Intense Tech with Defense Mech
An 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 (plus an unlisted, unfinished draft, Advanced Wave Tech), released under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 unless noted. Each article is a Markdeep page with short video examples and often a .sav to open. The series documents how LSDj versions 6–9 changed sound design — PITCH modes, ADSR, software volume, noise shapes — from a practitioner's point of view, which makes it the wiki's second Game Boy source beside the manual (s-lsdj-manual). Beyond sound design it covers the tooling around LSDj — liblsdj, lsdj-wave-cruncher, lsdpatch — and flash cartridges.
Articles#
| # | title | date | in the wiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | LSDj Wave Synth Deep Dive, Part 1 | 2018-10-11 | s-intense-tech-01-wave-synth-deep-dive-part-1 |
| 02 | LSDj Wave Synth Deep Dive, Part 2 | 2018-11-08 | s-intense-tech-02-wave-synth-deep-dive-part-2 |
| 03 | Don't Sleep on Z (feat. Hypnogram) | 2018-12-13 | s-intense-tech-03-dont-sleep-on-z |
| 04 | Manage your LSDj save files with libLSDj | 2019-02-19 | s-intense-tech-04-liblsdj |
| 05 | LSDj Wave Cruncher Instrument Library | 2019-03-28 | s-intense-tech-05-wave-cruncher-instrument-library |
| 06 | Groovy Groove and Tick Tricks, Part 1 | 2019-04-11 | s-intense-tech-06-groove-and-tick-tricks-part-1 |
| 07 | Groovy Groove and Tick Tricks, Part 2 | 2019-05-21 | s-intense-tech-07-groove-and-tick-tricks-part-2 |
| 08 | DOTCNT's LSDj Wave Cruncher | 2019-06-25 | s-intense-tech-08-dotcnts-wave-cruncher |
| 09 | Let's Table This Discussion! | 2019-07-23 | s-intense-tech-09-lets-table-this-discussion |
| 10 | Get your Kicks with Version 6: Part 1 | 2019-10-29 | s-intense-tech-10-kicks-part-1 |
| 11 | Kicks Part 2: Kick Heaven in Version 7 | 2019-11-08 | s-intense-tech-11-kicks-part-2 |
| 12 | Scoping Out New Features | 2020-01-15 | s-intense-tech-12-scoping-out-new-features |
| 13 | Interview with LSDj Developer Johan Kotlinski | 2020-02-20 | s-intense-tech-13-kotlinski-interview |
| 14 | Let's Appreciate Version 8 | 2020-03-26 | s-intense-tech-14-lets-appreciate-version-8 |
| 15 | Let's Mix It Up (and Down) | 2020-04-30 | s-intense-tech-15-lets-mix-it-up-and-down |
| 16 | So You Want a Cartridge Family? | 2020-05-21 (updated 2024) | s-intense-tech-16-cartridge-family |
| 17 | The Joys of Noise | 2020-11-05 | s-intense-tech-17-the-joys-of-noise |
| 18 | ADSR Makes Life Easier | 2020-11-29 | s-intense-tech-18-adsr-makes-life-easier |
| 19 | New Noise and 9.1.0 News | 2021-01-17 | s-intense-tech-19-new-noise-and-910-news |
| 20 | Customize LSDj From Scratch with LSDPatch | 2021-02-21 | s-intense-tech-20-lsdpatch |
| 21 | What's New in LSDj v9.2 | 2021-08-29 | s-intense-tech-21-whats-new-in-lsdj-92 |
| 22 | Advanced Wave Tech | "2021", unlisted | draft outline only (phase modes, inverted waveforms, zero crossings, LIMIT overdrive) — not summarised; raw kept |
The raw text of all 22 pages is in raw/intense-tech/ (fetched 2026-08-30); every published article has a summary. Article 03 rewrites a 2016 post by hypnogram; 04, 05 and 08 build on 4ntler's and DOTCNT's tools.
Related#
defense-mechanism · lsdj · johan-kotlinski · game-boy · hypnogram · 4ntler · liblsdj · lsdj-wave-cruncher · lsdpatch
Sources#
s-intense-tech-01-wave-synth-deep-dive-part-1 · s-intense-tech-02-wave-synth-deep-dive-part-2 · s-intense-tech-03-dont-sleep-on-z · s-intense-tech-04-liblsdj · s-intense-tech-05-wave-cruncher-instrument-library · s-intense-tech-06-groove-and-tick-tricks-part-1 · s-intense-tech-07-groove-and-tick-tricks-part-2 · s-intense-tech-08-dotcnts-wave-cruncher · s-intense-tech-09-lets-table-this-discussion · s-intense-tech-10-kicks-part-1 · s-intense-tech-11-kicks-part-2 · s-intense-tech-12-scoping-out-new-features · s-intense-tech-13-kotlinski-interview · s-intense-tech-14-lets-appreciate-version-8 · s-intense-tech-15-lets-mix-it-up-and-down · s-intense-tech-16-cartridge-family · s-intense-tech-17-the-joys-of-noise · s-intense-tech-18-adsr-makes-life-easier · s-intense-tech-19-new-noise-and-910-news · s-intense-tech-20-lsdpatch · s-intense-tech-21-whats-new-in-lsdj-92