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I read that a new version of Protrekkr (2.6.4) for AROS was released. The author, Franck “hitchhikr” Charlet, posted information about this in the AROS World forums.

Here is an explanation of what Protrekkr is from GitHub:

ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games.

It’s a heavily modified version of the old NoiseTrekker 2 which was made by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius aka Arguru.

Currently the tracker is available on Windows and more or less on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Amiga OS4, AROS, MorphOS, Mac OSX and Haiku OS.

According to the documentation, the main features are as follows:

– 16 multi-notes tracks (with 256 virtual channels).

– Samples editor (can load up to 64 bits stereo samples).

– Patterns-based tracker style sequencer.

– Synthesizer with custom waveforms support.

– Samples loop editor.

– 2 303s units.

– Cubic spline interpolation.

– Wav files import/export.

– 16 or 32 bits wav rendering.

– Multi-effects engine with reverb, distortion, filters, delay, EQs, flanger,

etc…

– Fully customizable 10 combs reverb.

– Protracker .mod files import.

– Samples compressor handling Gsm/Mp3/TrueSpeech/ADPCM/8 Bit (not on Linux or

Mac OS X yet).

– And maybe more...

If you want to try Protrekkr, please click on the link below to be taken to The AROS Archives:

http://archives.aros-exec.org/?function=showfile&file=audio/tracker/ptk_v2.6.4.i386-aros.zip

I briefly tried the program myself and it worked straight away after it was unpacked. 🙂

Thanks for reading!

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