Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

Post by rafaelvasco » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 7:21 PM UTC

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 7:53 PM UTC

jcpst wrote: post #11

very cool, and all in vanilla ES5, impressive.

Post by jscheel » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 8:08 PM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #34

exogeny wrote: post #29

Oh man, this is amazing. I'm teary-eyed with nostalgia, too. For anyone who is unfamiliar with the demoscene and tracker music, here are some recommended old-school tunes to spin up to get a feel for the art at the time. (Someone more in touch than me will have to lead you to the new school!) Just keep in mind the technological limitations on some of these songs: 4 channels, maybe 100k all-in for such wonderful music…

Karsten Koch - The Blue Valley (darn, S3M can't be played on Bassoon) https://modarchive.org/module.php?37685 Skaven - Catch that Goblin!! https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... Skaven - 2nd Reality (from the absolute classic demo) https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... Uplink, the hacking video game, actually used a bunch of classic tracks as its OST: https://youtu.b…

Post by armitron » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 9:03 PM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #8

degenerate wrote: post #7

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Sanity - World of Commodore 92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43uH-kQpzk

Thanks! One of my favorite demos from Sanity remains Arte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFh07lXfxTY

Post by coroxout » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

PavlovsCat wrote: post #26

tgvaughan wrote: post #22

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True, but SunVox is so much more than just a tracker. In my experience with (PC) trackers they rely mostly on modifying pre-recorded samples. SV on the other hand allows you to chain together a crazy array of synth modules to produce sounds "from scratch".

Well there's Renoise, there's Jeskola's Buzz (the changelog starts at 2008 but I'm sure I used it well before that), Noise Trekker had a synth as early as 1999. Adlib Tracker? You're still right in that for the most part, for a long time, tracking on the PC meant FastTracker or ScreamTracker, and those just used samples. But we've come a long way since then in the early 2000s.