Scream Tracker
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| Scream Tracker | |
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 Scream Tracker 3.21 screenshot |
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| Developed by | Future Crew (FC) |
| Latest release | 3.21 / 1994 |
| Development status | Historic |
| Genre | Tracker |
Scream Tracker is a versatile multi-track digital sequencer created by Psi (Sami Tammilehto) of Finland's Future Crew (FC), legendary in the PC demoscene. It was coded in C and assembly language. The first popular version of Scream Tracker, version 2.2, was published in 1990. [1] Versions prior to 3.0 created STM files, later ones used S3M. The last version of Scream Tracker was 3.21 released in 1994. It was the precursor of the PC tracking scene and its interface inspired newer trackers like Impulse Tracker.
Scream Tracker supports up to 100 8-bit samples, 32 channels, 100 patterns & 256 order positions. It can also handle up to nine FM-synthesis channels on sound cards using the popular OPL2/3/4 chipsets, and, unusually, can play digital and FM instruments at the same time. However, Scream Tracker's FM-synthesis features were very rarely used by composers.
