Goattracker ii manual#
Goattracker ii software#
Goattracker ii Pc#

Goattracker ii manual#

This manual page documents briefly the goattracker Just try to keep it simple and have fun.Goattracker - C64 music editor SYNOPSIS ¶ Sooo… Chipmusic and the chip sound is not just ONE thing.

He just smiled at me because on the c64 you only have 3 channels and less memory… …and at the party I was talking to a c64 guy about my tune and me working with restrictions. Managed to do a song like that and entered the comp. …but the thing is… I entered a old school music comp last year and thought it would be fun to use the 4 channel less than 20kb restriction so I went for it. Since I tend to enjoy working with layers I mostly use lots of channels but now and again I want to challenge my selfe and then I go back to the 4 channel restriction. Thats something I never did back in the day but since mixing in the tracker can be cumbersome I finally ended up going the “easy route”

Lately I have started doing some post simple processing and mixing outside the tracker to give the tunes a bit more clarity and punch.

I often use fitting samples regardless of size, but I mix and match with old style hand drawn waveforms. Now a days I don’t care much about file restrictions. When I finally came around and felt like doing some stuff again I took a look around to see what had happened the last decade… And things had changed a lot Softsynths, tweaked gameboys, post processing and stuff like that. I had along brake from chip music between 2000-2010.

Goattracker ii Pc#

Here are a few good examples of the PC multichannel xm-sound: xm-tunes sound more refined and bigger than the Amiga tunes. That together with enough channels to make echoes as well as phaser/flanger like detune tricks made the. With the 4 channel restriction lifted I often used “real” chords in combination with the arpeggios. …so that experiment went out the window pretty fast… I fondly remember when I used a sampled cymbal in one song and my fellow chip musicians of the time were not too keen on that addition to the sound. I continued working with about the same sorts of tiny hand drawn waveforms so that part of the sound was pretty much intact. I seem to recall thinking one of my tunes that ended up about 100kb was humongous The file size got a bit bigger with the additional channels but nothing crazy. xm-format gave you more effect columns and volume/pan envelopes which made it easier to tweak the sounds. On the PC you could use up to 32 channels. To begin with I continued working with my old restrictions but after meeting a fellow PC chip composer at a demoparty I got encouraged by his multichannel. Here you have some good examples of the Amiga 4chn mod-chip sound: So those were the first restrictions I worked with. The channel restriction pretty much forced you to use arpeggio-chords since each note took up one channel, and you only had four to work with.

Goattracker ii software#

The file size restriction pretty much eliminated decently sampled instruments so instead you’d draw your own little waveforms by hand since the software did not generate stuff like that for you.

On top of that you should try to keep the final file size south of 20kb. mod-fileformat and 4 channels were the general hardware and software restrictions of the time. When I started making chip music on the Amiga back in the day the guidelines I went by were pretty much given. The thing is, chipmuisc is not ONE specific sound… I feel that is something that is constantly evolving so in the end the most important thing is that the music feels right. Regarding rules/restrictions for chipmusic.