor, from the wiki mirror at defmon.vandervecken.com ("There is no official support for the program, but on this wiki you will find some bits and …
  • defMONing 101: A defMON Operator Field Guide (iLKke, 2013) summaryA compact survival guide to defmon by iLKke, "the result of my limited defMON knowledge based largely on experimentation… not intended as an exhaustive explanation of the program, but rather a brief survival guide and …
  • defMONing 102: extended field guide (iLKke et al.) summaryThe extended, multi-author revision of iLKke's defMONing 101 for defmon — same reference core, plus precise timing semantics (fraMES), the full speed/timer key set, Super Commands, and long practical sections on the …
  • 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 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 , …
  • Furnace tracker — C64 (SID) system and instrument documentation summaryTwo pages of the manual of furnace , a multi-system tracker (GPL-2.0 repository), describing how it drives the sid . Furnace is not one of this wiki's focus tools; the pages are kept as a second, independent description …
  • GoatTracker v2.72 readme (summary) summaryThe manual of goattracker 2 by lasse-oorni — "a tracker-like C64 music editor running on Win32 or Linux platforms" with reSID emulation (Dag Lem; distortion model by Antti Lankila) or HardSID hardware, distributed under …
  • Little Sound Dj v9.2.6 Operating Manual (summary) summaryThe official manual of lsdj (79 pages, dated 9 May 2021) by johan-kotlinski . Chapter 1 covers the game-boy 's four sound channels, keys and hex; chapter 2 walks through the nine screens (song, chain, phrase, …
  • SID-Wizard 1.8 User Manual (summary) summaryThe short TXT edition of the user manual shipped with sid-wizard 1.8 (2018), written by hermit . It is readable on a real commodore-64 and covers: an introduction to SID-Wizard and the sid chip's registers, usage …
  • 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 …
  • SIDin #11 — SID Factory vs Ninjatracker (Stefano Tognon, 2007) summaryTwo native C64 editors "released about the same day": laxity 's SID Factory (the 2007 ancestor of sid-factory-ii ) and lasse-oorni 's ninjatracker V2 . Tognon documents the data formats of both — the SID Factory …
  • SIDin #12 — Mihály Horváth (Hermit) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2008) summaryhermit four years before sid-wizard : Tognon interviews him about "a tracker that can control 3 sid chips", written on a real commodore-64 between January and May 2008. The interview gives his real name, age and job, …
  • SIDin #13 — JITT64 Tracker: Tognon's Java Ice Team Tracker from the user's side (2010) summarystefano-tognon documents his own jitt64 (Java Ice Team Tracker), "my C64 cross-platform music tracker … written in Java for being portable", from the user's side: screen layout, the track commands, the 16 pattern …
  • SIDin #6 — Asterion Sid Tracker v1.0 reviewed (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryTognon's walkthrough of a native C64 tracker released in 2004 by Asterion of the group Tinnitus: a one-screen editor whose instrument lives in a 13-parameter sound table with independent wave and arpeggio macros, whose …
  • TW #32–#34 — Tracker Survey / New Tracker (Psibelius, Jason Diamond) summaryNot a survey of which trackers people used: TraxWeekly's two "Tracker Survey" notices asked readers to send feature wishes to Jason Diamond (diamond@deltanet.com, IRC nick mofochckn), who was writing "a totally new …