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THE TRACKER MACHINE

MOD 4

FOUR EIGHT-BIT LOOPS AT A PERIOD, HARD LEFT AND RIGHT · THE TRACKER IS THE ENVELOPE, FIFTY TIMES A SECOND

FOUR EIGHT-BIT LOOPS, HARD LEFT AND RIGHT, AND THE TRACKER THAT DROVE THEM.

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What it is

Four eight-bit loops played at a period, two hard left and two hard right, driven the way a tracker drove them: fifty times a second, with the arpeggio and the volume slide written into the pattern. The filter is on the light. It is the sound of the disk era's intros, and of every tune that played while a title screen waited.

  • Four channels, each a looping eight-bit wave at a period, panned the way the hardware was
  • Drawn waves as well as the classics: saw, square, triangle, sine, PWM
  • The fifty-hertz driver: arpeggios, slides and vibrato at tracker speed
  • The light's filter on or off, and the early machine's roll-off as a model

Hear it

Copper · 125 BPM · 6 tracks, every one on this chip. The app's own render, straight out of the engine; it ships in the app as a project you can open and pull apart.

The library

106 SOUNDS · 12 KITS
LEADS 37KEYS 27BASS 21PADS 11PLUCKS 6EFFECTS 4

The kits

12 kits, every pad a voice of this chip, none of them a sample. The genre kits (trap, jungle, house, dusty, electro, factory, carnival) are written for the music people make now; the rest for the music the chip was born into.

CRACKERDEMOTRACKERKEYGENCHIP MODDISK TRAPDISK JUNGLEDISK HOUSEDISK DUSTYDISK ELECTRODISK FACTORYDISK CARNIVAL

LEADS 37

mod leadmod widemod squaremod thinmod pwmmod pwm widemod softmod whistlemod glidemod warmmod earlymod drawn sawmod drawn hollowmod saw vibmod saw glidemod saw stereomod saw earlymod sq vibmod sq glidemod sq stereomod sq earlymod tri vibmod tri glidemod tri stereomod tri earlymod sine vibmod sine glidemod sine stereomod sine earlymod duty 12mod duty 25mod duty 38mod drawn stairmod drawn combmod drawn spikemod drawn reedmod drawn ramp

KEYS 27

mod bellmod keysmod organmod stabmod arp majormod arp minormod arp octavemod arp maj7mod arp slowmod drawn glassmod saw keysmod saw octave keysmod sq keysmod sq octave keysmod tri keysmod tri octave keysmod sine keysmod sine octave keysmod clavmod vibesmod arp min7mod arp sus4mod arp dimmod arp powermod arp up twomod drawn twinmod drawn organ

BASS 21

mod bassmod submod square bassmod tri bassmod slapmod warm bassmod octave bassmod saw pluck bassmod saw long bassmod saw drop bassmod sq pluck bassmod sq long bassmod sq drop bassmod tri pluck bassmod tri long bassmod tri drop bassmod sine pluck bassmod sine long bassmod sine drop bassmod wide bassmod pwm bass

PADS 11

mod padmod stringsmod warm padmod saw padmod saw choirmod pwm padmod pwm choirmod tri padmod tri choirmod sine padmod sine choir

PLUCKS 6

mod pluckmod harpmod saw pluckmod sq pluckmod tri pluckmod sine pluck

EFFECTS 4

mod windmod hissmod zapmod laser

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