Furnace tracker

[farvardin]

Have you heard of Furnace soundtracker ?

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace

It's quite similar to Deflemask (but it's open source), and it also supports more soundchips, among them ym2149 / ay8910

The downside (at the moment), is you can only export to the vgm format (ou audio wav), so it would be difficult to play the resulting work on original hardware, but it's an interesting tracker nevertheless...

[YQN]

Damn, I thought it exported to SND :/ I know it has cool features, like using any multiple chips in the same tune. I hope they implement SND or YM export...

[607]

Interesting. I prefer working on the systems I'm writing for (or in an environment emulating the system), but this type of project is quite cool.

[ThierryC2022]

I just discovered this awesome tracker a few days ago : impressive multi-system support and a lot of features.
About the advanced sound tricks used on the YM2149, the hardware envelope trick is supported (especially through commands for setting the ratio between its frequency and the one in one of the three channels). However, it lacks the latest advanced timer-interrupt-based software techniques I was interested in : especially SID emulation (could be thought as simple software wavetable), but also digi-drums, sync-buzz...
Therefore, if I want to use them, I'll have to use other sound chips instead.
And I too wonder about the file formats, just in case I ever would like to develop again for the ST.

[YQN]

Last time I wanted to use Furnace it was for a C64 tune but since it didn't export to .sid I wasn't niterested and switched to Goattracker. I like to record on hardware I did check their discord though and export to .sid was planned so maybe one day it'll exort to sndh too but I doubt they'll implement ST-specific features. Most often YM trackers only use 50/60Hz only so no digidrums or other effects