It's Critter Time!

Do you like modtracker music? I sure as heck do. I'm gonna link one of my favorite tunes, the Crystal Hammer theme.

https://youtu.be/uRC8QwnPoMY

If you want a whole dang site chock full of modtracker music, https://modarchive.org/ has you covered.

I'm not familiar with the term Mod Tracker, but if I'm understanding correctly, then John Joy Tay's music would count as that, right?

If so, I listen to a ton of their stuff:

if there's something that looks like an arcane excel spreadsheet on it, odds are its tracker music

anyway let me get this classic out of the way real quick


edit: also i feel like if you have any passing interest in tracker music at all you should watch Ahoys video on it. the man does good videos in addition to all the other good ones about videogame weaponry

right there's a module thread here so i HAD to make an account just to mention that time my Nova 2024 entry got featured at the start of an off1k amigamod compilation

heck yeah mod music! my childhood <3

Gotta share this banger by h0ffman and Daytripper, made for Revision 2014.

Rivaclaw wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:14 pm heck yeah mod music! my childhood <3

Gotta share this banger by h0ffman and Daytripper, made for Revision 2014.

YAAAAA PROFESSIONAL TRACKER!!!! the amount of multisample stuff hoffman did to make all of that fit into an amigamod (max 31 samples, each sample is max 128kb so longer samples need to be split up) is insane... makes it even funnier that they found space to add that fakeout keygen tune at the start, along with all the pattern effects they put here and there.

on that note, i am now obliged to post black queen by dreamer:

idadeerz wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:19 pm YAAAAA PROFESSIONAL TRACKER!!!! the amount of multisample stuff hoffman did to make all of that fit into an amigamod (max 31 samples, each sample is max 128kb so longer samples need to be split up) is insane... makes it even funnier that they found space to add that fakeout keygen tune at the start, along with all the pattern effects they put here and there.

on that note, i am now obliged to post black queen by dreamer:

I LOVE that people (like yourself) are still making mod tracker music to this day! I do keep wanting to try it out someday on one of my Amigas. Something I might get around to when I understand some more music theory. ^^;

And now, 90 minutes of module music.

I really like this set of uploads. All stuff which can be found on modarchive I believe.

What do you all use for listening to this stuff on modern systems anyway?

Random Linux distro included audio players rarely seem to have support for these, whereas back in my Windows days Winamp seemed to handle mod, midi, s3m, xm, etc etc out of the box.

Sugar Meowth wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 6:07 pm What do you all use for listening to this stuff on modern systems anyway?

Random Linux distro included audio players rarely seem to have support for these, whereas back in my Windows days Winamp seemed to handle mod, midi, s3m, xm, etc etc out of the box.

for s3xmodit stuff you should ideally get a player that uses/supports libopenmpt.

there's plenty of players that do support module playback, such as VLC, but they suck ass at doing so. i don't know what library VLC uses for playback, but it's super outdated. you can't change sample interpolation so it's always stuck with sinc+lowpass or whatever it is, which makes chiptune and sizemods sound like crap. it also doesn't support any later additions to OpenMPT such as the Amiga resampler it has built-in for .MOD files, OPL support for both .S3M and .MPTM, and, just, the entire .MPTM format in general.

nowadays i tend to just listen to modules straight in OpenMPT. i've also previously used XMPlay. foobar2000 has a libopenmpt plugin as well. the foobar2000 plugin even separates module sequences into their own entries in a playlist, which is really fancy.

I've been using BambooTracker (tracker that emulates the PC98 sound hardware) to make music.
Unsure if it qualifies for this, but I'll toss one of them in here.

It is incumbent on me to plug Skaven (Peter Hajba) here I think. His music inspired me to start making stuff with Impulse Tracker and later Modplug Tracker many many years back. (then I stopped making music for 20 years and only just got back to it)



I make all my stuff in Renoise now, which is a full featured DAW with a tracker interface.