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Vivid Patterns/ Tracker AUv3 Midi tracker
https://www.facebook.com/vividsynths/
@Samu this one I think might be up your street, More App Store cards needed !
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Here come the ‘ugly UI’ comments.
@Jumpercollins A 'tracker' needs proper keyboard input to be honest and doesn't translate that well to touch-screens...
After the pre-order of Bleass Reverb drops I'll have $47 store credits left or something like that
Agreed. The reason why I barely actually produce anything on iOS or Android version of Sunvox.
Although SidTracker is more user-friendly. iYM2151 was the worst (although I do miss it on my device
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You guys talkin’ MIDI or QWERTY?
QWERTY keyboard, used to playing 2+ octaves using 4 rows of keys and using the arrows to add rests.
(That's just an example of note-layout).
Trackers were before my digital music time, so I have zero nostalgia for them. But I have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to make music in such an unappealing environment.
However! The track the guy makes with Model D and MV08 is pretty damn fluid and groovy....
I barely used them (a bit of Protractor and OctaMED on the Amiga), but they are useful for precise edits, and when you're familiar with the terms they can be very fast to work in, as you're typing instead of mousing (as @Samu said, they really doesn't make sense without an ASCII keyboard). Also, there's typically a lot of shortcuts available for setting parameters, interpolating parameters, etc.
A lot of Drum & Bass / Breakcore producers used trackers (e.g. this guy and this guy) as creating those ultrafast edits by typing is a lot quicker and more precise than trying to mouse things around.
Just a fun fact, I was deeply involved with the development of the PlayerPro Tracker for the Mac in the early days. My name rolls in the Credits in the last public release (PP5.3).
Also did heavy beta-testing for the first Mac release of Renoise
So yeah, the influence of Trackers is there in most stuff the is considered ‘advanced’ today.
I mean not even the original Fairlight offered a way to trigger the samples with alternate start point, that came from the ProTracker and later the E-MU and Akai samplers all thanks to the classic 9xx (Sample Offset) tracker command...
If it wasn’t for trackers we’d never have stuff like the Digitakt which is heavily influenced by trackers but with knobs on top
(For example the ‘sample lock’ feature in trackerspeak is the first number after the note which is used to select the instrument to used for the note).
Back to OT, Sorry...
I’m fascinated by Trackers but have little to no experience with them.
Can anyone point me to some sort of idiots guide/manual to get to grips with them ?
Thanks.
They're pretty easy to figure out. Just get one of the "classics", like FastTracker 2 to get a good feel for the core concepts of Mod Tracking. Back in the golden days of tracking there were no guides or youtube tutorials, so people just learned them by diving in. I suppose that's still the best way to learn a basic tracker (not talking about modern, fancy modular reinterpretations of trackers, but about the oldschool mod editors)
In case anyone's interested here are some Mac/Win/Linux ports of the 'classics' Trackers (PT & FT2)
https://16-bits.org/pt.php
https://16-bits.org/ft2.php
Other more 'modern' trackers are Renoise, MilkyTracker and SunVox.
Here's another modern tracker that looks interesting (never used):
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
Not a big fan of Trackers, but I am looking forward to SunVox AU as that's so much more.
So that's chromatic with an added H
Lol, I’ve always used B in trackers and got confused by H at first before I dug into why some use B and some use H
(The picture was a screensnap i found on Google).
LSDJ is an awesome tracker to get started. (Gameboy, but you can use it with emulators)
Or Snibbetracker (on desktop and iOS)
That is totally fascinating. I'm completely blown away by how music genres are dependent on weird technologies and how musicians abuse them. I would love to see a Trackers Discography!
And @samu, screenshot that sh*t! So cool to be a part of this history! Very impressed — and not at all surprised.
PS: Not even kidding about the Trackers Discography. I love this idea.
If you've got the time to watch this will give to a bit of deeper insights on trackers and especially the original ProTracker
The Aphex Twin did at least one track on a tracker. There's a video of it running somewhere.
This one?
Early Infected Mushroom tracks were done with ImpulseTracker
Speechless! 👏
Octamed was my first ever music software purchase, for an Amiga 500+. Loved it.
This one still gives me chills
@Samu is the Tracker Sage
Didn't know about the Infected Mushroom info. That was quite unexpected.
Whatever happened with this? Is there any tracker AUv3s? I see vividtracker on the App Store but I don’t believe it supports AUv3. I don’t see vividpatterns. Was it ever released?
SunVox is the only tracker I know that can be used as an AUv3…
What about Sinusoid?