![]() ![]() There's less than 1% available such files on the net vs what the MOD/XM scene has built. XRNS and MPTM files have no place in Modarchve. Because it forced everyone to distribute in MP3. #RENOISE GOOD PIANO SAMPLES MOD#VST ruined this spirit and soul of mod music. I miss the whole scene of sharing mods, swapping samples. I like the 'tidiness' of a music module, where everything is self contained. No one gives a crap about LV2 or LADSPA, since they're not multiplatform or just not important enough. 4k synths have no problem with these limitations, because they don't adhere to crappy corporate standards. They're not suited to precise control offered by trackers, we can't even do perfect pitch slides like we do with samples! They're the same tools mainstream producers use. I like synth VSTs more than most people, but there's nothing interesting or cool about them. MPTM and XRNS aren't successors because they no longer act as standalone modules, they're just project/session files. ![]() There's simply no true successor to them. I'm talking about "Module files" like MOD, S3M, XM, IT. OpenMPT doesn't escape from this fate really. Renoise is really just a DAW that spits out WAV/MP3/OGG, using the same plugins and concepts as any other DAW. Obviously trackers now compete with DAWs, and share the same VST plugins. I'm not insulting trackers or saying they have no right to exist. Like if OpenMPT and farbrausch V2M had a baby. It's really a zone for enthusiasts, and these days, people would rather use stricter limitations of actual soundchips (FamiTracker/Deflemask), rather than a state of the art tracker.īut personally I would love an active tracker that supports different types of synthesis mixed with samples, and can still be played back real time. Which doesn't make sense considering how around 70% of modarchive are chiptune mods. ![]() Even Klystrack, a chiptune tracker, is criminally underused. Buzz also allowed for some basic synth plugins, but like VST trackers, the Buzz project files often no longer work properly because they never include the right 'machine'/plugin, and it can be difficult to search the internet to find the exact version originally used.īut it's obvious that new trackers do not gain much traction at all. People have done custom tools, often made for 4k or 64k demos. Real time synthesis is definitely possible to do in a tracker, especially wavetable and FM cost barely any CPU. A similar thing happened in the games industry - we went from chips straight to CD audio / ADPCM / MP3.Įven if a song was made in trackers like Madtracker/Skale/Renoise, it was often released as mp3 because distributing VST plugins with a song wasn't going to happen (Radix and Wayfinder come to mind). Once one tries to go beyond what libopenmpt can do, you're basically already in the MP3/OGG world - no one sees the point in real time anymore. I am not sure that there is much future of tracking, because we are all stuck in the past. ![]()
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