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 In 1987, this changed by the release of The Ultimate Soundtracker, written by Karsten Obarski and distributed by the company AES. The arrangement was completely different from the traditional music applications by introducing the concept of patterns, where each pattern would hold 64 different steps and 4 different channels. Each step would store note, sample and command information such as quick arpeggio, portamento, and volume (this would later be called “effects”). Patterns could then be added together to form a song, which could be saved together with the samples as a “module” file (or mod-file for short). In 1987, this changed by the release of The Ultimate Soundtracker, written by Karsten Obarski and distributed by the company AES. The arrangement was completely different from the traditional music applications by introducing the concept of patterns, where each pattern would hold 64 different steps and 4 different channels. Each step would store note, sample and command information such as quick arpeggio, portamento, and volume (this would later be called “effects”). Patterns could then be added together to form a song, which could be saved together with the samples as a “module” file (or mod-file for short).
  
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 <caption>The Ultimate SoundTracker från 1987. <caption>The Ultimate SoundTracker från 1987.
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 Despite its innovative interface, which allowed powerful manipulation of the soundscape, it did not become a success. It was buggy and the first version was rather limited. Also, people were not used to this kind of interface. However, this was about to change as a Dutch demo programmer Exterminator from the demo group Jungle Command disassembled Soundtracker and added new features under the name Soundtracker 2 - and maybe most importantly, he released the playback routine so that anyone could add the music in their own demos or games. Despite its innovative interface, which allowed powerful manipulation of the soundscape, it did not become a success. It was buggy and the first version was rather limited. Also, people were not used to this kind of interface. However, this was about to change as a Dutch demo programmer Exterminator from the demo group Jungle Command disassembled Soundtracker and added new features under the name Soundtracker 2 - and maybe most importantly, he released the playback routine so that anyone could add the music in their own demos or games.
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 In 2023, there were quite many music making apps on the App Store but still no Protracker compatible app that could load and save mod-files. I was hoping that someone would release a Protracker clone, but since this didn’t happen I came to the conclusion that I needed to develop it myself. I took the mod player I had for the Roll a Stone game and made a user interface to allow editing the module. It would take about a year, but in January 2014 I happily announced the release of VividTracker, the very first and still only truly Amiga Protracker compatible iOS app. In 2023, there were quite many music making apps on the App Store but still no Protracker compatible app that could load and save mod-files. I was hoping that someone would release a Protracker clone, but since this didn’t happen I came to the conclusion that I needed to develop it myself. I took the mod player I had for the Roll a Stone game and made a user interface to allow editing the module. It would take about a year, but in January 2014 I happily announced the release of VividTracker, the very first and still only truly Amiga Protracker compatible iOS app.
  
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 <caption>The first version of VividTracker from 2014 compared to Protracker on the Amiga. <caption>The first version of VividTracker from 2014 compared to Protracker on the Amiga.
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 +Recently, Apple has made it possible to install and run iPad apps on their new M1/M2 processor computers and VividTracker has therefore been adapted to work on these new computers. Unfortunately, VividTracker depends on third party libraries that do not support Intel based Macs, so a separate Intel version will probably not be developed.
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 +<caption>VividTracker on the Mac.
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