Memes @lemmy.ml Custoslibera @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Never jammed out to an Adobe Pro patcher harder

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It's called "tracker music". A "tracker" is a type of music composing software that dates back to the very dawn of digital music.

Ahoy has a fantastic video about how they work and their history.
- I smell demoscene.
  
  Anyway, here's a nice track for y'all: https://youtu.be/qMEDyse-u_U
  
  Thank you, another for the "actually good tracks" playlist.
  
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  https://piped.video/qMEDyse-u_U
  
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  I smell the same and can't help but to mention just a few off the top of my head.
  
  rgba / elevated
  Conspiracy / Chaos Theory
  Bran Control / Memories from the MCP
  Andromeda Software Development / Lifeforce
  Farbrausch / fr-041
  mfx / 1995
  
  pouet.net - go there, download and watch it yourself. Youtube is cool but real stuff is so much better, especially when you check the file size. Though be aware, some of these old ones don't play well at non-96 dpi display settings.
  
  This is art and I'm not even joking. This shit should have replaced wars.
- If you wanna be pedantic, it's chiptune. You use trackers to make chiptune. And scene music is a niche within a niche.
  
  No. Tracker music is 16-bit, within tracker music the term chiptune refers to a specific sub-genre which emulates 8-bit music.
  
  Only much later did "chiptune" become a catch-all for all old computer music, and in that context it can refer to music not made with a tracker.
- Damn that was an awesome watch. Came for the meme, stayed for the 40 minute documentary.
  
  Seriously I'm 15 minutes into the history of computer generated sound and am still wondering wtf this has to do with cracking music. This is some next level autistic shit. 10/10.
- Well that was a fascinating little trip down memory lane. Thanks for the link.
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  fantastic video
  
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- I had no idea what I was getting into clicking that link. Saw another comment about it being 40some minutes long but I watched the whole video, it was very interesting! I was tickled by all the things that I can remember from growing up that were referenced
  
  An aside, do you have first hand knowledge of tinkering with trackers?
  
  They were before my time. I only learned about them because of Ahoy. I've been on the lookout for music made with them since.
  
  I highly recommend his other videos.
  
  Especially the longer ones like "POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist", "Nuclear Fruit: How the Cold War Shaped Video Games", and "The First Video Game". His iconic arms series is also, well, iconic.
  
  He is amazing at graphics.
- This is probably my favorite tracker track: Strobe(.it)
  
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  Strobe(.it)
  
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- Hearing those three notes of "Foregone Destruction" for the first time in umpteen years fired off a neuron that'd been hoarding the good chemicals.
I liked seeing that someone's computer had .nfo files associated with Notepad. You knew you had found a fellow matey.
- You mean Notepad++?
  
  You mean neo vim
- I need to do that at some point...
Or crack intros all over the eighties.

https://youtu.be/EMzGlRZfTNs
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Someone out there has been collecting the best keygens with songs and they don't even know it. And now their job is to release a compilation album on bandcamp or something.
- I found this on archive.org.
Fitgirl go brrr
Since the dawn of keygens

BF2
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  BF2
  
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- Surely keygens are way older than BF2?
Oh man there was one that I'll never find again, I think it was on some XP keygen that I probably still have somewhere that I'll never run again... There was an epic walkdown at the beginning of it that I can still hear

Edit found it! It was Sony Vegas, not windows

https://youtu.be/cmdprbBOMT8?si=123SD8v6wha5YF1e
- There are whole Keygen music playlists on YouTube.
  
  Don’t let your dreams be dreams! Find the tune of your past!!!
- Install Everything and type some guesswork filenames.
My nostalgic contribution:

Sony Vegas - Key Gen Music
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  Sony Vegas - Key Gen Music
  
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Warez and their .txt readmes. They would do that ASCII art by hand.
- How else can it be done? Any attempt to convert images or text into ASCII art automatically looks at best uninspired and boring and at worst like trash.
  
  I think "by hand" implies making ascii art in a text editor, rather than in a dedicated drawing tool that lets you paint characters etc.
  
  There was an app for MacOS...7? I think. It was called ASCIIPaint, and it allowed you to draw these pictures using a mouse.
- .DIZ readmes, ftfy.
Anyone looking for a good bunch of noises should check out Dubmood's Mighty Pirate Sessions
Figma should put a banger in the login prompt given the recent news.
Fitgirl music tho 💯
I wish companies did it now too, would be so much fun
Now I remember this Pink Floyd album cover.
lmao!
Link to a solid one? Mine broke and I can't use several features anymore.
Finales keygen was chefs kiss

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