Tag Archives: Tracker

SID-Wizard ~ Commodore 64 Music Tracker

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A featureful SID-music creation tool (tracker) for the Commodore 64. It includes many advanced effects and tools like keyboard-tracking, tempo-programs/funktempo, gateoff-table-pointers, filter-shift, SID-export, executable-export, MIDI/XM conversion and MIDI-input hardware, etc., etc.

Features:

  • Calculated vibrato, 8x framespeed, keyboard-tracking, colour-themes
  • XM, MID (back & forth) and Goattracker ‘sng’ conversion tools included
  • MIDI-input hardware support and HerMIDI dedicated MIDI-interface.
  • Stereo (2SID) and 3SID version included, Verdi tuning system and Just-intonation
  • Janko piano-keyboard layout support, Sound-effect (SFX) support
  • One-step ‘Undo’ function for patterns/orderlists/instruments
  • 324 example instruments and around 30 example tunes
  • SWP-format: musicdata with only relative addresses, and corresponding player
  • Tape slow-down simulation (enabled by default in SWP format)

sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard
csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=258573

Schism Tracker ~ Create High Quality Music

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Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique “finger feel” that is difficult to replicate in part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the ModPlug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback.

Where Impulse Tracker was limited to i386-based systems running MS-DOS, Schism Tracker runs on almost any platform that SDL supports, and has been successfully built for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, and even Wii. Schism will most likely build on any architecture supported by GCC4 (e.g. alpha, m68k, arm, etc.) but it will probably not be as well-optimized on many systems.

schismtracker.org
github.com/schismtracker
Schism Tracker Tutorial on YouTube
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker

jfMusic ~ Tracked Music Editor

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Supports WAV and DLS files.
Supports recording from MIDI devices.

sourceforge.net/projects/jfmusic

elpAudio ~ Simple Audio Player Using FMOD

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elpAudio – A simple audio player using FMOD, that supports custom WinAmp themes, music files (.mp3, .midi, .wav, .ogg, .flac, .opus), tracker music (.mod, .xm, .s3m, .it) and other sound types (.wasd, .etm, .mus).

github.com/elpoeprod/elpAudio

XMP ~ Extended Module Player

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xmp is a module player for Unix-like systems that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files.

xmp.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/xmp

Buzztrax ~ All In One Music Composer

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Buzztrax aims to be a music studio that allows one to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard. If you’ve used tracker programs like FastTracker, Impulse Tracker, or the original AMIGA SoundTracker, that will give you an idea of how one can sequence music in Buzztrax.

The Buzztrax editor uses a similar concept, where a song consists of a sequence with tracks and in each track one uses patterns with events (musical notes and control changes). In contrast to other Tracker programs, tracks are not simply sample players: a user can make a song using an arrangement of virtual audio plugins that are linked together to create different effects. Each of these machines can be controlled real-time or via patterns in the sequencer.

www.buzztrax.org
Buzztrax User Interface Image

Efflux ~ Online Audio Tracker

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Efflux is an application that allows users to create music inside their browser. Efflux is a tracker and follows conventions familiar to those who have used anything from Ultimate Soundtracker to Renoise. All sounds are oscillator (or wave table) based and can be routed through an effects signal path, making Efflux a modular synthesis environment, where the synths are driven by the tracker.

www.igorski.nl/application/efflux
github.com/igorski/efflux-tracker

Fooyin ~ Linux Audio Player

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Fooyin is a customisable music player for Linux. Fooyin features a layout editing mode in which the entire user interface can be customised, starting from a blank state or a default layout. FooScript takes this further by extending the customisation to individual widgets themselves.

Features:

  • Playback FLAC, MP3, MP4, Vorbis, Opus, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio
  •  Playback popular VGM and tracker module formats
  •  Gapless playback
  •  Add and play files from within compressed archives
  •  Audio output and device configuration
  •  CUE sheet support (including embedded)
  •  Fully customisable layout, starting from a blank window
  •  Customisable keyboard shortcuts
  •  Filter library on any field(s)
  •  Create and manage playlists
  •  Import/export playlists (M3U/M3U8)
  •  Extensible using a plugin system
  •  Tag editing
  •  Library tree, including directory structure view
  •  Directory browser
  •  Waveform seekbar
  •  MPRIS support
  •  ReplayGain support
  •  Scrobbling

www.fooyin.org
github.com/ludouzi/fooyin

Psycle ~ Modular Music Creation Studio

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Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle

http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle/

SoundTracker ~ Unix Sample Tracker

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SoundTracker is a music tracking tool for Unix / X11 similar in design to the DOS program FastTracker and the Amiga legend ProTracker. Samples can be lined up on tracks and patterns which are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the player code is the one from OpenCP. A basic sample recorder and editor is also included. SoundTracker is free (“open source”) software, licensed under the GNU GPL.

soundtracker

www.soundtracker.org

OpenMPT ~ Discover The Music Inside…

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OpenMPT is well known tracker software for Windows.

OpenMPT (shorthand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great music on your computer. Based on the original ModPlug Tracker written by Olivier Lapicque, OpenMPT is free software, can import a wide variety of module formats and offers an intuitive, native GUI as well as advanced features such as VST plugins and ASIO output.

In addition to its own song format, OpenMPT can natively edit Impulse Tracker, FastTracker, Scream Tracker and ProTracker module files.

openmpt

openmpt.org
source.openmpt.org
github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMPT

OpenMPT based module player library and libopenmpt based command-line player:

  • libopenmpt is a cross-platform C++ and C library to decode tracked music files (modules) [wikipedia] into a raw PCM audio stream.
  • openmpt123 is a cross-platform command-line or terminal based module file player.

libopenmpt is based on the player code of the OpenMPT project (Open ModPlug Tracker). In order to avoid code base fragmentation, libopenmpt is developed in the same source code repository as OpenMPT.

libopenmpt ships with plugins for 3 popular Windows audio players already included:

  • xmp-openmpt is a plugin based on libopenmpt for XMPlay.
  • in_openmpt is an input plugin based on libopenmpt for WinAMP 2.x or later compatible players.
  • foo_openmpt is a component based on libopenmpt for foobar2000.

lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt

The Mod Archive ~ Mod Music Repository

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An internet repository for permanent storage of quality music modules from the tracking and demo scene. The Mod Archive began collecting music modules back in 1996. Since then, it has grown and become one of the largest and oldest collections online, thanks to the artists that contributed to The Mod Archive and the Public Domain in general.

modarchive.org