I'm currently bootstrapping an open source project to recreate the old tracker style music tool, made famous by the likes of SoundTracker, Octamed, ProTracker and FastTracker (and many many others) back in the hey day of Amiga, Atari ST and DOS PC's. I'm a software developer with many years experience, but absolutely not a musician, however I'm fascinated and driven by the use of computers in music production, and am learning more about music theory, so this project is partly to satisfy that desire to have something that gels with my way of thinking. However, I'm very conscious that, while there is still a healthy community around tracker style audio creation, in no small part due to Renoise, I realise that it might not be the ideal tool for musicians.
Ultimately, I'd like this project to become a collaborative tool, allowing groups of people, who may not even have met in person, in geographically spread locations, to effectively work together in the creation of new music.
I'd really love to get some thoughts and feedback from professional and hobbyist musicians. Is the tracker heritage a showstopper for this? Is collaborative music production something that has any value? If there is potential for this, what would be the biggest barriers and enablers to adoption from your perspective as a user?
The project is hosted on github, with a simple web page on the front, mainly hosting a semi-regular blog, which I plan to update during development, and the current state of play is always available to tinker with on Heroku. So if anyone has the inclination and time to take a look, I'd really love to get your thoughts. Just one request, please be aware that it is very early in development, currently no more than a few weeks of spare time have gone into it, so it's going to be limited and very unstable for a while.
https://pgregory.github.io/wetracker/
Submitted December 08, 2016 at 07:39PM by aqsis https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5ha2wq/thoughts_about_a_web_based_daw_based_on_the/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, December 8, 2016