MilkyTracker
{{Short description|Free software music tracker}}
{{Infobox software
| name = MilkyTracker
| logo = MilkyTracker logo.png
| logo size = 50px
| screenshot = Image:MilkytrackerScreenshot.jpg
| caption = MilkyTracker running on Windows XP
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| released = 2005[https://milkytracker.org/docs/ChangeLog.html ChangeLog]
| latest release version = 1.05
| latest release date = {{start date and age|2024|11|25}}{{cite web|url=https://milkytracker.org/news/2024/11/25/version-1.05/|title=1.05 Release Notes}}
| latest preview version =
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| programming language = C++
| operating system = Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MorphOS, AmigaOS, PocketPC, SerenityOS and HaikuOS
| platform =
| language =
| status =
| genre = Music tracker
| license = GPL-3.0-or-later
MilkyPlay: BSD-3-Clause
| website = {{URL|https://milkytracker.org}}
}}
MilkyTracker is a free software{{cite web|url=http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/04/milkytracker-pan-platform-tracker-now-open-source-with-new-features/|title=MilkyTracker Pan-Platform Tracker Now Open Source, with New Features |last=Kirn |first=Peter |website=Create Digital Music|date=14 April 2008 |access-date=2 September 2014}}{{Cite web |url=https://milkytracker.org/news/2018/02/24/version-1.02/ |title=MilkyTracker v1.02 + AmigaPorts fork |last=Deltafire |date=24 February 2018 |website=MilkyTracker}} multi-platform music tracker for composing music in the MOD and XM module file formats.{{cite web|title=Downloads-Multimedia? Multimedia!|date=4 April 2008|access-date=2 September 2014|url=http://punto-informatico.it/2244803_3/Download/News/download-multimedia-multimedia.aspx|website=Punto Informatico|first=Luca|last=Annunziata}}
It is a clone that attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program FastTracker 2,{{cite web|url=http://www.gulli.com/news/9246-netlabels-die-geheime-revolution-2006-07-07|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127085040/http://www.gulli.com/news/9246-netlabels-die-geheime-revolution-2006-07-07|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2013|date=7 July 2006|title=Netlabels - die geheime Revolution|website=Gulli.com|access-date=2 September 2014}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/docs/Elsdon_mmw07.pdf|title=Mobile Music Creation using PDAs and Smartphones|date=2007|journal=Proceedings of the Mobile Music Workshop (MMW-07), Amsterdam, Netherlands|last=Elsdon|first=Ashley|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903085705/http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/docs/Elsdon_mmw07.pdf|archive-date=2014-09-03}}{{cite news |url=http://www.idi.ntnu.no/emner/tdt4290/Rapporter/gruppe2-2007.pdf |title=TDT4290 at IDI/NTNU Group 2 - Norwegian University of Science and Technology |last1=Sandholtbraten |first1=Frode |last2=Gogstad |first2=Jostein |last3=Stokes |first3=Michael |last4=Jensen |first4=Remy |last5=Nielsen |first5=Espen |last6=Beiske |first6=Konrad G |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203172644/http://www.idi.ntnu.no/emner/tdt4290/Rapporter/gruppe2-2007.pdf |archive-date=2015-02-03 }} with special playback modes available for improved Amiga Protracker 2/3 compatibility.{{cite web|url=http://modarchive.org/index.php?article-trackers|title=Tracker Software Overview|website=The Mod Archive|access-date=2 September 2014}}
Module tracking
Module composition or "tracking" is done through the control of multichannel sample playback. An instrument is created by arranging one or more audio samples across a keyboard range. The instrument is then sequenced on a monophonic track that contains note, volume and effect data. A pattern is a series of tracks that are played back simultaneously. A song is then created by arranging the patterns.
Features
MilkyTracker is able to open several legacy music module formats and is able to save in .xm and .mod formats.
Like FastTracker, MilkyTracker contains a sample editor and an instrument editor. The envelope editor of the instrument editor allows the creation of many envelope points and user definable envelope loop points.
MilkyTracker also supports basic (velocity sensitive) note input via MIDI.
Platform support
MilkyTracker supports several operating systems and hardware platforms. These include:
- Microsoft Windows: MilkyTracker runs on Windows 9x, Me, NT, Windows 200x, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11
- Unix-like: MilkyTracker is available for Linux, Android, macOS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and SerenityOS.
- Amiga: A port of MilkyTracker exists for AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS.{{cite web|url=http://archives.aros-exec.org/index.php?function=search&tool=simple&f_fields=milkytracker|title=Milky Tracker in The AROS Archives}}
- Windows Mobile: MilkyTracker can be run on Windows Mobile smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PC and a VDO Dayton car navigation system running Windows CE 4.2.
- Android{{Cite web|title=MilkyTracker - Apps on Google Play|url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.milkytracker.sdl&hl=en_US&gl=US|access-date=2022-01-28|website=play.google.com|language=en}}
- HaikuOS
- Xbox
- GP2x
- Nintendo Wii U{{cite web | url=https://github.com/leandrofriedrich/MilkyTracker/tree/wiiu | title=MilkyTracker - Cross-Platform XM Tracker | website=GitHub }}
- Nintendo Switch{{cite web | url=https://github.com/retronx-team/MilkyTrackerNX | title=MilkyTracker - Cross-Platform XM Tracker | website=GitHub }}
- PlayStation 2{{cite web | url=https://github.com/TheMorc/MilkyTrackerPS2 | title=MilkyTracker - Cross-Platform XM Tracker ported to PlayStation 2 | website=GitHub }}
- PlayStation Portable{{cite web | url=https://github.com/TheMorc/MilkyTrackerPSP | title=MilkyTracker - Cross-Platform XM Tracker ported to PlayStation Portable | website=GitHub }}
- PlayStation Vita{{cite web | url=https://github.com/TheMorc/MilkyTrackerVita | title=MilkyTracker - Cross-Platform XM Tracker ported to PlayStation Vita | website=GitHub }}
History
MilkyTracker is not based on any existing module replay engine. Its core, MilkyPlay, has been in development since the mid-90s, originally as a Digitrakker .MDL player. MilkyTracker development started a decade later for the Pocket PC and it still fully operates on rather humble PDAs. MilkyTracker is and will stay a 2nd generation tracker. There are no plans to add modern tracker features that would break compatibility with FastTracker.
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://milkytracker.org/}}
- {{github|milkytracker/milkytracker}}
Category:Cross-platform free software
Category:Software using the GNU General Public License