Category: Amiga

  • protrekkr updated to 2.5

    “ProTrekkr (formerly known as NoiseTrekker by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius aka Arguru) is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, etc.) for small sized intros, demos or games.”

    Changlog:

    – Improved midi in/out support (notably by adding velocity).
    – Default instruments volumes are always turned on now
    as they’re used for midi output.
    – Added 3 new themes.
    – Tracker sometimes crashed at exit when using midi.
    – Mouse wheel activated for horizontal patterns slider.
    – Fixed a small issue with vu meters values.
    – Number of effects columns is now selectable (from 1 to 4).
    – Added synth oscillators combiner.
    – Each track now have separate volume.
    – Added lo/med/hi bands equalizers for each track.
    – Delay send had precedence over command 10
    when updating track tab during play.
    – Fixed up reverb code (should sound cleaner too)
    and added stereo separation parameter.
    – Flanger speeded up.
    – Right mouse button in lists arrows is now active
    (jump to previous/next letter group for files lists).
    – Added 13 new (converted) modules for testing purposes
    also improved (?) older modules to take advantage of new features.
    – A file name can now be passed as argument to the tracker, it will
    be loaded at startup (can load any file recognized by the tracker).
    (this can be used to associate .ptk files to the tracker).
    – Default repeat loop row is now 0 (was disabled before).
    – Improved .mod/.ft import.
    – Glide effect (5) should now work with synth instruments.
    – Tracks data weren’t displayed properly sometimes.
    – Fixed a bug in tracks filters.
    – Implemented insert or delete track functions.
    – Tracks can now be rendered to .wav in their own separate file.
    – Tracks panning changing are now smoothed.
    – Live recording strategy improved.
    – Implemented a midi automation system to control elements of the tracker
    from a midi device (like a master keyboard).
    – Added effect 25: Set shuffle value.
    – Metronome implemented (used during recording).
    – Fullscreen mode is now used with current screen resolution.
    – Handled latency at recording startup (so visuals should be synched to audio).

    protrekkr – Project Hosting on Google Code.

  • Underscore (Goto80 & Fabio Dondero)

    Video by Fabio Dondero 2010. Song released as free MP3 in _2_4X4 and as super CD music on Lowbitfever. Made on Amigaaaaaaaaa!

    via GOTO80

  • Protracker SDL

    I been keeping an eye out for this and decided to post it now because it seems a lot more usable, but it’s still in early stages.

    8bit Bubsy has decided to port Protracker 1.3B to SDL.
    “ProTracker SDL is a platform independent rewrite of the classic ProTracker software from the Amiga platform.”

    The link to download the Win32 version and source (so you can compile it for other platrforms)is here

    This is by far one of my favourite ProTracker versions so I recommend you to try it and keep an eye out for this project’s progress.

  • Dekadence & Accession – Grind (2010)

    The 2010 edition of Asssembly has left us with a bunch of nice stuff to chew on. As it appears on the Interweb, properly captured in YouTube pleasure, I will make a good selection and post it next week, because I am leaving on tour (Mexico + Japan) and I won’t be able to update this column until I return, which will be more than a month.

    So, for now, I leave you with the winner of the oldschool competition. An Amiga demo, running, allegedly, on a 68030 @ 25Mhz, which by today’s Amiga demoscene standards (060 @ 100Mhz), it’s  pretty low spec and it means my 030@50 can happily run it. Yay!

    Very cool work from Britelite and very interesting metal-inspired vibe.

    Enjoy

  • Xmp modplayer for Android appeared

    The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player for Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX and MacOS X, and also QNX, BeOS, Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Xmp plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC. There are experimental plugins for Audacious, Beep Media Player, XMMS and Winamp.

    Download.

    Thanks Peter Kirn!