If you haven't heard of it, there's another cool tracker making great strides right now, Furnace:<p><a href="https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace">https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace</a><p>Allows you to compose tunes on several chips / platforms in the one song.
Fantastic - I love seeing new tools in service of chipmusic, and this one looks real sleek. The platform agnosticism sort of feels like MML[0] but with a GUI, in that it has the appeal of "one tool, all platforms". I wonder -- what degree of control over platform-specific parameters does the software offer? Some of the greatest artists who have worked on particular platforms possess all sorts of arcane knowledge about the ins-and-outs of their platform, and know how to use (read: abuse) platform-specific quirks to their advantage. (For the curious, Phlogiston[1] is a good example for the 2A03; Trey Frey[2] for the DMG.) I love the generality of the idea, but would be concerned about the level of control I have over platform-specific features.<p>Another thing that I would probably need in order to use this seriously is compilation down to native-compatible file formats for recording from hardware. Can I e.g., export an NSF for the 2A03, a .MED for Octamed playback, some sort of SAV or LSDSNG for the DMG, etc.?<p>It's late here, so I haven't given this a spin yet, but will definitely play around with this soon - fantastic work!! :)<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.nesdev.org/mck_guide_v1.0.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nesdev.org/mck_guide_v1.0.txt</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://phlogiston.bandcamp.com/album/nectar" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://phlogiston.bandcamp.com/album/nectar</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://treyfrey.bandcamp.com/album/refresh" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://treyfrey.bandcamp.com/album/refresh</a>
Cool!<p>If you're on an arch-based distro, when following <a href="https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/blob/master/docs/setup.md#compiling-from-source">https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/blob/master/docs/se...</a>
in the Makefile you have to replace csc by chicken-csc (csc is the Microsoft CSharp compiler), provided by the chicken package. Also not sure why the dependencies don't include mame, but make sure to install it before running.
> Bintracker is written in Scheme, using the CHICKEN Scheme implementation. The full power of Scheme is available at run-time, which means you can program Bintracker... in Bintracker.<p>Amazing! Not only can I enjoy the gameboy sounds but also program them in Lisp!
Awesome, I still work in Renoise tracker today :> trackers are amazing (Renoise support VST3 and other modern stuff - not a chiptune tracker but a full DAW based on fastTracker.).<p>Love to see this though am definitely going to give it a whirl. epic!
This is so incredibly cool. It's such an amazing acknowledgement of this style of music, making it easier to create and consumer chip-styled music - it is also incredibly important that we all continue to support this by creating software so that we can access the legacy music in its original form.<p>*
> macOS builds should be possible with some minor adjustments, though this is currently unsupported. Please get in touch if you manage to get a macOS build running.<p>Has anyone built this on apple silicon yet?
MIT LICENSE<p><a href="https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/blob/master/LICENSE">https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/blob/master/LICENSE</a>
Really cool project!
I think that the home page lacks some audio exemple produced with it or video captures of the software being used to get a better idea of what it's like.
This is awesome.<p>Also I think this is the first time I’ve seen something actually built in scheme (not that I’ve been actively looking, I’m sure there are plenty).
With the simple-ish ui, I thought for a second it was terminal based.<p>With that idea in mind, I googled and found [0]<p>Its the only terminal base tracker explicitly labeled as such on [1]<p>Anyone know of others?<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/danfrz/PLEBTracker">https://github.com/danfrz/PLEBTracker</a><p>[1] <a href="https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=20883" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=20883</a>
Chiptune audio workstation without support for the actual short [looped] sample based chiptunes?<p>Looks like it only support SID, AY, FM, etc. tunes. Just chiptunes missing.<p>Don't take me wrong, still interesting. But should really get terminology straight.