Digital fusion (also called digifu) is music that blends many musical genres with early PC music styles that were shaped by hardware limitations, such as video game music, demoscene/tracker music, chiptune, and MIDI.

 

Digital fusion is an evolution of these computer music styles, where composers have adopted their vernacular without their original hardware limitations.

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Some examples of techniques that digital fusion composers use include:

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• Tracker and chiptune-based techniques: composing with simple wave forms, rapid arpeggios, single channel delay, sampled chords.
   

• MIDI-based techniques: focusing on a twelve-tone scale or piano roll, arranging with 16 channels or a low number of instruments.
   

• Virtual improvisation: solos in which the process of creation is more spontaneous than a planned composition, but more premeditated than live improvisation, because of being tracked or sequenced into a computer.
   

• Combining the above with full production or acoustic performances.​

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