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Screenshot of Digitracker, showing the sample editor

Digitracker was the first music program for the Amstrad CPC, which was based on digital instruments (samples) instead of PSG (chip) sound. Out of wave tables it mixed three 7 bit channels into one 4 or 8 bit channel, which has been output via the CPCs' internal PSG or the Digiblaster (printer port) DAC-extension.

As Digitracker was able to convert original Amiga MOD files into its own CPC format, it was possible to generate hundrets of song modules. The player has been used in the intro part of the Digital Orgasm demo. Digitracker got a "big brother", when Prodatron started to develop "Digitrakker" on the PC in 1995.

Technical facts

• 64512 bytes free for samples
• 34 pattern (when pattern-lenght is set to 64)
• 16667 herz 8 bit sampleoutput (Digiblaster)
• 14493 herz 4 bit sampleoutput (Soundchip)
• 96 Songpositions
• 8 Bit-Digiblaster support for high-quality sound
• mostly Amiga-Protracker-effekt compatible, 17 effects (slides, vibratos, arpeggios, position-loops, sample-offset)
• sample-editor (echo, mix, smooth...)
• powerfull playerroutine, any startposition, interrupts possible (demos are possible, too), colorequalizer, equalizing rasterbar and more
• comfortable uniformity standard-user-desktop

Program modules

• main-module, Digitracker itself. In here you can edit or create new MDLs (modules).
• MOD-Converter, which converts Amiga-Protracker-MODs to Digitracker-format, sample (Amiga, PC...) and CPC-MOD transfer is possible, too
• The Playercode-Generator, which creates an external player-routine for Digitracker-modules

Web links

• Digitracker homepage
• English manual
• Collection of Digitracker song modules