MILKYTRACKER(1)

💖 MILKYTRACKER 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the milkytracker(1) manual page — it lives in the General Commands Manual section and it's genuinely iconic. come sit with me, we're gonna go through the whole thing 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

milkytracker, milkycli — a music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2 🌈

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

milkytracker [options] [input]
milkycli [options] [input]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so milkytracker is a multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. it is literally trying to recreate the module replay and the whole user experience of the super popular DOS program FastTracker II, and it also has special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility. the range, the accuracy, the vibes 💅

you can use the program both interactively through its graphical interface, or in headless mode for converting module files to wave files. pick your fighter 🫶

and then there's milkycli, which is a minimal version of milkytracker that only allows conversion options and implies the -headless option. it's the low-key, no-frills sibling. no GUI, no drama, just conversion energy ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

💜 General

• -headless — run in headless mode, no graphical interface at all (conversion only). it's giving "i'm here to work, not to look cute" 😭
• -help — show a summary of options. bestie behavior fr fr.
• -recvelocity — enable recording velocity for MIDI input devices. your MIDI controller said "let me be expressive" and this option said "periodt" 🎹
• -verbose — enable verbose output. it will simply Not Stop Talking and honestly? we love that for it.

🎀 Display

• -bpp BPP — set bits per pixel for display output.
• -fullscreen — run in fullscreen mode. main character energy, taking up the whole screen 👑
• -nosplash — do not show the splash screen. skipping the intro, straight to the content.
• -orientation ORIENTATION — set display orientation. valid values are NORMAL, ROTATE90CCW, ROTATE90CW.
• -swap — swaps the red and blue values in 24 BPP mode. (yes, that is exactly what it does, no cap.)

🌈 Conversion

• -multi-track — export each track to a separate WAV file. files are named output_01.wav, output_02.wav, etc. silent tracks are automatically removed. so organized, so clean, we're obsessed 🧚
• -output FILE — specify output file name when using headless mode.
• -resampler TYPE — set resampler type (default: from settings or 4).
• -sample-rate RATE — set sample rate in Hz (default: from settings or 44100).
• -shift SHIFT — set mixer shift value (default: from settings or 1).
• -volume LEVEL — set mixer volume level (default: from settings or 256).

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

goattracker(1), BambooTracker(1), hivelytracker(1), protracker(1), ccutter(1), ocp(1), modplug123(1), schismtracker(1).

the whole tracker friend group, all invited to the group chat 💖

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

milkytracker was written by Peter Barth.

this manual page was written by Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> and James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). thank you for your service, legends 🫡💖

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this version is from August 2025, and yeah, it's the MILKYTRACKER(1) manual — go make some .MOD and .XM files, you absolute icon 🎀✨💅