@shoofle making a whole bunch of them for battle of the bits!

@shoofle and also just, thinking about trackers in general, and thinking about designing a new tracker with its own format, just for fun

@typhlosion what tracker formats do you like, also

@shoofle i've mainly used milkytracker, but i've been dabbling in others - i really like famitracker for NES, and i've juuust started trying out openmpt

as for the formats themselves, tbh they're all kinda weird and have some stuff i don't like about them, but my favorite is still probably gonna be xm just cos milky was my first tracker

@typhlosion that's cool!! I have done my chipmusic experiments in lsdj on my gameboy and would do more except that the flash cart died :(

@shoofle oooh i really want to try lsdj. it always looked really daunting to me though

@typhlosion it's actually pretty usable if you have the manual at hand! Just a lot of chording

@typhlosion oooooh whats battle of the bits?

@shoofle it's a competition website, mainly for music (especially chiptune music) but they also have other formats sometimes. there are one-hour battles and also bigger competitions

@typhlosion I'm out of practice, but not out of love for the form. Nearly all my music has been in trackers. And to test a new tracker would be just the thing to get back into it.... *grin*

Also I am responsible for several fonts in both the Impulse Tracker and Schism Tracker official distributions! (Relevant‽)

@ElectricKeet whoa, nice!

@ElectricKeet may i hear some of your music? :> also, what do you use these days?

@typhlosion I keep procrastinating on getting Bandcamp stuff finished, so for now... regrettably, I only have my terrible old page and terrible old MP3s at http://electrickeet.com/tune.html (with album packs at the bottom.)

These days? I haven't actually finished a piece of music for release in maaaany years now. I was most active in Schism Tracker and still know my way around it, but I've dabbled awkwardly in DefleMask, FamiTracker, and OpenMPT.