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#SID WIZARD VS GOATTRACKER 2 SOFTWARE#
#SID WIZARD VS GOATTRACKER 2 WINDOWS#

Multiplatform, clone of nanoloop with several sound engines.

Multiplatform, well designed, can import/export midi Some shortcuts are rather counter-intuitiveĮasy to use, easy to create new instruments, Open-source Very powerful once you'll get used to it. Some tools here are not necessary real "trackers" per se (lmms, musescore, picoloop), but I present them anyway because they can be useful to musicians.įm opl3 synthesis. You'll get more "possibilities", on the other hand, it can sometimes be labelled "fakebit" (when it's using samples) Easy to use and create instrumentsĬan't directly export to ym. Very well designed modern interface and shortcuts.Ĭan export to sinclair zx spectrum or atari st Very well designed interface and shortcuts. No mouse, no fancy, no high resolution screen Native to C64: runs everywhere with an emulator. Some parts of the tracker are really awkward and clumbersome (orderlist). Quite difficult to create new instruments. Interface is a bit cramped (it would have been better to have several screens to handle so many informations).

#SID WIZARD VS GOATTRACKER 2 WINDOWS#

Native to windows only / works well with wine YAMAHA YM2612, Texas Instruments SN76489 PSG, Z80 Game Boy, Hudson Soft HuC6280, Ricoh 2A03, MOS Technology SID, YAMAHA YM2151, SEGA PCM On the other hand, it can be somehow repetitive.

There is also the MML language, which is a different way to create chiptunes and music.Ĩ-bit is the "true" sound of chiptunes. It's not always possible to start a song in a tracker and continue onto an other (or convert a song from one chip into an other) but some trackers can import/export midi or mod/xm so there is often a way. You can also create instrument with a different samples assigned to a group of notes (most trackers can do that), or even every note (like for soundfonts or on digital piano. The "problem" with samples is when you transpose them (for example from C2 to C6), it can sometimes sound different than it would have been with an original instrument (flute, piano) or with an original sound chip.

Use sample based sounds, generally with trackers (originally on Amiga, now everywhere, for example MilkyTracker, Modplug Tracker).

It's like creating a game which has a look and feel of a gameboy, but with something like SDL, rpg maker or gamemaker, it will look and behave similar but you won't be able to run the game on an old gameboy. But even if you stay in the limits of the original, you won't be able to replay your music on original hardware. It can sound rather genuine, but some VST for example won't have limits like original chip would had (you can have 10 voices for sounding like a C64, while the original had only 3 voices).

Use VST emulating the sound of original chips or for creating new sound designs (like LMMS, Sunvox, picoloop on linux).

famitracker, DefleMask, vortex tracker), targeting original hardware: you can export to file format compatible which you can replay on real C64, real Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad, Megadrive / Genesis etc

#SID WIZARD VS GOATTRACKER 2 SOFTWARE#

Use cross platform software on modern computers (for ex.Use native software on original machines (for ex SidWizard on C64, Maxymizer on Atari ST) or on emulators.There are at least 4 major ways to create "chiptunes": The comments about pros and cons are only my own experience (linux user who prefer open source software) so it can differ from your, of course. Here are some music trackers I know and would recommend.