QL soundcard+tracker???

[Matej]

Is there any QL soundcard (AY, DAC or FM) and music tracker for it???

[tofro]

Is there any QL soundcard (AY, DAC or FM) and music tracker for it???

The QL is one of the very few computers that's never had a music tracker (so: About time someone would produce one.... - which is a bit difficult without the proper hardware)

Very early in the QL's history, there was at least one AY sound card available: QSound from ABC Elektronik in Germany (I don't think a huge amount of them were sold).

Some QL compatibles and emulators, namely QPC2, SMSQMulator, Q40/Q60 and Q68 support Stereo DAC sound, but, to my knowledge, no Tracker/Modplayer is available.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I had a damaged QSound card as mentioned above, I was going to repair the PCB, as some tracks were damaged and the through plating missing on some through holes.

But a friend in Germany wanted to make more, so I sent it for an aid to reconstruct s sound card for QL. Nothing ever came of this...

[Cristian]

In early 90s I started to play with the primitive DRTtacker for DOS... 4 tracks only, 8 KHz sampling rate. Then arrived the legendary FASTTRACKER2: what a piece of software! I still listen to some MODs I created, occasionally.

[mk79]

In the future some platforms will get AY support (QPC for sure, and there is experimental support for Q68, too). I'm just not 100% sure about how to design the software API yet, maybe I will try to make it somewhat QSound compatible at the low level. But that is for a time when I've got a lot more spare time, if that'll ever happen.
Streaming music is then possible and works very well already, but there is still no tracker software and probably never will be.

[NormanDunbar]

Music Tracker? Is that something that remembers who has borrowed your CDs?

Asking for a "friend".

Cheers,
Norm.

[swensont]

There was a MIDI interface that Miracle did. Al Boehm of NESQLUG wrote some articles about it for QL Today. Looking on Dilwyn's page, there is a tracker package written for that MIDI interface by Dan Gaffey. There is even a download for the source code. Not sure how easy it would be to convert the tracker software to use something other than the MIDI interface. The Tracker is written in a combination of assembly and SuperBasic.

Tim

[RalfR]

There was a MIDI interface that Miracle did. Al Boehm of NESQLUG wrote some articles about it for QL Today. Looking on Dilwyn's page, there is a tracker package written for that MIDI interface by Dan Gaffey. There is even a download for the source code. Not sure how easy it would be to convert the tracker software to use something other than the MIDI interface. The Tracker is written in a combination of assembly and SuperBasic.

I fear, the Tracker software is very hardware dependent to the Miracle MIDI hardware. As there is no manual from Miracle themselves on Dilwyn's site, I do not know, if they ever had published the way to use the MIDI whithout the original Tracker software.

[tofro]

I'm afraid what Matej is looking for is not software for a no longer existing QL MIDI interface, but rather an Amiga MOD-player (which is pretty much a different beast) that allows to re-play .MOD files on a sound card. Common terminology has changed slightly here over time.

Tobias

[bwinkel67]

There was a MIDI interface that Miracle did. Al Boehm of NESQLUG wrote some articles about it for QL Today. Looking on Dilwyn's page, there is a tracker package written for that MIDI interface by Dan Gaffey. There is even a download for the source code. Not sure how easy it would be to convert the tracker software to use something other than the MIDI interface. The Tracker is written in a combination of assembly and SuperBasic.

Tim

I used to edit the newsletter for NESQLUG (now the name has bee usurped by SQL folks in NE). I remember having a good number of folks meeting (I believe) at Al's house pretty regularly back in the late 90's. I lost touch when I went back to school to get my PhD. Wonder where they are now...