8 bit bleeper/tracker

[William Blackburn]

Do you guys happen to know of an audio app that  does 8 bit tracking?  I have tried
milkytracker but I had trouble understanding the cryptic interface.  I really like these
noises to make music so I was wondering if CCRMA packages anything similar to this?
Thanks a lot,
Bill Blackburn

[Callum Lerwick]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:36 AM, William Blackburn <bill_-(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Do you guys happen to know of an audio app that  does 8 bit tracking?
>  I
>  have tried milkytracker but I had trouble understanding the cryptic
>  interface.  I really like these noises to make music so I was wondering if
>  CCRMA packages anything similar to this? 
I don't have any Fedora specific tips, but such sounds are pretty much
by definition easy to replicate. Any basic analog-style softsynth will
do. Set up a square wave oscillator, turn off the filter if possible
otherwise set it to lowpass, turn the cutoff all the way up and the
resonance down. Add a little vibrato if you want a more refined
demo-scene style lead sound. On most synths this means applying a LFO
to the oscillator frequency, use a triangle wave for authenticity.

For some nice C-64 SID bass type sounds, apply a single-pole lowpass
filter with resonance all the way down.

The Reaktor SoundSchool Analog softsynth works good for this.
Apparently there's a free standalone version you can download, if you
use the evil windows/mac.

There's a nifty ymVST available:

http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst/

Which is capable of a lot of authentic Atari ST style sounds. Its
based on an actual Atari chiptune tracker patch editor, but not a true
YM2149 chip simulator. Once of these days I'll get around to doing an
open-source clone of this...

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

On 06/05/11 01:36, William Blackburn wrote:
>  Do you guys happen to know of an audio app that  does 8 bit
> tracking?
>  I have tried milkytracker but I had trouble understanding the cryptic
>  interface.  I really like these noises to make music so I was
>  wondering if CCRMA packages anything similar to this? 
Maybe consider some of the
apps mentioned at:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/MOD_TRACKERS_PLAYERS/

I didn't check if any are open source...

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

On 08/05/11 10:50, David Timms wrote:
>  On 06/05/11 01:36, William Blackburn wrote:
> > Do you guys happen to know of an audio app that  does 8 bit tracking?
> > I have tried milkytracker but I had trouble understanding the cryptic
> > interface.  I really like these noises to make music so I was
> > wondering if CCRMA packages anything similar to this?
>  Maybe consider some of the apps mentioned at:
>  http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/MOD_TRACKERS_PLAYERS/
>
>  I didn't check if any are open source... 
another site with basic blurbs:
http://woolyss.com/tracking-trackers.php?s=Linux

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:53 PM, David Timms <dtimms(a)iinet.net.au&gt; wrote:
>  On 08/05/11 10:50, David Timms wrote:
> > On 06/05/11 01:36, William Blackburn wrote:
> >> Do you guys happen to know of an audio app that  does 8 bit tracking?
> >> I have tried milkytracker but I had trouble understanding the cryptic
> >> interface.  I really like these noises to make music so I was
> >> wondering if CCRMA packages anything similar to this?
> > Maybe consider some of the apps mentioned at:
> > http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/MOD_TRACKERS_PLAYERS/
> >
> > I didn't check if any are open source...
>
>  another site with basic blurbs:
>  http://woolyss.com/tracking-trackers.php?s=Linux 
I get the feeling from the OP that a tracker is not really what they want. ;)

If they just want the chiptune sound, and not the entire
hexadecimal-riffic tracker experience, a conventional MIDI sequencer
and a softsynth rigged for chiptune sounds should do them well....

If you want 8-bit / chiptune sounds I recommend LMMS. It has Commodore SID and GameBoy
soundchip emulator softsynths. I've used them to great effect.

a

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Do you guys happen to know of an audio app that  does 8 bit tracking?  I have tried
milkytracker but I had trouble understanding the cryptic interface.  I really like these
noises to make music so I was wondering if CCRMA packages anything similar to this?
Thanks a lot,
Bill Blackburn