Chiptune tracker music I made in the 90s (1 Hour of Fasttracker 2, 1996-99)

As a teenager I went to several demo-scene parties and was a member of music groups.
I call these chip-tunes because the files are usually less than 64kb in size but they don't sound very bubbly or lo-fi like synthesized chip-tunes you may know from the SID, Gameboy, NES or OPL3. All samples are in 8Bit.
I also did not use lots of arpeggios. The samples are often short and randomly hand-drawn segments which can sound quit harsh in retrospect.
I applied some EQ and stereo width to combat the harshness but I could not avoid it completely.
I hope the harshness does not put you off because I find the compositions are worth listening to nevertheless.
I actually almost cried when I listened to these for the first time in 25 years.
I stuck to more breakbeat- and sound designy music making after this phase but I remembered how sweet melodic stuff can be.
I never learned music theory and made everything by trial and error, finding interesting chords and stuff.
This made me miss my youth times and the demo-scene. Everything was so exciting back then, the demo-scene, CD-Rom, the internet, 3D graphics, MP3, DVD, Voodo Graphics, games, trackers, flat-screens were things which came into existence.
I hope this is decent background music to listen to.
Also see my tracker playlist: • Chiptunes for the office
Gearmo
0:00 One eye jack (29 kb)
1:38 Ghalimah-shub di dey (66 kb)
6:12 You are a winner (19 kb)
7:40 Trip to tp8 (the party 98) (49 kb)
11:34 Turok.xm (58 kb)
13:45 Chipadelic #3 intro (56 kb)
16:25 Magic wings (89 kb)
20:23 Keine Ahnung (22 kb)
22:26 Chps r ever the same (german teenage grammar :D, 29 kb)
24:33 Keeping in the range (140 kb)
26:50 Chipadelic (55 kb)
30:06 Titune.xm (151 kb)
31:58 Gangtaz in Akbar (29 kb)
33:56 Rawdata (38 kb)
35:42 Sarsaparille (12 kb)
37:47 wAhnsInn (36 kb)
39:33 Ren & Stimpy (80 kb)
42:28 Rpgame.xm (84 kb)
45:16 easyflow bay (11 kb)
47:27 tunnelmucke (5 kb)
47:43 spacejam (28 kb)
49:29 a joint in your nose (40 kb)
51:30 Livemekk.xm (Done at the Mekka / Symposium party in Fallingbostel, 202 kb)

[@lowmicofficial]

KZbin's gotta stop on the trash, this is a GREAT example of what KZbin should recommend me!

[@coRnflEks]

Man, these are some great tunes! Happy I was recommended them by the tube.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Glad you like them!

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Yup a random video for me seemingly, although it like trackers, and chiptune, but trackers more!

[@airstrike5062]

The intro to Magic wings feels straight out of Zelda, but then it goes full Donkey Kong Country after that. It's such a nice switch from the prior track and it shows a real richness of texture and a great ability to evoke moods. Also the first two tracks are so funky, I can't get enough of them. This is just such a good set!!!!!

[@HOUSEWARMING]

Magic Wings really struck something with me, thanks for sharing your work!

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

It's one of my favourites too :) Thanks for commenting!

[@EmberwolfXR]

...and as some one who grew up listening to bleeps and bloops from my game boy advanced...but never new this stuff existed...im so impressed with trackers and the whole 8bit thing...

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Computers + creativity = fun :)

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Trackers have got pretty powerful now, not just limited to 8bit unless you want to! I love trackers for breakbeats best, and how things can be done with commands. I'm late to the party, but like the old ways of workflow it seems

[@StrongZeroPowerHour]

you've spread a little joy around the world here by uploading this. great stuff!

[@denizonder5793]

100%

[@Dr.Quarex]

Haha, god. How many years has it been since I thought about FastTracker having Snake in it

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Probably around twenty years is my guess :)

[@TheRadicalOneNG]

I love how you personally tweak the volume up and down during the song transitions, it makes it feel like we're watching a recording of a live performance you did in a chiptune venue somewhere.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Haha, yes thank you. It was also an occasion to show everyone how bad I am at playing nibbles :D

[@ChimaeraCarnage]

Man I absolutely love the vibe of the first one the most best way to start this.

[@Arypie]

These are crazy crazy good! I hope you still create music, even if your instruments might be a little different now.

[@stupidfox1711]

I absolutely LOVE Magic wings!!! it's so good!

[@skejeton]

these are some amazing tunes

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Thank you so much! :)

[@Preske]

I think i've seen this software at a friend's one time. I get you dude, those were awesome times. Wasn't part of any scenes myself, but I was aware of them.

[@johnnorthtribe]

Nice songs. Enjoy them a lot. Brings back memories.

[@gnuPirate]

This swings hard!

[@BropheyDood]

titune is so sassy. love a chip with some 'tude.

[@airstrike5062]

I absolutely love this stuff and the whole story on your post. Thanks for sharing. An amazing achievement

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Thanks for commenting twice, I am extremely happy that you like the tracks so much. This is my most successful video :)

[@PolySwitchOfficial]

very good stuff

[@derguijosegonzalezcaraball5860]

Music second like relax perfect favorite brother

[@ogneryb]

enjoying it!

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Thank you, that makes me happy

[@wnllkmusic]

incredible!

[@Morpherence]

I love it. Second track got me tears up, so emotional.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

That's the best possible compliment I could hope for, it makes me really happy. Especially because that's also the song that touches me the most because of that build up when the pitch keeps climbing and building pathos

[@Morpherence]

@@NoiseCommander3DS I glad you are happy. What's your name user us tracker musician and demoscene. And where to download us mp3 example?

[@YezzyHD]

wAhnslnn.. just wow , most of this is pure gold no doubt about it

[@OLIV3R_YT]

Awesome tunes!

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Thank you!

[@MurrayFlashy]

Heard the first song and I already got thrown in a groovy mood! I love these and the style of them, thank you so much for sharing these with us, you did awesome on these back in the day!

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Thank you so much, that means a lot to me! I dug out some more tunes, there will be a part 2 coming soon! All of this threw me back into nostalgia memory lane as well, I found lots of tracker playlists and created my own too. I love it

[@MurrayFlashy]

@@NoiseCommander3DS Ah yeah! Awesome, I look forward to see your second part of your archive! I will stay tuned as a subscriber now! - Also question, do you still know how to use trackers or still make music like this?

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

​@@MurrayFlashyI don't make that kind of music any more even though I'd like to if I could/would afford putting time into it. I am also a software developer (albeit not a great one) and am writing a homebrew music making app for the Nintendo 3DS in my free time which is the main focus of the channel. Please see my patreon page if interested (donations are welcome!) : www.patreon.com/NoiseCommander3DS It works like a sample-playing groovebox or drum-machine (SP-404, MPC etc.) rather than a tracker. I will add a tracker-interface eventually but I find having a full keyboard for writing music like this makes it a lot easier compared to having only a few buttons + touchscreen as on the 3DS. LSDJ and the M8 Tracker do allow writing intricate music without a full keyboard after all though, they are great products. But fear not, I do plan to make a commentary video about how I made the tunes and how I used Fasttracker 2, including a mini tutorial. During the last 20 years I had replaced my usage of FT2 with Renoise since it has lots of added modern features like effects, synthesizers and audio routing. I discovered that I much prefer the way the keyboard shortcuts are laid out in FT2 over Renoise as I recorded the video however. I still know how to use trackers and I still make music, but the music is much different. I got addicted to buying music making tools, be it apps or hardware, it's also a journey I plan to share on this channel. But honestly, FT2 felt the best, it really has an intuitive and practical hands on user interface, I praise it for that. Triton did such a good job.

[@MurrayFlashy]

@@NoiseCommander3DS I have been trying to figure out how to use fast tracker 2 and have been doing hot garbage at it lol. I could really use some help using it or perhaps need resources of instruction manuals and info for making music in it. I asked cause I guess I was wondering if you'd be willing to help be able to know how. I do know some stuff, im not all and all THAT new at it. Just a few things i don't know how to do is all.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

I'll try to answer, go ahead and ask ;)

[@presidentzippy5506]

I love all of these, but Magic Wings is off the frickin' chain! :-)

[@Echodonut]

Any chance you will be releasing these as downloadable files (wavs, mp3s, ogg?)?

[@pimprubul]

you should drop a remasters magic wings, song is amazing as is 💜

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Good idea!

[@Trackmaniadude]

Damn youtube with the random gem recommendations again. Rawdata's probably my favorite.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

I used the rawdata as end-boss music in an attempt of a hobby video game back then. It was written in Delphi for windows - I will try to show it in a future video if I can make it run. There was some tracker-player library I used for it, maybe MikMod or something. Later I tried making another game inspired by Shining Force but I never finished it. Thanks for commenting!

[@Klisax]

Beautiful tunes you made! Ghalimah-shub di dey, Trip to tp8, Gangtaz in Akbar and Keine Ahnung are my favourites. Will be the .xm modules available public?

[@CyberCreeper22]

excuse me fast tracker has SNAKE!?

[@humanbeing_]

Poggers

[@Gaiwwie]

Titune and the last one are interesting

[@mewsez]

best chiptune writers of all time are Meat of Zerius and Purple Motion if you could even put his stuff into this category because his music is a category of its own

[@egil-andrenessmortensen3037]

Gravis Ultrasound 😃

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

I never had one myself - I was content with the Soundblaster 16. For anyone wondering, here is a video about the Gravis Ultrasound kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2PSnZuYd5h-ga8&pp=ygURZ3JhdmlzIHVsdHJhc291bmQ%3D I did own the Gravis Gamepad so that I could play Jazz Jackrabbit and One Must Fall 2097 properly though

[@egil-andrenessmortensen3037]

@@NoiseCommander3DS allright. I upgraded from sbpro to gus to gus pro? The one with rom in addition ro ram expansion. Just noticed the GUS in the video 😅

[@stephanosdunamis3394]

Where can I download this? I would buy this if it was on itunes

[@pimprubul]

🪄✨ 🪽 🪽

[@JustinGeekNerd]

cool stuff! Before Fruity Loops and Pro Tools ad such?

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

I was going to say yes but that would be half incorrect. Fruity came out in 1998 and pro tools in 1991 apparently! It was the Windows 95 era where lots games and demos were still released for DOS :D

[@oldbrokenhands]

Folks used to write banjo songs by campfire, now it's Gameboys by LED backlight.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Hehe, yepp. I had borrowed a sega game gear when I was a kid and secretly played it under my blanket when I was supposed to be asleep - I was an early adopter of nightly melatonin disruption :D

[@NiKo2935]

how do i get Fasttracker II on Window 10?

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

There is a native clone here 16-bits.org/ft2.php In the video I am running the original FT2 in DOSBox under Linux but it also runs on windows. I hope that helps! I believe I had to change the IRQ setting to 5 for the Soundblaster emulation it produce sound.

[@NiKo2935]

@@NoiseCommander3DS i found it earlier, but thanks dude

[@mewsez]

Best chiptune writer is Purple Motion and Meat of Zerius... try look them up.

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

Will give it a try :D I know Purple Motion from Second Reality of the Future Crew. Never heard of Meat of Zerius, thanks!

[@NoiseCommander3DS]

I really like Jogeir Liljedahl and Radix

[@mewsez]

Meat/Zerius was a demo group in the mid-90s from Canada somewhere... @@NoiseCommander3DS

[@mewsez]

check out Einsteinium-04 .mod i think it is from Amiga days still.. really awesome, I like 12th Warrior too, that style. @@NoiseCommander3DS

[@mewsez]

I should just render my entire mod collection and put it up on youtube , cuz I used to hang out w/ MikMak, Pulse, Necros, all those guys on #scene in the 90s, and have a sizable collection of best mods ever created I think... Run it through my dsp engine / mod player I developed (check my channel) I have original IT engine code that MikMak derived from Pulse's asm version that he gave me back in the days I just have to fix couple of things in mod playback - as always very fragile code. and maybe replace linear interpolation w/ sinc resampling =))) while we're at it. @@NoiseCommander3DS

[@jayocaine2946]

Not chiptune. I hear a lot of fm in there. Chiptune is pretty much all Tri and square waves

[@skejeton]

chiptune is a pretty broad term

[@kaitlyn__L]

Does the Mega Drive/Genesis music qualify for you as chiptune?