Tracking is a method for computer music almost as mature and time-honoured as MIDI. Sometimes better, sometimes not so - always different.
Tracking has to date been the remit of dedicated underground [freeware] software called "Trackers", particular examples of which (eg. Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker) have almost acrued cult-status with multi-million strong user-bases. The integration of the Tracker architecture (notably its User Interface*) in sequencer software, will bring the best of both worlds to the composer.
Sequenced and "tracked" music will be feasible within a single work. Composers can rely on the MIDI support and score facility of sequencers and/or turn to reViSiT for finer control of their music and audio.
The net result of a tracker, like all music applications, is audio. However, depsite the name, trackers should be likened to a software-sampler rather than a multi-track recorder. Inside a sequencer, reViSiT users will have full run of the hosts facilities in this department.
Though "tracked" music has often been combined with video, no freely-available software exists to this end. reViSiT will be able to use any such facilities in the host sequencer.
* The reViSiT interface is based on that of Impulse Tracker II, a development of Scream Tracker III.
VSTrack is the ultimate union of sequencing and tracking. reViSiT
is a VST Instrument (VSTi) plug-in for VST-hosts (such as
sequencers) that provides a tracker interface, based on Impulse
Tracker II, to the user.
Unlike normal VSTi's which simply take MIDI input, reViSiT's
editor window is a tracker interface, which takes on the role of
the 'music sequencer' - synthesizing both music and sound.
Changes:
v0.89.0 [ADD] New Note Actions (Off, Continue, Cut, Fade)
[ADD] Volume Fadeout
[ADD] Duplicate Checks Types (Note, Sample, Instrument)
[ADD] Duplicate Actions (Off, Cut, Fade)
[ADD] Pitch Envelope (IT Compatible)
[ADD] Support for IT v1.0 files.
[ADD] Sony Acid 6 support
[ADD] Block Swap (Alt-Y)
[ADD] Insert next order in order list (n)
[ADD] Skip to next/previous channel (Alt-Left/Right)
[MOD] Support for 1/2 digit slider entry
[MOD] Solo now mutes *all* other channels (including
previously solo'd channels)
[MOD] Envelope Info boxes now a single tab stop
[MOD] Background of Pattern Editor toolbar darkened
[MOD] Instrument auditioning now uses Note Off.
[FIX] Initial corruption of sound output
[FIX] MIDI output memory leaks (?)
[FIX] Occassional crashes when importing IT2 files.
[FIX] Lxx not continuing previous portamento.
[FIX] Kxx not continuing previous vibrato.
[FIX] Portamento not accounting for sample 'speed'.
[FIX] Keymap samples entries not saving.
[FIX] Sample Vibrato crashing.
[FIX] Data corruption when using long patterns
[FIX] Data corruption when using undo.
[FIX] Sample audition not working correctly
[FIX] Omitted keymap entries causing crashes
[FIX] First envelope node sometimes not saved.
[FIX] MIDI processing fixed (effect, retrigger, etc.).
[FIX] S8x panning range fixed
[FIX] IT sample/instrument mapping behaviour
[FIX] Shift-key detection anomalies
[FIX] MIDI Pitch slides not resetting on new note
[FIX] Anomalous IT "stereo" samples ignored.
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