Like all trackers, the fundamental use of the tool is as a sequencer. If you haven’t, but you’ve used other trackers – even up to modern takes on the genre like Renoise – you’ve used software influenced by its design. If you’ve used it, I don’t really have to say more. The clone project started last year, but it seems to have picked up pace – a new set of binaries are out this week, and MIDI input support was added this month.įastTracker II is a singular piece of software that helped define trackers, demoscene, and the music produced with it.
But now it’s back: one of the greatest chip music trackers of all time has been cloned to run on modern machines.įastTracker II will now run on Windows and Mac (and should run on Linux). It ran natively in MS-DOS, then died by the end of the 90s.
