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Technology / tracker + Pros + – Cons – export
1-bit Well delimited field: it will boost your creativity. You don't need to bother with instrument creation (unless you program your own beeper engine Restricted possibilities: you can feel somehow limited
Beepola very easy to use, compact and efficient (only one binary) Only for windows, but works well with wine. Closed source 1-bit spectrum beeper
1tracker Open-source 1-bit spectrum beeper
houston tracker 2 native to TI calculators. Quite easy to use and intuitive once you get used to it. Open-source several keys to learn Texas instrument calc beeper
milkytracker + beeper engine Open-source needs a converter + z80 compiler 1-bit spectrum beeper
8-bit The true sound of chiptunes can be somehow repetitive
DefleMask multiplateform (win/linux/mac os x). Easy to use. multichip closed source YAMAHA YM2612, Texas Instruments SN76489 PSG, Z80 Game Boy, Hudson Soft HuC6280, Ricoh 2A03, MOS Technology SID, YAMAHA YM2151, SEGA PCM
Famitracker very intuitive and easy. Open-source native to windows only / works well with wine NES
GoatTracker Works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. Rather easy to use interface. Can import / export xm midi. Open-source Difficult to create new instruments SID
lsdj closed source gameboy
maxYMiser good manual. Powerful. interface is clumbersome and a bit cramped. Quite ifficult to create new instrument. Closed source sndh (atari)
musicmon quite easy to create good instruments some parts of the tracker are really awkward (orderlist). Almost no manual. Closed source sndh (atari)
SidWizard Native to C64: runs everywhere with an emulator. Can import and export to midi, to xm. Easy and well designed interface. Open-source No mouse, no fancy, no high resolution screen SID
starkos very well designed interface and shortcuts. The player is open source The tracker part is closed source. ym (amstrad cpc)
vortex tracker 2 closed source ay url
> 8-bit more "possibilities" sometimes "fakebit" (samples)
amusic fm opl2 synthesis dos amd (fm)
LMMS easy to use, easy to create new instruments No midi import or export wav
milkytracker mod, xm, it, wav
modplugtracker
klystrack
sunvox
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