Well just finished a short test tune in H8 Tracker 1.90 beta which is tracker that came out in 2001…
Probably many here have not even heard of it…I’m sure a few have though…
I find this tracker good for short tunes or concepts exploration is fast workflow but you must be man enough to tolerate a few pitfalls & a beta environment…
The reward is a portable tracker that is compact & free of garbage features with automation curves which are the FOREFRONT of the tracker…
Here’s tune I uploaded last nite worked on it on-off during past week…NOTE…There was no crackles on any playback 'till I started recording the output of it even though it just uses directsound…I’ll have to try some different recorders to try & solve…
https://alonetone.com/TalkOrBell/tracks/girl-cheese-sandwichThere is NO CHEATING using H8Tracker…QWERTY only & when I am doing QWERTY only I use a method called tactical composing…
Since this was coded by a 19 year-old Polish kid I am surprised it was not QWERZ format…Kid had ingenious ideas too bad it did not go further…
Images here-
Girl Cheese Sandwich-
If you want to challenge yourself to make a tune on a 20 year-old tracker with LIMITATION & CONSTRICTION yet refreshing simplicity & actually quite stylish you can DL here…NOTE…It’s just a 329 KB ARCHIVE! It includes TRACKER, 3 GUI-Less plugs & ONE demo tune!..LOL!..TIGHT CODING!
http://www.maz-sound.de/archives/h8t190.zipThis can also be put into the wayback machine as well & comes back too-
https://web.archive.org/web/20160327071134/http://www.maz-sound.de/archives/h8t190.zipThis would make a great ‘challenge tracker’ for a contest of sorts…
It loads WAVs (not all) XIs & the rest is VSTi-VST only quality plugs work if you have any questions post them on alonetone under my test tune in comments…
If you have grabbed the GUI-Less plugs I uploaded the 95% of those will work 100% in the tracker....
