VividTracker

I’ve used about every DAW out there but sometimes you just want to go old school. I had an Amiga 2000 and Octamed back in the day and having VT on my iPad certainly scratches the itch to make music tracker style. I have seen no bugs or issues with it. It works exactly as I expect and it sounds great! Who knew I’d be making MODs 30+ years later!

fantastic trad tracker Open In unfortunately crashes the app…

If you just want to play .MOD files, you should use VLC. That’s right, VLC is on iOS and it can handle old school tracker files. VividTracker is neat because it tries to act like the old players/editors. I like it but if all you want to do is play your files, use VLC.

I just wanna say it’s so nice to see this app still gets updates. It really is a good amiga tracker on iOS! Sounds great too! While i’m sad the Dropbox feature is gone, having files exported from Apple’s Cloud save is a good alternative

Now I can make mods on the go! But one problem, every time I try to save a vtm it says I can't store it in the location. Help? Cheers.

Less intimidating and cheaper than anything else on the market. Always did like that trackers helped you focus on rhythm than on waveforms. Proper musicians start with sheet music. Many a tune was engineered on a tracker, even if real hardware™ was used to produce it. Needs a few adjustments for user friendliness (switch screens 3 and 5!), and could use the ability to export to PCM and a menu for editing options, like for interpolation, Hz, and colors. PS, it can't handle some of the more advanced techniques that mods like Hoffman's "generator.” I think it’s that double sample offset that causes it.

I love this old school tracker. But I have a couple of requests for features. 1. The ability to sort that mod file list into alphabetical order. I seriously don’t know what method the app uses to sort mods, but they seem to be sorted randomly, making it difficult to find tunes you want if you have a lot of files. 2. I really think, in addition to being able to load samples from other mods, it would be really nice to create a folder where we could just put our own sounds, instead of having to use a mod editor on a pc to load sounds into a mod file, and then upload the thing. It would remove a step and make things a lot easier. I have an extensive library of samples that I use for making my tracker music, and I would really appreciate the ease of just...uploading samples straight into a folder on my iPhone to use with VividTracker. Putting all those samples into mod files and then uploading the mod files to my iPhone is a time consuming pain compared to the ability to just... upload the samples themselves. Other than those two complaints, I love this tracker and would like to see further development on it.

This app is a sleeper hit. It is one of the most lightweight and stable sequencers on the app store, and is a BIG deal for anyone doing 90s-era electronic production. External MIDI is rock solid, the Paula sound is spot on, the sequencing is extremely robust. It will be essential in preserving the classic Tracker workflow over the coming years. Combine that with apps like TAL-U-NO-LX, iM1, iWavestation, EGDR606/808/909 and you have 99% of House and Jungle sounds all in one device. VT is developed by a one man team, so it’s not surprising that the update schedule is fairly slow. It is still not a perfect port - leaving out these important functions: INTERNAL SAMPLING ***- Direct sampling with L/R/MIX select, Audio interface input select, fine tune, root note (uses outdated Audiocopy for all importing) SAMPLE EDITING - can't zoom in/out + drag in sample window, only selection zoom (OG Protracker had a slider so you could view the whole waveform while zoomed in) *- sample selections cannot easily be adjusted. If you try and adjust either the left or the right side of a selection it will create a new selection. (This is the same as OG PT, but very imprecise without a mouse) ***- no 9xx offset info (in the OG PT if you held your cursor over a section of the sample it automatically calculated the offset number you needed for the 9xx command) ***- individual sample filters (LP,HP,Normalize) **- sample echo, X-fade, backward, upsample, downsample, sample mix SEQUENCING - real chord mode (chords in PT could be asigned per sample in sample window with options for different chord shapes) LOADING/SAVING ***- no file browser support, only Dropbox - cannot save individual samples - project files do not seem to maintain BPM on startup. Will always default to 125BPM SPEED 06 STEREO 0 Feature suggestions: per-sample parametric EQ, per-sample virtual outs for mixing in AUM, .VTM mode w/ ADSR, 128-note patterns, loop settings (ping-pong, reverse, etc), polyphony The slow development seems to be related to porting the UI for touchscreen and fitting everything on each screen. I highly suggest the dev abandon this approach, go for full kb+mouse support instead & make this app as close to OG PT as possible. There is so much potential here. Once the kinks are worked out this will be my #1 app.

It cracked me up to see people giving poor reviews based on this not being a modern-concept tool; pretty obviously the point is to be a recreation of the old school approach and it does this well, no functional complaints at all. 👌 This might seem like a small thing to some, but the font gives me a headache– it is visually aggressive and hard to look at. Additionally, my brain just really wants to see a nice fuzzy pixel font; the ultra crisp, rounded serif type looks completely wrong on an aesthetic level. For these reasons it would be really helpful to have some configurable options- at least one alternate font option (the original pixel font is fine) and ideally the ability to change the contrast and/or text size to make it easier on the eyes.

I really love that this app exists and it’s cool to see old things given a update sometimes, I know this is supposed to directly copied the Amiga mod tracker but the interface is just not good for iOS. I have used Medly 4 for iPad for around 3 years now and after an hour of messing around in this app, I just can’t rap my head around it, the interface is just bad nowadays. I understand how this would be great for someone who actually used a mod tracker back in the 90’s but, if you’re looking at this as a beginner app, I can not recommend it. I like how this brings back the old limitations of older hardware, forcing you to work differently, but using the interface is just to hard for me. If you’re looking for something to just make music on I would recommend Medly 4, it’s also on IOS. It’s not like this but it’s a lot easier to use, better than garage band in my opinion.