Been getting into tracker music recently and kind of looking for a better place to start.
My intro into the software was something called 1tracker, basically an experimental tracker used for ZXSpectrum in particular. Not very user friendly but i liked the process of making music. Then I figured out that it only exports in .scl, .ay, .tap, and assembly code. I’m 90% convinced that I’m not gonna figure out a way to convert that into an audio format. Tried looking at the creator’s forum posts on some tracker forum and my question was never answered, so i’ll assume no.
I might just download the Renoise demo and go from there, see whats up.
Recently I’ve been working on some jungle-adjacent tunes using Octamed 4 on the Amiga. I use an Amiga 500 with an ACA500Plus accelerator board. Started out on a Polyend Tracker a few years ago and that got me hooked on the workflow, and then I wanted to go full oldschool so I got a second hand Amiga. There’s something cool about using trackers that affects the way songs are built, but I can see how it isn’t for everyone. It definitely helps to be methodical and the hardware limitations force me to be very selective about what sounds I use.
i’ve been getting back into some tracker music stuff, and i saw somewhere that Boku mo wakaran by Bogdan Raczynski was recorded from a speaker from his computer in the late 90’s. it would explain the weirdly low fi sound. anyhow, i’m here thinking “hey that’s a good idea, why didn’t i think of that?”
reading my earlier post on 1tracker was interesting since i completely forgot about that. i don’t have an old computer like @EvasiveManeuvers does, but maybe i can work something out. i do have a focusrite audio interface, although it’s newer. i’ll fiddle around with it and post my results later. i think 1tracker dosent use that much space, which is perfect for my low capacity computer (windows and 60 gigs of space does not bode well). worst case scenario i have a pretty good quality speaker to record off of with my phone, then i can clean it up in audacity.
You’d be surprised how well Lubuntu + Renoise runs on a potato, and the pricing is pretty much pay-what-you-want since there are only a few demo restrictions. Totally worth checking out for the new update, too, which integrates livecoding and all sorts of other crazy shit.
