[linux-audio-user] composing with trackers

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:46, Leonard Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:55 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > Trackers seem to have come along at a time just before cheap samplers
> > hit the market, which might have drawn attention away from the
> > developing tracker communities. Nevertheless, those communities remain
> > strong, a lot of people like to make music with trackers, and I don't
> > think they're overly concerned with their lack of popular success. ;)
>
> I started tracking when i was 15 years old, because it was virtually the
> only method to get your hands on something that worked like a sampler.

Hi Leonard. I DL'd all the chippy stuff last night, and am working my way 
through it now, with occidental nemesis playing at the moment. Really nice 
track.  I'll DL the dance stuff next, but there's about 5 pages of that.

James Shuttlworth who uses Cheestracker used to post quite a bit of stuff, but 
hasn't done so for ages now.

I have Cheestracker, Soundtracker, a couple of Windows ones that work under 
Wine, and most recently your Aldrin, but still only have the original 
release, and havn't got around to updating it yet (keep getting distracted).

Perhaps I'm getting a bit old at 58, but I like dance, trance, and all that 
sort of stuff.  I had a step sequencer (Making Waves) when I used Windows, 
and made a few tunes with that.  I have GB's of .wav sound samples from 
magazine cover discs, and as I've never been able to get Making Waves running 
properly under Wine, a tracker seemed the way to go. Up to now though, I seem 
to have spent more time playing other peoples tracker files on them, than 
doing anything constructive.

What would be nice would be a really good tutorial with lots of examples. 
James put quite a few tips on using Cheestracker up on his site, and I found 
other bits and pieces on the Internet.

Perhaps I should just try harder, remove the distractions (mailing list 
emails), and have a real go at putting a tune together.

Thanks for all the tunes you've made available.

Nigel.

btw. I will be upgrading Aldrin today. I've got it installed on FC5.