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And then step it up a notch
Back in the early days I was a beta-tester for Mac Tracker called PlayerPro and knowing it was used by ApexTwin makes me kinda happy.
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In the 90s I was an Atari guy. The trackers were not really of importance on Ataris and moreover I had access to a studio with synths and drum machines back then. So I somehow missed the trackers. Anyway, being used to work with piano rolls in Cubase made IT unattractive to work with trackers, although I always envied the easy sampling. Great stuff.
I started things in Scream Tracker which eventually became Impulse Tracker - took a side road through Jeskola Buzz Tracker (modular!) before coming back to Impulse which was renamed Schism Tracker - long story short, love my trackers
the workflow really helped when I started using Maschine too
I'm jumping between Renoise, SunVox & LogicPro when using my Mac
And well, I have GoatTracker & SidPlayer when I need them SID Sounds...
It may be a little bit off topic because this is not from an Amiga tracker but it was made with FastTracker2 on a PC. I made it back in 1997 I think. I used a Boss DR660 for the drumsounds and FOR the delay i used a Roland GP8 guitar effect processor.
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/pRZ37xfrJf4nmQU99
Trackers started out for me as a game dev tool in the 80s. It was funny to see them escape the lab and get things like midi support.
I've decided to revive this thread as I was recommended the top video above after JWM posted about 'the old days on Atari STs' a few weeks ago...
The alternative to the ST was the (mighty) Amiga, with much better internal 4 channel sound.
This weekend I worked against the clock on my wife's macbook to get FS-UAE (with kickstart 2.05 and workbench 2 emulating an Amiga600) running Protracker 2.3f as shown above. I then imported some MOD files, and played both the full songs and the individual samples.
At this point its worth remembering the quote "we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they'd be easy".
I thought it would be easy to just record audio on a macbook to get the samples for future 90s goodness recreated in Cubasis.
However, Apple doesn't allow recording of system audio (in Mojave) because Apple.
So I used OBS studio and a 3rd party tool to redirect system audio and recorded an mp4 file.
I then airdropped the mp4 back to my iPad just before my wife demanded her macbook back, separated the audio from the video, used Audio Trimmer to create individual sample wav files, then loaded them into AudioLayer :-)
I don't think I ever attain the heights of tunes like 'Space Debris' from 1991 below, but its been an enlightening and inspiring adventure to see how teenagers in the early 90s made music by typing in hexadecimal!
https://youtu.be/thnXzUFJnfQ
Finally, if you want to play Tracker music directly on your iPad, you can, with an app called 4Champ.
This also works with later formats like S3m.
Here's another great video on Tracker history:
https://youtu.be/roBkg-iPrbw
That Space Debris track is a master class in tracking skill. At various times I had STs and Amigas, (and C64s, and Spectrums, and Mac II CXs… even a Pet at one point). I did most of my early noodling with Steinbergs’ first ever hardware/software package, the Pro 16, on C64, driving an ever changing rosta of hardware which included things like a Casio C1000 and a Sequential Six Trak, as featured in this vid. It was a great fit for the Pro 16, being one of the first multi timbral synths. (Wish I’d kept it!)
Then I went the ST route, using MIDI again. Meant I missed the whole mod scene. I never had the patience or skill for trackers. It was truly impressive what people pulled off with such limited gear back in the day.