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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 …
20 Minute Chip Compo (20mc) eventAn IRC competition, held on EFnet channel #ChIpCoMpO from September 1995, in which trackers had twenty minutes to make a chiptune from a shared sample pack; organised by amusic (Sotiris Varotsis, Bass Productions, …
4mat personScene musician-coder whose 512-byte Empty won the tiny-sid-compo 512-byte category in 2005, and one of the most-quoted voices in the wiki's chipmusic.org threads — dissecting SID tunes from siddump logs, posting the …
4ntler personGame Boy musician and programmer, author of liblsdj — the library behind the command-line tools lsdsng-export , lsdsng-import and lsdj-wavetable-import for lsdj save files (GitHub repository stijnfrishert/liblsdj , …
64'er (magazine) publicationThe German C64 magazine (Markt & Technik) that ran the 1986 music competition chris-huelsbeck won with shades and then published his soundmonitor as "Listing des Monats" in issue 10/1986, pp. 53–64 — "the biggest …
Abrasive personThe person whose idle question started Game Boy microtuning: "can LSDJ be retuned to non-standard tunings?" The answer, in his own account, took "a few minutes in a hex editor and half an hour in Perl" and became …
ACID 64 toolWilfred Bos's SID player for HardSID and catweasel cards: instead of emulating the sid 's sound, it "emulates the MOS 6510 micro processor to run the code of a SID tune and controls the cards for playing the music on a …
Acidfrog (Cam Goodman) personJungle tracker, DJ and radio presenter from British Columbia; co-founder of Radiance with zinc , who named him his main influence. Sources: Zinc's own interview (source: s-tw032-interview-zinc ) and Zinc's interview of …
Agemixer personC64 scener, musician and coder, posting as "Agemixer/SCL" in the June 2002 Usenet debate over iseq (source: s-sidin01-iseq ) . The wiki knows him from two sides: the most detailed critic in that debate, and joint winner …
Aim Higher groupA Toronto newcomers' music group founded in 1995 (Atlantic's "Introducing: Aim Higher" ran in TraxWeekly #20, 27 July 1995, per the TOC) by master-of-darkness (Todd Andlar) "like epinicion ", because "there is little …
Aleksi Eeben personFinnish coder-musician (29 in July 2005; Southern Finland; "Sound designer by trade, employed and underpaid by a mobile phone company") who wrote two C64 music tools — the low-rastertime editor John Player and the …
AmusiC (Sotiris Varotsis) personGreek tracker of Bass Productions in Athens and the organiser of the 20-minute-chip-compo from September 1995. His real name and the compo story come from his own column (source: s-tw032-20-minute-chip-compo ) ; his …
Andreas Varga personAuthor of the sid-homepage (sidmusic.org) and the person who interviewed bob-yannes about the sid by e-mail in August 1996, with some questions contributed by King Fisher of Triad — the interview that made Yannes aware …
Arkanoid (Martin Galway, 1986 Imagine) songmartin-galway 's music and sound-effect program for Imagine's C64 Arkanoid — "Arkanoid / Martin Galway / 1986 Imagine" in the header of the RSID that Stefano Tognon reverse-engineered for sidin #4 (2003-06-21) — famous …
Asger Alstrup personAuthor of the two Examination of SID … waveform pages on Andreas Varga's sid-homepage (1995; HTML by andreas-varga ) — the earliest register-level measurements of the sid in this wiki. He read voice 3's output register …
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 …
Atlantic (Barry Freeman) personTracker of Neophyte and Aim Higher, a friend of master-of-darkness , and one of the four staff of traxweekly 's "Faces in the Crowd" (FITC) from October 1995 — its tips writer, song reviewer and occasional interviewer; …
Balrog (Samuel Cote) personTrance tracker from Quebec, an early Canadian member of kosmic who moved to ultrabeat in 1996; a fasttracker-2 user after Scream Tracker 2, ModEdit and X-Tracker. The main source is his January 1996 traxweekly interview …
Basehead (Dan Grandpre) personProminent PC-scene musician of the mid-1990s — "one of the very best techno/trance/ambient trackers" to TraxWeekly's first interviewer — of Imphobia, kosmic /KFMF and iCE, and from March 1995 one of the five-musicians …
Beaner (Sean Cummins) personMusician of ACiD's music division and of epinicion (also Infiniti 2001 and CIA); a scream-tracker-3 3.21b user who needs new samples before he can write. The single source for this page is Popcorn's TraxWeekly interview …
Behemoth (David Menkes) persontraxweekly staff writer of 1996–97 (David Menkes in the 1997 staff sheet) whose articles started two of the newsletter's debates — "Realism in MODs" and "The Scene and the Commercial Market" — and who interviewed mikmak …
Ben Daglish personC64 game composer of the 1980s and a fixture of this wiki's favourites lists — jeroen-tel puts him in his top five, chris-huelsbeck among his best authors, and JCH dissents — best remembered in the sources for The Last …
Big Jim (James Storer) personBritish musician of Valhalla and of the five-musicians , the band he named ("FM" fits "four AND five"); a school- and college-trained composer who writes on guitar and then tracks (sources: …
Blackwolf (Bobby Tamburrino) personAtlanta tracker and pit percussionist, member of epinicion (earlier Defiance and UNiON), interviewed twice by traxweekly — in #6 and, as "the last TW interview for 1995", by psibelius in #40 — and later the author of …
Blaze Runner (Christian Desnoyers) personBelgian techno tracker, music coordinator of PURE (formerly TRAXX) with Blue Adonis, and the first traxweekly interviewee to describe registering his tunes with a collecting society and preparing a vinyl release. The …
Bob Yannes personRobert Yannes designed the sid at MOS Technology, Commodore's chip division, in 1981–82 — and, by his own account, the commodore-64 itself — then left Commodore and co-founded the synthesizer company Ensoniq (sources: …
bryface personChip musician on chipmusic-org . The wiki knows him from one place so far: the 2013 ghost-channel thread, where he confirms the technique from independent practice and states its cost.
Catspaw (Brandon Bannerman) personSeattle tracker and traxweekly writer (Catspaw / Rat; Rat City BBS; catspaw@eskimo.com) whose two-part "The Finishing Touches" (#58–59, May 1996) is the scene's clearest text on song initialisation and looping, effect …
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 …
Charles Deenen personCo-founder of maniacs-of-noise with jeroen-tel , whom he met at computer meetings in Venlo (source: s-hugi38-interview-jeroen-tel ) . The facts below are all second-hand, from Tel's and rob-hubbard 's interviews 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 …
ChipMusic.org publicationThe chip-music community forum (chipmusic.org) whose Nintendo Handhelds and General Discussion boards hold much of the lsdj folk knowledge of the 2010s: command semantics, drum recipes, table methods, save-file swapping …
Chordian (Jens-Christian Huus / JCH) personJens-Christian Huus — JCH of Vibrants , author of the jch-editor and the NewPlayer family, and today the writer of chordian.net, DeepSID, and the sid-factory-ii tutorial series. The identity is his own statement: "My …
Chris Abbott personBritish occasional SID composer (born 1970 in Ilford, Essex) who became the C64 remix scene's publisher and promoter: C64Audio.com, the Back in Time CD series and the BIT Live concerts. By June 2003 the label had paid …
Chris Hülsbeck personGerman composer (born 1968-03-02 in Kassel) who wrote his own C64 driver in 1985, won 64er 's music competition with shades in 1986 and then gave the magazine soundmonitor , the editor with which the C64 tracker era …
Claim personCoder-musician of defiance and Lithium, an Apple IIgs veteran who took up tracking seriously the week fasttracker-2 was released. The single source for this page is Gator's TraxWeekly interview of June 1995 (source: …
Clef (Phil Sweeney) personAustralian pianist, coder and chiptune specialist: twice a 20-minute-chip-compo winner, author of the menu chips on the epinicion disks, winner of the 16k music compo at OZ'96, and an impulse-tracker convert from …
Codemasters groupDavid and Richard Darling's budget label, for which matt-gray freelanced from Fruit Machine Simulator (1987) on — and "the ones who convinced me to write my own player. Back then, there was little chance of doing games …
Commando (C64, 1985) songrob-hubbard 's soundtrack for Elite's Commando — Newman's worked example of multiplexing on three voices. Channel 1 carries the lead melody and noise/tom hits, channel 2 the arpeggiated chord backing and ring-modulated …
Commodore 64 platformThe Commodore 64 is the home computer whose sid chip defines the "SID" branch of chiptune. Music is produced by a player routine that updates the SID registers from a raster interrupt every frame; trackers that run on …
Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide publicationThe official Commodore / Howard W. Sams manual for the commodore-64 (1982). For music its parts are chapter 4 , "Programming Sound and Music on Your Commodore 64" (pages 183–208: introduction, volume control, …
Commodore Zone publicationA British C64 magazine of the mid-1990s whose composer interviews the sid-homepage reprinted: jeroen-tel (June 1997, reprinted with Warren Pilkington's permission), martin-galway (issues 6 and 7, typed in by Adam …
Compunet groupThe British C64 online service of the mid-1980s where demos were uploaded and talent was scouted — matt-gray 's route into the games industry: "If it hadn't been for Compunet, I would probably have never left first …
Cosmic (Matthias Ksoll) personGerman house/trance tracker of Radical Rhythms (RR) with about 100 released tracks by 1997; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of March 1997 (source: s-tw090-interview-cosmic ) . Spieg, author …
Cybernoid (Jeroen Tel, 1988) songhewson 's 1988 shooter (C64 release 1988-03 per VGMPF) with jeroen-tel 's title music — one of the games the Hugi biography names as his best known — composed as note tables in charles-deenen 's musicfile driver …
Cybernoid II (Jeroen Tel, 1988) songjeroen-tel 's music for hewson 's sequel (C64, 1988-10): two songs — title and game over — in charles-deenen 's musicfile driver, "MUSICFILE V01-07-1988"; the source is public, so this is the one classic …
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 …
Daedalus (Brian Bennetts) personTheatre student and part-time actor from the Los Angeles area who started tracking at 26 with ModEdit and scream-tracker-3 ; a member of Neophyte and epinicion and a Tangerine Dream disciple. The single source is his …
Dag Lem personAuthor of resid , the sid emulation engine used by vice , goattracker and the sidplay2 line of sidplay players, and the person who reverse-engineered the chip's envelope ("ADSR delay") bug. The wiki knows him only …
David Whittaker personBritish game composer of the 8-bit era with his own C64 driver; rob-hubbard 's favourite alongside martin-galway — "both friends" — and one of the people he was still in touch with in 1997 (source: …
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 …
Defense Mechanism personGame Boy musician and the author of intense-tech , the lsdj tutorial series on defensemech.com (2019–2021, Patreon-supported, with Spanish translations by Pixel Guy). The articles are written from studio practice — kick …
Defiance groupA small PC music and demo group of 1994–95, founded around Zer0 and run from spring 1995 by perisoft ; it had a "Defiance Column" in the first issues of traxweekly (TOC: #1, #2, #4, #11), and Zer0 wrote for the …
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 …
DennisC (Dennis Courtney) person"Faces in the Crowd" interviewer of traxweekly from October 1995 to January 1996 and the author of "Chiptunes Aren't Dead!" (#38), the reply to Szalemandre's "The Death of the Chiptune". The sources are his six …
Deus Ex (Chill Productions) personFounder of Chill Productions, a Toronto group started in 1995 by a 30-year-old techno/trance/ambient composer who "was getting flack" from other groups for his style, his GUS and his FastTracker; also a member of …
Dig Dug (C64, Datasoft 1984) — the music routine songThe C64 cartridge conversion of Namco's arcade game ("copyright 1982 Namco, 1983 Atari, 1984 Datasoft"), whose music Stefano Tognon ripped into a PSID for hvsc in 2001–2002 and documented in sidin #1 with a commented …
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: …
Dominator (Matt Gray, 1989) songsystem-3 's shoot-'em-up (1989) with a soundtrack by matt-gray — "By the time I did Dominator for System 3, a dance-track influence was increasingly creeping into my tracks" — and the tune whose subtune 6 became the …
Driller (Matt Gray, 1987) songmatt-gray 's breakthrough tune for Incentive Software's 3D game (1987; the SID header says "1988 Incentive"): "They wanted something long and epic, not short and repetitive … exactly the sort of thing I had been waiting …
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 …
Dustbin (Stefano Palmonari) personItalian game composer from Ferrara (31 years old in December 2004) who taught himself the SID at 15 from taped Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel tunes, got hired by Simulmondo at 17 on the strength of a first rockmonitor tune …
Ender (Andrew Burke) personSole musician of Foundation, a small demo group in Albany, New York (two coders, one musician), interviewed for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd series in October 1995 after about nine months of composing. The single …
Epinicion groupThe group psibelius founded so that newcomers would not be hazed (source: s-tw003-beginning-the-tracking-experience ) ; the IT manual thanks him as "the nice friendly Epinicion founder" (source: s-it-manual ) . Most of …
Esper Division groupA two-man Montreal band — Francois-Jean de Brienne (melodies) and Alexandre Jean-Claude (rhythms) — that performed live with lyrics sung over tracked pieces; "no handle", the band's name is the name. The single source …
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 …
fisherman (Matt Overington) personAustralian tracker living in Bangkok in 1996 and member of MindTap, interviewed by zinc for "Faces in the Crowd" as an unknown — the single source for this page (source: s-tw060-interview-fisherman ) .
Five Musicians (FM) groupA five-member "band" formed on IRC in March 1995 by necros , Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen), big-jim (James Storer), basehead and purple-motion . Necros and Mellow-D wanted "a new music group with just a few people in it"; …
Frantic personC64 scener of the group Hack'n'Trade (also FTC, "Mad Frantic" to goto80 ) who composes and codes in one gesture: his two winning tiny-sid-compo entries — New Kid On The Block (2005) and the generative BLOCK ACID DUB …
Fred (Ink) personTracker from Hampton, Virginia, and musician of iNK, a Kansas artist group that was starting to make demos; interviewed by Dynamic Harmony for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in October 1995, two weeks after his first …
Fred Gray personBritish C64 composer of the mid-1980s, not to be confused with matt-gray : martin-galway 's favourite after rob-hubbard — "Favourite C64 musicians: Rob Hubbard … then Fred Gray"; "Composers he liked: Rob Hubbard and …
Freedom (SID composer) personItalian SID composer (real name not given in the source) whose job "deals with mechanics"; first tune in 2005 in Odin Tracker on vice , since then a goattracker user, and the musician of the C64 conversion of Pushover …
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 …
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. …
Future Crew groupThe Finnish demogroup behind scream-tracker-3 and the s3m-format : sami-tammilehto (Psi) wrote the tracker and its format document; the S3M "old stereo control" command was used only by "the soundtrack from Panic by …
Game Boy platformNintendo's handheld; its four-channel sound chip ( game-boy-apu ) and the cartridge tracker lsdj make it one of the three focus platforms of this wiki. Facts from the LSDj manual (source: s-lsdj-manual ) :
Game Boy sound hardware (APU) chipThe game-boy 's sound unit, the APU, has four channels that are each built differently — "unlike some other sound chips, such as the C64's SID or the Atari 5200's POKEY, each sound channel is specialized" — plus a VIN …
Ganja Man (Sam Bashton) personTeenage founder of the UK group lok , a handbag-house and jungle tracker in fasttracker-2 , and the author of traxweekly 's "Potted Tracking History". Sources: his March 1996 interview by zinc (source: …
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 / …
Goto80 personAnders Erik Carlsson, Swedish chip musician and researcher, founder of the demoscene group Hack n' Trade — and defMON 's first user (2008) and live-improvisation champion: "I mostly improvise by typing on a keyboard. …
Gravis UltraSound (GUS) platformThe PC sound card of the 1990s tracker scene: a wavetable card with its own sample RAM and hardware voices, which is why tracker changelogs list "GUS" as a feature, why ST3's panning command is a GUS command, and why …
Greg Heo personAuthor of the five-part "Introduction to Musical Theory" in traxweekly #74–#86 (October 1996 – January 1997), covering the elements of music, dynamics and texture, musical form and cadences, key signatures and scales, …
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 …
Hawkeye (Jeroen Tel, 1988) songThe 1988 C64 game score jeroen-tel calls his first — "The first game music I wrote was composed for the game Hawkeye, at the age of 14/15" — an early maniacs-of-noise job, dated 1988-08 in VGMPF's gameography, with …
Helikopter Jagd (C64, 1986) songmartin-galway 's title music for Ocean's Helikopter Jagd — the tune on which he first used pulse-width sweeps, and therefore the starting point of the Galway "driver personality" built on pulse-width-modulation . …
Hermit (Mihaly Horvath) personHungarian C64 developer, author of sid-wizard and its add-ons (SID-Maker, SWMconvert, sng2swm), and of the SID-Wizard user manual (1.8 edition dated 2018). Website: hermit.sidrip.com (source: s-sid-wizard-manual ) .
Hewson Consultants groupThe British publisher that gave maniacs-of-noise its first job — Battle Valley , commissioned at the PCW show in September 1987, "our first paid gig" — and for whom jeroen-tel wrote "the music and sound for most of …
Hornet groupThe demoscene archive and group behind "Demonews", the newsletter traxweekly was modelled on and spun off from; TraxWeekly was "a HORNET affiliation", distributed from ftp.hornet.org and www.hornet.org (sources: …
Hunter's Moon (Thalamus, 1987) songThalamus's 1987 shooter — "128 levels", code, graphics and sound effects by martin-walker , music by matt-gray — whose sound-effects engine Stefano Tognon reverse-engineered in sidin #14 because its effects ("the hives …
HVMEC — High Voltage Music Engines Collection publicationStefano Tognon's collection of the C64 music-making programs — editors, trackers and their player routines, with binaries, sources, documentation, examples and credits — started in 2003–04 alongside his …
HVSC — High Voltage SID Collection publicationThe online archive that gathers C64 music files "for replay on emulators dedicated to the singular task of reproducing C64 music and sound (to the exclusion of graphics or gameplay)" — Newman's evidence that the …
Hypnogram personGame Boy musician (first name Noah, per the thanks in intense-tech article 03; blog hypnogrammusic.blogspot.com, album XIII on Bandcamp) whose March 2016 post Don't Sleep on Z became, with permission, the basis of …
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 …
Infu personGame Boy musician and author of Getting started with LSDj with Infu (learnlsdj.github.io), a single-page beginner course for lsdj released under CC BY-NC 4.0, reworded and redesigned by Torsten Hansson and tested by …
Injekted (Brandon Balliett) personSixteen-year-old raver who conceived and named ultrabeat , a music-only techno group, after an earlier non-tracking stint as Zer0 of defiance . The single source is Cerulean's traxweekly interview with him and subhuman …
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 …
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 …
Island of Reil (Jesse Rothenberg) personepinicion member and TraxWeekly's eyewitness at the NAID 1995 music competition. The single source for this page is psibelius 's opinion interview of April 1995 (source: s-tw006-naid-opinion-interviews ) .
IT module format (.it) formatThe module format of impulse-tracker , documented by its author in ITTECH.TXT (in raw/impulse-tracker/ ; summary s-ittech ). Everything an .it contains beyond an S3M — instruments with envelopes, NNAs and duplicate …
Jan Harries (Rambones) personDanish demo-scener, C64 music ripper and composer (born 1969-01-12 in Nyborg): a founder of the demo group The Supply Team (1985–89), author of the Ripped-Off (C64, 1987–88) and Ripp Off (PlaySID, 1991–95) rip series, …
Jase (Jason Chong) personAustralian tracker of the demo groups Oxygen and Enigma who won Music Contest 3 in 1995 with an XM, beating necros ; the main source is clef 's TraxWeekly interview of August 1995 (source: s-tw022-interview-jase ; …
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 …
Jeffrey Lim (Pulse) personAuthor of impulse-tracker . In TraxWeekly he appears as "Pulse": Zinc credits "the neat extras Pulse has put in Impulse Tracker" (panning/volume swing, panning default; source: s-tw075-it-percussion-tips ), and in issue …
Jeroen Kimmel (Red) personDutch scener of The Judges who in 1986 "becomes the first scener to create his own music, in Rob Hubbard's player" — SIDwave's Red Hubbard — before the first scene-written drivers of 1987 (source: …
Jeroen Tel personDutch composer (born 1972-05-19 in Eindhoven, raised in Helmond — his own account, source: s-imr-jeroen-tel-interview ; alias WAVE), co-founder of maniacs-of-noise with charles-deenen and, after rob-hubbard and …
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 …
Johan Kotlinski personSwedish programmer and musician, author of lsdj and its manual (copyright Johan Kotlinski; the v9.2.6 manual is dated 9 May 2021). The manual points to the user-maintained wiki, the LSDj Facebook group and …
Johannes Bjerregaard personDanish game composer with his own driver — in 1986 the only "scene composer with own player" SIDwave can name — who "made commercial music for games, with his own company: Danish Music Company", handle Jozz/Upfront …
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 …
Jonathan Dunn personOcean Software's C64 composer of the late 1980s — the Ocean Loader tunes and game scores such as Daley Thompson '88 — whose original 1988 sources survive in the realdmx collection: "Orchestration, blood, sweat & tears …
Jugi (Jukka Kaartinen) personMusician of the Finnish demogroup Complex (founded 1989; PC division since The Party 1993) and composer of Dope , the winning demo of The Gathering 1995. The single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of …
Kal Zakath (John Townsend) person"Aspiring musician" of Inferno Productions ('jtown' on #trax) who created and ran traxweekly 's "Faces in the Crowd" (FITC) column from issue #26 (14 September 1995): interviews with unknown composers so that they are …
Khyron (Paul Schultz) personkosmic musician from Cincinnati who by 1997 built synthesizers at the revived Moog Music and had moved from tracking to MIDI sequencing. The main source is Jeremy Rice's interview in TraxWeekly #111 (source: …
Kosmic (KFMF) groupA major PC music group of the 1990s, founded by maelcum and one other person in the fall of 1992 as the "Kosmic Loader Foundation" (KLF), a VGA-loader/ANSI group in the ACiD mould that became a music group with the …
Lars "ZAP" Hamre personAuthor of the original protracker (Amiga Freelancers, with Anders Hamre, Sven Vahsen and Rune Johnsrud): the first version on 1990-05-04, 1.0A released in August 1990 "Full of bugs", 1.0B/C, 1.1A (December 1990, …
Lasse Öörni (Cadaver) personAuthor of the goattracker editor ("Editor by Lasse Öörni", GPL; homepage Covert BitOps, covertbitops.c64.org, project on SourceForge) and its readme, which is the wiki's reference for the GoatTracker table model and for …
Last Ninja 2 (Matt Gray, 1988) songsystem-3 's 1988 sequel, scored by matt-gray as its in-house musician: a full soundtrack of loaders and level tunes written "from mid-January until early April" 1988 — "about as big a project as you would want to …
Laxity (Thomas E. Petersen) personDanish composer-coder who started, aged 14 in 1987, by turning rob-hubbard 's player into source: "Laxity is a little smart kid, he turns Hubbard's player into assembler source, and after having hacked some tunes in it, …
Leinad (Daniel Falk) personSwedish composer of the Amiga era (from 1989, most active 1990–91) who by 1995 tracked on a PC for the games of MAGE, the small development outfit he ran with friends, and wrote multimedia for a living. The single …
Leviathan personMusician of Renaissance and kosmic who wrote traxweekly 's first article, "Modal and Chord Theory" (#1, 12 March 1995) — a modal chart and degree-based chord formulas for the self-taught (source: …
Liam the Lemming (Liam Hesse) personLiverpool tracker of S!P and Mach One, known for catchy piano-led tunes and the disk AutoEmotive ; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of August 1996 (source: s-tw066-interview-liam-the-lemming ) …
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 …
Linus Walleij personMember of the C64 group Triad and author of MIDIslave, "the MIDI program for C64", through which he "learned how SIDplayers worked"; he wrote "A SID player routine", pseudo-code for a MIDI-driven sid player, at the …
little-scale personSebastian Tomczak, chipmusician and prolific tutorial writer, whose 2008 blog post How to: Prepare Samples and Create LSDJ Kits is still the reference the chipmusic-org kit threads point at five years later — …
LoK groupA UK music group set up by ganja-man because "there weren't really any demo/music groups" in Britain that he knew of, with a second aim of educating #trax about jungle. The expansion of the name is not printed in the …
Loki (Charles Odom) personSeventeen-year-old tracker from Albany, Oregon, a member of SPiCE (dj_moses's group with Happy Fetus Records) and, from November 1995, of zinc 's Radiance; interviewed by Trifixion in traxweekly #35. The single source …
Lord Pegasus (Zack Smith) personkosmic and ACiD (pHluid) tracker from Georgia, USA, self-taught by ear and schooled by basehead ; the single substantial source is his TraxWeekly interview of July 1995 (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus ) . His …
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 → …
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 …
Luca Carrafiello (Luca/FIRE) personItalian Plus/4 scener and SID composer of the FIRE crew (Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise), interviewed in the first issue of sidin (September 2002) as the composer of Soulfixer — second in the SidWine online …
Luv Kohli personCo-founder, with his brother Manu, of the two-member Virginia group Empyrean; interviewed by DennisC for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in October 1995 after about a year of releases. The sources for this page are …
Maelcum personFounder of the kosmic Free Music Foundation, coordinator of the musicdisk label Exceedingly Great Grooves (EGG), and member of epinicion and Underground Gabber Source; k8to credits him with "a thousand mods or so" …
Maniacs of Noise groupThe Dutch music group founded by jeroen-tel and charles-deenen , who met "at computer meetings in Venlo"; the name was thought up by the two of them, and their first shared player routine was "our first MoN routine" ( …
Marcel Donné personThe third founder of maniacs-of-noise — one of the "Dutch teenagers Deenen, Tel and Marcel Donné" who started the company in 1987 — and before that, with jeroen-tel , the music half of the demo group scoop-designs …
Martin Galway personIn-house C64 composer at Ocean Software (born 1966-01-03; at Ocean from 1984, under contract from February 1985), with a driver whose "personality" Newman contrasts with rob-hubbard 's: Galway's routine focused on …
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 …
Martin Walker personBritish programmer-musician of the Thalamus era: the coder, graphician and sound-effects author of hunters-moon (1987), whose table-driven SFX engine sidin #14 reverse-engineered, and a SID composer in his own right …
Master of Darkness (Todd Andlar) personFounder of AIM Higher, a newcomers' group "like epinicion ", the first "Faces in the Crowd" interviewee (September 1995) and within two weeks one of the column's interviewers; the sources are his own FITC interview and …
Matt Gray personBritish C64 composer (born May 1970 in Kent), in-house at system-3 for last-ninja-2 , dominator , Tusker and Vendetta , freelance for codemasters , Thalamus, Incentive ( driller ), hewson , Silverbird and Dalali; he …
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 …
Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen) personFinnish tracker who co-founded the five-musicians with necros in March 1995 — the "virtual band" was his idea — and who tracks entirely by ear. He has no interview of his own in the traxweekly archive; the sources are …
Mental Floss (Andrew McCallum) personToronto techno musician of kosmic (from about 1994) who played tracked music live at raves and put out the album Grey Matter ; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of February 1998 (source: …
Mesonyx (Jon Dal Kristbjornsson) personFifteen-year-old composer from Reykjavik, Iceland, who wrote the music for the game Xixit in one day; member of Infinity Productions, Rage Technologies and The Green Grapes. The single source is his "Faces in the Crowd" …
Mick Rippon personComposition student from Newcastle, Australia, with three years of Amiga ProTracker and, from mid-1995, ST3 and FT2 on the PC; interviewed by DennisC for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in January 1996, after FITC's …
Mikmak (Jean-Paul Mikkers) personDutch programmer, author of the MikMod and MikIT module players; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of June 1997 (source: s-tw103-interview-mikmak ) .
MOD module format (.mod) format"The first file format for tracked music on the Commodore Amiga": introduced in a basic form by Karsten Obarski's Ultimate SoundTracker, extended by NoiseTracker and protracker with more effects, longer samples and more …
Modules (Ivan Del Duca, 1988) songThe music of Modules , an Italian C64 game of 1988, written by its coder Ivan Del Duca in a music engine of his own — according to Stefano Tognon "probably … the first Italian music engine around". Tognon …
Monty on the Run (C64, 1985) songrob-hubbard 's theme for Gremlin Graphics' Monty on the Run . Newman cites it (with Crazy Comets) for the driver's signature combination of a "skydive" — a slow downward pitch fall — with an octave arpeggio; Hubbard: …
Mosaic (Renaissance) personMusician of renaissance who placed 4th in the NAID 1995 music competition with Tears . The main source is his short opinion interview in TraxWeekly #6 (source: s-tw006-naid-opinion-interviews ) ; no real name is printed.
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 …
Nata (Stephan Parth) personItalian SID composer from Naturns (South Tyrol), 22 in January 2006, member of Samar Productions , who began composing in 2003 and works in goattracker on a PC — "Yes it's cross-composing" — with an MMC64 to hear the …
Necros (Andy Sega) personThe most-cited PC-scene musician in traxweekly : Andy Sega, 19 in March 1995, a computer-science major with a philosophy minor, co-founder of the five-musicians with Mellow-D after leaving kosmic ("it is kinda silly to …
Nemesis (Andrew Wise) personMusician of renaissance , kosmic and iCE, known in 1995 for "realistic and catchy" songs and, by his own account, aiming at a "professional" MIDI-like production rather than realism. The main source is his TraxWeekly …
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 …
nitro2k01 personGame Boy hardware and software specialist, and one of the recurring technical voices on chipmusic-org — the person who answers why the chip does that , usually with the register-level reason.
NOISE (New Objectives In Sound Exploration) groupA small Quebec music group headed by shawnm , founded about early 1995, that ranged from techno and ambient to industrial, hard rock and "classical" and had a group column in traxweekly (#42, #50 in the TOC). Sources: …
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 …
Olivier Lapicque personAuthor of ModPlugin, "originally developed in the mid-90s … as a plugin for Internet browsers to listen to tracked music files", and from it ModPlug Player and ModPlug Tracker — "the first Windows-based tracker" — which …
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 …
Paganus personPiano-centred tracker of epinicion and Aim Higher, from the Toronto BBS scene, interviewed by Atlantic for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in October 1995. No real name is printed; the contact address given is …
Pain Perdu personGame Boy musician (first name Paul) and author of Hidden LSDJ Tricks , a six-part video series from 2016 about the parts of lsdj "that are probably in the manual but not necessarily gone over in enough detail, or just …
Pan Docs publicationThe community-maintained technical reference for the game-boy , published by the gbdev community at gbdev.io/pandocs from the GitHub repository gbdev/pandocs and released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Its audio …
Pariah (Edwin de la Vega) personToronto dance-music tracker of the group V.S.L, with ten years of instruments behind him and a creed that there is no bad music, "only music that some people aren't too FOND about". The single source is his traxweekly …
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, …
Perisoft (David Wiernicki) personPresident of defiance from spring 1995, epinicion member, scream-tracker-3 user, and the author of the traxweekly #8 article "Samples And Rippers, Rippers And Samples" that accused basehead 's NAID entry of being "35 % …
Peter "Crayon" Hanning personCoder and musician of Mushroom Studios / Noxious (with Anders "Dolphin" Ramsay and Daniel "Knotis" Sindahl, Rönninge, Sweden), who took protracker over from Amiga Freelancers: 2.1A (1992-04-16), 2.2A (1992-06-22; chord …
Phoenix (Andrew Voss) personkosmic musician from Troy, NY (vossa@rpi.edu). Joined the Kosmic Loader Foundation in April 1994 via an application seen on The Sound Barrier BBS after a solo musicdisk, Pyrology ; by March 1995 he had about 20 …
Pinion (Ryan Hunt) personMusician of ACiD, pHluid and Lucid (pinion@netcom.com, www.acid.org/phluid) and author of the "Impulse Tracker Tip of the Week" column in traxweekly #81–#89 (December 1996 – February 1997): reverb from looped tails and …
Popcorn (Chris Campbell) personCanadian high-school tracker who edited traxweekly through most of 1995 — between its founder populus , who handed him the job, and psibelius , who succeeded him — conducted six of its early interviews, and was a member …
Populus (Nicolas Roberge) personCo-founder of traxweekly and its first interviewer; member of epinicion and defiance ; computer-science student. The main source for this page is his farewell interview of June 1995 (source: s-tw016-interview-populus ) .
Probe Software groupThe English developer that took jeroen-tel from maniacs-of-noise into full-time work — "i'm moving to England, because i'm working at Probe Software now" (64'er, 3/91) — and one of charles-deenen 's remembered freelance …
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, …
Psibelius (Gene Wie) personEditor and publisher of traxweekly (the 1997 staff sheet lists "Editor: Psibelius (Gene Wie)"; issue #50's introduction is signed Gene Wie, TraxWeekly Publishing — sources: s-tw106-a-little-panning , …
Purple Motion personMusician of future-crew and the scene's reference point for "demo music": Zapper is "affected by Purple Motion (like every other tracker)" (source: s-tw027-interview-zapper ) , Phoenix names his Turbulence as the …
Quantam Porcupine (Joshua Shagam) personPianist, coder and scream-tracker-3 tracker from New Mexico who started on Music Construction Set on the commodore-64 , and who prefers songs "optimized for as few channels as possible". Spelled "Quantam" in traxweekly …
Quarex (Drew Hunt) personSixteen-year-old member of kosmic , epinicion and his own one-man group TFX, known for PORK.MOD ; the single source for this page is maelcum 's unedited IRC-log interview of July 1995 (source: s-tw019-interview-quarex ) …
Rage (Harri Blom) personFinnish tracker of Jade and Night55, 2nd in the Assembly '95 multichannel music competition with "Guild of Sounds". The main source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of May 1996 (source: s-tw060-interview-rage ) …
Rainbow Arts group"The first big german games developer", which hired chris-huelsbeck on the phone after shades and had him in-house from February/March 1987: great-giana-sisters (label Time Warp), Katakis , R-Type , Turrican (sources: …
Renaissance groupAn early PC demo group, reached through The Sound Barrier BBS in New York, whose demos — above all Amnesia (seen by khyron "sometime in 93", before future-crew 's Second Reality ) — and whose tracker, MultiTracker, …
reSID toolDag Lem 's software emulation of the sid chip — the engine inside vice , goattracker and the sidplay2 branch of the sidplay player family, and the source code in which the SID's envelope ("ADSR delay") bug is …
Reyn Ouwehand personDutch C64 composer who joined maniacs-of-noise by 1990-03-15 (introduced to charles-deenen by Dave Hogendorf) and "left by May 12 to join system-3 "; VGMPF dates his membership "late 1989?–1990" (source: …
Richard Bayliss personBritish C64 game programmer and musician, active since 1991 with SEUCK games and since 1994 with BASIC games and his own music, prolific enough in 2006 that stefano-tognon asked whether he was "the unique scener around …
Rob Hubbard personC64 game composer of the mid-1980s who wrote his own 6502 music driver and, with it, the sound that Newman's article treats as the template of "SID music" (source: s-newman-driving-the-sid-chip ) . A working …
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, …
roboctopus personGame Boy musician and author of LSDJ & You , a column of intermediate lsdj technique articles written for noisechannel.org around 2013–2014 and, when that site began to fail, ported by hand to a tumblr: "I wrote a …
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 …
Ryan Cramer personMusician of renaissance and, from 1995, Iguana; a self-taught tracker whose model for demo music was the film score. The single source for this page is Popcorn 's TraxWeekly interview of April 1995 (source: …
Ryan Sprott (Grey) personFounder of the music group Grey and a #trax regular, interviewed by Kleitus in July 1996 — the single source for this page (source: s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott ) . Not to be confused with Ryan Cramer (TraxWeekly #7) …
S3M module format (.s3m) formatscream-tracker-3 's format (1994), documented by sami-tammilehto in TECH.DOC (summary: s-st3-tech-doc ). Compared with mod-format it added per-sample tuning (C4Spd, the frequency of middle C), up to 32 channels (16 …
Sabrepulse personChiptune artist (site sabrepulse.com, offline by 2026-08-30) and author of a Getting started with LSDJ tutorial for people "who have either very basic or no musical knowledge", preserved as a mirror at Adventure Kid. …
Sami Tammilehto (Psi) personAuthor of Scream Tracker: 2.21 (1990-09-03), 2.24 (1991), the ST Music Interface Kit (1991–92) and scream-tracker-3 3.01–3.21 (1994), a member of future-crew (source: s-tracker-history-notes ) . He wrote the S3M format …
Sanxion (C64, 1986) songrob-hubbard 's music for Thalamus' Sanxion . Newman's example of a noise transient on a pitched instrument : channel 3's pulse-wave bass "is augmented with digital noise in its attack", so a 16th-note bassline "appears …
Saxy (Courtney Risch) personSaxophonist and member of XX, the all-female music group of 1996, interviewed by Kal Zakath after Symphony in her Mind , the first tune she ever tracked. The single source is that traxweekly interview (source: …
Scarzix (Carsten Berggreen) personSID composer and 6510 coder, born 1972, active around 1989–90 in the jch-editor ( CombatZone , Galactix for Triangle) and again from 2013 in Offence, where he became the public face of the cheesecutter editor — its …
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 …
Scirocco (Ian Lyman) personGroupless fasttracker-2 tracker and NYU film student who learned alone by "picking apart other tracker's work", claimed the only five-star XM on ftp.cdrom.com, and advised newcomers to upload only what they are proud …
Scoop Designs groupThe Dutch C64 demo group that maniacs-of-noise grew out of: C=Lehti's 1989 profile calls SCOOP known for demos polished and planned to the last detail, with charles-deenen coding the top ones and jeroen-tel and Marcel …
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 …
Shades (Chris Hülsbeck, 1986) songchris-huelsbeck 's first published tune: written in February 1986 "from 8 PM to 4 AM" for 64er 's music competition, "merely aiming for top ten", and placed first, earning 1500 DM (source: s-vgmpf-chris-huelsbeck ) .
shawnm (Shawn, NOISE) personHead of the Quebec group New Objectives In Sound Exploration ( noise-group ), an orchestral-percussion student at McGill who tracked in scream-tracker-3 and preached ear over theory and "do what you hear" over the …
SID (MOS 6581 / 8580) chipThe SID — Sound Interface Device — is the sound chip of the commodore-64 : three voices, each with its own waveform, pulse width and adsr-envelope , plus one shared programmable filter; designed by bob-yannes at MOS …
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 file format (.sid) formatThe distribution format for commodore-64 music: the tune's data plus its player routine, with metadata, playable in SID players and emulators. sid-wizard 's SID-Maker exports it; the author-info field uses : as …
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 module format (.swm family) formatThe native file family of sid-wizard : the .swm work module and its 2/3/4- SID siblings .sws / .swt / .swq , plus the .swi single-instrument file. The byte-exact layout below is from m64's duet research into Hermit's SW …
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 …
SIDin (e-zine) publicationstefano-tognon 's (ice00) free PDF magazine about "the SID chip from the inside": fifteen issues between September 2002 and 2015-10-31, each with a news section on players, editors and hardware, an interview with a SID …
SIDPLAY toolThe family of SID-music players that grew out of the Amiga's PlaySID: Michael Schwendt's SIDPLAY for the PC, the libsidplay/libsidplay2 libraries and their front-ends (Sidplay2/w on Windows, XSIDPLAY on Unix, SIDPLAY …
Skaven personMusician of future-crew , one of the two names (with purple-motion ) that the 1995–97 PC scene treats as its founding influences: Phoenix was inspired by "Maelcum, Skaven, and Deus" (source: s-tw001-interview-phoenix ) …
Smeghead (David Oranchak) personTechno tracker of the Virginia group Terraformer, a scream-tracker-3 user who composes by "stream of consciousness"; the main source is master-of-darkness 's "Faces in the Crowd" interview of October 1995 (source: …
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 …
Stalker (Ariel Gross) personMusician of the demo group OTM and, from April 1995, of defiance ; a scream-tracker-3 user since its release who started on Composer 669 in December 1993. The main source is Zer0's TraxWeekly interview of April 1995 …
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 …
Stephan Schmid (Steppe) personGerman C64 scener (Erlangen; 28 in 2003), webmaster of the Demodungeon site and a member of the hvsc crew from October 2002, who rips the tunes of the demos he documents; as a composer he was active for three weeks in …
Storlek personOriginal developer of schism-tracker with Mrs. Brisby, from 0.031a (2003-06-16) through the dated builds of 2009–2012 (source: s-tracker-history-notes ) ; the old schismtracker.org wiki — the FAQ with "Tell the Milky …
Subhuman (Seth Miller) personSeventeen-year-old goa and trance fan from Oregon who co-founded ultrabeat with injekted and made his first release on the group's Lucid . The single source is Cerulean's traxweekly interview (source: …
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 …
System 3 groupMark Cale's London developer of the Last Ninja games; matt-gray was its exclusive musician from November 1987 to about March 1989 ( last-ninja-2 , dominator , Tusker , Vendetta ), after which "the Maniacs of Noise had …
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 …
The Great Giana Sisters (C64, 1987/88) songrainbow-arts ' platform game (label Time Warp, released 1988-01) whose soundtrack made chris-huelsbeck 's name: seven songs and fifteen sound effects composed in soundmonitor and converted to his private The Final …
The Grey Note (Necros) songnecros 's saxophone piece from the musicdisk Progression ( greynote.s3m ) — the PC scene's standard example of a realistic solo instrument inside a module, and its standard example of a sample that must not be ripped …
The Modsquad groupBongo Jongo, Spessartini and Neon Hunter (modsquad@juno.com), authors of the four-part satirical chiptune "seminar" in traxweekly #77–#81 (November–December 1996) and of a musicdisk "Potato Chips" with "like 500k of …
The SID Homepage (sidmusic.org) publicationandreas-varga 's 1990s website about the sid — the place where the designer of the chip, bob-yannes , first learned that programs like SIDPLAY and PlaySID existed ("I only recently became aware of them (through your …
The Zapper (Marc Girard, Force Ten) personMusician of Force Ten (zapper@autoroute.net), a group of friends from the Montreal suburbs that is also a real band (Zapper on bass and synths), and of the demo group The Apollo Project. Wrote "Loops and Extended …
TheHacker (Krisjanis Gale) personkosmic (KFMF) musician who released eleven songs in one batch in spring 1995 and tracked ambient and rave on a 386-25 with MultiTracker. The single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of April 1995 (source: …
Tim Follin personGame composer whose C64 work — above all Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Bionic Commando — the wiki's interviews treat as canon: when scarzix asked a Facebook sceners' group in 2013 to rate his old tunes 0–10, the scale was "where …
Tiny Sid Compo eventAn online competition for complete SID tunes — player and music — in 256 or 512 bytes , run by stefano-tognon (ice00) of sidin from 15 January to 8 May 2005, with the entries' sources printed and commented in SIDin #8 …
TraxWeekly publicationA text-only newsletter of the PC tracker scene, published semi-weekly from 12 March 1995 to 1998 for 119 issues, modelled after hornet 's "Demonews" and "a HORNET affiliation": distributed from ftp.hornet.org / …
Triton (Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl) groupThe Swedish group whose programmers Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl wrote fasttracker-2 : Huss's FastTracker 1.01 (1993-01-23, 8 channels) and the two authors' 2.00 (November 1994) through 2.06 (1996); the 2.08 build of …
Trixter (Jim Leonard) personOf hornet (trixter@mcs.com). In traxweekly he wrote the two sharpest corrections in this wiki's set: that "a chord isn't a 'thing', it's any combination of notes" and every piece of music has them (#40, source: …
TSM (Carmine Migliaccio) personItalian SID composer from Naples (born about 1980; "30 years ago" in 2010), a former programmer who made his first serious C64 music around 2003 and composed the title tune of the C64 conversion of Pushover ; "I don't …
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 , …
Tyler Barnes personlsdj musician and tutorial maker who devised and named the ghost-channel — the additive wave trick that gets a second, independently playable note out of the Game Boy's wave channel. He published it on 2013-07-11 as a …
U4IA / F8 (James Young) personBristol-based Amiga-generation composer of underground dance modules — over 150 released by 1996 — who quit as U4IA in 1994 and returned under the name F8; the single source for this page is his e-mail interview in …
Ultrabeat groupA music-only techno "tribe" founded about March 1996 by injekted and subhuman — "no coding, no graphics… just the music" — for ravers and "foreign techno heads", with a proposed five-member cap and the five-musicians as …
VadimVS (Vadim Shustov) personRussian scream-tracker-3 user from Simbirsk who joined N.O.I.S.E. in February 1996 and tracked heavy, pop and disco tunes on borrowed hardware with samples ripped from other modules. The single source is his short …
Vegas (T.J. Lerner) personMusician of the group Mystique in 1996, an impulse-tracker user who saved as S3M, and one of the scene's pro-theory voices. The main source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of June 1996 (source: …
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 …
Vicious (VSL) personFounder of V.S.L. ("Variety's the Spice of Life"), a 14-member Toronto dance-music group started around April 1995, and a member of Aim Higher; interviewed by Master of Darkness for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in …
WitchMaster (Mikael Norrgård) personAuthor of the e-book Creating Chiptunes with SID-Wizard (first edition 2012 on CSDb, second edition 2014-02-11 co-credited to hermit ), written because the official manual left out "some stuff … that SID gurus know but …
XM module format (.xm) formatfasttracker-2 's format (November 1994): the mod-format effect alphabet plus a few letters of its own, and — the point of it — instruments : volume and panning envelopes over samples, several samples per instrument, …
Zalt (Tobias Garder) personSixteen-year-old Stockholm tracker ("zalt of groove.phenomena.mistery"), 2nd in the Icing'95 multichannel music compo, who came from Atari NoiseTracker to FastTracker 2 ; interviewed by psibelius in traxweekly #40 …
Zinc (Justin Ray) personTracker from British Columbia and the most prolific interviewer and columnist of later traxweekly (listed as staff in the 1997 sheet; source: s-tw106-a-little-panning ). Wrote "IT Percussion Tips" (#75, 25 October 1996) …