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Music Production => Tracking => Topic started by: lioran on March 27, 2014, 20:01:46

Title: A tracker that uses note system?
Post by: lioran on March 27, 2014, 20:01:46
Is there any tracker that uses the convetionnal note system?
Title: Re: A tracker that uses note system?
Post by: Saga Musix on March 28, 2014, 13:44:48
In case by "conventional" you mean a score, well, that really doesn't work very well together at all with how trackers work. There might be occasionall odd one with a staff view in addition to the normal note grid, but I can't remember any off the top of my head that have something like that. I think OpenCubicPlayer had an experimental score display, but even that wasn't very accurate and well, it's just a player and not a tracker. If you want to compose a score, you should look out for the traditional programs that do that.
Title: Re: A tracker that uses note system?
Post by: Jay on June 21, 2014, 19:30:04
I've got to bump this thread even though it's a few months old. The first "tracker" I ever used was something called "KingMod" which was exactly that - a mod editor using a musical score instead of tracking. It was apparently so unloved that I can't even find a screenshot of it now. I think I made one god-awful song on it and then moved on to ST3 or Composer 669, whichever I found next. I would have been around 13~14 at the time so I must have gotten it from a BBS.

Good luck finding a copy these days though. If you do track it down post back here, I wanna see how terrible it was. :)
Title: Re: A tracker that uses note system?
Post by: Saga Musix on June 21, 2014, 19:37:47
Actually, KingMod is pretty easy to find, like most trackers.
ftp://modland.ziphoid.com/pub/software/trackers/DOS/KingMod/
Title: Re: A tracker that uses note system?
Post by: Jay on June 24, 2014, 07:05:12
Wow, blast from the past! I guess I only ever looked for a screenshot and not the actual prog.

This thing isn't nearly as bad as I thought it was - I guess I just sucked at composing at the time (no surprise there!) Still pretty clunky though. It's a pretty decent program that answers a question no one asked!

I'm half tempted to upload it to Pouet just to be obnoxious.