A couple of years ago, on the A*i*g*, a PD Sound Track Editor came out,
allowing people to easily write music, by playing samples at different
frequencies over it's four channel sound chip, it was possible to play
notes. As time went by, they became better and had more features, and they
became a joy to use. Then, people developed ways for the A*i*a to play eight
samples at the same time (I believe this program was called OctaMed, but I
may be wrong). Then Alt_Man (Hugo Fiennes) created the Tracker Module to
allow the Archimedes to play the sound trackers off the A*i*a. They were
then ported across to the Arc and people used them in demos e.t.c. and the
Arc was looking up musicly.
Then, various Tracker editors came onto the Arc, like Tracker and Desktop
Tracker. These allowed Archimedes owners to write music just as easily as
A*i*a owners. This was fine, butthe program cost around £70, which was
expensive, but was it worth the money? I've never actually seen these Trackerprograms to answer that question, but considering you can now get PD programsto do just the same for around £1, I don't think that it is worth it.
Tracker programs are now much cheaper, and there are also quite a few PD
Tracker editors, my favourite being !APTracker, but there is now a new
version of that, which should be a lot better (even though it's near
