cool softsynth/303 emulator/tracker to port!

protrekkr is an open source softsynth with a tracker interface, i wanted to give it a heads up for someone who wants a porting challenge. it's written using SDL.

what makes this different from the others is that it's a quite advanced softsynth, i.e. not sample based as most other trackers, it even has a built in 303 emulator. :)

think of it like a little brother to renoize.

http://code.google.com/p/protrekkr/
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/franck.charlet/protrekkr.html




ports exists for win/lin/mac (ppc/x86).
so there shouldn't be any endian issues.

there is also sources for a winamp plugin included, so a tunenet plugin could be made.

midi and sample packing might need to be disabled though, but i think sample packing should work.

anyone interested?


ABOUT

ProTrekkr v1.98d (06/03/2009)

ProTrekkr (formerly known as NoiseTrekker by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius aka Arguru) is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, etc.) for small sized intros, demos or games.

The tracker is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Main features:

- Open source.
- 16 multi-notes tracks (with 256 virtual channels).
- Samples editor (can load up to 64 bits stereo samples).
- Patterns based tracker style sequencer.
- Synthesizer with custom waveforms support.
- Cubic spline interpolation.
- 2 303s units.
- Wav files import/export.
- 16 or 32 bits wav rendering.
- Multi effects engine with reverb, distortion, filters, delay, EQs, flanger, etc...
- Midi in/out support.
- Protracker .mod files import.
- Samples compressor handling Gsm/Mp3/TrueSpeech (not on Linux/Mac OS X yet).
- Replay routine source code to be included & used inside your own programs (Also featuring a replay routine for the PlayStation Portable).
- Winamp/XMPlay plugin available.
- And maybe more...

This is a FREEWARE tool, this means that you can use it for whatever you want and for free.
There's NO GUARANTEE that this program will perform well or even run on your computer.

@spotUP

I just made a checkout of the source code.

@spotUP

Midi disabled ? You want me to hunt you ?

EDIT: I bloody want a tracker with midisupport.
I want renoise vst disabled ;p

@spotUP

All new software for Amiga are welcome, so port it

@salass00

i was secretly hoping you would take it on, but i wouldn't wanna burden you with more work, kewl! let us know of the progress!

@kicko

hehe, i knew you'd reply quickly to this thread ;) salass00 is a skilled coder,, so maybe he can fix it.

btw, I edited the first post and added some info.

@spotUP

Quote:

Yes, interested in the software, wish I could code!
Looks good!

Rude!

@spotUP

Maybe he can ask lyle Hazelwood for some help with the midistuff.

@Kicko

Sorry, I have too much going on right now.
Finding a job is getting near impossible, it looks like I'll be selling my house soon.

Besides, I choose my own projects. You should know that by now Kicko!

I know a lot of people want good trackers for the Amiga, I wish you success with this port.

LyleHaze

@LyleHaze

It wasnt i offered you to port the actual program. Maybe they could use the camd.library and ask you howto. But as i see your busy i take it back. ;)

Sorry for your economy problems. Have alot of friends and theirs friends that lost they job. Many of them took loans.

@spotUP

I have it compiled and working now:


It's extremely slow at the moment though, because it seems that something is constantly eating up almost all the CPU. I'm looking into this problem right now.

@salass00

love is in the air dubudu bu dupp bupp loooove is in the air... :)

@spotUP

just for comparison, on my 900mhz eee pc the 303 test.ptk tune is using 50-60% cpu time.
so something similiar should probably be possible?

edit: devenirunpoulet.ptk is to cpu hungry for my eee.
the others play fine.

edit2: for those interested, the developer posts status updates on pouet:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50409

@spotUP

I managed to speed up protrekkr by quite a lot by making protrekkr only update it's display 25 times per second instead of 100 times and changing from window mode into fullscreen mode.

Now the "303 test.ptk" uses only about ~50% CPU when playing.

I've uploaded the program and source code to OS4Depot and Aminet.

@salass00

Your so fast man. Have to test this one :D

@Kicko

Not fast, super fast

salass00 is the best

@salass00

G-R-E-A-T-!

you should post this as a phat news item on aw, here and a.org... it's a major app after all, in amiga terms anyway :)

Do you think midi support will come later on ?

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@TSK

works here.

@salass00 + all

Sorry for false report. It was ScreenThumbs which caused that lock up. I have to find out what's wrong in it.