'[t[b4]Do not add links to pages that are not there yet plz'[/t]

'[#[Overview]

The name tracker comes from the tracker software Ultimate Soundtracker on the Commodore Amiga. A tracker is general term for a type of software used for music sequencing. Tracker’s use sound samples to be placed on a timeline, across multiple monophonic channels. The tracker interface is primarily numeric, notes are entered with the alphanumeric keys of the computer keyboard and parameters and effects entered in hexadecimal. A complete song is several multi-channel patterns chained together by a master list. Tracks (or channels), patterns, orders, samples, notes, effects are several elements common to any tracker program. 
Tracker music is typically stored in so-called module files where the song data and samples are encapsulated in a single file. 
There are also some tracker-like programs that utilize tracker-style sequencing schemes, while using real-time sound synthesis instead of samples. Many of these programs are designed for creating music for a particular synthesizer chip such as the OPL chips of the Adlib and SoundBlaster sound cards, or the sound chips of classic home computers. 

'[#[Elements of a Tracker]

A sample is a small digital sound file of an instrument, voice, or other sound effect. Most trackers allow a part of the sample to be looped, simulating a sustain of a note.

A note designates the frequency at which the sample is played back. By increasing or decreasing the playback speed of a digital sample, the pitch is raised or lowered, simulating instrumental notes (e.g. C, C#, D, etc.).

An effect is a special function applied to a particular note. These effects are then applied during playback through either hardware or software. Common tracker effects include volume, portamento, vibrato, retrigger, and arpeggio.

A track (or channel) is a space where one sample is played back at a time. Tracks have a fixed number of "rows" on which notes and effects can be placed (most trackers lay out tracks in a vertical fashion). Tracks typically contain 64 rows and 16 beats, although the beats and tempo can be increased or decreased to the composer's taste.

A pattern is a group of simultaneously played tracks that represents a full section of the song. A pattern is intended to represent an even number of measures of music composition.

An order is part of a sequence of patterns which defines the layout of a song. Patterns can be repeated across multiple orders to save tracking time and file space.


'[t[b5]List of Trackers'[/t]

'[#[Amiga]
•	'[[AHX Tracker]
•	Audio Sculpture
•	BP Soundmonitor
•	DigiBooster
•	DigiBooster Pro
•	Future Composer
•	'[[HivelyTracker]
•	Noisetracker
•	OctaMED
•	Oktalyzer
•	'[[Protracker]
•	Radium
•	SonicArranger
•	StarTrekker
•	Stonetracker
•	TFMX
•	Ultimate Soundtracker

'[#[Amstrad CPC]
'[t[b1]AY-3-8910'[/t]
•	Advanced Music Creator
•	BooTracker
•	ChaRleyTraCker
•	Equinoxe
•	Noise-Tracker
•	Soundtrakker
•	STarKos
'[t[b1]Digital, sample-based'[/t]
•	Digitracker
•	'[[Protracker]

'[#[Apple IIgs]
•	NoiseTracker GS (not to be confused with the Amiga Noisetracker)
•	SoundSmith

'[#[Archimedes]
•	Coconizer
•	Desktop Tracker
•	Digital Symphony (The most advanced tracker to be released on RISC OS)
•	'[[Protracker] (ported from the Amiga)
•	STracker (Soundtracker - later version of "Tracker")
•	Tracker
•	WIMPTracker

'[#[Atari 8-bit family]
'[t[b1]POKEY'[/t]
•	Avalon Music Composer
•	Black Magic Composer
•	Chaos Music Composer
•	Delta Music Composer
•	Future Composer
•	Music ProTracker
•	Music Tracker
•	Sound Tracker
•	Theta Music Composer
'[t[b1]Digital, sample-based'[/t]
•	Neotracker
•	'[[ProTracker]

'[#[Atari Falcon]
•	ACE Tracker
•	CMM (Crazy Music Machine)
•	DBE Tracker
•	Digital Home Studio
•	Digital Tracker
•	E.P.S.S. (Enhanced Polyphonic Sample Synthesizer)
•	Flex Trax
•	Graoumf Tracker
•	Megatracker
•	Octalyser
•	Paula (8 & 16-Bit MODs)
•	'[[Protracker] (STE version patched)
•	Stormtracker
•	Trakom

'[#[Atari ST & STE]
•	Audio Sculpture
•	DBE Tracker
•	Digicomposer
•	E.P.S.S. (Enhanced Polyphonic Sample Synthesizer - only STE or TT)
•	Equinox Protracker STe
•	Equinox Soundtracker
•	Esion XLI
•	HMS Soundtracker
•	Hypersound Digital
•	'[[MaxYMiser]
•	Madison
•	Noisetracker
•	Octalyser (not to be confused with the Amiga Oktalyzer) - only STE
•	'[[Protracker]
•	Quartet
•	Soundmachine
•	Stormtracker - only STe or TT
•	TCB Tracker
•	X-Protracker (rehacked version of Wizzcats Protracker) - only STE

'[#[BeOS]
•	Sawteeth

'[#[Commodore 64]
•	20CC Music Editor
•	Acid Track Creator
•	Advanced Music Programmer (AMP)
•	Ariston
•	Asterion Sid-Tracker
•	Audio Master
•	Blackline Composer
•	Blahtune A
•	C64 Composer
•	CensorEd
•	CyberLogic Sound Studio
•	CyberTracker
•	Demo Music Creator
•	Digitronix
•	Doubletracker
•	DrumMaker
•	EMS Music Editor
•	Enhanced Sidplayer Editor
•	Future Composer
•	GMC
•	Groovy Bits
•	Hardtrack Composer
•	Iseq
•	Jays Editor
•	JCH Music Editor
•	John Player
•	Light Voices
•	Master Composer
•	Mastercomposer
•	Matt Gray Editor
•	Megasound Music Editor
•	Micro Sound/Electrosound 64
•	Music Assembler
•	Music Composer
•	Music Construction Set
•	Music Maker
•	Music Mixer
•	Music Player
•	Ninjatracker
•	Odin Tracker
•	Parsec Music Editor
•	Playstar
•	Power Music Editor
•	Rob Hubbard Editor
•	Rockmonitor
•	RoMuzak
•	Sadotracker
•	Sid Duzz It
•	SIDwinder
•	Skyline Editor
•	Soede-Editor
•	Soede-Editor Turbo GTI
•	Soft Tune Composer
•	Sosperec
•	Sound Tracker '64
•	SoundBooster
•	Soundmaker
•	Soundmaster
•	Soundmaster II
•	Soundmonitor (MusicMaster)
•	Sync
•	System 6581
•	TFX
•	The Music Shop
•	The Music Studio
•	The Ultimate Editor
•	Timecomposer
•	TPX
•	Track Player
•	Tunesmith B
•	Ubik's Musik
•	Voicemonitor
•	Voicetracker
•	WE Music Sound Editor
•	X-Tracker

'[#[MS-DOS]
•	AST for AWE32/64
•	Composer 669
•	Digitrakker
•	Fast Tracker
•	'[[FastTracker II]
•	Farandole Composer
•	Imago Orpheus
•	'[[Impulse Tracker]
•	Liquid Tracker
•	ModEdit (3 versions, very popular pre-'[[FastTracker II] mod/xm tracker)
•	MultiTracker
•	PolyTracker
•	RealTracker
•	Scream Tracker
•	'[[Scream Tracker 3]
•	Ultra Tracker
•	Velvet Studio
•	X-Tracker
'[t[b1]OPL2/3 (FM)'[/t]
Trackers which uses FM synth sound chips of Adlib and Sound Blaster sound cards.
•	Adlib Tracker
•	'[[Adlib Tracker II]
•	'[[AMusic v1.12]
•	BoomTracker
•	Composer 667
•	DeFy Adlib Tracker
•	Edlib
•	'[[Faust Music Creator]
•	HSC Adlib Composer, HSC-Tracker
•	Mlat Adlib Tracker
•	'[[Reality Adlib Tracker]
•	Surprise! Adlib Tracker
•	XMS-Tracker

'[#[FreeBSD]
•	ChibiTracker
•	CheeseTracker
•	'[[MilkyTracker]
        '[[Schism Tracker]


'[#[Game Boy / color]
•	Blackbox musicbox
•	Carillon
•	'[[LSDj]
•	Nanoloop 1.x
        '[[Fatass Tracker]

'[#[Game Boy Advance]
•             M4G Tracker
             '[[Furious Advance Tracker]
             Ditty Editor
             Nanoloop 2.x

'[#[GP2X]
•	'[[LittleGPTracker]
•	'[[MilkyTracker]

'[#[GP32]
•	'[[LittleGPTracker]

'[#[Linux]
•	Aldrin
•	CheeseTracker
•	ChibiTracker
•	Frinika
•	KMidiTracker (A '[[midi] tracker)
•	'[[MilkyTracker]
•	'[[ModPlug Tracker] (with WINE)
•	Psytexx (≤ v1.8 is a mod tracker while v2 (currently alpha) is an XM
•	Radium
•	'[[Renoise]
•	'[[Schism Tracker]
•	Skale Tracker
•	SoundTracker, Linux (not to be confused with the AmiganSoundtracker)

'[#[Mac OS Classic]
•	MacMod Pro
•	PlayerPRO (Open source; development discontinued)
•	Sound Trekker (Latest version 2.2; development discontinued)

'[#[Mac OS X]
•	CheeseTracker
•	ChibiTracker
	'[[DefleMask+Tracker]
•	'[[MilkyTracker]
•	PlayerPRO (Open source version ; no longer being developed)
•	'[[Renoise]
•	'[[Schism Tracker]
•	'[[Sunvox]

'[#[MSX]
•	FAC Soundtracker
•	KousTracker
•	Meridian
•	MoonBlaster
•	Oracle
•	'[[Protracker]
•	PSG Tracker
•	SCC Blaffer 1.0
•	SCC Blaffer NT
•	SCC Musixx
•	Studio FM
•	TwoFun
•	XelaSoft MODedit

'[#[Nintendo DS]
•	'[[NitroTracker] (a FastTracker II style homebrew tracker)
•	BlipTracker (a drum-machine in tracker style. homebrew)

'[#[Nintendo NES]
•	'[[NTRQ] (a native tracker for the NES)

'[#[Palm OS]
•	Psytexx (≤ v1.8 is a mod tracker while v2 (currently alpha) is an XM tracker)
•	'[[Sunvox]

'[#[Play Station Portable]
•	'[[PSPseq]
•	Rhythm

'[#[PocketPC]
•	'[[MilkyTracker]
•	Syntrax

'[#[SAM Coupé]
•	E-Tracker
•	'[[ProTracker[ProTracker 2]

'[#[Solaris]
•	'[[MilkyTracker]

'[#[Symbian S60]
•	Mobi Tracker
•	Syntrax

'[#[VIC-20]
•	Fisichella
•	Victracker

'[#[Windows]
•	Aodix
•	Axs
•	BeRoTracker
•	Boyscout
•	'[[Buzz]
•	Buzé (a viable remake of Buzz)
•	ChibiTracker
	'[[DefleMask+Tracker]
•	Digitrakker
•	Dream Station (with integrated good synthetizer,FX, automation...).
•	Dream Station 2 (now supports VST, Dxi and has optional Piano Roll editing)
•	Frinika (Also for Linux and Mac)
•	Graoumf Tracker 2
•	'[[LittleGPTracker]
•	MadTracker
•	MED Sound Studio (Formerly OctaMED, ported from Amiga)
•	MIDI XG Tracker
•	Midget
•	'[[MilkyTracker]
•	'[[ModPlug Tracker]
•	Nakalyne
•	'[[NerdTracker II] (port of the DOS version)
•	'[[NesTracker] ('[[2a03 (soundchip)[2a03] tracker)
•	NoiseTrekker, windows (not to be confused with the Amiga Noisetracker)
•	Psycle is a free audio software tracker combined with modular capabilities
•	Psytexx (≤ v1.8 is a mod tracker while v2 (currently alpha) is an XM
•	Raster Tracker
•	'[[Renoise] (A commercial tracker, can host VST/VSTi)
•	reViSiT (A plugin VSTi tracker)
•	'[[Schism Tracker]
•	Skale Tracker
•	SVArTracker (A modular software studio, can host VST/VSTi, DX plugins)
•	Synder (with integrated synth)
•	SunVox (modular synth with tracker interface)
•	VioLet Composer (free software)
•	Ztracker

'[#[Windows Smartphone]
•	'[[MilkyTracker]
•	Tokotracker

'[#[ZX Spectrum]
•	Sample Tracker (digital)
•	Soundtracker
•	SQ Tracker

'[#[ZX Spectrum + TR-DOS]
'[t[b1]For AY-3-8910 sound chip'[/t]
•	ASC Sound Master (ASC, ASM, Advanced Sound Master)
•	Cacofony Pro System
•	Fast Tracker
•	Global Tracker
•	Minimal Tracker
•	Pro Sound Creator (PSC)
•	Pro Sound Maker (PSM)
•	Pro Tracker (v1.x, v2.x, v3.x)
•	Sound Tracker
•	Sound Tracker Pro (STP)
•	SQ Tracker
•	Turbo Sound Editor (TSE, for 2xAY)

'[#[Digital, sample-based]
•	Chip Tracker
•	Digital Designer
•	Digital Music Maker (DMM)
•	Digital Studio
•	Digital Wave
•	Excellent Tracker
•	Extreme Tracker
•	Flash Tracker (v2.x)
•	Global Digital Music Editor (GDE)
•	Prodigi Editor (Professional Digital Editor)
•	RIFF Tracker
•	SQ Tracker (same name with not related AY-3-8910 tracker)
•	Sample Tracker
•	Sampler
•	UltraSonic
•	Whistle Tracker

'[#[Cross-platform trackers]
Allows to create music for one system on another. Usually uses emulation to produce sound, some of trackers also can use real sound chips connected to host system.
'[t[b1]Amiga'[/t]
•	'[[GoatTracker] ('[[SID (soundchip)[SID] sound chip, '[[Commodore 64])
'[t[b1]MS-DOS'[/t]
•	'[[NerdTracker II] (2A03 soundchip, Nintendo Entertainment System)
'[t[b1]Linux'[/t]
•	'[[GoatTracker] ('[[SID (soundchip)[SID] sound chip, '[[Commodore 64])
'[t[b1]Mac OS X'[/t]
•	'[[GoatTracker] ('[[SID (soundchip)[SID] sound chip, '[[Commodore 64])
'[t[b1]Windows'[/t]
•	'[[FamiTracker] (2A03 sound chip, Nintendo Entertainment System)
•	'[[GoatTracker] ('[[SID (soundchip)[SID] sound chip, '[[Commodore 64])
•	'[[Mod2PSG2] (SN76489 sound chip, Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System)
•	MVSTracker (Neo Geo FM synth)
•	MVSTracker MD (modified for Sega Mega Drive sound chips)
•	NeoTracker (Neo Geo Pocket Color sound chip)
•	Paragon Five Tracker ('[[Game Boy] sound chip)
•	'[[Raster Music Tracker] (POKEY sound chip, '[[Atari] XE/XL)
•	'[[TFM Music Maker] (2xYM2203 sound chips, compatible with YM2612, ZX Spectrum with TurboSound FM device and Sega Mega Drive)
•	'[[Vortex Tracker II] (AY-3-8910 sound chip, ZX Spectrum)

'[#[See Also]
'[[List of Trackers]
'[[Chip Music]

referencing to:
- '[[2a03 (soundchip)]