FastTracker 2 was started in June 1993 by Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl.
Their ambition was to write a music program that could set a new standard in the 'confused PC-scene'. They found there were too many programs out there, all with a new module format, and wrote FT2 so that it could last for a few years, except from hardware updates.

'[t[b3]FastTracker II Clones'[/t]
- '[[MilkyTracker]
- Skale Tracker

'[t[b3]Similar Trackers'[/t]
- '[[Famitracker] - similar effects, earlier versions had same keyboard commands
- '[[Renoise] - allows importing of .xm and .xi data but not exporting

'[#[Capabilities]
It is a sample based tracker for '[[DOS]. Being inspired by '[[ProTracker] for Amiga it uses a superset of it's effect commands: '[[FastTrackerII Effects Commands].

'[#[Quick set up]
Download here: '[lhttps://files.scene.org/view/resources/music/trackers/ft209.zip[FastTracker II donload] (this is not a link to a .zip file; you have to choose a location)

'[t[b3] Composing '[/t]
FastTracker II has good documentation. Open it in an office document editor, like Writer or Word to get the right mark-up.

'[[FastTrackerII Effects Commands]

'[#[Links for further development]
There is no development anymore, '[l[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13350[pouet for historic conservation]

'[#[See also]
- '[[Tracker]
- '[[List of Trackers]
- '[[s3xmodit (format)]