Editing Module file (section)

== Scene ==
The process of composing module files, known as tracking, is a skillful activity that involves a much closer contact with musical sound than conventional composition, as every aspect of each sonic event is coded, from pitch and duration to exact volume, panning, and laying in numerous effects such as [[echo]], [[tremolo]] and [[Fade (audio engineering)|fades]].<ref name="music and technoculture">{{cite book|author1=Rene T. A. Lysloff|author2=Jr. Leslie C. Gay|author3=Andrew Ross|title=Music and Technoculture|date=29 October 2003|publisher=[[Wesleyan University Press]]|isbn=978-0819565143|pages=352|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9xSAgAAQBAJ|access-date=2014-09-13}}</ref> Once the module file is finished, it is released to the tracker community. The composer uploads the new composition to one or more of several sites where module files are archived, making it available to their audience, who will download the file on their own computers. By encoding textual information within each module file, composers maintain contact with their audiences and with one another by including their email addresses, greetings to fans and other composers, and virtual signatures.<ref name="music and technoculture"/>

Although [[Music tracker|trackers]] can be considered to have some technical limitations, they do not prevent a creative individual from producing music that is indiscernible from professionally created music. The demosceners were focused on pushing the limits of technology.<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MUg4DwAAQBAJ
|title=From Pac-Man to Pop Music
|author=Karen Collins
|pages=153–162
|year=2017
|publisher=[[Routledge]]
|isbn=978-1-351-21772-9
}}</ref> Many tracker musicians gained international prominence within MOD software users and some of them went on to work for high-profile video game studios, or began to appear on large record labels.<ref name="ashgate"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/10/2937700/watch-demoscene-commodore-jack-tramiel|title=A brief video history of the demoscene in memory of Commodore boss Jack Tramiel|work=[[The Verge]]|publisher=[[Vox Media]]|date=10 April 2012|access-date=21 August 2014|first=Janus|last=Kopfstein|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903071946/http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/10/2937700/watch-demoscene-commodore-jack-tramiel|archive-date=3 September 2014}}</ref> Notable artists include [[Andrew Sega]], [[Jonne Valtonen|Purple Motion]], [[Darude]], [[Alexander Brandon]], [[Peter Hajba]], [[Axwell]], [[Venetian Snares]], [[Jesper Kyd]], [[Mark Knight (sound designer)|TDK]], [[Thomas J. Bergersen]], [[Markus Kaarlonen]], [[Michiel van den Bos]] and [[Dan Gardopée]]. It is also widely known that many of [[Aphrodite (musician)|Aphrodite's]] early releases were made on two synchronized [[Amiga]]s running [[OctaMED]], and that [[James Holden (producer)|James Holden]] made majority of his early material in [[Jeskola Buzz]]. [[Deadmau5]] and Erez Eisen of [[Infected Mushroom]] have both used [[Impulse Tracker]] in their early career.<ref name="Resident">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?972 | title=Deadmau5: It's complicated | magazine=[[Resident Advisor]] | date=September 30, 2008 | access-date=September 17, 2014 | author=Burns, Todd L. | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007010942/http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?972 | archive-date=October 7, 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Emusician">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.emusician.com/artists/1333/geeking-out-with-infected-mushroom/41649 | title=Geeking Out With Infected Mushroom | magazine=[[Electronic Musician]] | date=September 1, 2009 | access-date=September 17, 2014 | author=Levine, Mike | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917160756/http://www.emusician.com/artists/1333/geeking-out-with-infected-mushroom/41649 | archive-date=September 17, 2014 }}</ref>