Scream tracker
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| Maintainer | Future Crew (Sami Tammilehto) |
| developer | Future crew |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| Current version | 3.21 (1994) |
| operating system | MS-DOS |
| programming language | C and assembly language |
| category | tracker |
| License | Freeware |
User interface generated exclusively from text characters, as was common in the 1980s and 1990s for trackers
above : general track properties
in the middle : command list for the channels (along the line) and the time course (along of the columns), the white bar cursor marks the current point
in time middle-bottom : channel list with samples
left-bottom : current volume per channel
right-bottom: stereo separation per channel ( panning )
The Scream Tracker is a tracker , i. H. a multi-track sequencer for digital sound by the Finnish demo group Future Crew . It was initially released in 1990 and was one of the most popular and trend-setting trackers in the 1990s. He found u. a. Application for creating pieces of music for computer games (e.g. One Must Fall ) and for the multimedia real-time demos developed by the demo scene , e.g. Second Reality .
history
The tracker was developed in C and assembler as programming languages for the PC with DOS as the operating system. Version 2.2, released in 1990, was the first to gain popularity. The tracker format STM , which was developed with the Screamtracker v2.2, only supported four channels like the exemplary MOD format . Later versions expanded the capabilities of the tracker format, which was now identified with the file extension S3M . The last published version of the Scream Tracker was 3.21 from 1994.
The Screamtracker was the model for many later trackers, such as the Fast Tracker or the Impulse Tracker .
Technical characteristics
The Scream Tracker only required an 80386 SX along with a VGA graphics card and of course a sound card for use. Starting with Scream Tracker 3.0, up to 100 8-bit samples, 32 channels / tracks, 100 patterns and 256 sequence positions were supported for composition and in the tracker format S3M. In addition, the tracker could handle nine FM synthesis channels on sound cards with the OPL2 / 3/4 chipsets, and - unusual at the time - use digital channels and FM instruments at the same time. However, the FM synthesis capability has rarely been used by tracker musicians.
Successors and Clones
- Impulse tracker
- FastTracker
- MilkyTracker
- GoatTracker
- Schism tracker
- see also list of trackers
Web links
- Jeffrey Lims ImpulsTracker - Official Impulse Tracker homepage
- Schism Tracker - Official Schism Tracker homepage
- ChibiTracker website - on BerliOS .de (successor to Cheesetracker )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Claudio Matsuoka: Tracker History Graphing Project . helllabs.org. November 4, 2007. Retrieved January 29, 2011: " Tracker History Graph "
- ↑ Martin Walker: PC Music Freeware Roundup ( English ) In: Sound on Sound . July 2004. Retrieved on May 29, 2010: " When PCs first came of age for music making in the mid '90s, ScreamTracker was one of the first music software packages to appear with sample support, ... "
- ↑ Andrew Leonard: Mod love ( English ) In: Salon.com . Salon Media Group. April 29, 1999. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
- ↑ Readme File Screamtracker v2.2 - English
- ↑ Jeffrey Lim: Features of Impulse Tracker ( English ) September 21, 2004. Accessed April 7, 2009.
