SoundTracker (Unix)

This article is about the Unix-based tracker. For the Amiga program, see Ultimate Soundtracker. For other uses, see Soundtracker (disambiguation).

SoundTracker is a free tracker for Unix-like operating systems running X Window System for composing music to be saved in module files.

SoundTracker

Version 0.6.8 screenshot
Original author(s)	Michael Krause
Stable release	1.0.5 / March 17, 2024; 13 months ago (2024-03-17)
Repository	sourceforge.net/p/soundtracker/git/ci/master/tree/
Written in	C
Operating system	X11/Unix
Type	Tracker
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	www.soundtracker.org

Description

Its name is a tribute to the 1987 Amiga program Ultimate Soundtracker which is regarded as the first program of this type, while its user interface mostly resembles and indeed functionally mimics Fast Tracker,^[1] one of many popular MS-DOS-based audio trackers, supporting saving in its file formats. It generally renders playback using the OpenCP (à la Cubic Player) engine. Initially SoundTracker had used GTK+ (version 1) as its widget toolkit, modern versions (since 1.0.0) use GTK+ 2. For many years, SoundTracker was one of the very few mature audio trackers available for Unix-like operating systems.