History Of Tracking
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A sum up list of trackers
I won't detail you each version of Soundtrackers (It would need a whole bible ;-), but here are the main Soundtrackers known and there authors. (Notice that all were Scene Demogroups).
As well I won't talk about Players/Replayers or rippers.
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Soundtracker Series |
Coders |
Release Date |
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Ultimate Soundtracker 1.0 |
Karsten Obarski |
December 1987 |
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MasterSoundtracker 1.0 |
Tip of The New Masters (TNM)
There's probably a version By Exterminator of Jungle Command. |
1987
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MasterSoundtracker 1.21 PAL |
Karsten Obarski |
1987 |
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Soundtracker 2.1 |
Unknown of DOC
Colorful Spectrum Analyzer |
1988 |
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Soundtracker 2.2 |
Unknown of DOC |
1988 |
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Soundtracker 2.3 |
Mnemotron
(and still credited on coding as well : Karsten Obarski,Exterminator, Tip and Unknown) |
April 1989 |
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Soundtracker 2.4 |
Mnemotron |
29/07/1989 |
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Soundtracker 2.5 |
Mnemotron/Mahoney & Kaktus/Spreadpoint
(Fixes a display bug in v2.4)
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27/08/1989 |
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Soundtracker 2.6 |
Mnemotron of Spreadpoint |
? |
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Soundtracker 3.0 |
Tip / Prophets AG
(According to the font design and evolution, this tracker seems to be a parallel version to MasterSoundtracker v1.0 more than a continuing of v2.5 or later...) |
Probably 1988 |
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Soundtracker 4.0 |
Alpha Flight
(based on MasterSoundtracker 1.21, so it seems to confirm the fact that 3.0/4.0 are prior versions to soundtracker 2.1) |
7/04/1988 |
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Soundtracker Pro |
Marco Nelissen |
? |
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Soundtracker Pro II 2.4 |
Marco Nelissen |
1996 |
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Clones Series |
Coders |
Release Date |
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Noisetracker 1.0 |
Mahoney & Kaktus (NorthStar/Silents)
Noticed as an improved version of Soundtracker v2.3 by Mnemotron
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July - August 1989 |
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Noisetracker 1.1 |
Same as mentioned previously |
1989 |
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Startrekker 1.2 |
Exolon / Fairlight
(including FM/AM/Midi support and -buggy- 8 channels) |
Probably 1990 or later |
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Protracker 1.0A |
Amiga Freelancers |
26/8/1990 |
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Protracker 1.1B |
Lars "Zap " Hamre / Amiga Freelancers |
January 1991
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Protracker 2.3A |
Peter 'Crayon' Hanning - Noxious |
1/1/1993 |
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Protracker 3.15 |
The Cryptoburners |
1993 |
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Protracker 3.61 |
The last official version of Protracker. |
1996 |
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Osiris |
Protracker clone by Tom Beyer |
1996 |
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Independent Series |
Coders |
Release Date |
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Sound FX 1.3 |
C.A. Weber/C.Haller
Edited by Linel Switzerland |
1988 |
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Sound FX 1.7 |
Same as mentioned previously |
1989 |
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8-voices soundtracker |
Shining ( ?)
The First ever 8 voices tracker |
1989 |
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Oktalyzer 1.1 |
A.Sander / Verlag Mayer |
1989
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TFMX-Editor 1.5 |
By Chris Hüslbeck & Peter Thierolf. (A.U.D.I.O.S.)
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1989 |
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Med 2.13 |
Music EDitor By T. Kinnunen – 63 samples! |
8/4/1990 |
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OctaMed 1.0 |
T.Kinnunen - the 8 voices version of MED. Was released as a parallel version, then MED was logically abandoned for OctaMED. |
20/5/1991 |
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OctaMed Professional 6 |
T.Kinnunen - Voted best music program in 95 by ‘Amiga Magazine’ (commercial release) |
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OctaMed Soundstudio |
T.Kinnunen - The last version of OctaMed on Amiga |
August 1996 |
Tom Beyer has made one of the latest known official Amiga trackers
in 1996: Protracker 3.61 -at least this is THE LAST official (and non-beta) version of Protracker-
Also the latest Soundtracker version is known as Soundtracker Pro II v2.4. by Marco Nelissen in 1996.
(<-Soundtracker Pro II v2.4. snapshot)
It wouldn’t help much to establish a list by version number, simply because each coders named their own version number, regardless to any other, (developing parallel versions) so a chronology it could looks strange. For example, you could find a Soundtracker version 6.0 by DOC, in 1987...
Therefore, to help you better understand the Soundtracker evolution, here’s a scheme, sum up of the major evolutions from the original Ultimate Soundtracker.
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