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Yannick
MadTracker Author

Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Location: Belgium

Posted: Tue Mar 09 2004 22:47 How did you discover MadTracker?
Just curious... Tell us your MadTracker love story. Yannick

andrespereyda
Registered User

Joined: 30 May 2003
Location: Las Vegas, NV usa

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 01:05 LOVE=
I was going with Fast Tracker, when I stumbled across your madness(tm). The match maker was www.hitsquad.com, I believe. That was something I searched for---software---all the time. And in the end, my LOVE=functions, win./not dos, and the glory of... the glorious... Glory, glory, glory---well, maybe not THAT much but, the effects!
The [nations] and the [U.N.] will hate the [world empire of false religion] and will make her devestated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely burn her with fire.-Revelation 17:16

Sunbuster
Registered User

Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Finland

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 08:50
when I moved over to win98, Fasttracker2 stopped working on my computer, couldn't get the soundcard to work in dos-mode. So I started searching for a windows alternative, found maz-sound.com and his great list of software. There I started trying out all the top rated products, and eventually ended up at the Madtracker link. What got me hooked on Madtracker was that it was a lot easier to use than the rest of the trackers, coming from a Fasttracker background

Inge
Man-At-Arms

Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 10:03
I got payed. By you. To use it. "Inge", you said, "Inge, of all musicians out there, YOU are the one that I want to see associated with MadTracker!". I was like "ah, yeah, sure sure", but after first money and women transactions hit my house, I changed my mind. I ofcourse kept making music in Magix, but pretended to be making music with mt. Yannick even made a converter that transformed magix projects into mt2's. Er, no, that was another story. Sorry. My first own computer (1998? 1997? It was a cyrix 200) had an onboard soundcard that didn't function properly with ft in a dos environment. I started looking for an alternative, found MadTracker, and started using it. First only in ft2 mode, later I switched to MT mode. I can't really recall why I choose MT and not modplugtracker, but I think because the interface of MPT was so, well, confusing Inge
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technoid
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Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: Oregon USA

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 12:06
I had almost the same story as Sunbuster's. I found Maz's site (can't remember how I found it). I looked at all that shiznit and MT looked promising. I also came from the FT, IT, ME, etc. camp, though I started dinking around with the C64 trackers ~15 years ago. Eventually I had to "evolve" to PC's and started listening to compos/track music on that. Heck, I even built those stereo 8-bit DAC's on a breadboard through my 286's printer port, since this was before soundcards got popular (my speakers were housed in Quaker oatmeal cylindrical cans, hehe). Though I'm still more of a listener than composer in MT, I'll get to it when I can (too many other projects).
~techie

mikx
Registered User

Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Melbourne

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 12:26
wow.. so you really are like the guy in your avatar! my story is .. after i quit FT2 for a while due to lack of windows functionality, i worked for a couple of years in a MIDI envirionment (cubase, vienna, etc) - and i was snooping around maz-sound for some MIDI tools, and generally getting carried away with snooping around that site back when it was really huge full of programs of all sorts - when i came up with MadTracker. the descriptions with the analogue filters suited me - i've tried other ones prior like buzz and what not but they were a real head-case! MT was the one! mikx

Blaster
Registered User

Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Netherlands/Germany

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 12:50
Either Maz-sound or a post @ United Trackers. I think the latter..
united trackers

CHICAGO�lollie
Registered User

Joined: 05 May 2003

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 14:15
Hmm... Well, I'd been working with NoteWorthy Composer for a couple of years since, um, sometime 1999. `course, I loved the australian music-disk "ExpozE by Heretic, right into that. Then one day, I just asked myself "y teh hel m i usign nwc 4? dued i neehd sumtign els!1" (Well, I WAS 13 at the time ), and went on a search for screamtracker. A few days later, I was going "omfg dued tihs mix ov chopstikz tohtali rokz!!1" over something I did in ScreamTracker 3 (remember, 13 ) A few MONTHS later, I said "hmm, need windows stuff... yahooligans will help" ...Yahooligans said "Goddammit you f***g 13 year old, go to f*g Google. We don't have any f*g music s* here, goddamn." Hmm, reminds me of Enon, now that I think about it... Anyways, I followed Yahooligan's advise and went to google, and did a search on "windows music programs". I got stuff like ScreamTracker, FastTracker, race track ("wtf?"), ProTracker, MaZ stuff, and then I saw MadTracker, situated at MadHouse. It was just sitting there, going "wtf m8? u gonna dl me or what? ^^", and I was just sitting there, going "wtf? a talking program? ^^" So I downloaded it, gave it a try, went "holy crap, i feel like going back to noteworthy, this thing is too hard." Next day though, I was going "whoa, so that's what that button does. not touching that one again... oh, what the hell, one more time. presses button whoaaa..." The rest of the story's all developmental shit and whatnot. If you really wanna know how shit I was at music, try the first compo, last page - A year after I started with MadTracker. (I still kinda miss the old look to MT.org... that whole techonological look with the fading menu to the left was awesome, Yan ...Whatever happened to MadHouse anyway? It's been changing for ages ) I don't actually recommend listening to the song though, unless you WANT your sanity to be fucked over.

Inge
Man-At-Arms

Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 14:26

CHICAGO�lollie wrote:

I don't actually recommend listening to the song though, unless you WANT your sanity to be f*cked over. Rolling Eyes

I judged that compo. Lollie isn't telling lies, folks. Beware.

Wink

To add to my story: also Maz was the one that offered the view on MT. And yes, the old site rocked Smile

Inge

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technoid
Regular

Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: Oregon USA

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 15:27

mikx wrote:

wow.. so you really are like the guy in your avatar! Razz

Well yeah, I didn't study electronic engineering for nuttin'! Smile

Say, is it possible to see the old mt.org? Is it still backed up on some harddrive? I wasn't here back then.

BTW, about Maz Sound... I'm real glad Maz archived his old site. There's still lots of tools over there that I haven't even looked into yet.

NoteworthyComposer... hmm, gonna have to look into that. I need to find some more music notation tools... free ones, of course.

~techie

Elijah
Registered User

Joined: 20 Jan 2004
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Eh?

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 16:36
I just bought my laptop and i used to listen to tracked music waaaaay back.... like dr. awesome way back when i was like 10. i tried scream tracker back then but i was too young (dumb) to get grips. well this time at 21 i decided that i would force myself to learn and i searched for trackers on the internet. found madtracker. learned madtracker. cool. if only i learned about composing and whatnot back when i was 10... but i was too obsessed with duke nukem
- Elijah

Enonimis
Regular

Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Canton Ohio, USA

Posted: Wed Mar 10 2004 21:51
I stumbled across MadTracker when I was looking for an update to FastTracker, I beleive. Or maybe Trax In Space had a link to it that was really enticing. Or maybe it was installed on that laptop I stole off of Andy in the park one day. I can't honestly remember which of those is the truth. ~Enon p.s. goddamn
If you do not agree with my opinions, you are wrong. If you do agree with my opinions you are drunk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://elrick-enonimis.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Henry
User

Joined: 26 Feb 2004
Location: Kentucky, USA

Posted: Thu Mar 11 2004 00:50
I discovered MT from a search on download.com. I remembered the old days when I so desperately wanted an Amiga 2000, and NoiseTracker was the name of the game. Unfortunately, all I could get my hands on was a PC MOD player, and a PC program called ModEdit. I still managed, with only 32 available samples and 4 available tracks, to do what I considered to be some pretty decent damage. Remembering how much fun I had with that, and noting the versatility of this new generation of tracker, I decided it was time to play again... Henry
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Martin
Registered User

Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Norway

Posted: Thu Mar 11 2004 10:50 the old Madtracker page
Vintage Madtracker HTML... Say, is it possible to see the old mt.org? Is it still backed up on some harddrive? I wasn't here back then. http://web.archive.org/web/20010306081944/http://www.madtracker.org/

Martin
Registered User

Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Norway

Posted: Thu Mar 11 2004 11:21
I started tracking with Noisetracker on Amiga 500 back in `89 - But my intresse developed a couple of years ealier playing games on the old Commodore 64. Artist like Rub Hubbard really made alot out of the very limited soundcababilities on those machines. And I wanted to try to do that. A couple of years later I started out with S3M on my newly aquired PC, and that lead to Impulse Tracker. I used IT for some years being very happy with it - until a friend of mine said "What!? Are you still using that old-school Tracker" Even though he knew nothing about trackers it still kinda hit me that I had not checked the web for new trackers in a while. So - the MAZ website lead me to MADTRACKER which I`m very happy with. Mostly because of the interface and the effects (and the check from Yannick each month) I have published very litle of my music, and still nothing here at madtracker.org - Over the years I have come to realize that my musical skills doesn`t match the joy I get from tracking, and that it doesn`t bother me - (except when I see the compo prices - then I weep about it) Also I like the Madtracker Forum, mostly because every now and then someone says something usefull, but all this other bullshit is ok aswell

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