I made a tune on FT2 back in 1996, it was so fun recording, can't find the tape cassette anywhere with the song though :( i'm gonna download this program again,, and try remake it for teh lolz
+CoLDSToRAGEOfficial Thanks for creating this beautiful piece in the first place ;-) Delighted to get such a compliment from the author himself. More remixes of mine here: soundcloud.com/andreamilana/sets/vintage-game-remixes Cheers!
The best compliment there is... someone taking the time to cover my music. Many thanks for creating this video - really impressed by the quality of this remix. ;)
Man, this takes me back to the first time I played Harlequin. The Clockworks was such an atmospheric level, thanks for putting this together, it's awesome! :D
I used to use FT2 too, loved it. Some years ago I discovered Renoise and was chuffed as fuck to find that it's compatible with .XM and .XI files, and even most of the keyboard shortcuts are the same too.
Nice one mate, good to hear some others work done in fast tracker. I used this a lot in the mid 90's, check out some of my tunes under "Techno/Hard Trance" on my page, these were all done using fastracker II also.
Well thing is it was a DOS program so even if you do get it, you would have to run it on an old machine with a compatible sound card since it would not have drivers for the latest soundcards. By old pc I mean a 486 with a old version of the sound blaster card.
I never did use the Fast Tracker. Once I came across the Impulse Tracker, I was stuck on that like glue. For some reason the format of it just all made sense to me. The way Fast Tracker looked to me was quite complicated. Even though they are in the same category of Tracker and do basically the same thing, I felt the IT was simpler to use overall.
Opposite for me, I started with scream tracker and then switched to Fasttracker II. Guess I was too used to the interface, impulse tracker I just never seemed to get into. Really wish there was a version that worked in windows though
I tried the milky tracker, its actually not bad. Sound is true to the original, found it useful to extract and re export wav's from my existing files. I use Reason now, yet the one thing I loved most about trackers which I have yet to see a DAW do is be able to move through a sample's position/ start position/offset etc in detail, I mean you can in Reason but you can't automate it. Fast Tracker this was used as a way to emulate filters, and I remember getting some truly unique effects which can't be replicated in most Daw's ironically.
digitalfemdroid agreed - its seems a few dedicated FT fanboys have managed to skew internet perception (and maybe even recorded tracking history) A LOT! FT and its clones (including the now popular milky tracker) have no real advantages over Impulse Tracker (or its clone that works on newer OSs Schism Tracker), there main argument is the UI but both are alien to a non tracker plus FTs will take at least 3 months to learn where as you can get ITs down in around 3 days. The fanboys have made FT2 / Milky Tracker the go to for tracker newbys who in turn become fanboys and who ALWAYS seem confused as to why most of the better music was tracked in IT back in the day, this is the reason IT is talked down upon in forums and articles. Its pretty messed up because fanboyism aside IT is the easier to use and better tracker by far.
Should check the basement for my old 80486. I used to use it for st3/fast and impulse tracker. I hope the HDD still contains it all. If so I let all know, I'll share all the files and samples<3
Hi, I continue working on videogame remixes regularly; I release one per month on the italian "Archeologia Videoludica" podcast. In the past summer episode "Speciale Remix´12", you can actually find 10 of my remixes released during the past year. Next one to come is Heaven on Earth - Altered Beast Remix´12, which this time is gonna be a proper song; not to be missed! believe me ;-) Check archeologiavideoludica[dot]net to find the "3x00 Speciale Remix '12" compilation. All the Best! andrea
This is kind of old school now :) Used FT2 back in the late 90s and it was great. The amount of work you had to do manually was very big indeed, but all the more rewarding.
