Of course you can use samples to play the notes in a MIDI, MIDI is just a digital standard for storing a sequence of notes. You can do whatever you want with those.

But now you're grasping at straws, trackers didn't use MIDI, and unlike MIDI, shipped the samples with the tracks, so they'd sound the same wherever they were played.

That there's a superficial similarity is inconsequential, and that you'd bring it up at all, just further crushes your previous claims that trackers were related to earlier 8-bit synth-based music.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mate you're not gonna convince me that "tracker music" is anything but a vague term. You might have a point in it describing music made wth a tracker, but with Renoise existing these days, that isn't exactly very specific is it? We call these pieces "scene music", or even "keygen music" if you're new to it. It's as useful as saying "DAW music". The music made in the style of old retro games is more specific than just "it was made with a tracker". That is exactly why the term "chiptune" exists; it's music that is made with those old sound chips, or emulations of them. That gets to the heart of the issue.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is that what you think I was trying to do?

Does it need to be more than a vague term, if it, when entered into google or youtube, results in the exact thing I was talking about? Music, made using a "tracker".

Scene music or chiptune, meanwhile, both lead to far less specific results. Same for DAW.

As for retro computer music as a genre, I never claimed it should ALL be called "tracker music", you're the one who went "which necessitates a tracker".

I'm perfectly happy with chiptune as a word for any and all retro music. Tracker music can be called chiptune, but not all chiptune, is tracker music.