hivelytracker(1)

💖 hivelytracker 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for hivelytracker, living in the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? it's giving legend behavior. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let me tell you everything.

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✨ NAME ✨

hivelytracker — a music tracker for the AHX and HVL formats 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hivelytracker [options] files...

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. options, then files. periodt.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this page documents, briefly, the hivelytracker command. quick lil overview, yk?

hivelytracker is a tracker program based on the AHX format, which was created in the mid '90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. no cap, the format was relatively popular — so many songs got made with it and used in scene productions and games. AHX was literally designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. iconic behavior from the jump. 👑

it can import and export modules and instruments in the AHX format, but it also improves on AHX in several ways, which is why it has its own instrument and module formats. glow up fr fr ✨

💅 Features over AHX 💅

here's the list of upgrades, bestie, and I'm obsessed with every single one:

• Multichannel — 4 to 16 channels 🎚️
• Per-channel stereo panning — each channel gets to pick a side, main character energy
• Two commands per note instead of one — double the commands, double the chaos
• Ring modulation — yes, the weird metallic one, slay
• A more feature rich editor — the editor ate and left no crumbs

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🌈 INTERNET 🌈

http://www.hivelytracker.co.uk/

go there. it's the site. 🫶

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• protracker(1)
• goattracker(1)
• bambootracker(1)
• klystrack(1)

the tracker friend group 💜 all of them, your honor.

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from February 25 2018 and it's hivelytracker(1), so if you ever need the source/version deets, that's where they live. now go make some very SID-like Amiga bangers, iykyk 💖🦋✨