#fasttracker ii

[mod-a-day]

Elwood (Jussi Salmela) "Sick on Monday" (1998)

[laurabsantiago]

Gimmick! - Sophia (Take 2) (Super Scribblenauts Soundfont Cover)

[tarxzvf]

Being the second release and first full-length album by us, the harsh glitch noise duo "tar xzvf", this release is about technology you may remember 20 years ago. Sound cards, CD burners, speakers, microphones, graphics cards. They created a world that concentrated more and more power in the hands of the individual consumer and as time went on, this power only increased. Some used it for destructive purposes, and others used it to create. Some created destructive things. The entire order of the world was shaped by how this technology was used, and this album is about the intersection of the analog human with the digital world, very abstractly. It is not an easy listen.

The album was made largely with modular synth samples recorded from diig's synth setup, and then they were sequenced by misusing old-school-style sample-based trackers like MilkyTracker, MilkyTrackerX, and FastTracker II Clone, which are limited in their capabilities but which prove time and time again to be the correct tool for the job of creating tar xzvf's noise. The album is at the intersection point where harsh noise, glitch, industrial music, and our own ideas meet.

tar xzvf is "tarballrat" and "diig".

[axamdotvbs]

severe lack of blinkies on the internet for obscure ass shit that people should be catering to me for really so i just made one myself .fasttracker II blinkie for all 3 people interested just in case theres anyone out there with the same dilemma

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Ugh.  Any time I start to type “untitled”, I instinctively finish it with “song”.

Thanks, Alexis Janson, founder of Software Visions, creator of MegaZeux, and notorious “Untitled song” maker.

And also random winner of the Magic the Gathering “Great Designer Search”.

[mingos-commodoreblog]

AROS FastTracker II Clone v1.66

[kubokubokubo]

there's actually another whole ass "shop" theme i started working, like, i've got the entire draft as an acapella on my phone or something, but that kinda got boring. i honestly just didn't wanna go transcribing a whole ass song like that and said "fuck it let's try something different"

so it turns out, after kind of going through a little bit of an adventure, i discovered some things.

what the fuck is a stem. don't tell me actually

what the fuck is an ableton. actually, i know this.

a lot of the songs i write tend to rely on looped patterns, which by themselves are also the formation of of music, in a way. you gotta change 'em here and there, but for the most part, shit Loops

you can represent identities, themes, yadda by what repeats and what doesn't. if you have a brain you can discern that, it's how language works. but the kicker here is that some music making software specializes in letting you throw down some loops that you like and then letting you fuck around with it in the editor for the Big Loop. that's sort of an extreme short generalization of how ableton works.

write some loops, write those loops to the track editor, continue. have some fun with it.

problem is, i don't use ableton. i think it's either that or fruity loops that people use all the time; fruit loops for studio production, ableton for live performances. i think the idea with ableton is that it lets you write stuff on the fly and lets you cook it live, which is cool and all, but again, i don't use it. 'cuz who the fuck has $600 to drop on software.

the goddamn synths to start with cost like that much. fuck off

though when i watched enough sorta tutorials on how that sort of thing works, when i went to go make it work, i looked; i said, what the hell does my DAW do that's like that? turns out it's right here in renoise. this stupid fucking dinky thing

renoise uses "phrases," dawg.

okay, so what the hell is a phrase, then? why not just cook all that in the pattern editor? well, i think the mindset for something like this (if you're not fucking insane, or happen to have probably done this before) is that you go and make something that's known to repeat for a while into the phrase editor, and things which you know is going to change a lot goes into the pattern editor.

here's an idea of what those two look like, by the way

you can probably tell that there's a big fucking difference between "how my shit is arranged" verse "how my other shit that wont change", and that's sort of peak for this kind of thing. this is, essentially, ableton's loop function. you can write things in here, and if you want some new phrase you want to run, you can! you just have to use a specific command (0Zxx where xx denotes the specific phrase to play in hexadecimal) to trigger a new one. this is, essentially, your snap-to-grid track editor for any other DAW. you can also just add shit straight to the bare metal of the track.

needless to say, by using this, it sort of freed up some of the creative room, because if you decide you wanna run some funky bass or just some chords and you don't wanna be stuck here having to do it in a weird way, you throw it into a pattern, boom. if you look in that image above for the pattern editor, that's actually the entire bass. it's a regular ass chord.

hey so here's a whole ass fixed version of trinkets. may god have mercy on your soul. because drums function like they do in literally any other daw (if your daw doesnt work like this, it's stupid. sorry! steinberg made that rule.) then you can also phrase track it like a stock loop and it just works. it's great. i can write so much shit without having to worry about the actual pattern now. this is kind of just what i needed.

if i remember correctly, the way you do this in like, fasttracker or some shit is by writing your phrases or whatever with an instrument or sample or whatever else it is that you're gonna do, and then you just save that as itself a sample, run it in your tracker, and just sample slice backwards if you need the individual bits, otherwise, just say fuck it we ball you have your thing already and then the track is made

see ya

[lendywendy]

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[hydralisk98]

Content study list for my 16^12 paracosm, for myself and you all sweet, sweet mutuals!

Inspirations

Halo Reach, Tron Legacy, Reverse 1999, Helluva Boss, Wolfenstein The New Order, The New Order / "TNO" (Hearts of Iron 4 total conversion mod), Civilization 5 Complete Edition, Civilization Beyond Earth Rising Tide, Stellaris, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, Spiderverse?, 300, 300 Rise of an Empire, Marathon Infinity, The Legend of Zelda 1, Quake 1, Pokemon Black & White, Wakfu, A Bag Full of Apples, Rammstein, Sabaton, Powerwolf, Daft Punk, Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk RED, Solarpunk (aesthetic optimism genre), Kaiserreich (Hearts of Iron 4 total conversion mod), GURPS, Pathfinder 2E, D&D 5E SRD (under the one offered Creative Commons license), OSR, FKR, XCOM Enemy Within, The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall, Hypnospace Outlaw, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, SimCity 4, The Sims 2, Citizen of Rome Dynasty Ascendant, Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Pathfinder Kingmaker, Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Tyranny, Spore, Alpha Centauri, Total Annihilation, Half-Life 1, Portal 2, Cortex Command, The Anacrusis, Tacoma, Zachtronics, Ion Fury, INFRA, Factorio, Terraria, Portal Stories Mel, SOMA, Choice of Alexandria, Choice of Robots, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, The Stanley Parable (demo & full game), The Beginner's Guide, Logic World, MineTest, Superliminal, Tentlan, Paradise Lost, The Witness, Secret Little Haven, Wargroove...

Tools of the Trade (essentially much of the KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop environment and a couple more utils)

GIMP, Krita, Blender, Inkscape, OpenStreetMap, SweetHome3D, LibreOffice Suite, Fish (command-line shell), Es (command-line shell), Karbon, , QGIS, GPlates, GProjector, QOwnNotes, KdenLive, Kate, LabPlot, Qt Creator, Buildroot, Debian, Devuan, Celestia, Cosmonium, KDE Plasma, KDE Liquidshell, custom KDE Plasmoids, ZealOS, Parade, Left, Ronin, Dotgrid, Pilot, Orca, GNU Common Lisp, LibertyEiffel, GNU CMake, GNU CoreUtils, OpenMPT, FastTracker, Furnace Tracker, Bintracker, Kitty (terminal emulator), , KDE Plasma Mobile, KDE Kirigami, Marble, Alpaka, Glaxnimate, KAlgebra, Kalm, Klevernotes, Licentia, Kalendar, Discover, Thunderbird, Peruse, Vail, KTechlab, KUIViewer, Francis, Kommit, KGeoTag, Rolistream RPG Client, Choqok (Mastodon, Jami & the Fediverse?), Arianna, RKWard, Konqueror, KMPlayer, Plan, Tokodon, PlasmaTube, KDiff3, Keysmith, Alligator, ghostwriter, Kontrast, AudioTube, youtube-dl?, Weather, digiKam, KLettres, Picmi, KTurtle, Parley, Kolf, Minuet, Okteta, Subtitle Composer, KJots, Skrooge, KEXI, Tellico, KFloppy, K3B, Kaffeine, ISO Image Writer, KMyMoney, Calligra Suite, KStars, Kid3, Haruna Media Player, Krusader, Telly Skout, KRename, Kongress, Kasts, KDE itinerary, Artikulate, Rocs, Kig, Step, KNights, KMPlot, KMouth, Umbrello, KAppTemplate, Cervisia, KNotes, Clazy, KWordQuiz, Kwave, DragonPlayer, KAddressBook, Cantor, Kontact, Skanpage, KTouch, KOrganizer, KBackup, Timeshift, Falkon, KMag, KMail, KImageMapEditor, Akregator, KGeography, Elisa, Krfb, Konversation, KMix, KDevelop, KDebugSettings, Kleopatra, KTorrent, KRuler, Kompare, Sweeper, KRDC, Lokalize, KCharSelect, Skanlite, KDE Partition Manager, KGpg, Yakuake, KColorChooser, KFind, Filelight, KWalletManager, KCalc, Gwenview, SPectacle, KDE Connect, Konsole, Kdenlive, HakuNeko, Kavita, GeoHub, Back Of Your Hand, locus, OwnTracks, darktable, Pixelmator, Procreate, Clip Studio Paint EX, OpenToonz (also its Morevna Edition), enve, Firefox, LibreWolf, Synfig Studio, Pencil2D, Storyboarder, TupiTube, BountySource, SourceHut, Gitea, GitPrep, digiKam, RawTherapee;

[timothyvalihora]

IBM Stewardship Center - What to Know as a Data Steward

Timothy Valihora is an information technology professional, with nearly 25 years of experience in technical architecture, data warehousing, data conversions, and software development. He is an expert on all IBM Information Server (IIS) applications, notably DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, and FastTrack. A resident of Redwood City, California, Timothy Valihora is also skilled in the…

[mod-a-day]

Philippe Meisburger (TNK) of of Realtech VR "Metal master 98" (unused) Heroes Enjoy Riding Over Empty Slabs (1998, 2002) Olympus, Realtech VR

[laurabsantiago]

5 PM - Animal Crossing: New Leaf (XM Tracker Cover)

[tarxzvf]

Hello, we're 'tar xzvf', two people who make noise music; so far we've only used old school tracker programs such as were popular in the 1990s to make it. We've released an album, which can be listened to below, called "mini-album no. 1". We like to use digital sources of noise, such as executable files which we edit for what we consider to be their best parts and use them in the composition of the tracks. All of our songs so far have come from XM (FastTracker II) modules and were made in MilkyTracker and FastTracker II Clone in Linux.

Our name comes from the Linux command to extract an archive into a folder, specifically one that ends in the .tar.gz extension.

[jolikmc]

Jaako Manninen (Mellow-D) "Soothe My Aching" (1994)

[tedrithornetunes]

Free Music Resources Masterlist

Notation

MuseScore

Free and open source.

Conventional notation.

Decent quality “instruments” that produce MIDI-based sound.

No dynamics or filters--any mixing requires separating the notation of each instrument into individual files, then exporting recordings of each one.

Might be able to send MIDI to other programs? Haven’t tried this yet.

LilyPond

Free and open source.

Both conventional and non-conventional notation (such as ClaireNote SN).

Very flexible text-based interface.

DAWs

Audacity

Free and open source.

Basically functions like Adobe Audition, but with fewer features.

Rosegarden

Free and open source.

Easy to learn and use.

Excellent for working with MIDI.

LINUX only!

Ocenaudio

Free, closed-source.

Pretty barebones but may work better on newer systems.

GarageBand

Free, closed-source.

May come pre-installed with your system.

Made for Mac OS/iOS and works best on those systems.

Many free instrument presets.

Reaper

Free-ish (will nag you to pay after trial finishes but you don’t actually have to).

Powerful and easy to use.

Familiar interface for people who have used other DAWs.

Works on both Windows and Mac OS.

LOTS of others! Every DAW has its own features and quirks, so it’s reccomended to do some research and find the one that best suits your particular needs and workflow!

Tracking

MilkyTracker

Free and open source.

A spiritual successor to the popular 1992 DOS tracker, Fasttracker II.

Users create custom instruments by using the built-in wave generator, drawing waveforms, or importing compatible sound files.

Very flexible volume envelopes for instruments.

Standard tracker effects with clear documentation.

No filters and limited note-by-note tweaking of things like panning.

Unlike the other trackers on this list, MilkyTracker does not emulate a specific video game console and cannot produce tracks compatible with video game sound cards.

DefleMask

Free, closed-source.

Very faithful emulation software for producing retro video game tracks

Actually compatible with the systems’ hardware.

Works for Sega Genesis, Gameboy, NES, Sega Master System, Commodore 64, Arcade, and NEC PC Engine.

Probably the most widely used tracker, with decent documentation and active forums.

FamiTracker

Free and open source.

NES emulation with all soundcard extensions.

Faithful enough that some of the bugs from the original system are reproduced.

No info on if the tracks produced are compatible with NES hardware.

Sparse but clear documentation.

Misc

LoopMIDI

Free, closed-source.

Can be used to send MIDI signals between Ableton Live 10 and VCV Rack 1.x on a single computer (see posted tutorial).

UTAU

Free, closed-source.

Generates Vocaloids-style vocals using presets or your own voice recordings.

Very hard to set up due to language barriers (Japanese).

Forums are very slow/out of date, little-to-no support.

VCV Rack

Free with optional paid modules.

Very complex and realistic digital synth with tons of modules to play with.

Freesound.com

Archive of user-submitted sounds available to download.

Always free but use restrictions may apply (such as No Commercial Use).

Sound quality varies quite a bit and search function is not great.