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1. WHAT IS A TRACKER?
2. TRACKERS
3. OTHER MUSIC CREATORS
4. HELPER TOOLS
5. See Also

WHAT IS A TRACKER?

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A tracker is the generic term for a class of music sequencer software. It allow the user to arrange the notes stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. A tracker's interface is primarily numeric; notes are entered via the alphanumeric keys of the computer keyboard, while parameters, effects and so forth are entered in hexadecimal.


Future article MUSIC TOOLS. (in progress)

FORMATING / CATEGORY
MUSIC TOOL (botb reference, that's is internal reference) (where does it run) (*.FORMAT) URL > only for entries with no or bare bone lyceum entries.

TODOS (current state = on diapers)
*do not copy paste from elsewhere (rephrase)
*add up-to-date tracker's effect commands
*add missing articles referenced here
*archaic trackers

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TRACKERS

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also see the long list

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Adlib (OPL)
* Adlib Tracker II (Windows, DOS) (*.a2m) link

* AMusic v1.12 (*.amd)
* Reality Adlib Tracker (DOS) (*.rad) link

AHX Tracker (Amiga) (*.ahx) link

Atari 2600
* LoopCart (Atari 2600) (*.bin) link

Atari ST
* maxYMiser (Atari ST) (*.snd) link

* Vortex Tracker II (Windows) (*.snd, *.sndh) link

Atari XE/LE
* Raster Music Tracker (Windows) (*.sap) link

Commodore 64
* DefleMask Tracker (Windows, Linux, Mac) (*.dmf, *.wav) link

------ DefleMask Tracker Effects Commands
* DMC (*.sid)
* GoatTracker (C64, Windows, Linux) (*.sid) link

* CheeseCutter (C64, Windows, Linux) (*.sid) link

GameBoy
* BoyScout (Windows) (*.bgf) link

* Carillon editor (GB, DS) (*.sav)
* DefleMask Tracker (Windows, Linux, Mac) (*.dmf, *.wav) link

------ DefleMask Tracker Effects Commands
* LSDJ (GB, DS) (*.sav) link

------ Little Sound Dj Effects Commands
* Nanoloop (GB, DS) (*.sav) *sound editor and sequencer* link

* Paragon5 (Windows) (*.mgb)


LittleGPTracker (GP2x, PSP, Windows, Mac OSX, Debian) (*.sav) link

Classical DOS Modules (most used filetypes) (*.s3m, *.xm, *.mod, *.it)
* ChibiTracker (Windows) (*.it) link

* FastTracker II (DOS) (*.xm) link

------ FastTrackerII_Effects_Commands
* Impulse Tracker (DOS) (*.it) link

------ ImpulseTracker_Effects_Commands
* MilkyTracker (Multi-platform) (*.xm) link

* MODPlug Tracker (Windows) (*.s3m, *.xm, *.mod, *.it) link

* NitroTracker (DS) (*.xm) link

* Schism Tracker (Multi-platform) (*.it) link

NES Famicom
* DefleMask Tracker (Windows, Linux, Mac) (*.dmf, *.vgm) link

------ DefleMask Tracker Effects Commands
* FamiTracker (Windows) (*.nsf, *.ftm, *.bin)
------ FamiTracker_Effects_Commands
* NesTracker (Windows) (*.nsf, *.nest)
* NerdTracker II (DOS/Windows) (*.ned) *you need to compile to .nsf * link

* NTRQ (Nes) (*.sav) link

* Musetracker (Windows) (*.pom) *FamiTone export available* link

PC Engine TurboGrafx-16
* DefleMask Tracker (Windows, Linux, Mac) (*.dmf, *.vgm) link

------ DefleMask Tracker Effects Commands


Renoise (Windows) (*.xrns)
------ Renoise Effects Commands


Sinclair ZX Spectrum
* 1tracker (multi-platform) (*.1tm)
* Beepola (Windows) (*.bbsong)
* TFM Music Maker (*.vgm, OPL2 FM expansion chip)
* Vortex Tracker II (Windows) (*.ay)


SEGA Master System
* DefleMask Tracker (Windows, Linux, Mac) (*.dmf, *.vgm) link

------ DefleMask Tracker Effects Commands
* MOD2PSG2 (Windows) (*.vgm) link

SEGA Genesis
* DefleMask Tracker (Windows, Linux, Mac) (*.dmf, *.vgm) link

------ DefleMask Tracker Effects Commands
* VGM Music Maker (Windows) (*.vgm)
------ VGM Music Maker Effects Commands


SunVox (Windows) (*.sunvox)
------ SunVox Effects Commands


VIC 20
* Vic Tracker (Vic-20) (*.vt) link

OTHER MUSIC CREATORS

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Channel F
* Sleizsa (Windows) (*.bin, *.prg)

CompuMate (Atari 2600) (recorded audio) (simple synthesizer)

DS (to be changed later)
* KORG DS-10 (DS) (*.???) (nintendo ds synthesizer)
* ProteinDS (DS) (*.sav) (scratch sounds) link

* Seno DS (DS) (*.wav) (live sequencer) link

DSi (to be moved later, since it's not a tracker)
* Music On: Electronic Keyboard (DSi) (*.???) (Electronic Keyboard) link

* GAME BOY CAMERA (GB) (*.???) (simple sequencer)

Mario Paint
* Mario Paint Composer DS (DS) (*.mpc) link

* Mario Sequencer (Windows) (*.msq) link

Script based/MML-like
* athtune (.NET 2.0 framework) (*.wav) Broad family of sounds to get out of this tool since you define sounds through C# (mml based)
* MCK (Windows) (*.nsf) (compiler) link

* PPMCK (Windows) (*.nsf) (compiler) link

* XPMCK (Windows) (*.nsf, *.sgc, *.sid, *.gbs, *.vgz, *.kss) (compiler) link

* NDS BGMFILER (mml soundriver on the Nintendo Ds ) link

Sony PSP
* PSPSeq (PSP) (*.seq)

HELPER TOOLS

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* BoobieSqueezer (optimizes *.xm files)
* it2nsf (converts from *.it to *.nsf)
* it2vgm.py (converts from *.it to *.vgm)
* lsd-manager (Java) (manage and save LSDJ tracks into *.sav and *.lsdsng) link

* Mumml (Windows) (It fastens the compiling process of your mml source files and even fires up your playback applications for quickly listen-test of your music)
* OpenSPC (converts from *.spc to *.it)
* s3m2nsf (converts from *.s3m to *.nsf)
* ShroomTool (*.sho) (Mario Paint song data extractor)



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See Also

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List of Effects Commands