bitstate
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The history:
Impulse Tracker is a tracker originated as a scream tracker 3 copy, although as time passed it grew to be one of the most powerfull and feature packed trackers, (filters, mmx accelrated drivers)
The sad part is that due to some warez guys pirating the disk writer driver (a "sound driver" for it that produces wav files) jeffery abanoned development a couple of years ago.
one of the most interesting features is the ability to work cooperatively by linking two or more copies thru a lan (where all trackers work on the same tune and sees the changes others do in real time :) )
note though that impulse tracker is mostly a sample based tracker, although it has midi out support and as it's a tracker the layout and functionallity is completely different to midi sequencers. It runs under dos/win95 or win98 (not in win2k or NT), the recent addition of win98 drivers makes it run on all soundcards as long as win98 supports them.
Currently there is two versions 2.14 (the somewhat uncrippled shareware version) and the fully registered 2.15 which allows you to drive the filters thru envelopes.
Actually today i converted the sf2 soundbank from the 3'rd midiclass to IT instrument files and thought about the possibility to include such as well in the compo.
IT can be obtained f.ex here http://www.maz-sound.de (the trackers section)
Just a thought...if one has two computers (with two soundcards), any music program capable of producing midi signals can be used to produce .mid's *even* if the program itself doesn't support it - just route the output to the other comp's midi in and run midiox on it to log all activity to a midi file... :)
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06-27-01 01:51
