I've always used the default layout in #FurnaceTracker, and don't really have many complaints about it, but today I tried customizing it a bit.

I'm not sure yet that I like it more this way, but I'll see how I feel after using it a bit more.

#ScreenshotSaturday #chiptune #FreeSoftware #customization

Mostly Drums

https://video.4d2.org/w/aGtFssVAEuBy4PAAvYbhHu

Coming across #furnacetracker and #sunvox in the same day, has made my day ...

Both are independent pieces of music composition software that are free to use. #freesoftware

Sunvox, as far as I can tell, has a lot of filters available that can be applied to instruments, and these filters can be programmatically controlled over time. I have not investigated Furnace too deeply yet but I managed to scrape together a melody in a pattern this afternoon.

As a former tracker enthusiast (composing via music trackers), it's awesome to see what projects have come about.

Link to SunVox's front page, which has many colorful screenshots, and tracks that can be played directly. They have compos (competitions) each year, it seems, and it's very cool to find a healthy community of artists doing their thing and learning from each other.

https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/#music

I am working on getting some music going for my lil 2D platformer game demo.. I have not put together music in so long. My background has been with using trackers & sequencers.

After a little bit of digging and feeling a little anxious, I was very happy to find Furnace. There's even intro music and an animation when starting it up! Whaaat ...

The online guides are very friendly and there's even a manual included when downloading the software.

The interface itself is nice, there are quite a number of affordances showing what can be done. It's refreshing to be guided and helped to using a piece of software.

If I am not mistaken, this software seems to have a target of making music for consoles or to play on certain hardware systems.. I'm not able to export to common tracker formats like MOD, S3M, IT, etc. I am aiming for general-purpose music-making and I don't want something on the order of LMMS or a studio.. just something smaller like Open Modplug Tracker (which I could fire up).

#furnacetracker https://tildearrow.org/furnace/ #indiegamedev

🎹 ...me after discovering the Furnace Tracker has a huggee selection of systems to choose from, wow 😍! Currently using the #YM2608 (OPNA) soundchip, demonstrated in this piece I composed 😄🎶

#furnacetracker #opna #pc98 #musicproducer