New YouTube Channel: 'Epic Tracker Music'

[RangerRick]

I somehow missed this thread when I was reading through the board when I joined. Cool to see you highlight a bunch of this old stuff. There was so much good music written in the tracker/demoscene heyday of the 90s, and so much of it is lost to being in formats that no one can even make sound right anymore without emulators.

For the Middle Ages release, I had first tried to remaster things in Renoise, but they ended up sounding subtly wrong just because algorithms were different for interpolation, bends, and so on. Ended up dumping .wav files direct from the trackers and doing the very lightest of mastering in Logic.

Also for those that want to explore tracked music some more, there's SceneStream (formerly Nectarine), which 24/7 streams module music and has an interface for taking requests and such.

Coincidentally, I'm actually about to release an album of remasters of my old tracked songs from the 90s. Hope it's OK to shill it here, it's up for preorder and will go live this (Bandcamp) Friday.

[arillius]

Oct 3, 2022 9:18:26 GMT -5 RangerRick said:

There was so much good music written in the tracker/demoscene heyday of the 90s, and so much of it is lost to being in formats that no one can even make sound right anymore without emulators

1000%! I am always in awe at some of the music I've downloaded over the years. A lot of amazing songs that seem to have collected cobwebs over the years.

RangerRick said:

For the Middle Ages release, I had first tried to remaster things in Renoise, but they ended up sounding subtly wrong just because algorithms were different for interpolation, bends, and so on. Ended up dumping .wav files direct from the trackers and doing the very lightest of mastering in Logic.

I know the feeling. I'm currently trying to work in a few different programs. Hell, I updated the one I primarily use (schismtracker) to the newest edition and some of the bends, etc. weren't working correctly on songs I'm writing. I'm not sure why but I had to go back to the previous edition I wrote it in.

RangerRick said:

Also for those that want to explore tracked music some more, there's SceneStream (formerly Nectarine), which 24/7 streams module music and has an interface for taking requests and such.

Coincidentally, I'm actually about to release an album of remasters of my old tracked songs from the 90s. Hope it's OK to shill it here, it's up for preorder and will go live this (Bandcamp) Friday.

Awesome, thanks for the info!