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[Lost-in-North-Dakota]

I got my start with tracking years ago with an  Amiga 500, and MED 3.2.  Anyone here remember it?  It was a bit quirky in its interface, but was fun to use.  Well, the old Amiga is in a box somewhere in an outbuilding, but from time to time, I do get the urge to put together some music with a tracker.  Like someone here wrote recently...a tracker often is  the easiest way to get certain things done.


I have an iMac now, and never really found a program that was as satisfying to use as the old MED on the Amiga.  But I have been out of the tracking scene for probably 10 years or so.

What trackers are out there now for Mac OSX ?

Thanks, and best wishes to all

Lost

[Blaster]

There's a mac version of Renoise.

[Merle Zimmermann]

I used to use my osx box at work to compose on, but I can't remember the name of the tracker I worked with.  It reminded me of Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire Cat for some reason. : (

I ran some google searches, and Milky Tracker looks kind of cool: http://www.milkytracker.net/?HOME (free)

I mostly use ModPlug Tracker (or Open ModPlug Tracker), but I've only seen builds for Wintendo, unfortunately : (.

Once I'm off of my vacation, I can check the computer there and link you to it).

[tetsuoii]

I though to get an old laptop with MSDOS
and boot that evergreen ft2 again, how about that?

Did anyone try ft2 with a USB audigy?

[fingersoup]

Haven't tried that, but I have tried it in Dosbox and it seems to work OK, albeit the sound quality can be a bit iffy (SB16 emulation)

[Din]

Unless your laptop supports USB emulation through BIOS I don't think you can get MS-DOS to even see USB devices, much less make any use of them.  If you can enable BIOS USB emulation (not OS emulation; there should be options for both if it's there) for ALL devices (depending on the age of the laptop you might only get USB emulation for KB and mouse if anything) in CMOS setup, then maybe.  Creative is good about providing legacy drivers for their cards.

And when it's all said and done, FT2 will still use SB or SBPro support rather than the higher sample-rates, bit-depths, and channels the Audigy is capable of.

What's the laptop's onboard sound card?  You'd probably have much better luck getting it configured for DOS support since it's already attached to the system through the expansion bus (rather than going through a USB host controller that DOS can't use directly; thus the need for BIOS USB emulation).  If the onboard is SB-compatible then all you'd need to do is manually assign IRQ, DMA, and memory addresses through BIOS so Plug-n-Play doesn't assign it something DOS (and FT2) can't see or use.  And you'll still need a DOS driver for it.