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I read, back in the days, "trackers" were used for electronic music composition. But I don't know if that was the case for game music.
by k__ 5y ago
I read, back in the days, "trackers" were used for electronic music composition. But I don't know if that was the case for game music.
- Sharlin 5y agoA lot of game music was also composed with trackers, including some big titles like the original Unreal and others using its engine such as Deus Ex. But tracker music is all about arranging digital samples on a multi-track timeline, requiring an audio output that can play digitized multi-channel sound in the first place…
- nitrogen 5y agoScream Tracker 3 did have an Adlib output mode, and there were a few .s3m files out there that used Adlib FM instruments instead of sampled instruments.
- addingnumbers 5y agoStar Control 2 famously used music composed in MOD trackers, they even had part of the UI show a waveform of the music during dialog with the aliens. It was seeing a bunch of .MOD files on the floppy that first prompted me to download a mod tracker back in the BBS days.
- camtarn 5y agoHaha, yeah - many years later, finding the .IT files in the original Unreal Tournament and downloading a tracker was what got me into composing music on the PC. It was wonderful having the music available in such a reverse-engineerable format.