::|CONTENTS
- Capabilities
- Quick set up
- Links for further development
- See also
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.
FastTracker II Clones
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MilkyTracker
- Skale Tracker
Similar Trackers
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Famitracker - similar effects, earlier versions had same keyboard commands
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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: (this is not a link to a .zip file; you have to choose a location)
Composing
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,
pouet for historic conservation
See also
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Tracker
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List of Trackers
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s3xmodit (format)