Re: (idm) the track on tracking

From Ben Coffer
Sent Sat, Feb 20th 1999, 21:24

In message <xxxx.xxx.x.xx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx-xxxxxx@xxx.xxx-xxxxx.xxx>,
Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories] <xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> writes
>
>Hope y'all don't mind I ask a very niave question I guess, but what
>exactly is tracking? I was under the impression it was sort of sequencing
>little bits/samples/whatever of digital audio on your computers hard
>drive.  I have been to some of the tracker sites, and they appear to be in

You're about right there. You get yourself a collection of samples to
use as instruments and then build up a track from those by applying
commands to them to alter how they sound etc...takes a lot of work
...or at least it did in the old days with Protracker and the older
trackers....not like now with your cut&paste etc... :)

>external MIDI stuff involved. Is this right? Tracker apps are primarily PC
>apps, correct?

I suppose you're kinda correct nowadays as no-one uses Amigas anymore.
But the whole Trackers thing started on the Amiga in the 80s with
the very first tracker being Soundtracker, then Noisetracker and then
much later Protracker. PCs have lots of different trackers, a couple
being Fast-tracker and Impulse Tracker.
Take a look at IDM Modules too:
http://www.hybridgame.demon.co.uk/idm.htm

(there's even some (old) Colongib trax there)..
see ya
- ben

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Ben Coffer
http://www.hybridgame.demon.co.uk/