BlazerCaravan makes music!

[BlazerCaravan]

Interesting. I just watched a video on youtube of somebody making music using a tracker. It seems very tedious. Seems like it would take a long time to make a song using a tracker, I bet not a lot of people use them unless that is primarily what they know.

I am interested in how they work, maybe I'll fool around with one some time.

Chiptunes use trackers (look up LSDJ, which is literally a tracker on a Game Boy cart); primarily, the craft came from the Amiga and Atari ST games of the 80's and 90's. They used a format called Module (.MOD), which allows for a lot of music, with more realistic sounds than chips could provide at the time (since MODs are sampler-based), but keep the file size small. Like computer demos (demoscene), they are a cul-de-sac of tech geek culture, where the effort is its own reward.

A lot of great electronic acts of the 90's and 2000's started out by making tracker music. Moby, Daft Punk, etc. It absolutely is tedious, but you have a TON of control over an interesting instrument.

 

[PDXFonz]

Little sound DJ?

Is there a tracker that works with windows that you could recommend?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

New junk track: Revenge of Jazzy Jeff.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Little sound DJ?

Is there a tracker that works with windows that you could recommend?

FastTracker, or ImpulseTracker... I don't have a ton of experience with either, but they were the popular ones back in the day.