Attached is a ZIP containing sample disk ST-01, all files renamed, and with the proper edited "LISTING.TXT" file (what a PITA!) for use with Tetra Compositor 😀
(EDIT) See three messages below for the attachment!
Last edited by rfnagel on 2013-06-12, 16:58. Edited 1 time in total.
Hmm... somehow I TOTALLY screwed up! That "LISTING.TXT" file that I created for the renamed samples (and was a real PITA to create) didn't get zipped up with the pack... and I've ALREADY deleted the samples and TXT file <aarrggh>!
I'll have to recreate the pack again, and I'll try to upload the fixed pack later today <ugh>.
Attached is a ZIP containing sample disk ST-01, all files renamed, and with the proper edited "LISTING.TXT" file (what a PITA!) for use with Tetra Compositor 😀
rfnagel wrote:
Hmm... somehow I TOTALLY screwed up! That "LISTING.TXT" file that I created for the renamed samples (and was a real PITA to create) didn't get zipped up with the pack... and I've ALREADY deleted the samples and TXT file <aarrggh>!
I'll have to recreate the pack again, and I'll try to upload the fixed pack later today <ugh>.
...and, it's FIXED! 😀
P.S. Now included are ALL of the ST-01 through ST-05 sample disks, ready for use with Tetra Compositor... and YES, I included the proper "LISTING.TXT" files this time! 😀
P.P.S. The included readme:
1Tetra Compositor Ultimate SoundTracker Sample Disks (Rev. C) 2------------------------------------------------------------ 3"Ultimate SoundTracker" was a "Tracker" format music composing program for 4Amiga computers, and was coded and released by Karsten Obarski back in 1987. 5The program shipped with an additional five floppy disks ("ST-01" through 6"ST-05") that contained instrument samples for composing Tracker format music 7using the program. 8 9The files included in this archive were all of the samples that were included 10with these five sample disks, and have been renamed for use with Bram 11Graveland's excellent "Tetra Compositor" for DOS Tracker format music composing 12program (released back in 1991). 13 14Note that each of the sample disks have been organized by subdirectory within 15the archive, and that each of the sample disks also have a proper "LISTING.TXT" 16file (which is required when using the samples with Tetra Compositor). Lastly, 17note that each of the sample files are raw 8-bit signed PCM ".NTI" format 18files.
I just updated the Tetra_Compositor_Ultimate_SoundTracker_Sample_Disks.zip file (two messages above), so you might want to re-download it.
I was compiling a pack of the sample disks (as well as the samples included with Tetra Compositor) that were renamed with regular DOS short filenames (for use with any DOS tracker), and I found a problem:
25 of th samples included with the sample disks were in "IFF" format, and NOT regular raw format. This causes problems with Tetra Compositor, as well as most any other DOS tracker that doesn't support "IFF" format samples (weird clicks and such when the Tracker tries to play back the info data/header contained within those specific samples).
Anyhow, I've converted those 25 samples to regular raw format (headerless 8-bit mono signed PCM sample files) 😀
Here are all of the Tetra Compositor sample files and Ultimate SoundTracker sample disks, all nicely renamed with descriptive short filenames for use with most any DOS Tracker 😀
Note that these ALSO include my fix mentioned directly above (which is when I discovered the problem detailed above... when I was compiling THIS pack).
The included readme:
1DOS Tracker Tetra Compositor and Ultimate SoundTracker Sample Disks (Rev. C) 2---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3"Tetra Compositor" was a "Tracker" format music composing program for DOS 4computers, and was coded and released by Bram Graveland back in 1991. The 5program shipped with set of 61 instrument samples for composing Tracker format 6music using the program. 7 8"Ultimate SoundTracker" was a "Tracker" format music composing program for 9Amiga computers, and was coded and released by Karsten Obarski back in 1987. 10The program shipped with an additional five floppy disks ("ST-01" through 11"ST-05") that contained instrument samples for composing Tracker format music 12using the program. 13 14The files included in this archive were all of the samples that were included 15with Tetra Compositor, as well as all of the samples that were included with 16the five sample disks that were included with Ultimate SoundTracker, and have 17been renamed using descriptive short filenames for use with most any DOS 18Tracker format music composing program. 19 20Note that each of the sample disks have been organized by subdirectory within 21the archive, and that each of the sample files are raw 8-bit signed PCM ".SAM" 22format files.
Attached is a ZIP containing Fast Tracker II v2.09a, as well as a pre-configured version of DOSBox v0.72 that includes a MIDI input patch (downloaded from here in the forum).
From the included readme:
1Fast Tracker II v2.09a and DOSBox v0.72 MIDI Input Patch 2-------------------------------------------------------- 3The files included in this archive consist of an installation of "Fast Tracker 4II v2.09a", which was a "Tracker" format music composing program for DOS, and 5was updated and released by Magnus Högdahl and Fredrik Huss of the demo group 6"Triton" back in 1999. 7 8Also included is an installation of DOSBox version 0.72 that has been patched 9to enable MIDI input functions when running Fast Tracker II, as well as several 10handy Windows start menu shortcuts for your Windows desktop (or start menu). 11 12Both programs have been optimally pre-configured to run "out of the box" on 13most computers, with only a few minor configuration changes to DOSBox: 14 151) Unzip the "SBLive" directory contained in the 16 "Fast_Tracker_II_v2.09a_and_DOSBox_v0.72_MIDI_Input_Patch.zip" archive to 17 the root of your hard drive, maintaining the directory structure of the 18 archive in verbatim. 19 202) Unzip the included Windows shortcuts contained in the "Start Menu" directory 21 in the "Fast_Tracker_II_v2.09a_and_DOSBox_v0.72_MIDI_Input_Patch.zip" 22 archive to the usual location on your hard drive in verbatim. 23 243) Edit the DOSBox configuration file "DOSBox.conf" (located in the 25 "C:\SBLive\Fast Tracker II\DOSBox" directory) using Windows Notepad to 26 select the proper MIDI input device (usually "inconfig=0"). 27 28 Refer to the "DOSBox v0.72 MIDI Input Patch Devices.txt" file (located in 29 the "C:\SBLive\Fast Tracker II\DOSBox\Documentation" directory) for more 30 information about configuring the MIDI input and output devices for this 31 patched version 0.72 of DOSBox. 32 334) Click the "Fast Tracker II" icon, and then begin composing some awesome 34 retro tracker music! 35 36The following is a brief description of the directories located in the Fast 37Tracker II installation directory: 38 39FASTRACK\CONFIG = This directory contains a backup of the archive's default 40 Fast Tracker II configuration files. 41FASTRACK\DOCS = Refer to the files contained in this directory for detailed 42 Fast Tracker II documentation, help, information, and 43 manuals. 44FASTRACK\SAM = Copy your digital "IFF", "RAW", "SAM", "SMP", and "WAV" 45 format sample files to this directory. Note that your "RAW", 46 "SAM", and "SMP" sample files should be in raw 8-bit signed 47 "PCM" format to be compatible with Fast Tracker II. 48FASTRACK\XI = Copy your Fast Tracker II "XI" format instrument files to 49 this directory. 50FASTRACK\XM = Copy your "MOD" and Fast Tracker II "XM" format module files 51 to this directory. 52FASTRACK\XP = Copy your Fast Tracker II "XP" format pattern files to this 53 directory. 54FASTRACK\XT = Copy your Fast Tracker II "XT" format track files to this 55 directory. 56 57Note that the DOSBox keymapper file "Mapper.txt" has been slightly edited in 58order to prevent conflicts when using the keyboard shortcuts that Fast Tracker 59II supports. Simply press the "SHIFT" key on your keyboard, in conjunction with 60the usual DOSBox keyboard shortcuts:
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61 62SHIFT+ALT+ENTER = Switch to full screen and back. 63SHIFT+ALT+PAUSE = Pause emulation. 64SHIFT+CTRL+F4 = Change between mounted disk-images, update directory cache 65 for all drives. 66SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+F5 = Start/Stop creating a movie of the screen (AVI video 67 capturing). 68SHIFT+CTRL+F5 = Save a screenshot (PNG). 69SHIFT+CTRL+F6 = Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file. 70SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+F7 = Start/Stop recording of OPL commands. 71SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+F8 = Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands. 72SHIFT+CTRL+F7 = Decrease Frameskip. 73SHIFT+CTRL+F8 = Increase Frameskip. 74SHIFT+CTRL+F9 = Terminate DOSBox. 75SHIFT+CTRL+F10 = Capture/Release the mouse cursor. 76SHIFT+CTRL+F11 = Slow down emulation (Decrease DOSBox Cycles). 77SHIFT+CTRL+F12 = Speed up emulation (Increase DOSBox Cycles). 78SHIFT+ALT+F12 = Unlock speed (Turbo button). 79 80Also note that I have set Fast Tracker II's predefined "Panning Envelopes" 81(which can be found within Fast Tracker II's "Instrument Edit" screen) to the 82following: 83 84Predefined 1 = Default Fast Tracker II Panning Envelopes 1 through 6. 85Predefined 2 = 100% Left Panning Envelope. 86Predefined 3 = 050% Left Panning Envelope. 87Predefined 4 = 000% Centered Panning Envelope. 88Predefined 5 = 050% Right Panning Envelope. 89Predefined 6 = 100% Right Panning Envelope. 90 91This is to assist with composing standard Amiga 4-channel "Ultimate 92SoundTracker" or "ProTracker" "MOD" format modules. On an Amiga computer 93running the Ultimate SoundTracker or ProTracker music composing programs, the 94four channels are hard-panned to the following: 95 96Channel 1 = Left (Lead) 97Channel 2 = Right (Accompaniment) 98Channel 3 = Right (Bass) 99Channel 4 = Left (Percussion) 100 101Lastly, note that the preset "User Defined" color scheme is of my own creation, 102and is how I've been using Fast Tracker II for well over a decade :)
Of course, this whole schmear works GREAT with the DOS_Tracker_Tetra_Compositor_and_Ultimate_SoundTracker_Sample_Disks.zip" sample pack that I uploaded previously 😀
P.S. Why the "inconfig=4" in the "DOSBox.conf" file (that you'll probably need to edit), as well as the "SBLive" directory in the ZIP (that FYI, all of the WIndows shortcuts point to)? Simply because that's how it is on my PC <grin> 😀
Hehe, been messing around with Fast Tracker 2 for a short time (with all of it's options set to be as Amiga ProTracker compatible as possible), and the above-said ST-## sample disks... and here is the resulting ".MOD" file:
Attached is a ZIP contianing my new Techno "MOD" format "Tracker" song, "Not Enough Sleep!"... which is what I was severely lacking when I composed this song last night!
Hehe, my own custom color schemes for Fast Tracker II (that I've used for over a decade), as well as MilkyTracker (well, as close as I can get MT to looking like FT2 <grin>) 😀
Similar to my "DOS_Tracker_Tetra_Compositor_and_Ultimate_SoundTracker_Sample_Disks.zip" archive above, here are all of the Tetra Compositor sample files and Ultimate SoundTracker sample disks, all nicely renamed with descriptive LONG filenames for use with most any Windows Tracker 😀
The included readme:
1Windows Tracker Tetra Compositor and Ultimate SoundTracker Sample Disks 2----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3"Tetra Compositor" was a "Tracker" format music composing program for DOS 4computers, and was coded and released by Bram Graveland back in 1991. The 5program shipped with set of 61 instrument samples for composing Tracker format 6music using the program. 7 8"Ultimate SoundTracker" was a "Tracker" format music composing program for 9Amiga computers, and was coded and released by Karsten Obarski back in 1987. 10The program shipped with an additional five floppy disks ("ST-01" through 11"ST-05") that contained instrument samples for composing Tracker format music 12using the program. 13 14The files included in this archive were all of the samples that were included 15with Tetra Compositor, as well as all of the samples that were included with 16the five sample disks that were included with Ultimate SoundTracker, and have 17been renamed using descriptive long filenames for use with most any Windows 18Tracker format music composing program. 19 20Note that each of the sample disks have been organized by subdirectory within 21the archive, and that each of the sample files are raw 8-bit signed PCM ".8svx" 22format files.
Attached is a ZIP containing my first "Chiptune" styled Tracker song, "The Gayme Boy". The song uses only three basic waveforms (à la Nintendo GameBoy DMG-01 style), and is some (new) retro GameBoy music goodness at it's best 😀
P.S. A video of Fast Tracker II playing the tune here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkzyjZw44sE (note that the attached ZIP below is a slightly extended version of the YouTube video).
P.P.S. For all of the "PC Police" (although, I could NOT CARE LESS), "Gay" = "HAPPY" 😀
P.P.S. For all of the "PC Police" (although I could CARE LESS), "Gay" = "HAPPY" 😀
Sorry this is not even close to on topic, but I've often wondered why Americans say "could care less" when they seem to mean "couldn't care less", and so I'm taking this opportunity to ask!
So what's with that? Is it sarcasm, and you really could not care less, or do you still have a little bit of care left for the PC Police? 😕
Sorry this is not even close to on topic, but I've often wondered why Americans say "could care less" when they seem to mean "couldn't care less", and so I'm taking this opportunity to ask!
So what's with that? Is it sarcasm, and you really could not care less, or do you still have a little bit of care left for the PC Police? 😕
Hehe you are correct about my incorrect grammar... I should have said "could not" <grin> 😀