FamiTracker might be a bit more popular than MilkyTracker. We know about 10 links to it since March 2021 and only 9 links to MilkyTracker. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Broadly speaking, most would compose on actual instruments, notate on staff paper, and then program the audio chip instructions manually, in Music Macro Language, or using a custom utility developed by the musician or studio. Tracker programs became available starting with the Amiga platform in the late 1980s, but most trackers were still written specifically for the hardware the program ran on. Today, NES... Source: about 1 year ago
You can use a program like FamiTracker (tracker-style interface) or FamiStudio (midi/piano-roll-style interface) which reproduce the NES's limitations and can export .nsf files which you can play back on an actual NES or emulator. Source: over 1 year ago
Try famitracker. It is a popular software used to make authentic 8bit music. Source: over 1 year ago
I'm really not sure if this is close, but FamiTracker has somewhat of a text interface. Source: almost 2 years ago
🤦♂️ when I read the title I thought you meant classic videogame consoles and thought COOL I know about FamiTracker for authentic NES music, and was excited that maybe people would post similar things for other systems. 🤓🤷♂️😅. Source: about 2 years ago
> ProTracker (one of the most widely used trackers on the Amiga) > MilkyTracker (something newer, opensource, and available on multiple platforms) > OctaMED SoundStudio (Not as feature rich as PT or MT as it's one of the older trackers, but still widely loved) > FastTracker II (another older tracker from the 90's, I've read that the MSDOS version seemed to get more love from the tracking community as a whole,... Source: about 1 year ago
What is a good resource for getting started with trackers? Im currently messing around with https://milkytracker.org/ to determine if I want to invest in a tracker like dirtwave M8. Any thoughts on training or good tutorials to learn the concepts around composition/creation? Thank you Reddit community? Source: over 1 year ago
To answer your question, most use https://openmpt.org/ or https://milkytracker.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
Now you can make music with clones of music trackers ported to modern platforms: http://schismtracker.org/ https://milkytracker.org/ The main problem is finding samples. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Https://www.deflemask.com/ and http://famitracker.com/ for chiptunes specifically. If you want samples as well, https://www.renoise.com/ is of course king, otherwise check out https://milkytracker.org/ and http://schismtracker.org/ . Source: about 2 years ago
FamiStudio - FamiStudio is very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, but its feature set is also much more limited.
OpenMPT - OpenMPT is a popular tracker software for Windows.
DefleMask - An old-school game music tracker for an ample variety of systems.
Schism Tracker - Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality...
SunVox - SunVox is a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern based sequencer (tracker).
Renoise - Renoise is a digital audio workstation.