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Impulse Tracker is a multi-track Digital Sound Tracker ( Music Sequencer ) which proliferated on the DOS platform. It was authored by Jeffrey "Pulse" Lim, and demo music was done by Jeffrey Lim and Chris Jarvis. The software was distributed as Freeware , though the author supplied extra features, like saving stereo WAV files and the possibility to use an IPX network mode, in exchange for some cash (on the order of US$ 20). Once the stereo WAV writer plugin was publicly pirated, the author announced that he would discontinue it after version 2.14. There were some patches released, and 2.15 is by outside contributors. Impulse Tracker's interface was very similar to and could be considered the continuation of ScreamTracker 3. It was comparable to its rival FastTracker . Like most MOD editors Music is arranged into a grid of ''channels'', each channel containing key-on and optional key-off instructions not unlike MIDI . The Impulse Tracker modules have an extension of .IT. One of the features which set this MOD editor apart was NNAs, New Note Actions. If a new key-on command is received in the same channel as another instrument which is still being played, NNAs allow the user to customize the action that next occurs:
Last version was v2.14 Patch #5 which was released April 8, 1999. FREE SOFTWARE IMPULSE TRACKER CLONES CheeseTracker See Also: CheeseTracker CheeseTracker is an IT-style tracker running on Mac OS X , GNU/Linux and some other Unix -like operating systems. It is based on the Qt graphical toolkit and is licensed under the GNU General Public License . Schism Tracker Schism Tracker is intended to match the look and feel of Impulse Tracker as closely as possible. The user interface is built on , Mac OS X , FreeBSD , MorphOS and Microsoft Windows , for example. The LibModPlug library is used for player features. Supported formats include IT, S3M, MOD and XM. WAV saving and MIDI are also supported. The first developer of Schism Tracker was Chisel, and now it is developed and mantained by Nimh (nimh.org), a very active developer. Nearly daily, there are new CVS snapshots and build, and it's becoming a light (it runs under many machines and configurations), solid, stable and very popular tracker. Many former Impulse Tracker users are now composing under Schism Tracker. External links
BeRoTracker BeRoTracker can load IT files. External links
FREE SOFTWARE THAT PLAYS .IT FILES
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