The Story of NoiseTracker by Pex Mahoney Tufvesson
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- Pex Mahoney Tufvesson talks about his NoiseTracker music program, released for the Commodore Amiga Home Computer in 1989-1990. NoiseTracker is considered being one of the most important tracker based music programs ever made, and it inspired quite a number of young people to experiment with music production at a time when music studios were extremely expensive.
The talk was held at Datastorm in Gothenburg, Sweden, on the 10th of February 2017. Video was recorded by scenesat.com
Mahoney's homepage is at livet.se/mahoney
Hallonsoft's homepage is at hallonsoft.com
Really impressive presentation with lots of hours put in the making of it. As always, you surpass expectations and deliver high quality and with a fun and nice story. Bows in respect of your multi talents 😉
Thankyou for uploading this, a joy to watch!
I watched this video after spending a few hours working on a Rust port of the His Master's Noise replayer, and was really thrilled and honored to see my tracker history graph there. Excellent presentation, thanks!
Thanks Mahoney ... that 4k demo was simply amazing !!
Thank you for your contribution to my Amiga experience.
Wow.. I'm pretty damn honoured that you used my recording of DOC Soundtracker, didn't even cut it one bit! :p
Real big fan of your tracker and some of your songs (mostly the songs from when you added synthesis with the unreleased Noisetracker, but also some SID stuff you've composed).
I'm also shocked to see a copy of the original by Karsten Obarski aswell! Great piece of computer music history that has been edited and saturated so much over the years. Versions of the disks unmodified are nowhere to be seen on the internet, with ST-01 and ST-02 images having different samples and lengths, and ST-03 not being available whatsoever. Pex, it'd be nice if you could clear some air about this and if ST-03 was only just owned by Karsten himself (had Ensoniq SQ sounds, from Oil Imperium).
So this is the man. My word.
I used Soundtracker not long after I got my first Amiga, and it was OK. Then - somehow - I got a copy of Noisetracker and I - I! (the one in my family without the musical genes) - actually made some music on a computer. It was such a happy time (I was about 16) and this one piece of software brought sheer magic to that happiness. I think I still have disks full of mods and samples somewhere. I might even try to find my Amiga one day and fire this stuff up again. I think it's in the attic of my parent's house - who knows?
By the way, "Mahoney and Cactus" were simply legendary names - almost mystical - in our little Amiga computer club in the UK in the late 80s. To us, they were the new revolution and we whispered their names to each other with reverence. They were very talented hackers, basically. And bloody great musicians.
So fun I was on many demo comps with Mahobey but never got to sit down and chat with him. Also like he said we tended to separate in different rooms and you generally got to know the demo groups sitting closer to you.
Excellent, thanks for uploading and thanks for NoiseTracker. M.K. forever!
Thanks for uploading, really enjoyed the talk :)
back in the 90s... coding C64 demo in Montreal... seeing what the Amiga can do and other cool stuff on C64. Being far from Europe... I felt my soul must be from overthere!
I remember me and a friend made some mods in Noisetracker and sent them to ZYX records (Koto label)
They never responded to our letter either 😁
Thanks for making a great tracker!!!
E också svensk för övrigt 🇸🇪
I have tons of Noisetracker music still on 3.5" disk to this day. I have no way of playing the music I made when I was a kid, does anyone know how to open these music files using a Mac? Or is it even possible?
There's many ways to open MODs on computers (OpenMPT, Protracker clone by 8bitbubsy, foobar2000 with DUMB or openmpt component, Milkytracker)
I think you might come across the issue that you can't open Amiga floppies on modern systems. You need an Amiga + some kind of way to transfer the files. Cheapest way is probably through a PCMIA Compactflash adaptor which you can get for cheap.
@@ObscureModules or Gotek floppy usb emulator (flashed to work on amiga) and an external floppy drive
(pcmcia only is available on amiga 600 and 1200... or not?)
LOL, no one seems to have used SEKA assembler. That editor was fucking MEGA SLOW even for mini programs.
Pure boss style.
/Troed of SYNC
You sold your amiga too soon! Could have been bigger than Pro Tracker!
A gnu has bitten my sister...