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[[Image:digitracker.gif|thumb|320px|Screenshot of Digitracker, showing the sample editor]]

'''Digitracker''' was the first music program for the Amstrad CPC, which was based on digital instruments (samples) instead of [[PSG]] (chip) sound. Out of wave tables it mixed three 7 bit channels into one 4 or 8 bit channel, which has been output via the CPCs' internal PSG or the [[Digiblaster]] (printer port) DAC-extension.

As Digitracker was able to convert original Amiga MOD files into its own CPC format, it was possible to generate hundrets of song modules. The player has been used in the intro part of the [[Digital Orgasm]] demo. Digitracker got a "big brother", when [[Prodatron]] started to develop [http://www.prodatron.net/digitrak.htm "Digitrakker"] on the PC in 1995.

== Technical facts ==

* 64512 bytes free for samples
* 34 pattern (when pattern-lenght is set to 64)
* 16667 hertz 8 bit sampleoutput (Digiblaster)
* 14493 hertz 4 bit sampleoutput (Soundchip)
* 96 Songpositions
* 8 Bit-Digiblaster support for high-quality sound
* mostly Amiga-Protracker-effekt compatible, 17 effects (slides, vibratos, arpeggios, position-loops, sample-offset)
* sample-editor (echo, mix, smooth...)
* powerfull playerroutine, any startposition, interrupts possible (demos are possible, too), colorequalizer, equalizing rasterbar and more
* comfortable uniformity standard-user-desktop

== Program modules ==

* main-module, ''Digitracker'' itself. In here you can edit or create new MDLs (modules).
* ''MOD-Converter'', which converts Amiga-Protracker-MODs to Digitracker-format, sample (Amiga, PC...) and CPC-MOD transfer is possible, too
* The ''Playercode-Generator'', which creates an external player-routine for Digitracker-modules

== Web links ==

* [http://www.prodatron.net/details.htm?9 Digitracker homepage]
* [http://www.prodatron.net/files/prodatron/digitracker-doc.txt English manual]
* [http://www.prodatron.net/download.htm#marke1 Collection of Digitracker song modules]
* [http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=14341 Entry for ''Digitracker'' on pou&euml;t.net]

== Other ==

[Digitracker Video|Watch Digitracker and Digiblaster in action]

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[[Category:Music and sound]]