According to the MadTracker website:
MadTracker is the composition tool that creates the shortest path between imagination and music. Based on the tracker concept, MadTracker provides a clean and intuitive interface for a powerful and efficient approach to making music. Versatility and compatibility are guaranteed due to full VST, ASIO and ReWire support, while its computer charge is minimal.
Features:
Interface
- Bilingual: English and Français
- Runs under every version of Windows without any special requirements
- Intuitive windowed interface with dual-screen support
- Built-in chat (for instant help or peer chatting)
- ProTracker & FastTracker keyboard shortcuts
- Mouse wheel support
- File browser
Sampler / Tracker
- 64 tracks with 4 polyphony channels per track
- 32-bit internal mixing with 16-bit interpolation
- Very accurate pitches (40-bit precision)
- Volume ramping (48-bit precision)
- Advanced click removal
- Resonant filter for each instrument
- New Note Actions
- All the common tracker pattern commands + new commands
- 1 volume column and 1 panning column
- 4-digit command parameters (hexadecimal)
- Drums patterns
- Stereo samples
- Synchronized samples
- Keep-on-disk samples
Advanced Features
- Track FX (Delay, Stereo Delay, Filter, Flange, Analog Filter, mpReverb, mpReverb 2)
- Track EQ (3-band)
- Automation (envelopes for tracks volume, track effects and VST parameters)
- VST 2.3 support (effects and instruments)
- ReWire 2 support (synth/slave mode)
Supported File Formats
- Projects
- MadTracker 2 Module (*.MT2)
- Extended Module (*.XM)
- MIDI Files (*.MID)
- Impulse Tracker Module (*.IT) (import only)
- Scream Tracker Module (*.S3M) (import only)
- ProTracker Module (*.MOD) (import only)
- Unreal Music Files (*.UMX) (import only)
- Instruments
- MadTracker 2 Instrument (*.MTI)
- FastTracker 2 Instrument (*.XI)
- Samples
- MadTracker 2 Sample (*.MTS)
- Microsoft Wave (*.WAV)
- Macintosh AIFF (*.AIF)
- Amiga IFF (*.IFF)
- VST
- VST 2 Bank (*.FXB)
- VST 2 Preset (*.FXP)
- Miscellaneous
- MadTracker 2 Pattern (*.MTP)
- MadTracker 2 Envelope (*.MTE)
- MadTracker 2 Extension (*.MTX)
