ZoeB Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Has anyone else been getting back into tracking recently? (Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker, Schism Tracker, that kind of thing.) I'm really digging the minimalism of a compact, simple, free, largely self contained environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kausto Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 1998 - 2010 Jeskola Buzz 2010 - now Renoise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Trackin' since '92 (erm well except the last few months with learning Ableton too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 1993 - 1998 Scream Tracker 2 and Fast Tracker 2 a break from making music 2001 - 2005 Buzz another break 2009 forward: Renoise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 1998 to now with Buzz.Oskari has been pumping out new versions in the last couple of years after a decade of no change. Still kind of buggy, crashes, GUI weirdness, etc., but still great fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 I'd like to try one of those gameboy trackers, like lsdj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weakmassive Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 2001-2003 Buzz and LSDJ. I actually had a ton of fun with LSDJ and found it really easy/fast to use. Recently I've been messing with Sunvox on the iPhone/iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnio Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 buzz since many years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 1997-2001: FT2 2001-2012: Buzz 2012 on: Renoise That said, over the last few years I've been writing a lot more music with live instruments in Reaper, but whenever electronic production is needed, I use Renoise or Buzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Motherfucking Renoise Bitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iococoi Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Recently I've been messing with Sunvox on the iPhone/iPad. that sunvox thing is quite steep.. http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ tracker+modular, multi-platform, donationware...fuuuuuuuuuu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Sunvox is excellent but I'm too obsessed with Renoise at the moment to bother with any other tracker. Especially being able to turn interpolation off on samples and rock things Protracker style! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kausto Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 i'm messing with sunvox on my phone while i'm away from any workstation. on vacation in countryside for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lambda Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Been using Sunvox on my phone on the train, and been using Renoise at work, but am a complete beginner with each of them. Seems like the key to success with trackers, pun not intended, is getting good with key commands. Or maybe I'm just over mousin' it for hours on end. ...Also, first post. Hi watmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 buzz always buzz albeit with lots of VSTs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Been using Sunvox on my phone on the train, and been using Renoise at work, but am a complete beginner with each of them. Seems like the key to success with trackers, pun not intended, is getting good with key commands. Or maybe I'm just over mousin' it for hours on end. ...Also, first post. Hi watmm. Yeah, keyboard commands are pretty essential in a tracker. Less so in Renoise, but it really helps for precision. I'd be pretty happy if I could eliminate the mouse for most work, and Renoise seems to be the one modern DAW that can almost completely be operated using keyboard. Also, welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotrobot Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 renoise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entorwellian Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Trackin' since 95 Also chiming in with the Renoise and Sunvox love. I got sunvox on my iphone too and its a blast to jam live with other people. The touchpad stuff and interface switching makes it a bit of a chore to work with, but you can belt out some decent patterns and lush melodies pretty quickly. I really dig how patterns are represented by actual visual patterns in the song column too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendish Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Listening to Bogdan's back catalogue What were the limitations of the old trackers? He has such a thick swung sound...how was this done with such basic ware? 8 bit distortion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kausto Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Bogdan used FT2 iirc. He could edit his samples externally in wave editor, add some fx to them and bring them back to FT2. If you like Bogdan i'd also suggest to check Vim! + more and more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendish Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Cheers for that The tracker scene is so retro and yet future if u know what i mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cern Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Trackers and Editors are different things but I like em both. In tackers you kind of paint the sound and stack notes in 16/32/64 fixed slots.. It gives alot of freedom but sometimes Im in Editors just for better structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Listening to Bogdan's back catalogue What were the limitations of the old trackers? He has such a thick swung sound...how was this done with such basic ware? 8 bit distortion? Trackers are essentially just sample players (at least the traditional style ones, ie. not Buzz/Renoise/Sunvox). 4 channels for old Amiga MOD files, up to 32 (iirc) for Fasttracker2 and Impulse Tracker, each channel being able to only play one sample at a time. The only "effects" you get are pitch bend/vibrato (which I don't think Bogdan ever used) and some volume effects. Of course, there was also a rudimentary wave editor in trackers like FT2, where you could not only do the basic cut/copy/paste and set loop points etc, but you could also clip the fuck out of samples, resample to make things more lofi, and actually draw your own waveforms. .. and in my opinion, the number one thing that makes trackers sound great, was turning off wave interpolation so the samples were super aliased, giving a 'glassy' tone to pitch bends with certain samples, and allowing for ultra gritty distorted kicks for hardcore. I think Bogdan used to run his tracks through a metal zone pedal as well, but obviously that can't be heard in the original tracker files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 rudimentary wave editor in trackers like FT2, where you could not only do the basic cut/copy/paste and set loop points etc, but you could also clip the fuck out of samplesThere used to be a button marked 'Conv.' - No idea what it was *meant* to do (convert to/from something or other maybe?) but it'd do some crazy saturation to the sample - Like invert the sample or something so the zero crossings were at maximum peak, and the peaks turn to zero crossings. Used that button a lot back in the day ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 oh yeah I remember that, I think it had something to do with different sample formats, can't quite remember what it converted but I never had to press that button to get a sample to sound right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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