KVR Audio

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:31 pm

Don't laugh... I have this ancient Pentium75 laptop with 24MB RAM, and want to use it as a simple drum box: play drum samples in patterns.

A lightweight host like SaviHost combined with a VST plugin is probably too much for it, but I recall it can handle playing MOD files! So a simple tracker would get me there.

Any one know of something usable for me? My requirements are:

compose patterns in 16th notes
compose patterns into songs
easy / intuitive GUI
can play 16bits WAV samples
runs on Windows98
light on memory & CPU

core · Post by **core** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:54 pm

FT2? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Tracker

brambos · Post by **brambos** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:57 pm

core wrote:FT2? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Tracker

Agreed, FT2 is awesome. I've used that a lot in the past.

And if you have a sudden musician's block, you can play the built-in "Nibbles" game

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:09 pm

'Plain' trackers aplenty

http://www.independent-software.org/sce ... ackers.php

More exotic stuff
http://www.sonicspot.com/tuareg/tuareg.html

(extremely cool and used to run on my P233)

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/moonfish.shtml

(will probably run on anything)

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:31 pm

Well, MoonFish looks promising. I'll have a look this weekend at home.
Thanks so far, but keep 'em coming!

Liquidclear · Post by **Liquidclear** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:38 pm

DOS trackers I used on a system older than yours

Scream Tracker 3
Fast Tracker 2
Impulse Tracker <--- This was my fave

brambos · Post by **brambos** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:44 pm

BertKoor wrote:Well, MoonFish looks promising. I'll have a look this weekend at home.
Thanks so far, but keep 'em coming!

I've been thinking about doing a 10 year anniversary edition of Moonfish.

New technology, same bizarre limitations (and maybe optimized for the lowest low end of the computer spectrum, including tiny netbooks etc.)

saldiamond · Post by **saldiamond** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:17 pm

i loved hammerhead and Tuareg.

just saying.

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:33 pm

brambos wrote:
BertKoor wrote:Well, MoonFish looks promising. I'll have a look this weekend at home.
Thanks so far, but keep 'em coming!
I've been thinking about doing a 10 year anniversary edition of Moonfish.

New technology, same bizarre limitations (and maybe optimized for the lowest low end of the computer spectrum, including tiny netbooks etc.)

Please please please do it! I still have MoonFish, it's cool cool cool!
BTW Bram: I've been wondering since I bought this new dual core machine with Vista: MoonFish runs on it ok, Tu free 1.5 does too, but Tu2 crashes like hell. I had to uninstall it, though considered buying from earlier experience (I had a several years stint with Mac, but had tried all your free stuff in preceding years)
Erm.. what's wrong with Tu2? Is it dualcore or Vista?

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:13 am

IMPULSE TRACKER. forget ft2 lol.

before that i used modedit. 4 tracks.

RonC

nay-seven · Post by **nay-seven** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:32 am

brambos wrote:
I've been thinking about doing a 10 year anniversary edition of Moonfish.

New technology, same bizarre limitations (and maybe optimized for the lowest low end of the computer spectrum, including tiny netbooks etc.)

hé hé ! nice to see you bram ! 10 years...whaoo , was good time !
thanks for all thats works !

nay-seven ( was yan le Déan in Tuareg times...)
most invests in Usine from sensomusic now...;-)but I don't forget Tuareg

cheers

warp x · Post by **warp x** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:38 am

Hammerhead to make some beats, Moonfish to make weirder beats.
I still use the Moonfish. Which other sequencer does more than 1000 BPM?

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:27 pm

brambos wrote:I've been thinking about doing a 10 year anniversary edition of Moonfish.

New technology, same bizarre limitations (and maybe optimized for the lowest low end of the computer spectrum, including tiny netbooks etc.)

that would be awesome,moonfish rocks!

@BertKoor,
www.sonicspot.com
is a great place for oldies.

allofdrab · Post by **allofdrab** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:33 pm

Go MILKY!
http://www.milkytracker.net/

brambos · Post by **brambos** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:44 pm

nay-seven wrote:hé hé ! nice to see you bram ! 10 years...whaoo , was good time !
thanks for all thats works !

nay-seven ( was yan le Déan in Tuareg times...)

Hey Yan! Yes, ofcourse I remember you from the mailing list! A lot of people 'from the old days' seem to be still around. Good times for sure.

Lightweight tracker / beatbox ??