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h8tracker is pretty unknown.
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I'll throw in Jeskola Buzz
http://www.BuzzMachines.com
The price is right and I love the modular interface, I just wish there was a piano roll (although the step sequencer isn't that bad.)
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After resisting trackers for a while, I downloaded Psycle, and have been pretty impressed. Actually, the native synths sound very good, and after complaining about it for years, I'm starting to like the tracker interface. No carpal tunneling from holding down the mouse button and trying to draw notes. Like all free stuff, there are some limitations, but it does what it does pretty well and is still being developed.

I downloaded Buzz and, after having an initial bit of fun with it, it keeps crashing as soon as I load it. It seems very unstable. Lots and lots of stuff to play with though. From what I've read, the source code was lost. It would be nice if someone could pick it up and fix it, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen.
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I didn't know that about Buzz's source. That's really too bad (glad I back my stuff up.) As far as the stability, I agree. I had to run it in Windows NT 4.0 compatibility mode (I'm using XP)
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goldbaker wrote:After resisting trackers for a while, I downloaded Psycle, and have been pretty impressed. Actually, the native synths sound very good, and after complaining about it for years, I'm starting to like the tracker interface. No carpal tunneling from holding down the mouse button and trying to draw notes. Like all free stuff, there are some limitations, but it does what it does pretty well and is still being developed.

I downloaded Buzz and, after having an initial bit of fun with it, it keeps crashing as soon as I load it. It seems very unstable. Lots and lots of stuff to play with though. From what I've read, the source code was lost. It would be nice if someone could pick it up and fix it, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen.
If you are interested in trackers, I would reccomend that you give renoise a whirl. The best of them at the mo IMO.

http://www.renoise.com/?cat=1005
Last edited by 4tune on Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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goldbaker wrote:From what I've read, the source code was lost. It would be nice if someone could pick it up and fix it, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen.
http://buzzle.spr.at/ :harp: ___BUZZle
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Psycle is great.
Like Goldbaker said it has lots of good synths built in,and plenty usefull effects too.
The stability seems good too wich IMO puts it above Buzz.
Very low cpu if you use the internal generators.
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Allofrdrab:

Thanks for the link. It looks like buzzle's not done yet? Have you tried it? Looks interesting.
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Downloading BuzzLE now.I'll have to test it out later.
Perhaps Buzz is'nt finished after all.Looks like a nice rewrite of Buzz.
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dougsyo wrote:Is Jazz++ a host now? It wasn't last time I used it (which was a while ago, I admit).
Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer, but it's a long way from a full-up host. It was open-sourced a while back but as best I can tell there hasn't been any real work done on it for a long time.

I used it for a while, driving a GM keyboard that I recorded into my old Fostex 4-track, but have since moved on to "bigger and better" things. It definitely had some neat capabilities, especially the "random rhythm generator".

DaveL
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some lesser known trackers:

Freeware/Open Source Trackers
Windows/DOS -
AXS:
http://www.resolutionaudio.nl/
Boyscout (Emulates GameBoy Advance)
http://www.pidelipom.com/boyscout/
Buzz:
http://www.buzzmachines.com/
http://www.jeskola.net/
http://www.noolmusic.com/
http://www.buzzchurch.com/
http://avdl1064.oli.tudelft.nl/buzzmanual/
http://go.to/buzzfaq
BUZZle:
http://www.buzzle.de/
http://buzzle.spr.at/
Buzztard:
http://www.buzztard.org
DigiTracker:
http://www.prodatron.net/digitrak.htm
Evolutif:
http://evolutif.sourceforge.net/
Graoumf Tracker 2:
http://graoumftracker2.sourceforge.net/
haLFO MMS:
http://www.halfo.com/
Hapax SeqCon:
http://hapax84.free.fr/
Impulse Tracker:
http://www.lim.com.au/ImpulseTracker/
ModPlug Tracker:
http://www.modplug.com/
ModPlug Tracker:
http://pweb.jps.net/~olivierl/
MoonFish:
http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/moonfish.shtml
protracker:
http://www.protracker.info/
RMT - Raster Music Tracker (Atari XE/XL):
http://raster.infos.cz/atari/rmt/rmt.htm
VenumTwist (& Linux):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/venomtwist/
VioLet Composer:
http://buzz-like.sourceforge.net/
xtracker32:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/samw/tracker.php
ztracker:
http://ztracker.sourceforge.net/
Windows Smartphones -
Tokotracker (and more):
http://www.cyanwerks.com/
Palm OS -
PsyTexx:
http://www.warmplace.ru/
Mac -
Schism Tracker (Mac/Linux/FreeBSD):
http://rigelseven.com/schism/
http://nimh.org/
Soundtracker:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/samw/tracker.php
Linux -
Seq24:
http://www.filter24.org/seq24/
Amstrad -
Starkos Tracker:
http://starkos.cpcscene.com/
Atari -
Ace Tracker:
http://newbeat.atari.org/
maxYMiser:
http://preromanbritain.com/maxymiser/
TCB Tracker:
http://home.earthlink.net/~chhome/tcbtracker.html
Various:
http://marcer.dyndns.org/
http://www.atari.st/
http://webplaza.pt.lu/public/gklares/Software.html
http://www.dhs.nu/
http://www.geocities.com/atari_mnx/
http://www.matucana.de/frame_e.html
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriang ... atari.html
http://www.atari.org/
http://users.skynet.be/P-RT/PARADISE/IN ... chor591142
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/electronic ... wnet.shtml
http://tamw.atari-users.net/index.htm
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/atari/Music/
http://www.plontke.de/HaraldPlontke/index.html
http://launchpad.atari.net.nz/index.html
ColecoVision-
CVDrum:
http://cvdrum.atariage.com/
Commodore Vic-20 -
Vic Tracker:
http://www.kahlin.net/daniel/victracker/
Commodore 64 -
Various:
http://www.classicgaming.com/area64/index.htm
http://www.lemon64.com/
http://covertbitops.c64.org/
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~loorni/
http://gallium.prg.dtu.dk/anyware/
http://arnold.c64.org/
GameBoy -
BlackBox:
http://blackbox.resource.cx/
Little Sound DJ:
http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/
Nanoloop:
http://www.nanoloop.de/
Nintendo-
Elecktroplankton:
http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid ... 0899e8a1a8
Sega -
MOD2PSG2:
http://mod2psg.kontechs.de/
Sony PSP -
PSP Rythmn:
http://www.psprhythm.com/
PSP Kick:
http://pspkick.com/
Spectrum -
Vortex Tracker II:
http://bulba.at.kz/vortex_e.htm
Various -
http://qotile.net/

Shareware
Windows -
DarkWave Studio:
http://www.experimentalscene.com/
nerdtracker ii (Giftware) - PSG:
http://nesdev.parodius.com/nt2/
SVAr Tracker:
http://www.svarsoft.com/

Commercial Trackers
Windows -
MidiXGTracker:
http://divideconcept.net/
Med SoundStudio:
http://medsoundstudio.com
MilkyTracker:
http://www.milkytracker.net/
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http://www.ssw.co.jp/products/ssw/
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Kriminal wrote:
CC4 wrote:

Quartz Product Line:
http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/
dont know what its like now (although i still have the old free version) but it was quite good MIDI/Audio seq way back, 2000-ish. First thing i tried on a PC.
The current version looks pretty interesting..
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Jens, "B.t.w.: it appears I was wrong"
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Modplug tracker... and i'm hoping to be able to make a VST version of modplug tracker.... a vst that is a host tracker, sample/instrument editor, wav/mp3 renderer etc.... I love the hex based tracker... it's so great for crazy experiments... peace, (i've used gungirl... it's pretty simple, but GREAT!!!)
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dover666 wrote:Modplug tracker... and i'm hoping to be able to make a VST version of modplug tracker.... a vst that is a host tracker, sample/instrument editor, wav/mp3 renderer etc.... I love the hex based tracker... it's so great for crazy experiments... peace, (i've used gungirl... it's pretty simple, but GREAT!!!)
try renoise dover... or madtracker...
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