'[#[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)

FORMATING (anewuser gone OCD)

Category (what IT SOUNDS LIKE)
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


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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)
  * '[[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)
------ '[[FamiTracker_Effects_Commands]
  * '[[NesTracker] (Windows) (*nsf/*.nest)
  * '[[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/


'[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)


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]
  * '[[NDS BGMFILER] (mml soundriver on the Nintendo Ds ) '[l[http://meraman.dip.jp/index.php?NDS_BGMFILER[link]



'[#[HELPER TOOLS]

  * '[[BoobieSqueezer] (optimizes *.xm files)
  * '[[it2nsf] (converts 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 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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