klystrack(1)

📦 version 0.10.0.alpha4, in arch rolling

✨ NAME ✨

klystrack — make C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes. Okay bestie, this is klystrack(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the glow-up guide for a tracker that makes iconic C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

klystrack [options] files...

So yeah: klystrack, then [options], then one or more files.... The page doesn't list individual flags right here, so don't come for me — that synopsis is exactly the vibe. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This manual page documents briefly the klystrack command. In bestie terms: it's the quick rundown, not the whole novel.

klystrack is a tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform. It can be used to create audio for games. Literally game-audio main character energy, no cap. 🦋

🦋 FEATURES 🦋

Okay, the features are giving full buffet. Category by category, no skipping, periodt:

🎛️ Sound

  • Additive synthesis with filters (think SID, Atari, NES etc.)
  • Hard sync and ring modulation (like SID)
  • FM synthesis (think Adlib, MSX, OPL2 etc.)
  • Wavetable for samples or custom waveforms to be used in synthesis (think Amiga, SNES)
  • Built-in wave generator and editor
  • Programmable instruments not limited to simple arpeggios

🧚 Sequencer

  • Tracker with free positioning of patterns
  • Pattern transpose
  • Pattern length is not fixed
  • Hard limit of 32 channels but this can be raised (just ask if you need more... sounds crazy, though)
  • Fully themeable, includes half dozen themes

🔥 Effects

  • Stereo chorus
  • SNES-style multitap echo
  • Bit crusher/decimator

🍓 Export

  • Own custom format with a tiny playback library to be used in games, demos etc.
  • Export as .WAV
  • Export each track as separate .WAV's
  • Export wavetable items as .WAV's (use klystrack to create one-cycle waveforms for other synths!)

🌈 Import

  • Import .AHX modules
  • Import .WAV's to use as samples
  • Import Protracker and FT2 modules
  • Import C64 SID files (Rob Hubbard player)

⭐ INTERNET TUTORIAL ⭐

Want the tutorial? It's right here, bestie:

http://n00bstar.blogspot.ch/p/klystrack-tutorials.html

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

adtrack2(1), protracker(1), goattracker(1), milkytracker(1), hivelytracker(1), schismtracker(1). Go say hi to the other trackers, iykyk. 🫶

mwah 💋 this was klystrack(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated December 12 2017 — source/version vibes and all. Now go make something iconic, fr fr 🎀✨

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