(idm) the track on tracking

From Nate Harrison
Sent Fri, Feb 19th 1999, 19:06

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
some sort of proprietary format...I did D/L those that had mp3's of the
tracked er, track. It sounded to me like very basic layering and
sequencing, (nothing wrong with that). To that end, there is really no
external MIDI stuff involved. Is this right? Tracker apps are primarily PC
apps, correct? Is that new app ACID considered a tracker? Just curious I
guess...

peace

Nate