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.
