https://jangler.github.io/osctet/

feat. demo tracks by myself, damifortune, agargara, and syntheticgoddess! also feat. microtuning, pattern zoom, and a synth/sampler engine.

i'd like to shout out the aforementioned folks for their testing, feedback, and encouragement - it was wonderful working with y'all!

This looks very cool! "Modulate oscillators with PCM samples" is promising.

Woah amazing work. Elegantly pulling off everything trackers aren't supposed to do. And the interface looks great. An extremely pleasant surprise this morning

i'm so excited to see what people make with this - it's an extremely cool piece of software!

cue the format request thread

@retrokid104 zaptracker 2 when?

reminds me on Faunatone

it's very much an iteration on faunatone's design! one day i would like to back-port some of the osctet ergonomy to faunatone as well

no way, a new tracker in 2025

"we eating good fellas"

(currently unable to try this atm but omg when i do it's gonna be so peak I can already tell)

Osctet is sooo good!! My favorite features are the powerful modular synth engine, microtonal support, and of course, PATTERN ZOOM!

But some other little details I love :
- The design decision to keep channels so simple with just modulation/pressure commands with single-digit values. Since you can portamento between values, you don't need more granularity than that. the minimalist approach makes writing so much faster and lets you have lots of channels on screen at once.
- The tooltips are so helpful, it made learning the tracker super quick and easy.
- Streeetch Paaaste
- I never thought I would like smooth-scroll but this tracker has changed my mind!

Osctet is rapidly becoming one of my favorite music making tools ... super awesome job jangler, you rock!

loaded it up, got confused
looks sick, good shit

i like osctet and i hope you do too

@agargara i agree about your comment on smooth scroll - not usually my thing, but with this tracker specifically and its zoomable grid, it's totally what makes sense

my favorite features are among the more esoteric ones, but the fact that they're there make it reeeeally fun:

- playing midi keyboard + keyboard sequencer input is actually good for microtones for once, with the space of an octave being preserved on the keyboard. the finer details can be handled after, but feeling around for harmonies and playing around with ideas is 1000% easier to me

- relatedly, it feels super accessible that the microtunings are presented along with their note names/enharmonics and corresponding to familiar terminology (A-G). to be honest i think for anyone even thinking of trying that someday, this is the place to do it

- "space selected events evenly" shortcut. a way to play with time very easily, especially in conjunction with...

- "stretch paste" shortcut to fill a selected area with clipboard

- and the tempo controls, and the dang interpolate function. it's kind of the best thing since pxtone portamento

- 'Random' option in the mod matrix for instruments, as well as pitch modulation (and other fun goodies) with how flexible the generators and automations are. just feels so fluid

This thing is amazing (it got me excited like when furnace first came out) but I have to admit that I am really not used to making music on one big pxtone-style pattern like this.

Jangler, I think osctet would benefit from like, a phrase feature, where you have another tab in the editor where you can make little sequences of columns of notes, and then you can place those sequences in the pattern at any position, so you get the convenience and size benefits of pattern-based trackers, but you don't have to deal with patterns when you don't want to.

please take that into consideration :)

thanks for the feedback! "some type of phrase feature" was definitely present in the initial desiderata i started from, but i was never able to come up with a design that felt worthy of inclusion... the closest i got was "sunvox-style patterns except you place them directly in pattern-space instead of on a separate timeline" but there were too many unanswered UI questions to move forward with it

so i see the value but it probably won't happen in the near-term, between life stuff(tm) and other development priorities

this is the coolest thing ever. and the demo songs are all amazing! i have been having a good time making a little arpeggio song and then listening to it remapped into many edos

Insert marker and "go to marker" shortcuts may mitigate that in the short term if it's mainly a navigational quality of life thing. I think that's how 1tracker handles navigation of parts of a song while keeping it as no patterns

edit: apologies if this is already in there, haven't checked yet

purely spitballing off that suggestion but a combination of "marker #" and "ctrl+# to go to #" would serve a really great navigational purpose while preserving the "no pattern order" setup

all these features are amazing, and some innovative! - but I don't know if we can say some features are missing or hard to find, like importing/exporting .mid, .xm and .txt files... (for example, even counting with some information lost in the process)

this is so damn incredible. also ups and downs notation is the biggest game-changer here IMO--it meshes with the way i want to write so much better than any other microtonal input system out there

nitro, i'm confused about what you mean with import/export of specifically .mid, .xm, and .txt.. specifically, i don't think there's any mandate or essential need for a piece of music software to be interoperable with other software or standards and i'm not sure if the thesis is that lacking interoperability constitutes missing a feature

to be more specific, while i think that .mid import/export might be neat (though half of osctet is the synth engine, so i struggle to see the utility of midi export), something like .xm is so totally different in species that i'm lost on the use case

re: markers - there is currently a reserved "section marker" pattern event in the code, so that could be used for a "go to marker" function if folks feel that would be helpful! i normally just navigate with home/end/scrollbar/alt+scroll

re: notation/input - i agree! after experimenting with a bunch of different approaches using faunatone, "pyth-spine" systems like ups & downs are what i ended up using 100% of the time. imo most other options are pretty "write-only" and don't let you apply the mental tools you've already developed if you're steeped in traditional western music notation

this software sounds awesome based on what ive read so far. though im quite busy lately due to Life, im looking forward to trying this out sometime in the future. ive always wanted to dip my toes (maybe even ankles) into michael tones, and osc tet might just be the thing that allows for it 😏😎🔥😌🤝

This looks really cool (and is strangely motivating me to want to learn trackers as someone who hasn't done much with them yet, even though this is probably an unconventional first choice. It looks really clean and smooth to use) BUT its been giving me lots of lag and stuttery audio during playback

hi mothnog! could you check out github issue #4

and run through the diagnostics i suggested in that thread? if you're not on github it's fine to let me know here or in discord. i would love to solve audio stutter issues but it's been difficult since i can't reproduce them on my own computer

honestly when it comes to newer trackers, I find this one's UI like incredibly simple to understand and get used to versus others and I just want to say a massive congrats on that.

Sometimes the biggest barrier to entry on these new trackers are their UI and understanding how to use them properly, but this one is one of the few where I felt like I could just get going almost immediately and didn't feel lost.

One thing I was wondering, is there any plans in the future to allow people to have like an import/export of interval tables?

It would be really cool to have ways to just export tables and allow people to import them so we can share them easily amongst each other without having to manually input them. If there's a way to do that already though and I missed it I'm sorry!! I'm still getting my hands on it all

the tuning format that can be imported is .scl, which is a text-based format that's probably the most widespread way to share tunings online. i didn't program an export feature because the only tunings you can generate in the tracker are equal-step ones, which can be defined by just the two parameters of {scale period frequency ratio} and {number of steps} - so for those you can just say "17edo" or "9ed3/2" or "13ed3" and it describes the entire tuning, rather than needing to enumerate all the steps

edit: scale export is probably a good idea though! so that you can try out the unequal scales that other folks have imported

Ah okay thank you for that explanation!

I'm still new to the microtuning and scaling world so I didn't even know .scl files existed and can be imported so thank you for that!

Gonna try them out!

I was also thinking it might be cool to store the whole scala file when importing, including title+comments, and display those for informational purposes, since I'm liable to forget which scale I imported! Allowing export would be a plus too!

I like it, thank you!

I tried to run it but I got greeted with application cannot start message, with 0xC0000005 error code.

what OS?

Win7 x64 SP1, which I imagine is the problem and I wouldn't be too unhappy if nothing will be done around it lol.

pretty sure that's the problem! i should provide more detail about supported OS versions on the website

the mistake is using windows 7 in 2025

can it run doom?

@Wegfrei probably tetris or pong
@Da_Flarf actually, whatever version, not only 7! xD

Yea if you've already upgraded to win7 in 2025 I'm not very impressed with your resolve

Hello, I have made a simple file sharing website for osctet modules and instruments!

https://osctethub.agargara.com/

This is awesome. I'm gonna try to learn how to use it and maybe eventually start some BotBing with it!!

it's become one of my daily driving tools! the ease of interpolation is choice

virt having good taste in software

here's hoping he uploads the module

ooh, that explains the unfamiliar names on the issue tracker

Hello. I wasn't going to ask but because this tracker is getting more uce I might as well at least try.
Is there any way where you could think about including accessibility for screen readers within this tracker? at the moment nothing in the tracker can be found, as this is made with a UI toolkit that can not be seen via screen readers. We do have a way to fix some of the issue, but it requires working together on the matter.

hi juan, i'm looking into it but i'll need some input from you - what's the best way for me to get in contact?

@Jangler Hello, thanks so much for looking into it! Really and truely it depends on what you have and what you like to use to talk, for me I like to use voice as I think accessibility is easier to do over voice, but I can do either, with text taking longer due to it not being not as realtime.

I'll post my contacts here as they're public and so that you or any person can contact me on this matter.
Mastodon: @GoemonIshikawa@tweesecake.social
Discord: thechiptunearchiver
Email: thechiparchiver@gmail.com

At the moment I am out of sort, but I'll get back to you as soon as I possibly can!

luigi64, yes i showed it to him cuz i knew he would like it :))) i love the song he madeeee! i have the module i can send it if you dm me on discord!

just an update on this project, roughly 1 year later - i've migrated the projects under my control off github, due to the increasingly AI-centric stance github as a company has been taking over the past few years, so osctet now lives at https://jangle.dev/osctet/

there is also a new version (1.3.0) which includes improvements for ease of use, non-windows OS integration, and building on top of non-osctet audio

unfortunately, i haven't found a working off-github solution for macOS builds yet, so for now any mac users will have to either continue using version 1.2.1 or build from source