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'[#[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. Trackers 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]
'[#[Game Boy]
Blackbox musicbox
Carillon
'[[LSDj]
Nanoloop
'[#[GP2X]
'[[LittleGPTracker]
'[[MilkyTracker]
'[#[GP32]
'[[LittleGPTracker]
'[#[Linux]
Aldrin
CheeseTracker
ChibiTracker
Frinika
KMidiTracker (A '[[midi] tracker)
'[[MilkyTracker]
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
'[[MilkyTracker]
PlayerPRO (Open source version ; no longer being developed)
'[[Renoise]
'[[Schism Tracker]
'[#[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)
'[#[Palm OS]
Psytexx (≤ v1.8 is a mod tracker while v2 (currently alpha) is an XM tracker)
'[#[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
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)
SynVox (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)]
