Today I was just surfing around when I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs
Music made from nothing but Windows XP and 98 sound effects.
Which then led to the discovery of this freeware: http://www.modplug.com/trackerinfo.html
Think this might be useful for some of us who want to make simple music for our games :)
This may be the most awesome thing I have ever heard. Thankyou much for link!
EDIT: For some reason this reminds me quite a bit of the music in Deus Ex. And that is a very good thing.
Very cool, good find. I guess while we're on the subject, this one deserves a mention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nw3-nZae5Y&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nw3-nZae5Y&feature=related)
Another testament to the fact way too many people out there have way too much free time haha. Could be worse though, he could spend his time designing adventure games. ;D
Nice! I downloaded Mod Tracker at the weekend actually (completely unrelatedly) after seeing it mentioned on another game making forum. Couldn't figure out how to get it to work though, but I guess I'll have to have another go now...
I used modplug tracker for a few years, but nowadays there are a lot of better free trackers. I liked Jeskola Buzz the best, but it's not being developed anymore and it was quite unstable, crashing for random reasons all the time.
SKALE is pretty much the best free tracker around right now.
Awesome song, trackers look so fun.
I never mastered the whole sampling business with trackers and end up making a silly tune with just a sine wave sample or some random noises, I couldn't find any nice samples. As an offtopic, if anyone knows somewhere to get good free samples (Amiga-esque is a bonus) or to generate/edit very basic waves it is much appreciated (without stealing from other songs).
If you have a DS and flash cart there's NitroTracker (http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/), although it's not very functional yet.
Well, I just browsed through all the trackers for last two weeks and I didn't like ModPlug tracker, I don't know why. I started with learning basic effects in MilkyTracker, and planning to move on from that to Renoise, probably. Milky is perfect in its simplicity, great as a starter. It does not support VSTs at all though. Along with the documentation available on their site, you can just hop in and start learning.
CodeJunkie - just look here http://modarchive.org/forums/index.php?board=36.0,
it will take you days to browse and download all of them ;D
Of course, you have to look in the mass for good ones, and they are not the best ones in the world, but they are free.
I think everyone should try many trackers and choose which of them suits him/her the most.