ProTrekkr is a tracker program combining a software synthesizer together with a traditional samples tracker which can (mainly) be used to create electronic music (like psytrance, trance goa, hard acid, IDM, chip, techno, jungle, etc.) targeting small sized intros, demos or games.
It’s a heavily modified version of the old NoiseTrekker 2 which was made by Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius aka Arguru.
Currently the tracker is available on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Amiga OS4, AROS, MorphOS, Mac OS (ppc, x86, ia64 & arm64) and Haiku OS.
Standalone replay routines are available for most of these Operating Systems and also for the PlayStation Portable & PlayStation Vita.
Caution
The tracker itself requires at least a 1,5ghz processor to run properly under heavy load.
In order to compile the tracker, use the provided makefile for your target architecture (if available).
Example:
make -f makefile.linux
The executable will be created in the release/distrib directory.
Notice that you'll need SDL 1 (only to compile the tracker, the replay routines themselves have no dependencies).
Caution
When compiling for Linux or Mac OS: Use libSDL12 and NOT libSDL12-compat.
On Linux use libsdl12-dev and on Mac OS use libsdl from Mac Ports.
If your Linux distribution doesn't include SDL 1.2 then try your luck here:
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL-1.2
This is a FREEWARE tool, this means that you can use it for whatever you want and for free. There's NO GUARANTEE that this program will perform well or even run on your computer.
So far, ProTrekkr was used in these intros or demos (the ones i'm aware of, at least) :
Nebula by Sqny
Kaivo by Clrsrc
Kaolin beach2009 by Kaolin
Genesis cracktro by Genesis & Nooon
Arjttdoasw by Mayhem
Ediacara by Traction
Hatred crackmo.short by Hatred & Neural
Primitive by Brainstorm
Mozog by Mayhem
Buenzli 19 invitation by clrsrc
Also some sampled tune from the tracker has been used in the end part of this Atari ST demo :
Morphonic lab.VI by checkpoint
And a module done by BitArts (Norbert Röcher) with the tracker (in MP3 format): NightFlight
Some more music also produced with the tracker available on SoundCloud :
distorted reality
sign
back to moon
starburst
A video recording of another module done with the tracker: Crutokk by Vojta Nedved
Another video recording of yet another module done with the tracker: Horse Heads and Gray Biscuits by Man With No Alias