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- Engines Supported
- See Also
1tracker is a multiplatform music tracker for creating tunes for ZX Spectrum's beeper. Just as
Beepola, it features .tap/.asm exporting, as well as a pretty decent range of beeper engines, only this time, you don't get to manipulate just two channels with an extra one for drums - that's because the whole bunch of supported engine contains from three up to nine (!) channels!
One of the major downsides of this tracker, on the other hand, is that the resulting track is gonna be a one huge pattern, which adds to the final track size and somewhat deduces from the overall usability. This, and the fact that there's no mouse controls at all. Still, there's no better
With some ASM knowledge, it's also possible for 1tracker to support beeper engines it didn't even originally had!
See
zxbeep (format) for more info on what the hell is all about.
Engines Supported
"First-party" (i. e. added by Shiru)
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Earth Shaker - a zxbeep engine made right when the commercial era of ZX Spectrum was about to fade out, i. e. 1990.
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Lyndon Sharp 2ch - only one year older than the above, this one produces quite an obvious (and loud) "poppy" sound. The drum samples sound pretty powerful, too.
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Tim Follin 3ch - used for the man's older works, such as Vectron. If you wanna pull off a Chronos, Raw Recruit or Agent X - this one's not for you. Oh, and it doesn't feature any drums, sadly.
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Octode - the biggest ass amount of channels on a 1-bit speaker since ZX-7, which is: eight (!) channels of tone with one drum channel. ZX-7 had all that without the drums, so that's a relief, I guess. :D
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Huby - the tiniest zxbeep engine alive, less than 100 bytes in size! Make sure you don't squish it.
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POWW - an experimental beeper engine by irrlicht project, which has roughly the same functionality as Earth Shaker - albeit with different sounds.
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ZX-10 - a Slovakian bastardization of ZX-7 from 1989 which scorches half of the channels (just to remind you, there were eight of these before) and still doesn't add drums. ._.
So far, none of the above have instrument support. ,_,
"Third-party"
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Electric Duet by krue - used to make 1-bit music on Apple II computers, features just two channels of tone.
See Also
A thread on the 1-bit Music Forum on how to properly port 1tracker on UNIX systems.
