SoundTracker (Unix)

This article is about the Unix-based tracker. For the Amiga program, see Ultimate Soundtracker. For other uses, see Soundtracker (disambiguation).

SoundTracker
Screenshot of tracking in version 0.6.8
Original author(s)	Michael Krause
Stable release	0.6.8 / 2006-02-25
Written in	C
Operating system	X11/Unix
Type	Tracker
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.soundtracker.org

SoundTracker is a free tracker for Unix-like operating systems running X Window System for composing music to be saved in module files.

Description

Its name is a tribute to the 1987 Amiga program Ultimate Soundtracker which is regarded as the first program of this type, while its user interface mostly resembles and indeed functionally mimics Fast Tracker,^[1] one of many popular MS-DOS-based audio trackers, supporting saving in its file formats. It generally renders playback using the OpenCP (à la Cubic Player) engine. SoundTracker uses GTK+ (version 1, now succeeded by version 2) as its widget toolkit, but an unofficial port to GTK+ 2 exists by contributors. For many years, SoundTracker was one of the very few mature audio trackers available for Unix-like operating systems.

References

↑ Matsuoka, Claudio (2007-11-04). "Tracker History Graphing Project". helllabs.org. Retrieved 2011-01-29. Tracker History Graph

Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Andrew J.D. Bowman, (August 9, 2002) Building Sounds for your Applications with SoundTracker, LinuxPlanet
David Phillips, (January 1, 2001) A Profile of SoundTracker, Linux Journal

External links

Official website

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