FamiTracker VS MilkyTracker

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: about 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: about 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 / almost 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