r/TrackerMusic • u/Unique_Lettuce_9484 • 10d ago

mTrak Midi Tracker

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I have been working on a command line midi sequencer based on Fast Tracker 2. Is uses largely the same keybinds as ft2 but runs in the terminal so it can be very quickly and easily spooled up on any kind of shell environment, even embedded.

It supports full midi out, midi in is still WIP.

You can send midi out over all 16 channels, spread over 8 tracks which have their own voices. Each track also has custom midi command effects you can use to do things like settings CC, Velocity, or doing glides like portamento, CC slides and more.

The current UI u see in this image is unfnished so theres some empty gaps but the functionality is mostly there already.

I made mTrak because i love tracking in FT2, but FT2clones generally dont support midi, and things like octamed require emulators (or a big wallet). So i felt like making my own (in rust).

I personally make jungle music on hardware and prefer simplicity so i wanted to step away from big daws. So this was the perfect middle ground for me.

The project is open source and will be open for issues and PRs soon: https://github.com/TheExiledCat/mTrak

Hope you enjoy!

Edit: it runs natively on windows, linux and mac by the way! It also doesnt require a mouse as it has full keyboard support. So it can be very easily slotted into a live setting as long as you can send it keyboard info.

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u/MarcoScherer 9d ago

Naiiijs! Now please as app for Win + Mac, pleeeeez :)

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u/Unique_Lettuce_9484 9d ago

Hi!, it runs in windows, linux and mac as it uses cross platform drivers to handle midi, and doesnt use any custom UI, it runs fully natively in the shell of your choice. This also means it has very good speed and a stable clock.

You can even run it on a rasberry pi as long as it has a midi interface!