Reliving my Pro-Tracker Days :)

[h0ffman]

This weekend I finally got around to completing my A1200 tower setup, pretty Ghetto at the moment with cables hanging out the back, but it worked!. My main intent for this is to write a protracker tune for the forthcoming Sundown demo party, which at last I shall be attending this year. I'm pleased to find that my old way of thinking when writting tunes in protracker hasn't been lost, forward thinking to the elements you are writting and the restrictions you have with only 4 channels. Now I'm just hoping the file size restriction wont be too low as my samples are pretty high quality (or an amiga anyway).

ProTracker, simply the best!

Anyone else actually writting any new mods these days?

[daxb]

Originally Posted by h0ffman

ProTracker, simply the best!

Indeed!

Anyone else actually writting any new mods these days?

Unfortunately only from time to time. I wish you much fun tracking.

BTW. Ask about the filesize limit. Could save a lot of work.

[h0ffman]

Originally Posted by daxb

Indeed!

Unfortunately only from time to time. I wish you much fun tracking.

BTW. Ask about the filesize limit. Could save a lot of work.

Have done, RC55 has not specified as yet, a quick downsample of a couple of the big ones should surfice.

[slk486]

Originally Posted by h0ffman

Anyone else actually writting any new mods these days?

Just got hold of an Amiga again and am waiting for some stuff, before I can use it. Am aching to use ProTracker again, though. Haven't got any of my old samples anymore, so will have to look for the ST collections and use the good old hallbrass, etc

Never made it to any parties back in the day - too shy, I guess. Where's Sundown at?

[h0ffman]

Originally Posted by slk486

Just got hold of an Amiga again and am waiting for some stuff, before I can use it. Am aching to use ProTracker again, though. Haven't got any of my old samples anymore, so will have to look for the ST collections and use the good old hallbrass, etc

Never made it to any parties back in the day - too shy, I guess. Where's the Sundown at?

Its in Devon in the UK. Your more than welcome to rip any samples you find in any of my old modules, but to be honest, I think I ripped a lot of them anyhow :S

[slk486]

Originally Posted by h0ffman

Its in Devon in the UK. Your more than welcome to rip any samples you find in any of my old modules, but to be honest, I think I ripped a lot of them anyhow :S

Thanks h0ffman I remember scrounging for good sources on CD's an LP's, but there was a Snap CD that had a track with samples, which was neat.

Ripped a lot myself

[Amiga1992]

I am going the same way.
I recently re-installed Protracker in my 2MB A600 and am going at it.
I see how my new experience on music making has changed, actually, the way I cope with Protracker. I feel I use it a lot better than I did when I was a teen!

I plan to release a musicdisk this year. I also imposed myself one limitation: to use only the ST-XX disks for samples, trying to make them sound the best possible without making the archetypical Amiga MOD from the 90s

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1.3 baby! xD

[Angus]

Originally Posted by h0ffman

ProTracker, simply the best!

Anyone else actually writting any new mods these days?

I still think highly of Protracker.

I've been trying to get to grips with Ableton live on the pc to do what I used to do with Protracker, basically sort out a drums, bass and keyboard backing track that I can do some guitar widdling over the top of. Unfortunately, I found Protracker a lot easier to understand and work with.

Maybe I'll work it out.

[daxb]

Originally Posted by Akira

I am going the same way.
I recently re-installed Protracker in my 2MB A600 and am going at it.

Try to get at least a 512kb Fast-Ram expansion card that saves you some Chip-Ram for your mods.

[slk486]

I use Ableton Live on occasion, but I feel I'd really need a midi keyboard to have the control that I would like and I don't feel at home in it. Used Fasttracker on PC a lot in the late nineties, which had the same layout and controls as Protracker. I felt at home in that

Can't wait to use Protracker again.

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by daxb

Try to get at least a 512kb Fast-Ram expansion card that saves you some Chip-Ram for your mods.

I'm running on a 2MB A600 so I have no problem.

Ableton Live is the ONLY software I can use besides a tracker. It's really good stuff, specially for live performance, where a tracker is much more limited.