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Amiga synth trackers

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AHX

1996 Abyss. Nuff said. 4 channels, entirely synthetic, and uses pattern matrix.

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Musicline Editor

1993 Christian/Conny Cyréus. 8 voices. Sample+synth. Very capable synthetic instruments.

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OctaMED

1990 Teijo Kinnunen. Mostly a ProTracker clone (Uses pattern order system), but has synthetic instruments.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cpressey/MMD0-tools/master/doc/MED-Format.txt

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SoundMon

Brian Postma, 1989. 15 sample+synth ins, pattern matrix. Formats: .bp (1.1), .bp3 (2-3).

AS3 source, JS source, x86 asm source

SoundMon 2.2 (Amiga, 1990)

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SoundMon 2.2 (DOS, 1995)

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BSEditor 0.3 (Win, 2000)

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Digital Mugician

1990 Thalamus Software (Reinier van Vliet). Not sure if synthetic (seems mostly samples), but it's also pattern-matrix. Might be able to "draw" waveforms?

file extensions are .dmu and .mug.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Mugician enlarge

Future Composer

1990 Supersero/Superions. Sample+synth. Seems to also use pattern matrix.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Future_Composer_(amiga)

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Art of Noise

1993 Bastian Spiegel (Twice/Lego). 4/8 voices. Sample+synth. Uses traditional ProTracker-like sequences.

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Delta Music

1989 Bent Nielsen.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/DeltaMusic

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Sidmon

1989 by Reinier van Vliet (Rhino/Team Hoi). Sample+synth.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Sidmon

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Sonic Arranger

1990 BrainTrace Design. Shareware. 4 channels, sample+synth. Seems decent actually, but not supported in FlodJS, and barely any code online.

Repository: ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/buzz/exotica/development/format_descriptions/sonic/

File parser: https://github.com/IllidanS4/AmiMus/blob/master/SonicArranger.cs

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AProSys

1989 Petter Urkedal. 4 chan, sample+synth. Can't tell if it uses a pattern matrix. But very obscure format. Has potential though, has some filter stuff going on.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/AProSys

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Fred Editor

1989 Frédéric Hahn. Samples+synth. Pattern matrix but no transpose.

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JamCracker

1991 M Gemmel. Sample+synth.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/JamCracker

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EarAche

1990 Morten Groulef. Obscure as hell. Sample+synth

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Honourable mentions

"Face The Music" (1990)

8 voices with supposedly powerful "SEL" (Sound Effect Language - 50 commands)

Can't actually play these files...

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GlueMon

1990 Lars Malmborg. Seems capable producing small files. No samples? Has noise generator maybe. No wavetravelling? Also no screenshots or code or format descriptions. But seems like a pure chiptune-like format.

Hippel + TMFX

No tracker but has some disassembled code and format stuff.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/TFMX https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Hippel

https://web.archive.org/web/20071013185840/http://www.exotica.org.uk/source/replays/HIP-Hippel/Hippel.s

InStereo!

SUNTronic

Source-code based format, no tracker.. just made in a text editor. Seems to be entirely synthetic too.

Synthesis

1992 Braintrace (who made Sonic Arranger).

http://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/amiga/Sound/Synthesis42_1stRelease.lha

StoneTracker

No synthetic instruments, but has interesting ideas and lots of docs.

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