Odin Tracker history Odin Tracker is a music editor for the C64. Coded in Hungary almost two decades after the computer's debut. Legend: + feature added * bugfix or correction - feature gone 15 Feb 2000 - version 1.00 First release featuring: + MOD-like song organization - no DUR commands + 256 element orderlist, 256 patterns, each consisting of 3 tracks and 3 transpose values, 128 total tracks + 31 instruments, 256 bytes of waveform and arpeggio table shared among instruments, waveform and arpeggio table loop + true sine vibrato + pulse width variation + filter cutoff frequency variation + many track effects including slide, vibrato, arpeggio, pulse width and filter control, setting waveform and ADSR parameters on-the-fly + pattern editor with many nice features like block cut/copy/paste, slide block, undo + detailed help + and more 17 Feb 2000 - version 1.01 + added pound/shift+pound (insert in emulator) to delete/insert a row in all tracks visible in editor * when on a note field SHIFT+RUNSTOP jumps to the previous channel, just as it used to. when not on a note field, it now jumps to the note field of the current channel. this is closer to the behaviour of Fast Tracker 2, and also more comfortable. + disk device defaults to the device Odin Tracker was loaded from 28 Feb 2000 - version 1.02 + the playroutine finally has hard restart, better late than never + you can save a player with your song. this is horribly rotten and is a temporary hack till the packer is done. dont even tell me it sucks, i know already. * speed 0 works somewhat ProTracker compatible * bug when editing tracktranspose hopefully gone + help included in printable format (plain ASCII, that is) * some typing errors in the help corrected * absolute arpeggio in arpeggio table was not mentioned in the help * absolute arpeggio was in fact buggy, played a semitone deeper the expected * background color was sometimes messed up when leaving pattern editor - because of silly mem organization the player may miss some interrupts while you are reading the help. this is not likely to happen, though. (can someone with a good understanding of VIC interrupts examine the code of write_helppage in tracker.s near line 4500?) 29 Feb 2000 - version 1.03 * damn, delete in orderlist did not work. fixed. 27 Mar 2000 - version 1.10 + packer at last. you can save everything in a single file, or relocate the player and the tracks to different locations and save them separately. - pitch-independent vibrato had to go because it was a bit too expensive at one multiplication per voice. * other small optimizations in the player have improved it from being 'horribly slow' to 'slow', still around $30 lines. :( * pulse width modulation is refined, limits are handled hopefully bug-free + new filter control - works exactly like the arpeggio table. read help. + this means new file format. you can still load old (1.0x) files, you won't be able to import the filters, though. vibratos may sound a bit different, too. + you can test instruments on-the-fly in instrument and pattern editor - page up/down, etc, had to go to free keys for on-the-fly instrument test. sorry. + you can play a single pattern with shift+space + you can make more songs in one file + cut instrument is implemented (how could it be forgotten?) + automagically go to start of song after load * entering a note off entered garbage into instrument and effects fields :) * entering track numbers >= $80 in specials and disk menu killed the editor 31 Mar 2000 - version 1.11 * track transpose had no effect on arpeggio command * huh, directory listing was broken http://www.inf.bme.hu/~zed/tracker mailto:zed@kempelen.inf.bme.hu Wotan mit uns.