Scream Tracker

The Scream Tracker is a tracker, that is a multitrack sequencer for digital sound of the Finnish demo group Future Crew. It was published initially in 1990 and was in the 1990s one of the most popular and trend- trackers. He found, inter alia, Application for the creation of music for computer games (eg, One Must Fall ) as well as for multimedia real-time demos that were developed by the demo scene, for example, Second Reality.

History

The Tracker was developed in C and assembly language programming as for the PC with DOS as the operating system. The 1990 published version 2.2 was the first, which gained popularity. The tracker format STM, which was developed with the Scream Tracker v2.2, supported only four channels, such as the prototypical imaging MOD format. Later versions extended the capabilities of the tracker format, which has now been identified by the file extension S3M. The last published version of Scream Tracker was 3:21 in 1994.

The Scream Tracker was a model for many later tracker, such as the Fast Tracker or Impulse Tracker.

Technical Details

The Scream Tracker sat only requires a 80386SX along with VGA graphics card and of course a sound card for use. From Scream Tracker 3.0 8-bit samples were up to 100, supports 32 channels / tracks, 100 patterns and 256 sequence positions at Komponierung and in the Tracker S3M format. In addition, the tracker could handle nine FM synthesis channels on sound cards using the OPL2/3/4-Chipsätzen, and - uncommon at the time - use digital channels and FM instruments simultaneously. However, the FM synthesis capability was rarely used by Tracker musicians.

Successors and clones

  • Impulse Tracker
  • FastTracker
  • MilkyTracker
  • GoatTracker
  • Schism Tracker
  • See also List of Trackers
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