'[#[WHAT IS A TRACKER?]
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)

SUGGESTED FORMATING (anewuser gone OCD)

Category (what IT SOUNDS LIKE)
MUSIC TOOL (botb reference, that's is internal reference) (where does it run) (*.FORMAT) URL

TODOS (current state = on diapers)
*add up-to-date tracker's effect commands

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'[#[TRACKERS]

'[t[b2]'[[Adlib (OPL)]'[/t]
  * '[[Adlib Tracker II] (Windows, DOS) (*.a2m) '[l[http://www.adlibtracker.net/[link]
  * '[[AMusic v1.12] (*.amd)
  * '[[Reality Adlib Tracker] (DOS) (*.rad) '[l[http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=48994[link]


'[t[b2]'[[Atari ST]'[/t]
  * '[[maxYMiser] (Atari ST) (*.snd ) '[l[http://www.preromanbritain.com/maxymiser/[link] 
  * '[[Vortex Tracker II] (Windows) (*.snd, *.sndh ) '[l[http://bulba.untergrund.net/vortex_e.htm[link]


'[t[b2]'[[Atari XE/LE]'[/t]
  * '[[Raster Music Tracker] (Windows) (*.sap) '[l[http://raster.infos.cz/atari/rmt/rmt.htm[link]


'[t[b2]'[[Commodore 64]'[/t]
  * '[[DMC] (*.sid)
  * '[[GoatTracker] (C64, Windows, Linux) (*.sid) '[l[http://covertbitops.c64.org/[link]


'[t[b2]'[[GameBoy]'[/t]
  * '[[BoyScout] (Windows) (*.bgf) '[l[http://www.pidelipom.com/boyscout/download.asp[link]
  * '[[Carillon editor] (GB, DS) (*.sav) '[l[http://www.cncd.fi[link]
  * '[[LSDJ] (GB, DS) (*.sav) '[l[http://www.littlesounddj.com/[link]
  * '[[Nanoloop] (GB, DS) (*.sav) *sound editor and sequencer*  '[l[http://www.nanoloop.de/[link]
  * '[[Paragon5] (Windows) (*.mgb)


'[t[b2]'[[LittleGPTracker]'[/t] (GP2x, PSP, Windows, Mac OSX, Debian) (*.sav)  '[l[http://www.littlegptracker.com/[link]


 '[t[b2]'[[Modules]'[/t] (most used filetypes) (*.s3m, *.xm, *.mod, *.it)
  * '[[ChibiTracker] (Windows) (*.it) '[l[http://chibitracker.berlios.de/[link]
  * '[[FastTracker II] (DOS) (*.xm) '[l[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13350[link]*
       ------ '[[FastTrackerII_Effects_Commands]
  * '[[ImpulseTracker] (DOS) (*.it) '[l[http://www.users.on.net/~jtlim/ImpulseTracker/[link]
         ------ '[[ImpulseTracker_Effects_Commands]
  * '[[MilkyTracker] (Multi-platform) (*.xm) '[l[http://www.milkytracker.net/[link]
  * '[[MODPlug Tracker] (Windows) (*.s3m, *.xm, *.mod, *.it) '[l[http://www.modplug.com/trackerinfo.html[link]
  * '[[NitroTracker] (DS) (*.xm) '[l[http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/[link]
  * '[[SchismTracker] (Multi-platform) (*.it) '[l[http://www.nimh.org/schismtracker/[link]


'[t[b2]'[[NES] '[[Famicom]'[/t] 
  * '[[FamiTracker] (Windows) (*.nsf/*.ftm) '[l[http://famitracker.shoodot.net/[link] 
------ '[[FamiTracker_Effects_Commands]
  * '[[NesTracker] (Windows) (*.nest) '[l[http://www.ianstocker.com/nestracker/[link]
  * '[[NerdTracker II] (DOS/WINDOWS)(*.ned) *you need to compile to .nsf * '[l[http://nesdev.parodius.com/nt2/[link]
 *** '[[NTRQ] (Nes) (*.???) '[l[http://blog.ntrq.net/[link]


'[t[b2]'[[Sinclair ZX Spectrum]'[/t]
  * '[[TFM Music Maker] (*.vgm, OPL2 FM expansion chip)
  * '[[Vortex Tracker] (Windows) (*.ay)


'[t[b2]'[[SEGA Master System]'[/t]
  * '[[MOD2PSG2] (Windows) (*.vgm) '[l[http://www.kontechs.de/product?name=mod2psg[link]


'[t[b2]'[[VIC 20]'[/t] 
  * '[[VIC-TRACKER 2.0] (Vic-20) (*.vt) '[l[http://www.kahlin.net/daniel/victracker/[link]


 '[#[OTHER MUSIC CREATORS]

 '[t[b2]'[[Channel F]'[/t]
  * '[[Sleizsa] (Windows) (*.bin, *.prg) '[l[http://average.truechiptilldeath.com/channelf/[link]


DS (to be changed later)
  * '[t[b2]'[[KORG-10 DS]'[/t] (DS) (*.???) *nintendo ds synthesizer*
  * '[t[b2]'[[ProteinDS]'[/t] (DS) (*.sav) (scratch sounds) '[l[http://gorgull.googlepages.com/home2[link]  
  * '[t[b2]'[[Seno DS]'[/t] (DS) (*.wav) (live sequencer) '[l[http://senods.blogspot.com[link]


'[t[b2]'[[Mario Paint]'[/t]
  * '[[Mario Paint Composer DS] (DS) (*.mpc) '[l[http://nds-zone.com/bassacegold/?cat=6[link] 
  * '[[Mario Sequencer] (Windows)(*.msq) '[l[http://778.jugem.jp/?eid=93[link] 


 '[t[b2]'[[Script based/MML-like]'[/t]
  * '[[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) '[l[http://www.nullsleep.com/treasure/mck_guide/[link]
  * '[[PPMCK] (Windows) (*.nsf) (compiler) '[l[http://takamatsu.cool.ne.jp/dutycycle/ppmck.html[link]
  * '[[XPMCK] (Windows) (*.nsf, *.sgc, *.sid, *.gbs, *.vgz, *.kss) (compiler) '[l[http://jiggawatt.org/muzak/xpmck[link]


'[#[HELPER TOOLS]

  * '[[BoobieSqueezer] (optimize *.xm files)
  * '[[it2nsf] (convert from *.it to *.nsf)
  * '[[lsd-manager] (Java) (manage and save LSDJ tracks into *.sav and *.lsdsng) '[l[http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/latest/lsd-manager/[link]
  * '[[Mumml] (Windows) (it supports the MML compiling) '[l[http://www.studio293.at.infoseek.co.jp[link]
  * '[[NDS BGMFILER] (midi / mml player application) '[l[http://meraman.dip.jp/index.php?NDS_BGMFILER[link]
  * '[[OpenSPC] (convert from *.spc to *.it)
  * '[[s3m2nsf] (convert from *.s3m to *.nsf)
  * '[[ShroomTool] (*.sho) (Mario Paint song data extractor)
  
  
  
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