{"id":11,"date":"2024-03-13T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:02:04","slug":"first-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Arkos Tracker?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arkos Tracker is a music software specialised on retro-computers such <strong>Amstrad CPC<\/strong>, <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong>, <strong>Atari ST<\/strong> and so on, which all share the same soundchip, the <strong>AY-3-8912<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>YM-2149F<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can compose music on any modern desktop computer, then transfer the music (or sound effects) on the old computer thanks to the tailor-made assembler players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Arkos Tracker<\/strong> has been already used in <strong>hundreds<\/strong> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/made-with-arkos-tracker\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">games and demos<\/a>! And now it&#8217;s your turn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cross-platform<\/strong>&nbsp;(Windows, Linux, Mac).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open source.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support of&nbsp;<strong>AY-3-8912<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>YM2149F<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Targets <strong>Amstrad CPC<\/strong>, <strong>MSX<\/strong>, <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong>, <strong>Atari ST<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/supported-computers\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many more<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manage both standard&nbsp;<strong>PSG<\/strong>&nbsp;sound and&nbsp;<strong>samples<\/strong>&nbsp;without any distinction!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unlimited PSG count<\/strong>! You can create standard 3-channel songs, or 6, 9, 32 or more if you want!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>4 columns of effects<\/strong>&nbsp;per channel, including Arpeggio (via a table or inline value), Pitch, slide, glide, change Arpeggio\/Pitch\/Instrument speed, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Import&nbsp;from MIDI, AKS (Arkos Tracker 1 and 2), SKS (STarKos), 128 (BSC&#8217;s Soundtrakker), WYZ (Wyz Tracker), MOD, VT2 (Vortex Tracker 2), CHP (Chip&#8217;n&#8217;sfx).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Export to MOD and MIDI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/player-availability\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Several players<\/a><\/strong>, from versatile to extremely fast, or slower but less memory-consuming.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support of&nbsp;<strong>specific hardware<\/strong>: PlayCity (CPC), Spectrum TurboSound, SpecNext, MSX Darky and MSX FPGA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Real-time communication<\/strong>&nbsp;with your hardware possible, to listen or compose just like on the real thing!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sound effect<\/strong> support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ROM players<\/strong>&nbsp;available: no more auto-modifying code, a small buffer is used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A song is composed of sub-songs, all sharing the same instruments. Helps you save even more memory!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All the limitations of past AY\/YM trackers are blown to pieces with Arkos Tracker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkos Tracker is a music software specialised on retro-computers such Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and so on, which all share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.julien-nevo.com\/arkostracker\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}