Info on the modplug tracker (and related pages) is helping me understand this better. I still don't understand how tracker programs are different from current sequencers (Cubase et al), other than having their own formats that combine compositions with samples and being lower in memory requirements, etc. It seems like some retro purist/hobbyist version of programs that continued to evolve and add more depth and capablilities (but which could still be retro as you wanted them to sound). Like me using MSPaintbrush instead of Photoshop, the difference being there's no scene around MSPaintbrush.
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- tom moody 4-24-2005 2:48 am