chipmusic.org — CheeseCutter video tutorial thread (2014)
A 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 had found three) and a snapshot of how CheeseCutter was distributed in 2014.
Key claims#
- tempest (2014-09-03): "Scarzix just put online the first part of his video tutorial serie for CheeseCutter SID music editor (Windows/Linux) … CheeseCutter is a great editor on par with Goat Tracker and Sid Duzz It. It's a project of Abaddon, who is also a badass chipmusician, with whom I've co-operated numerous times." (tempest's own tune soyoudied.ct ships in the v2.9 example set — s-cheesecutter-repo-and-releases.)
- The four videos (video only, not ingested; note like the Retro Hour entry):
- Galactix Intro — youtube.com/watch?v=gjlIN6ehqqI
- Pulse programs — youtube.com/watch?v=7uNa6z1UYtY (not in the scout)
- Basic GUI tricks + Drums — youtube.com/watch?v=hcOgkSKlH8w
- Wavetable + Ringmod — youtube.com/watch?v=u_NR7yNmbyc
- Distribution in 2014: the editor from theyamo.kapsi.fi/ccutter, help and a Mac OSX build via the CheeseCutter Facebook group — an0va: "I remember having to sign up into the facebook group just to get a copy"; tempest (2014-09-20): "A solid Mac build is on its way..."
- Scarzix's CheeseCutter tunes were on soundcloud.com/scarzix.
Practical takeaways#
- The tutorial curriculum mirrors the technique pages the wiki keeps: pulse programs (pulse-width-modulation), drums, wavetable + ring mod (wavetable-programming, ring-modulation-and-sync, fake-echo) — when someone has time for the videos, those are the pages to ripple.
Notable quotes#
- "CheeseCutter is a great editor on par with Goat Tracker and Sid Duzz It." (tempest, 2014-09-03)
Relevance to the wiki#
Completes the scarzix tutorial story with the fourth video, and dates the Facebook-group era of CheeseCutter distribution that the SIDin interview described from the inside.