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Tracker
Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. A tracker's interface is primarily numeric; notes are entered via the keyboard, whilst length, parameters, effects and so forth are entered in hexadecimal. A complete song consists of several small multi-channel patterns chained together via a master list.
History
The term ''tracker'' derives from ''Ultimate Soundtracker'', the first of its type, written by Karsten Obarski and released in 1987 for the Commodore Amiga, although the general concept of step-sequencing samples numerically can be traced back to the Fairlight CMI sampling workstation of the late 1970s, and it is interesting to compare the work of The Art of Noise or the Pet Shop Boys with early tracker music. A tracker song, when saved to disk, typically incorporates all the sequencing data plus samples, and thus during the format's heyday it became almost a sport to create long, complex ''.mod'' (or ''.sng'') files which were nonetheless smaller than 880 kB. Typically the composer would incorporate his or her assumed name into the list of samples.
Curiously, most tracker musicians appeared to be from the UK and the Nordic nations, probably because the tracker was heavily related to the Demo scene, which grew rapidly in Scandinavian countries. For example, one of the most influential PC trackers, ScreamTracker was originally developed by Future Crew for use in their own demos.
The edit window of a tracker resembles a player piano scroll, moving from the bottom of the screen upwards. The first trackers allowed for only four channels of 8-bit music, although as the notes were samples this limitation was less important than those of synthesising music chips, such as Commodore's SID or General Instrument's venerable AY-3-8912 and Yamaha's compatible YM2149, as the user could sample chords, for example,
S-2 Tracker
: ''S-2 re-directs here; for alternate uses; see S2''
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''US Navy S-2E Tracker ready for launching from'' Bennington'' (CVS-20), 30 November 1967. Note the searchlight on the starboard wing.'' |
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The Grumman S-2 (formerly S2F) Tracker was the first US Navy anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft designed specifically for the purpose.
Its predecessor, the AF-2 Guardian, used two aircraft for ASW, one with the detection gear, and the other with the weapons.
S-2 Tracker
My 2c on the name question (as already discussed by Stan and Maury on their talk pages)
Maury favours Grumman S-2 Tracker
Stan favours S-2 Tracker
I prefer Grumman Tracker
However, in this case, we have an instance of US vs non-US usage. Here in Australia we say "Grumman Tracker" or "Tracker", so that sounds more natural to me. In the US, I should imagine that "S-2 Tracker" is much more common.
I don't think it is usually appropriate to apply the "first-in, best-dressed" naming rule (that generally decides between US & International English issues) when it comes to aircraft entries. Instead, it is almost always best to use the name that the major users of the aircraft used. This is why Brewster Buffalo is better than "Brewster F-2A" - the best-known users called it the Buffalo. And (in my view) it is why S-2 Tracker is the correct name for this entry. (Even though I personally prefer Grumman Tracker).
(But when it comes to certain little-used and really dumb-sounding aircraft names - which I'll not mention here for fear someone might read this and be prompted to resurect the damn things - we should make exceptions, of course. :) Tannin 04:30 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)
:It's not so much that I prefer "S-2 Tracker" - among its downfalls are that a search engine won't find it if handed "s2f tracker" or "s-2e tracker" - but it's what the^H^H^Hyour :-) naming conventions page says to do. You can see in the effort to have assigned names and numbers that the US services are trying to avoid dependence on corporate names, which can change at the drop of a merger; it would be pretty confusing to have to start talking about the "Boeing F-4" fighter, heh-heh, or more realistically the "Boeing F/A-18". (Boeing building fighters
Trackers
Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. A tracker's interface is primarily numeric; notes are entered via the keyboard, whilst length, parameters, effects and so forth are entered in hexadecimal. A complete song consists of several small multi-channel patterns chained together via a master list.
Category:Musical software
The Trackering
The Trackering was an underground music compo that ran around 1995. It was run by Finnish demoscene member Axl on IRC channel #tt on AnotherNet. The contest had 32 rounds, although the last one did not get to voting. It was one of the first contest of its kind, similar to Cruelization and Groovy Compo.
Rules
The contestants were given a set of samples, and they had one week to create a MOD music file. The accepted formats were MOD, MTM, S3M, IT and XM. The file size was limited to 150 Kb. After the one week, the modules were submitted and compiled into a votepack. Anyone could vote on them, but the contestants had to vote on each module, otherwise their song would be disqualified. Votes ranged between 0 (worst) and 9 (best). There was one week for the voting, and the end of which the results would be announced.
External link
http://scene.org/dir.php?dir=%2Fmirrors%2Fhornet%2Fmusic%2Fcontests%2Ftt/ Complete The Trackering archive on scene.org
Tracker
lol nevermind
Purple Motion
http://www.carintech.com/music/mods/pm_when.mp3 When the Heavens Fall (MP3)
http://www.carintech.com/music/mods/spring.mp3 A Touch of Spring (MP3)
http://www.modarchive.com/artists/pm/ Mod Archive
Impulse Tracker
Impulse Tracker is a multi-track digital sound sequencer which proliferated on the DOS platform. It was authored by Jeffrey "Pulse" Lim, and demo music was done by Jeffrey Lim and Chris Jarvis.
The software was distributed as freeware, though the author supplied extra features, like saving stereo WAV files, possibility to use an IPX network mode, in exchange for some cash (in the order of 20 US$). Once the stereo WAV writer plugin was publicly pirated, the author announced that he will and discontinue it after version 2.14. There were some patches released, and 2.15 is by outsider contributors. Impulse tracker's interface was very similar to and could be considered the continuation of ScreamTracker 3. It was comparable to its rival FastTracker.
Like most MOD editors music is arranged into a grid of ''channels'', each channel containing key-on and optional key-off instructions not unlike MIDI. The Impulse Tracker modules have an extension of .IT.
One of the features which set this MOD editor apart was NNAs, New Note Actions. If a new key-on command is received in the same channel as another instrument which is still being played, NNAs allow the user to customize the action that next occurs:
Cut: New instrument sound replaces current playing instrument.
Continue: Old instrument continues to play following its defined ADSR curve.
Off: Old instrument instructed to begin release section of its ADSR curve.
Fade: Old instrument fades out to 0 volume at a designated rate overriding any ADSR information.
Free software Impulse Tracker clones
Schism Tracker, which clones the IT interface and features. Runs under Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and MorphOS.
CheeseTracker. Runs under Linux and Mac OS X.
Module file
ScreamTracker
Sound examples
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/IndusTree-Homesick.ogg IndusTree's Homesick (ogg)
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ModPlug Tracker
ModPlug Tracker is a tracker for Windows developed by Olivier Lapicque. It was initially developed as a plug-in (called Modplugin) for Internet browsers to allow users to listen to music modules (for example, IT, XM, S3M, and MOD) present in some websites. ModPlug Player and ModPlug Tracker later evolved from this plug-in.
ModPlug Tracker's main distinguishing feature is its point-and-click, native Windows user interface. Most trackers, even newer ones such as Renoise and Skale, have interfaces modelled after the elder DOS trackers (especially FastTracker II). Although many old-school musicians who use trackers prefer this kind of old fashioned GUI, newcomers have been attracted to ModPlug Tracker's alternative interface.
ModPlug Tracker makes use of features common to Microsoft Windows programs, such as context menus for effect selection, "tree" views for files, samples, and patterns, and drag-and-drop functionality throughout. It supports both loading and saving of IT (Impulse Tracker), XM (FastTracker Extended Module), MOD and S3M (Soundtracker) files, loads many sample file formats, and has some support for DLS banks and soundfonts.
Due to lack of time, Olivier Lapicque discontinued development of the program. In early 2004, he released the source code under an open license. Consequently, ModPlug Tracker is now being developed actively by a group of trackers/programmers at SourceForge.
External link
http://www.modplug.com/ ModPlug Central
http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug/ ModPlug Tracker Project Site on SourceForge
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