[HN Gopher] MilkyTracker
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MilkyTracker
Author : creata
Score : 93 points
Date : 2022-11-04 05:51 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (milkytracker.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (milkytracker.org)
| tomduncalf wrote:
| Also of interest might be this 1:1 remake of FastTracker 2:
| https://16-bits.org/ft2.php. I've only played around briefly but
| it was exactly as I remember it!
|
| FT2 was pretty much my intro to making music, it came on a PC
| Format magazine cover CD with a a bunch of XM/MOD files and it
| blew my mind that I could open up these songs and see how they
| were made!
|
| I never got particularly good with it but had some fun making
| tracks with a friend, we later graduated to MadTracker on Windows
| which added some useful things like filters and effects. Buzz was
| the last tracker I used, really awesome modular tracker which
| sadly got mostly abandoned. I am a big fan of Elektron hardware
| which is pretty tracker inspired though!
| dusted wrote:
| I've played around with MT a lot, but I can't do music in any
| program.. But there is this one that shipped with it, Raina -
| Slumberjack, which is just amazingly beautiful:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnrHH_Sy1_k
| bartread wrote:
| I love MilkyTracker for its minimalist Amiga tracker-esque
| experience, but have been frustrated by its instability on macOS.
| You really do have to save your work very frequently in order to
| avoid losing it so I've found myself gravitating towards Renoise,
| even though it's paid and - very recently - Deflemask (I also
| like that it supports SID tracking, which is what I've been
| playing with).
| agentultra wrote:
| As a ReNoise user of many, many years you will not be
| disappointed.
| dave84 wrote:
| Yeah, Milky doesn't work great with a Mac keyboard layout
| either.
| Tepix wrote:
| Are there good browser based trackers (with WASM)?
| sidedishes wrote:
| Bassoon tracker is really well made and fits the bill (though
| not with WASM I believe):
| https://github.com/steffest/BassoonTracker
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| I love a bit of Milkytracker
|
| Here's a wee thing I knocked together very quickly a while back.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G39Eupk72W0
| Ambolia wrote:
| That's an amazing looking website. Best I've seen in years and
| easy to see and reach a lot of information. I wish the internet
| would be more like this.
| tsukurimashou wrote:
| looks like a typical early/mid 2000 website to me (and I agree
| with you)
| julianz wrote:
| On a phone it's a bunch of boxes and the text is too small to
| see, so horses for courses I guess.
| Ambolia wrote:
| Except for a bit small text on the top menu, everything
| else looks good on my phone.
| pencilguin wrote:
| Digging down, it seems to be implemented in antediluvian C++:
| Equalizer::~Equalizer(void) { }
|
| It probably could be cut to half the LOC just by modernizing, and
| get more reliable and faster.
| midislack wrote:
| You can rewrite it in Rust, because we all know Rust has almost
| no original software.
| pencilguin wrote:
| Then nobody would be using the result.
|
| Modernizing, however many users it has would benefit
| immediately.
| sph wrote:
| See also: Renoise, a modern cross-platform DAW/tracker hybrid
|
| https://www.renoise.com/
| rexreed wrote:
| Looks like they let their SSL certificate lapse as of today
| (coincidence!)
| lonk wrote:
| Also checkout psycle with vst support:
| http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/stuff.php?action=docs
| bane wrote:
| Trackers like MilkyTracker, OpenMPT, and Famitracker are trying
| to mostly enable people who use trackers to continue writing
| music for specific formats (and the specific limitations of those
| formats).
|
| There are much more modern trackers as well. As far as I know,
| the absolute state of the art is Renoise. There are some other
| alternatives like SunVOX.
|
| The downside of the modern trackers is that you very much have to
| replay the songs in the tracker themselves, with _all_ of the
| same plugins and settings. The older formats have _lots_ of
| playback targets and tend to be very resource light for a very
| good sound.
| sfuller808 wrote:
| sunvox is great. lots of modules to get funky with. in terms of
| sound it can be as clean or dirty as one needs.
| midislack wrote:
| It's truly great. Trackers are a totally different way of making
| music.
| ghgr wrote:
| MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application
| for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate
| the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program
| Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for
| improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.
|
| https://milkytracker.org/about/
| mrpf1ster wrote:
| If anyone wants to dive into the history of trackers, I highly
| recommend this documentary (and all of his other ones) by Ahoy
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw)
| blowski wrote:
| Also, for those that prefer reading.
| https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/history-of-trac...
|
| I've seen hardware ones being used, though didn't understand
| what they were.
| Caporal wrote:
| What could be the chances of watching the video "Trackers: The
| Sound of 16-Bit" by Ahoy for 15 minutes while browsing HN and
| reading this message by coincidence? I really love what Ahoy is
| doing, it's very well done and full of great information.
| geoffeg wrote:
| Is there a good library of mod/s3m files? The first time I heard
| Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu" was an s3m file that did a really
| good job sounding like the original, I've been looking (very
| casually) for that file for a while now.
| Sembiance wrote:
| Here is the Call of Ktulu S3M:
| http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7499/arcadebbs.zip/arca...
|
| Another 58,644 MOD/S3M/XM files show up in DiscMaster:
| http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?family=music&formatid...
| cricalix wrote:
| I don't know about good, but there's modarchive.org. Pretty
| large and you can listen in the browser to see if you like it.
| I'd also say archive.org probably has some.
| sli wrote:
| Might as well link Deflemask if we're sharing trackers we like.
|
| https://deflemask.net/
| lipid wrote:
| Don't miss out on Furnace, an open source tracker compatible
| with Deflemask modules:
|
| https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace
| davvid wrote:
| If you remember Impulse Tracker (DOS), schismtracker is a
| modern day clone:
|
| https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
| redrobein wrote:
| Also checkout https://github.com/LTVA1/klystrack
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