The intro to Magic wings feels straight out of Zelda, but then it goes full Donkey Kong Country after that. It's such a nice switch from the prior track and it shows a real richness of texture and a great ability to evoke moods. Also the first two tracks are so funky, I can't get enough of them. This is just such a good set!!!!!
I love how you personally tweak the volume up and down during the song transitions, it makes it feel like we're watching a recording of a live performance you did in a chiptune venue somewhere.
...and as some one who grew up listening to bleeps and bloops from my game boy advanced...but never new this stuff existed...im so impressed with trackers and the whole 8bit thing...
Trackers have got pretty powerful now, not just limited to 8bit unless you want to! I love trackers for breakbeats best, and how things can be done with commands. I'm late to the party, but like the old ways of workflow it seems
I had no idea you could play Snake within Fasttracker! Also what's that with "Triton" difficulty? (The name of your group?) Thanks for sharing a piece of history. I was born in the late 90's, so I did grow up playing videogames in my childhood that had tracker / mod music used in 90's PC videogames (e.g. Jazz Jackrabbit, DX-Ball, and a couple of indie games like Bubble Bobble Nostalgie and Gold Sprinter), but I only found out about the demoscene on UA-cam in my teens (in the 2010's), and to this day, tracker music is still a comfort background music to just do work to, in any phase of my life. Thank you for sharing a piece of your history and what it was like growing up with the demoscene. I suppose as a visual artist myself, the closest equivalent experience I had in my teens was participating in game jams with fellow friends, where we had different team members working on the art, sound, music, programming and design of a game.
The Triton group created Fasttracker 2, alas I was not a member. I was only in net-labels for tracker music and submitted my tracks to the music compos at the parties. It is and was so nice to experience and explore how art can be created with the help of computers. I am happy that this culture continues to exist, until recently I had totally neglected/forgotten the demo scene. Jazz Jackrabbit is a game dear to my heart, I still have the CD-Rom. The music is so nice. Thanks for the nice comment!
I think i've seen this software at a friend's one time. I get you dude, those were awesome times. Wasn't part of any scenes myself, but I was aware of them.
Heard the first song and I already got thrown in a groovy mood! I love these and the style of them, thank you so much for sharing these with us, you did awesome on these back in the day!
Thank you so much, that means a lot to me! I dug out some more tunes, there will be a part 2 coming soon! All of this threw me back into nostalgia memory lane as well, I found lots of tracker playlists and created my own too. I love it
@@NoiseCommander3DS Ah yeah! Awesome, I look forward to see your second part of your archive! I will stay tuned as a subscriber now! - Also question, do you still know how to use trackers or still make music like this?
@@MurrayFlashyI don't make that kind of music any more even though I'd like to if I could/would afford putting time into it. I am also a software developer (albeit not a great one) and am writing a homebrew music making app for the Nintendo 3DS in my free time which is the main focus of the channel. Please see my patreon page if interested (donations are welcome!) : www.patreon.com/NoiseCommander3DS It works like a sample-playing groovebox or drum-machine (SP-404, MPC etc.) rather than a tracker. I will add a tracker-interface eventually but I find having a full keyboard for writing music like this makes it a lot easier compared to having only a few buttons + touchscreen as on the 3DS. LSDJ and the M8 Tracker do allow writing intricate music without a full keyboard after all though, they are great products. But fear not, I do plan to make a commentary video about how I made the tunes and how I used Fasttracker 2, including a mini tutorial. During the last 20 years I had replaced my usage of FT2 with Renoise since it has lots of added modern features like effects, synthesizers and audio routing. I discovered that I much prefer the way the keyboard shortcuts are laid out in FT2 over Renoise as I recorded the video however. I still know how to use trackers and I still make music, but the music is much different. I got addicted to buying music making tools, be it apps or hardware, it's also a journey I plan to share on this channel. But honestly, FT2 felt the best, it really has an intuitive and practical hands on user interface, I praise it for that. Triton did such a good job.
@@NoiseCommander3DS I have been trying to figure out how to use fast tracker 2 and have been doing hot garbage at it lol. I could really use some help using it or perhaps need resources of instruction manuals and info for making music in it. I asked cause I guess I was wondering if you'd be willing to help be able to know how. I do know some stuff, im not all and all THAT new at it. Just a few things i don't know how to do is all.
Haha thanks in advance! I just found your channel by the video about the Amiga workbench. While not having owned an Amiga, I have always been super impressed by the Amiga demo scene. Do you know Hoffman's channel? www.youtube.com/@HoffmanUA-cam
@@NoiseCommander3DS sure I know H0ffman. Everyone knows him 😂 I have a wish to share more Amiga content, but I am afraid to inject it into my channel which is clearly Linux focused.
I used the rawdata as end-boss music in an attempt of a hobby video game back then. It was written in Delphi for windows - I will try to show it in a future video if I can make it run. There was some tracker-player library I used for it, maybe MikMod or something. Later I tried making another game inspired by Shining Force but I never finished it. Thanks for commenting!
That's the best possible compliment I could hope for, it makes me really happy. Especially because that's also the song that touches me the most because of that build up when the pitch keeps climbing and building pathos
Beautiful tunes you made! Ghalimah-shub di dey, Trip to tp8, Gangtaz in Akbar and Keine Ahnung are my favourites. Will be the .xm modules available public?
The turok track doesn't really remind me of music from the series. :V Did you name it Turok because you played the game prior to making the song? You are a winner is probably my favorite track you made, but these are all bangers!
I didn't play the game or was thinking of it, I just choose it at random, there is no correlation. Thanks for mentioning your favourite song :) I think for me it's a tie between "trip to tp8" and "magic wings".
Hehe, yepp. I had borrowed a sega game gear when I was a kid and secretly played it under my blanket when I was supposed to be asleep - I was an early adopter of nightly melatonin disruption :D
@@NoiseCommander3DS I love hearing that you had a Game Gear growing up lol. I wish I got mine when I was a kid, but I was born in 1990 and the Game Gear really didn't hit it off like the Gameboy did especially when Pokemon came out.
@@sonikku1011I had Ninja Gaiden, Sonic and Wonderboy 😊 It was insane to have a portable colour screen at the time. Not as pocketable as the game boy however. I never played Pokémon admittedly. I have two games for the 3DS now (moon and rumble) and will give it s go when I find time.
best chiptune writers of all time are Meat of Zerius and Purple Motion if you could even put his stuff into this category because his music is a category of its own
I was going to say yes but that would be half incorrect. Fruity came out in 1998 and pro tools in 1991 apparently! It was the Windows 95 era where lots games and demos were still released for DOS :D
I never had one myself - I was content with the Soundblaster 16. For anyone wondering, here is a video about the Gravis Ultrasound ua-cam.com/video/92olhbB3KKM/v-deo.html&pp=ygURZ3JhdmlzIHVsdHJhc291bmQ%3D I did own the Gravis Gamepad so that I could play Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall 2097 properly though
@@NoiseCommander3DS allright. I upgraded from sbpro to gus to gus pro? The one with rom in addition ro ram expansion. Just noticed the GUS in the video 😅
There is a native clone here 16-bits.org/ft2.php In the video I am running the original FT2 in DOSBox under Linux but it also runs on windows. I hope that helps! I believe I had to change the IRQ setting to 5 for the Soundblaster emulation it produce sound.
I should just render my entire mod collection and put it up on youtube , cuz I used to hang out w/ MikMak, Pulse, Necros, all those guys on #scene in the 90s, and have a sizable collection of best mods ever created I think... Run it through my dsp engine / mod player I developed (check my channel) I have original IT engine code that MikMak derived from Pulse's asm version that he gave me back in the days I just have to fix couple of things in mod playback - as always very fragile code. and maybe replace linear interpolation w/ sinc resampling =))) while we're at it. @@NoiseCommander3DS
UA-cam's gotta stop on the trash, this is a GREAT example of what UA-cam should recommend me!
Man, these are some great tunes! Happy I was recommended them by the tube.
Glad you like them!
Yup a random video for me seemingly, although it like trackers, and chiptune, but trackers more!
The intro to Magic wings feels straight out of Zelda, but then it goes full Donkey Kong Country after that. It's such a nice switch from the prior track and it shows a real richness of texture and a great ability to evoke moods. Also the first two tracks are so funky, I can't get enough of them. This is just such a good set!!!!!
Thanks for sharing these tunes younger you made. Stuff like this makes people just a little bit happier.
Thank you so much, I am very glad that you like the tunes.
I love how you personally tweak the volume up and down during the song transitions, it makes it feel like we're watching a recording of a live performance you did in a chiptune venue somewhere.
Haha, yes thank you. It was also an occasion to show everyone how bad I am at playing nibbles :D
...and as some one who grew up listening to bleeps and bloops from my game boy advanced...but never new this stuff existed...im so impressed with trackers and the whole 8bit thing...
Computers + creativity = fun :)
Trackers have got pretty powerful now, not just limited to 8bit unless you want to!
I love trackers for breakbeats best, and how things can be done with commands. I'm late to the party, but like the old ways of workflow it seems
you've spread a little joy around the world here by uploading this. great stuff!
100%
Magic Wings really struck something with me, thanks for sharing your work!
It's one of my favourites too :)
Thanks for commenting!
I had no idea you could play Snake within Fasttracker! Also what's that with "Triton" difficulty? (The name of your group?) Thanks for sharing a piece of history. I was born in the late 90's, so I did grow up playing videogames in my childhood that had tracker / mod music used in 90's PC videogames (e.g. Jazz Jackrabbit, DX-Ball, and a couple of indie games like Bubble Bobble Nostalgie and Gold Sprinter), but I only found out about the demoscene on UA-cam in my teens (in the 2010's), and to this day, tracker music is still a comfort background music to just do work to, in any phase of my life. Thank you for sharing a piece of your history and what it was like growing up with the demoscene. I suppose as a visual artist myself, the closest equivalent experience I had in my teens was participating in game jams with fellow friends, where we had different team members working on the art, sound, music, programming and design of a game.
The Triton group created Fasttracker 2, alas I was not a member.
I was only in net-labels for tracker music and submitted my tracks to the music compos at the parties.
It is and was so nice to experience and explore how art can be created with the help of computers.
I am happy that this culture continues to exist, until recently I had totally neglected/forgotten the demo scene.
Jazz Jackrabbit is a game dear to my heart, I still have the CD-Rom. The music is so nice.
Thanks for the nice comment!
Man I absolutely love the vibe of the first one the most best way to start this.
I absolutely LOVE Magic wings!!! it's so good!
I think i've seen this software at a friend's one time. I get you dude, those were awesome times. Wasn't part of any scenes myself, but I was aware of them.
these are some amazing tunes
Thank you so much! :)
Amazed by your work!
I absolutely love this stuff and the whole story on your post. Thanks for sharing. An amazing achievement
Thanks for commenting twice, I am extremely happy that you like the tracks so much.
This is my most successful video :)
This swings hard!
Nice songs. Enjoy them a lot. Brings back memories.
very good stuff
Heard the first song and I already got thrown in a groovy mood! I love these and the style of them, thank you so much for sharing these with us, you did awesome on these back in the day!
Thank you so much, that means a lot to me!
I dug out some more tunes, there will be a part 2 coming soon!
All of this threw me back into nostalgia memory lane as well, I found lots of tracker playlists and created my own too.
I love it
@@NoiseCommander3DS Ah yeah! Awesome, I look forward to see your second part of your archive! I will stay tuned as a subscriber now!
- Also question, do you still know how to use trackers or still make music like this?
@@MurrayFlashyI don't make that kind of music any more even though I'd like to if I could/would afford putting time into it.
I am also a software developer (albeit not a great one) and am writing a homebrew music making app for the Nintendo 3DS in my free time which is the main focus of the channel.
Please see my patreon page if interested (donations are welcome!) : www.patreon.com/NoiseCommander3DS
It works like a sample-playing groovebox or drum-machine (SP-404, MPC etc.) rather than a tracker. I will add a tracker-interface eventually but I find having a full keyboard for writing music like this makes it a lot easier compared to having only a few buttons + touchscreen as on the 3DS.
LSDJ and the M8 Tracker do allow writing intricate music without a full keyboard after all though, they are great products.
But fear not, I do plan to make a commentary video about how I made the tunes and how I used Fasttracker 2, including a mini tutorial.
During the last 20 years I had replaced my usage of FT2 with Renoise since it has lots of added modern features like effects, synthesizers and audio routing.
I discovered that I much prefer the way the keyboard shortcuts are laid out in FT2 over Renoise as I recorded the video however.
I still know how to use trackers and I still make music, but the music is much different.
I got addicted to buying music making tools, be it apps or hardware, it's also a journey I plan to share on this channel.
But honestly, FT2 felt the best, it really has an intuitive and practical hands on user interface, I praise it for that. Triton did such a good job.
@@NoiseCommander3DS I have been trying to figure out how to use fast tracker 2 and have been doing hot garbage at it lol. I could really use some help using it or perhaps need resources of instruction manuals and info for making music in it. I asked cause I guess I was wondering if you'd be willing to help be able to know how. I do know some stuff, im not all and all THAT new at it. Just a few things i don't know how to do is all.
I'll try to answer, go ahead and ask ;)
I am so sharing this link with everyone
Haha thanks in advance! I just found your channel by the video about the Amiga workbench.
While not having owned an Amiga, I have always been super impressed by the Amiga demo scene.
Do you know Hoffman's channel? www.youtube.com/@HoffmanUA-cam
@@NoiseCommander3DS sure I know H0ffman. Everyone knows him 😂
I have a wish to share more Amiga content, but I am afraid to inject it into my channel which is clearly Linux focused.
These are crazy crazy good! I hope you still create music, even if your instruments might be a little different now.
enjoying it!
Thank you, that makes me happy
Damn youtube with the random gem recommendations again. Rawdata's probably my favorite.
I used the rawdata as end-boss music in an attempt of a hobby video game back then.
It was written in Delphi for windows - I will try to show it in a future video if I can make it run.
There was some tracker-player library I used for it, maybe MikMod or something.
Later I tried making another game inspired by Shining Force but I never finished it.
Thanks for commenting!
I love it. Second track got me tears up, so emotional.
That's the best possible compliment I could hope for, it makes me really happy.
Especially because that's also the song that touches me the most because of that build up when the pitch keeps climbing and building pathos
@@NoiseCommander3DS I glad you are happy. What's your name user us tracker musician and demoscene. And where to download us mp3 example?
wAhnslnn.. just wow , most of this is pure gold no doubt about it
Music second like relax perfect favorite brother
excuse me fast tracker has SNAKE!?
I love all of these, but Magic Wings is off the frickin' chain! :-)
Any chance you will be releasing these as downloadable files (wavs, mp3s, ogg?)?
you should drop a remasters magic wings, song is amazing as is 💜
Good idea!
Beautiful tunes you made! Ghalimah-shub di dey, Trip to tp8, Gangtaz in Akbar and Keine Ahnung are my favourites. Will be the .xm modules available public?
titune is so sassy. love a chip with some 'tude.
incredible!
The turok track doesn't really remind me of music from the series. :V Did you name it Turok because you played the game prior to making the song? You are a winner is probably my favorite track you made, but these are all bangers!
I didn't play the game or was thinking of it, I just choose it at random, there is no correlation.
Thanks for mentioning your favourite song :)
I think for me it's a tie between "trip to tp8" and "magic wings".
I remembered that I made one a few weeks ago. Next version will have manual sample loading/auditioning.
ua-cam.com/video/eLZ7jmV-21w/v-deo.html
Awesome tunes!
Thank you!
Folks used to write banjo songs by campfire, now it's Gameboys by LED backlight.
Hehe, yepp. I had borrowed a sega game gear when I was a kid and secretly played it under my blanket when I was supposed to be asleep - I was an early adopter of nightly melatonin disruption :D
@@NoiseCommander3DS I love hearing that you had a Game Gear growing up lol. I wish I got mine when I was a kid, but I was born in 1990 and the Game Gear really didn't hit it off like the Gameboy did especially when Pokemon came out.
@@sonikku1011I had Ninja Gaiden, Sonic and Wonderboy 😊
It was insane to have a portable colour screen at the time.
Not as pocketable as the game boy however.
I never played Pokémon admittedly.
I have two games for the 3DS now (moon and rumble) and will give it s go when I find time.
Where can I download this? I would buy this if it was on itunes
best chiptune writers of all time are Meat of Zerius and Purple Motion if you could even put his stuff into this category because his music is a category of its own
Titune and the last one are interesting
🪄✨ 🪽 🪽
cool stuff! Before Fruity Loops and Pro Tools ad such?
I was going to say yes but that would be half incorrect.
Fruity came out in 1998 and pro tools in 1991 apparently!
It was the Windows 95 era where lots games and demos were still released for DOS :D
Gravis Ultrasound 😃
I never had one myself - I was content with the Soundblaster 16.
For anyone wondering, here is a video about the Gravis Ultrasound
ua-cam.com/video/92olhbB3KKM/v-deo.html&pp=ygURZ3JhdmlzIHVsdHJhc291bmQ%3D
I did own the Gravis Gamepad so that I could play Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall 2097 properly though
@@NoiseCommander3DS allright. I upgraded from sbpro to gus to gus pro? The one with rom in addition ro ram expansion. Just noticed the GUS in the video 😅
Poggers
how do i get Fasttracker II on Window 10?
There is a native clone here 16-bits.org/ft2.php
In the video I am running the original FT2 in DOSBox under Linux but it also runs on windows.
I hope that helps!
I believe I had to change the IRQ setting to 5 for the Soundblaster emulation it produce sound.
@@NoiseCommander3DS i found it earlier, but thanks dude
Best chiptune writer is Purple Motion and Meat of Zerius... try look them up.
Will give it a try :D
I know Purple Motion from Second Reality of the Future Crew.
Never heard of Meat of Zerius, thanks!
I really like Jogeir Liljedahl and Radix
Meat/Zerius was a demo group in the mid-90s from Canada somewhere...
@@NoiseCommander3DS
check out Einsteinium-04 .mod i think it is from Amiga days still.. really awesome, I like 12th Warrior too, that style. @@NoiseCommander3DS
I should just render my entire mod collection and put it up on youtube , cuz I used to hang out w/ MikMak, Pulse, Necros, all those guys on #scene in the 90s, and have a sizable collection of best mods ever created I think... Run it through my dsp engine / mod player I developed (check my channel) I have original IT engine code that MikMak derived from Pulse's asm version that he gave me back in the days I just have to fix couple of things in mod playback - as always very fragile code. and maybe replace linear interpolation w/ sinc resampling =))) while we're at it.
@@NoiseCommander3DS
Not chiptune. I hear a lot of fm in there. Chiptune is pretty much all Tri and square waves
chiptune is a pretty broad term
Does the Mega Drive/Genesis music qualify for you as chiptune?