#tutorial
- Intense Tech with Defense Mech publicationAn lsdj tutorial series by defense-mechanism , published at defensemech.com/intense-tech/ in English and Spanish (translations by Pixel Guy) and mirrored on the ChipWIN blog: 21 articles from 2018-10-11 to 2021-08-29 …
- chipmusic.org — C64 Music for Dummies (ant1's SID-Wizard 1.0 tutorial, 2012) summaryA forum tutorial that takes a complete beginner from starting sid-wizard 1.0 (released 2012, on SourceForge) to an exported .sid , by making three instruments, a pattern, an orderlist and a SID-Maker export; updated the …
- chipmusic.org — CheeseCutter video tutorial thread (2014) summaryA short thread announcing scarzix 's video tutorial series for cheesecutter — the series the SIDin #14 interview mentions ( s-sidin14-scarzix-interview ). Its main value: the complete list of four tutorials (the scout …
- Composing in SID Factory II, Part 4 — Instruments (Chordian) summaryA tutorial blog post by chordian on making instruments in sid-factory-ii : what the ADSR bytes do, why hard restart exists, the four waveforms and their combinations on old and new chips, the noise lock-up and the test …
- Getting started with LSDj with Infu (course) summaryA single-page beginner course in fourteen sections by infu (CC BY-NC 4.0): setup and emulators, the sequencer, the ENV envelope, commands, three noise drums, a snare table, a wave kick and bass, the synth screen, and …
- Intense Tech #01 — LSDj Wave Synth Deep Dive, Part 1 (Defense Mechanism) summaryThe first intense-tech article: defense-mechanism explains the lsdj wave synth's SIGNAL, VOLUME, FILTER, CUTOFF and Q by way of the harmonic series, and shows how to extract a sine wave — the deepest bass the Game Boy …
- Intense Tech #02 — LSDj Wave Synth Deep Dive, Part 2 (Defense Mechanism) summaryThe second wave-synth lesson of intense-tech : PHASE (and its Resync modes), DIST (Clip, Fold, Wrap), LIMIT and VSHIFT — "how to add some real noisy crunch to your wave sounds", from a silky lead to a gnarly bass ( …
- Intense Tech #03 — Don't Sleep on Z (Defense Mechanism, after Hypnogram) summarySeven worked examples of lsdj 's Z command by defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ), rewritten from a 2016 blog post by hypnogram : random vibrato, duty cycle, panning, gating, melody, chords and a sweep. The article is …
- Intense Tech #04 — Manage your LSDj save files with libLSDj (Defense Mechanism) summaryA command-line tutorial by defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ) for 4ntler 's liblsdj tools lsdsng-export and lsdsng-import : listing what is in a pile of lsdj .sav files, pulling single songs out as .lsdsng files and …
- 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 ).
- Intense Tech #09 — Let's Table This Discussion! (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism 's lesson on lsdj tables in the intense-tech series: the four columns explained with the details the manual skips, nesting tables with A , a quirk that turns one table into a stereo effect, and attack …
- Intense Tech #10 — Get your Kicks with Version 6, Part 1 (Defense Mechanism) summaryWave-channel kicks in lsdj 6, expanding a video tutorial: why the wave channel, the new P/L/V instrument setting and its DRUM mode, a robust kick table, the "Kyoto kick" attack, and two ways to go from kick to bass. A …
- Intense Tech #11 — Kicks Part 2: Kick Heaven in Version 7 (Defense Mechanism) summaryThe second kick lesson of intense-tech : what lsdj 7 changed for DRUM pitch, wave snares, drums on the pulse channels, the PU1 hardware sweep, noise kicks and layering channels ( defense-mechanism ).
- Intense Tech #17 — The Joys of Noise (Defense Mechanism) summaryA deep dive into lsdj 's noise channel by defense-mechanism ( intense-tech ): how the shape byte maps onto the LFSR's octave and divisor, short-loop versus long-loop mode, how S , P , C and transposes act on shapes, the …
- Intense Tech #18 — ADSR Makes Life Easier! (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism on the pulse/noise ADSR that lsdj 8.1.0 introduced and the switch from hardware to software volume in 8.8.0: how the stages are written, how the speeds compare, instant decays, percussion transients …
- 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.
- Sabrepulse — Getting started with LSDJ tutorial (mirror at Adventure Kid) summaryA beginner's walkthrough of lsdj by sabrepulse that builds one small song — bass, lead, kick, snare and hats — screen by screen. Adventure Kid mirrored it because the original "seems like it is falling off the …
- SIDin #14 — Inside Matt Gray's Dominator player (Tognon's commented PLAYER V4.2 and the musician's guide to composing in it, 2015) summaryWritten for the Reformation driver competition ( s-matt-gray-dominator-source ): Tognon takes matt-gray 's released dom6-public.asm , comments every line, explains 64tass syntax to non-programmers, walks through the …
- Tyler Barnes — Advanced LSDJ Tutorial: The Ghost Channel (video, 2013) summaryThe original tutorial, and still the only step-by-step for drawing the waves. Its companion thread is s-chipmusic-lsdj-ghost-channel . The transcript is machine-generated, so what follows is what is spoken ; values …