Atari ST Mod Tracker? (MOD, MED, IT, s3m, etc)

[MoonTurtle]

Is anyone aware of any MOD players for Atari ST? I'm aware that the Atari 400/800 computers have their own mod trackers similar to ProTracker, FastTracker, and/or Impulse-Tracker, but does the Atari ST have anything to offer?

[amiman99]

I'm pretty sure there is a Protracker for STE...

Fast Google search...and

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50030

[A8Watcher_808]

There are quite a few. The ones I remember using back in the day would be Digicomp, protracker, and I think Paula. I'm sure they've improved some by now especially for the STE.

 

Try checking out http://atari.music.free.fr/main.php?UMICH Sound 

[MoonTurtle]

4 hours ago, A8Watcher_808 said:

There are quite a few. The ones I remember using back in the day would be Digicomp, protracker, and I think Paula. I'm sure they've improved some by now especially for the STE.

 

Try checking out http://atari.music.free.fr/main.php?UMICH Sound 

Thanks for the link! This seems to be what I'm looking for, though I ran into an issue while on that site.

 

I can download both .lzh and .zip files from that site, but not the .Z files in the "Sounds" section, is there a way around this?

[Cyprian]

https://dhs.nu/files.php?t=digieditor

and

https://dhs.nu/files.php?t=musicplayer

Edited July 3, 2020 by Cyprian_K

[ataricrypt]

Oh go on, I'll get mine in too... STe players : https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2016/02/players.html

Personally I love them all and Sirius is great. But if you're not using STe then ProTracker was ace as I remember.

[+DarkLord]

Grab Hextracker.  It's recent, supported still and the author is great. He even worked

his butt off getting it to work on my Pak 68 equipped STacy. 

 

Hextracker_0.849.zip

 

Not sure which version this is (have several lying around) so you might need to grab

a different one.

 

Another fun (read visual!) one is CD Player:

 

CDPLAY_E.ZIP

 

Hope this helps! 

 

[Cyprian]

On 7/5/2020 at 9:08 PM, ataricrypt said:

Oh go on, I'll get mine in too... STe players : https://ataricrypt.blogspot.com/2016/02/players.html

Personally I love them all and Sirius is great. But if you're not using STe then ProTracker was ace as I remember.

cool website

[MoonTurtle]

Thank you all for the help!

 

Something of interest I recently came across, I came across a game called ThunderHawk, relased in 1991 by Core Design for many platforms, including the Atari ST, most of the music in the game is digitized, and was composed with a music program called Quartet, released in 1990 by Microdeal, brought this up as it may be of interest.

 

I assume, seeing as Quartet was released the same year as ProTracker for the Amiga, that it was likely made to compete with Protracker as well as give the ST some more advanced sound,  though I don't know if it makes sense to call Quartet a mod tracker in the same vein as ProTracker or 1987's Ultimate Soundtracker(also for Amiga) 

 

You can listen to Thunderhawk's ST soundtrack here:

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-thunderhawk-ah-73m_10609.html

 

And here is Quartet, the program used to compose the digital music.

http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-st-quartet_29599.html

 

Other Atari ST games using Quartet:

 

Wrath Of The Demon

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-wrath-of-the-demon_24899.html

Fire & Brimstone

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-fire-and-brimstone_20997.html

Supremacy

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-supremacy_11476.html

Projectyle

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-projectyle_10309.html

 

Excellent post talking a bit in-depth about Quartet and games using it:

https://stevewetherill.com/2013/09/07/projectyle-atari-stamiga-music/

 

Now obviously Atari ST games did (occasionally) use digitized sound effects and music before Quartet was released,(Like Sidewinder, Knight Force, Narco Police, and some Bitmap Brothers games) but Quartet possibly made it easier to do such things, though since I have yet to use it. I can't tell for sure.

[Cyprian]

I spent a lot of hours playing Thunderhawk,

What a great game.