#workflow
- Instrument design beats note count techniqueA lot of "chiptune magic" is in the instrument, not the pattern: a fast pitch drop at note start makes a kick out of any voice; a couple of frames of noise before a tone makes a snare or a pluck; a tiny downward pitch …
- Sample ripping conceptTaking samples out of other people's modules — with a ripper such as GetSamps v2.42 by Zab [Hardcode], or by loading the module in a tracker — and reusing them in your own songs. In the 1990s PC scene it was both …
- Tracking workflow — advice from the scene conceptHow experienced trackers of the 1990s said to work — most of it still true for sid-wizard and lsdj .
- 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 , …
- Arcade Attack — Matt Gray (VGM Maestro) interview (2020/2021) summaryA short late interview with matt-gray : the Last Ninja 2 brief in one sentence, the NES port of his player, and the three Reformation albums.
- Brief introduction to Super Commands (FTC) summaryfrantic 's own introduction to defmon 's "less known" batch-editing mode: Super Commands multiply any ordinary edit keystroke over many steps, many repetitions, every Nth line, or all sequences at once — defMON's …
- C=Lehti 4/89 — SIDin hollantilaiset valjastajat (Maniacs of Noise) summaryThe only contemporary (1989) profile of maniacs-of-noise in this wiki — written by Jori Olkkonen while Tel was 16 and Deenen 19, with details no retrospective interview repeats: the driver's version number, a …
- 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: 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 ( …
- electro·pizza — defMON, VICE, and the Pocket CHIP (2019) summaryA 2019-07-29 blog post by Ryan Oles documenting, step by step, how he set up vice on a Pocket CHIP (a small Debian-based handheld with a keyboard) to practice defmon without dedicating desk space to a real commodore-64 …
- Happy Computer 3/87 — Der Soundprofessor (Hülsbeck at work) summaryA reporter takes the 6:35 Intercity from Munich to visit the 18-year-old chris-huelsbeck in Langen — the earliest eyewitness account of his workplace in this wiki, published the month he joined rainbow-arts .
- Impulse Tracker HINTS.TXT — Hints for Composers (summary) summarySeven short contributions shipped with impulse-tracker .
- Pain Perdu — Hidden LSDJ Tricks EP5: Shortcuts and Workflow (video, 2016) summaryKey combinations and the habits built on them: the clipboard, cloning, marking, key repeat, and live transposition. Filmed with an on-screen controller visualiser (gamepadviewer.com) so the button presses are visible.
- Retro Gamesmaster — Matt Gray Interview (Peter Ward) summaryThe interview with the most complete game-by-game commentary from matt-gray — dates, fees, what was cut — and his one-paragraph description of the C64 workflow.
- Retrogaming Planet / EmuWiki — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryThe interview in which chris-huelsbeck describes his actual C64 workflow — two machines, soundmonitor then TFMX Editor, hex numbers shown as A-2 / G#3 — and the idea behind tfmx 's per-note script.
- 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 #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 …
- TW #11 — Interview with Beaner (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn's second interview of the issue, with beaner — "a really cool dude, and a friend" — of ACiD and epinicion : a 16-year-old with two jobs, an ST3 loyalist who cannot write without new samples.
- TW #11 — Interview with Perisoft (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn ("no time to write a long intro, must release TraxWeekly") interviews perisoft , the new president of defiance and the author of issue #8's "Samples And Rippers" piece that started the row over basehead 's NAID …
- TW #2 — Interview with Leinad (Populus) summaryPopulus met leinad "by coincidence" on IRC and interviewed him on 1995-03-15 (14:57–16:13): an Amiga-era Swedish composer, most active in 1990–91, who by 1995 made multimedia for a living and tracked on a PC with a GUS …
- TW #3 — Music: Beginning the Tracking Experience (Psibelius) summarypsibelius on how he started tracking and what a newcomer should avoid.
- TW #31 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Fred (Dynamic Harmony) summaryDynamic Harmony's "quickie" Faces in the Crowd interview (printed as "#12", conducted 1995-10-17) with Fred of iNK, a Virginia tracker who had just gone "net-wide" with "Bawal". No real name is printed.
- TW #32 — Faces in the Crowd: Complaints (Master of Darkness) summaryA short opinion column by Master of Darkness ("Mdark", maz@io.org ) in the Faces in the Crowd section of #32, between DennisC's Zinc interview ( s-tw032-interview-zinc ) and Atlantic's "Not So Advanced Tracking Tips" ( …
- TW #32 — Not So Advanced Tracking Tips (Atlantic) summaryAtlantic's "confession" of the habits that slowed his own progress, sorted into five tracker types.
- TW #4 — Interview with Nemesis (Populus) summaryPopulus interviews nemesis , one of the newest members of renaissance — "a really great composer" whose tunes are "very realistic and catchy" but who "hasn't got enough exposure and respect" — in a chat that ended on …
- TW #7 — Interview with Ryan Cramer (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn, now signing "TraxWeekly Co-Editor", interviews ryan-cramer of Iguana and renaissance , "one of my favorite composers", a week later than planned. The extract file inbox/tw-extracts/tw007-5-interviews.txt holds …
- TW #77 — General Tracking Tips (Generic Blues) summaryTen tips for a beginning tracker.
- TW #87 — Interview with Perisoft (Pizza Head) summaryPizza Head's first interview for TraxWeekly, an unformatted IRC log that psibelius printed uncorrected; the subject is perisoft , interviewed before in #11 (May 1995) and known in the wiki from necros 's 1995 reply to …
- TW #96 — Studio Tracking Tips (Zinc) summaryzinc adapts Future Music's "50 Top Studio Tips" (issue 50) to tracking — some forty short rules on sampling, mixing, arrangement and habits.