In previous posts i’ve [already mentioned]
Andrew Saga’s rants about history of music tracking, but i think that provided info are not covering topic fully. So, here is one more excellent video clip, which i dug up on yt recently. Enjoy!
Imagery by spacedrone808
Comprehensive history digression intro tracker heritage by famous US demoscene musician [Necros]
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NECROS - MAIN THEME [CRUSADER: NO REMORSE] Imagery by spacedrone808
There are plenty of digital audio workstation software available today.
Fruity Loops, Apple Logic, Cakewalk….
but what make them so unimportant anymore?
One more demoscene post if you don’t mind.
Awesome technology to play full motion video with in sync audio on very slow puters using text mode or very low res. Courtesy of Trixter [Jim Leonard] / Hornet
8088 CORRUPTION [2004] [Demo page]
8088 DOMINATION [2014] [Demo page]
8088 CORRUPTION VS 8088 DOMINATION THIS IS HEAVY!!!! COMPREHENSIVE DETAILS ON FMV TECH Trixter confirmed that he was inspired by Spaceballs demo called State of the Art.
It is pretty strange that i didn’t cover this topic in previous posts. So, i stand corrected and posting it now!
@ FIRST: [WHAT IS DEMOSCENE?]
In this quick breakdown i’ll point to the most coolest demoscene stuff out there.
▓ IBM PC [DOS/WIN] In early 90s finnish coders from [Future Crew]
brought phenomenon of demoscene to masses.
FUTURE CREW - SECOND REALITY [1993] Demo size: 2Mb [Demo page]
[The Black Lotus]
are Swedish Atari/Amiga hackers.
The most coolest benchmarks from Finish masters.
Gradually Futuremark [which consumed Mad Onion] works had lost glitter of demoscene awesomeness and became just dry showcase room of current GPU technologies. And yeah, soundtrack of modern benchmarks represent boredom at it’s best.
3DMARK 1999 MAX [DOWNLOAD]
XL-R8R [PRE 3DMARK 2000] [DOWNLOAD]
3DMARK 2000 [DOWNLOAD]
3DMARK 2001 SE [DOWNLOAD]
3DMARK 2003 OUTRO Simply put the best part of 3DMark 2003.
3DMARK 2005 OUTRO POETS OF THE FALL - LIFT ME UP Simply put the best part of 3DMark 2005.
Juicy selection of the best tracker mods ever.Anything from jazz to psybient. Covered time period 1988-2020.
I’m fond of collecting the very best of tracker modules: doskpop , jazz, funk, trance, ambient, dub, chillout, metal, pop. Human mankind produced more than 288.000 mod music. Less than 0.6% worth your attention. So, if you are interested in topic you can download best-of-the-best collection.
Compiled by spacedrone808 AKA TrackerNinja. [DOWNLOAD IT RIGHT NOW]
For quickie youth i have TikTok channel with perfect tracker MOD loops.
The roots of bench-marking tools come from [Demoscene]
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The most quality products were crafted by Finnish and Russian coders.
Here is a little breakdown of most notable benchmarks just for your convenience.
Sometime ago i had YT channel with best [tracker MODS]
ever. When i’ve reached almost 10.000 of subs i was permanently banned, without any strikes on copyrighted content. Anyways, I was posting content under terms of “fair use”. Today i’ve decided to revive the channel on new platform and in a bit different wrapping - 60 sec loops instead of posting whole tracks. I don’t like TT too much, but want to try it out.
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