The only tracker type program I'm familiar with is Jeskola Buzz and it was so easy to be creative with that program.Īs far as multiple notes on the same time position, additional note channels could be automatically or manually added. I've thought about this before, so I would love to see this feature added to LMMS. I'm sure a lot of creative folks from a certain era would love this. Note that this is not a complete Tracker, just a Tracker-like alternative to the Piano Roll. Both steps increase the precision, so there is no converting back.īassline Editor < Tracker View < Piano Roll A Tracker View pattern can be converted to a Piano Roll. a non-Piano-Roll-bassline from the Bassline Editor can be converted to a Tracker View. This is similar to the Bassline Editor compared to the Piano Roll. This would also solve the problem that Piano Roll has tick based precision, while a Tracker view has only row-based precision (depending on speed/tempo), for things like volume corrections. Although this would only fix the problem of mixed instruments that would make the pattern incompatible with a piano roll, the spatial placement of notes over channels is still incompatible.įor that reason, it could make sense to have a Tracker View that is backward compatible with (can be converted to) a Piano Roll, but not the other way around. A solution would be to allow one instrument per pattern, like the piano roll. The piano roll is a "bag of notes" with no concept of on what channel the note was stored. The second problem is that trackers store the position of a note inside a pattern on a specific channel, and LMMS has no concept of channels in the same way, as the entire pattern could be one channel. The (ancient) Impulse Tracker midi-only clone zTracker solved this by simply removing all sample-based features, and implementing note-off rather than cut-off. The most obvious problem is that note based technology doesn't lend itself for all the sample-based functionality like sample cutoff and offsets, at least not in a way that could realistically fit in the LMMS data structure without reimplementing things. There are some limitations of course in the structure of a Tracker view compared to Piano Roll. I have made some attempts in the past, but C++ just isn't my forte, although it is what makes LMMS so strong. The biggest leap forward right now would be a Tracker mode for Piano Roll. LMMS has a beautiful sound engine and awesome instruments/synths. In my experience, it's easier to be creative in a tracker. I just can't get used to the horizontal visual style of composing melodies. Every now and then for the past 10 years I'm looking for a (modern) tracker.
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