hey guys, i love tracker music since my childhood, i dunno how to use Trackers myself (Yet) but DAWs so i wonder the following:
1. where can you get the sounds for it? samples?
2. the sound of tracker music seems ONLY sampled down? otherwise it is nothing else? am i correct?
3. if yes cant you use any synth and MAYBE just add an effect to the master chain which samples the track you work on down?
thx
Tracker (Music) Sounds - where to get? Using in DAW? maybe emulate?
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- KVRAF
- 9580 posts since 5 Aug, 2009
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- KVRAF
- 1863 posts since 11 Apr, 2008
Those are the normal samples just with lofi sample rate and bit depth.
Search for tracker software and you'll most likely find what SR and BD they accepted.
Start with 8, 12 and 14Bit for Amiga trackers.
I don't remember what SR was available then but here you can find more info: viewtopic.php?t=347303
Ps. While working with bit crusher effects remember to use steep LPF to cut all that high frequency noise (use filter like antyaliasing filter) and don't use it on master but on each sample. Also sample single notes of synths and use them in sampler. Usually it was 1 note per sound, not multisamples or anything like that.
Search for tracker software and you'll most likely find what SR and BD they accepted.
Start with 8, 12 and 14Bit for Amiga trackers.
I don't remember what SR was available then but here you can find more info: viewtopic.php?t=347303
Ps. While working with bit crusher effects remember to use steep LPF to cut all that high frequency noise (use filter like antyaliasing filter) and don't use it on master but on each sample. Also sample single notes of synths and use them in sampler. Usually it was 1 note per sound, not multisamples or anything like that.
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- KVRian
- 680 posts since 1 Jan, 2018
If you want some pre-made oldskool tracker samples, you could go with the Amiga Soundtracker packs:
https://archive.org/details/AmigaSTXX_o ... onversions
Lots and lots of over-used sounds from the early tracker days there, with low bit depths and sample rates ready to go! If your sampler has an option to turn off anti-aliasing, you can use that to get an even more lo-fi sound. I'm mostly happy to be rid of those artifacts, but they do hold a kind of nostalgia, I guess.
A lot of the tracker "sound" also comes from the tracker effects (fast arpeggios to spoof chords, retriggers, portamentos etc.) some of which were used to get around the limitations of only having 4-8 channels to work with. They could sound pretty cheesy when overused, as they often were in early Protracker era music, but of course they can also be used in more subtle ways. I think there are some MIDI sequencers/effects that can produce MOD-type arpeggios and retriggers, but I can't remember which ones. BlueArp, maybe? Whether or not this will be useful to you really depends on what kind of sound you're going for and how many tracker limitations you want to embrace.
Using an actual tracker is obviously the best way to get those tracker effects. If you are on a PC, Jeskola Buzz is a quite powerful (and free!) tracker that I'm quite fond of.
https://archive.org/details/AmigaSTXX_o ... onversions
Lots and lots of over-used sounds from the early tracker days there, with low bit depths and sample rates ready to go! If your sampler has an option to turn off anti-aliasing, you can use that to get an even more lo-fi sound. I'm mostly happy to be rid of those artifacts, but they do hold a kind of nostalgia, I guess.
A lot of the tracker "sound" also comes from the tracker effects (fast arpeggios to spoof chords, retriggers, portamentos etc.) some of which were used to get around the limitations of only having 4-8 channels to work with. They could sound pretty cheesy when overused, as they often were in early Protracker era music, but of course they can also be used in more subtle ways. I think there are some MIDI sequencers/effects that can produce MOD-type arpeggios and retriggers, but I can't remember which ones. BlueArp, maybe? Whether or not this will be useful to you really depends on what kind of sound you're going for and how many tracker limitations you want to embrace.
Using an actual tracker is obviously the best way to get those tracker effects. If you are on a PC, Jeskola Buzz is a quite powerful (and free!) tracker that I'm quite fond of.
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- KVRist
- 207 posts since 23 Oct, 2005 from Australia
If you want a tracker sound but don't want to use a tracker check out Redux by the guys who made Renoise https://www.renoise.com/products/redux
You can load samples into that and play like a tracker. Great, great sampler that you can load into your DAW and it's just had an update too. It also has a cool tracker based phrasing system that you can use to dip your feet into the tracker workflow.
Chipsounds by Plogue https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds.html also not only offers a bunch of chiptune stuff, but has a bunch of tracker style samples as well.
You can also rip samples straight out of .MOD, .XM .IT files etc - this will get you those classic sounds at the low bitrates - load them into a sampler and you're golden.
You can load samples into that and play like a tracker. Great, great sampler that you can load into your DAW and it's just had an update too. It also has a cool tracker based phrasing system that you can use to dip your feet into the tracker workflow.
Chipsounds by Plogue https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds.html also not only offers a bunch of chiptune stuff, but has a bunch of tracker style samples as well.
You can also rip samples straight out of .MOD, .XM .IT files etc - this will get you those classic sounds at the low bitrates - load them into a sampler and you're golden.