Open ModPlug Tracker

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Open ModPlug Tracker

Icon of ModPlug
Screenshot of OpenMPT 1.18.01.00 under Windows 7
OpenMPT 1.18.01.00 under Windows 7
Basic data

developer The OpenMPT team / Olivier Lapicque
Publishing year 1997
Current  version 1.29.01.00
( May 24, 2020 )
operating system Windows 32-bit / 64-bit
programming language C ++
category tracker
License BSD license (from OpenMPT 1.17.02.53) / GPL
German speaking No
openmpt.org , www.modplug.com

The Open ModPlug Tracker , originally ModPlug Tracker , is a music tracker for Windows . It is one of the most famous and widely used trackers. The British Computer Music Magazine named the MPT in 2007 as one of the top 5 free music trackers.

history

ModPlug Player , Windows Mod-Player developed by Olivier Lapicque on the basis of his ModPlug Browser Plugin

The program was originally developed by Olivier Lapicque on the basis of the ModPlug browser plug-in and the ModPlug player , which limit the playback of modules. The first version appeared in September 1997 , making it one of the oldest pure Windows trackers. Older known PC trackers, such as the FastTracker or Impulse Tracker , were still designed for MS-DOS . In 2004, Lapicque put the source code under the GPL and thus enabled further development under the name OpenMPT . The Schism Tracker is another tracker based on the ModPlug code. As part of this project, many bugfixes were made to the ModPlug library, which were later incorporated into OpenMPT ( backport ). From version 1.17.02.53 the OpenMPT is under the BSD license .

Technical characteristics

In contrast to most other trackers, the ModPlug Tracker uses the functions and GUI elements of the WinAPI for its graphical user interface . It has the standard Windows look and feel , which makes its operation more intuitive than the rather playful in-house designs of other trackers, which are often still based on trackers from the DOS era.

As one of the first trackers, it supported the parallel opening and editing of several modules. Up to 127 channels are supported at the same time, VST plug-ins (also VST instruments) can be used and there is ASIO support.

The program can import about two dozen different module formats , it can save the formats MOD , S3M , XM , IT and its own file format MPTM . Exports of modules in various stream formats ( WAV , FLAC , Opus , Vorbis , and with an appropriately installed encoder also MP3 ) are possible.

libmodplug and libopenmpt

The library libmodplug was originally split off from the ModPlug Tracker in order to be able to use the playback routine of the tracker under Linux , for example as a plug-in for XMMS to play music modules. In some Linux distributions (e.g. Debian ) the plug-in is pre-installed as a standard package.

However, since the libmodplug library has only received a few updates in recent years, the libopenmpt library has been published, which is being further developed in parallel with OpenMPT. On the basis of this library, for example, player plug-ins for XMPlay , Winamp and foobar2000 were developed, which can be downloaded from the official website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ openmpt.org . (accessed on May 29, 2020).
  2. ↑ Top Trackers . In: Future Publishing Ltd (Ed.): Computer Music Magazine . No. 113, June 2007. Retrieved in 2007. “ Tracker! The amazing free music software giving the big boys a run for their money. "
  3. ^ Ian Christe: A Cheat Sheet for Internet Sound ( English ) Wired .com. October 30, 97. Archived from the original on December 6, 1998. Retrieved on February 5, 2011: “ MOD: The lingua franca of the Internet's large network of Amiga musicians, MODs are ingenious self-contained sound files that include raw audio data and sequencing information. (Link to modplugcentral) "
  4. ↑ a b MODPlug Tracker Features ( English ) MODPlug Central. February 22, 1998. Archived from the original on February 22, 1998. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ ModPlug Tracker v1.00 alpha 5.7z - on ftp.modland.com/pub/trackers
  6. ↑ storlek: Modplug ( English ) schismtracker.org. February 1, 2011. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. Retrieved on February 5, 2011: “ Schism Tracker uses a highly customized version of the Modplug library, [...]. Many of Schism's fixes have since been back-ported to OpenMPT [...] "
  7. ↑ Features ( English ) openmpt.org. February 5, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2011.