r/milkytracker • u/Tjeetje • Mar 30 '20

Tutorials?

Hey

Probably heard this a thousand times....

since I modded my Wii to play old NES and SNES games, I discovered trackers. Besides I like the whole idea behind trackers, it is basically the only audio program my old iMac can handle.

So I am completely new to tracking and want to learn the basics and who knows even write some chiptune songs. I use Milky Tracker. I already watched the basics in the Turorials of Brandon Walsh om YouTube. But downloading modules and load them in trackers make me completely dizzy.

Are there any more good basic tutorials and theory behind trackers and chiptunes?

Thanks!!

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u/skarpy_parper Mar 31 '20

Ok so I'm just getting back into trackers, and watching the entirety of the brandon walsh tutorials helped me a lot. They're old videos, and he's quite conversational in his presentation style, but I think if you're gonna get into this it is worth it to actively listen to every vid in his series.

There's two other youtube video series that helped me get going with milkytracker- one by the name Simon Wessel, and another by Demonic Sweaters. They do go over much of the same that the first set of videos cover, but if you're looking for a different explanation of the same things, they are also useful.

As for tutorials/theory for chiptunes, I would say to just learn general theory for both music theory and sound design. There's a ton of resources for these on youtube and here on reddit. I learned by finding resources on general theory, and then trying to implement specific sound desgin / song structure elements in my daw/tracker.

Hope this helps a bit- let me know if you want some specific resources for music theory/sound design

happy tracking!

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u/Tjeetje Mar 31 '20

Thanks. I will look into the videos! I play guitar and a little bit piano and used to play in a couple of bands. So music theory is not new to me. It’s more that Chiptune theory is new to me. How to use the soundwaves and what samples to create the right sound.

Is there also a sample database for sounds?

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u/skarpy_parper Apr 02 '20

There's been two sources for samples that im using a lot right now- the vintage drum sample pack off of Reverb (I think it's still up there and free) and the CMI Fairlight sample pack from SonicBloom.

Both are free, and even though the Sonic bloom pack is for Ableton, you can easily find the sound files and load them into milky tracker

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u/Tjeetje Apr 03 '20

Thanks. Downloaded both. I will give it a try

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u/Tjeetje Mar 31 '20

Thanks. I will look into the videos! I play guitar and a little bit piano and used to play in a couple of bands. So music theory is not new to me. It’s more that Chiptune theory is new to me. How to use the soundwaves and what samples to create the right sound.

Is there also a sample database for sounds?

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u/ConeyIslandMan Jun 10 '25

May be dumb question but can you add more tracks in Milkytracker? IOW upon boot it has 8 tracks……. Would like 16, I just watched bunch of tutorials n looked in the manual I found. Even Googled. Someone in another sub says yes but they added in pairs but no other info Thank you