RMT - RASTER MUSIC TRACKER

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About

RASTER Music Tracker (RMT) is a cross-platform tool for making Atari XE/XL music on PC (OS Win9x). RMT uses Atari XE/XL music routine of my own - I developed it for a very long time and I hope it will take a fancy of all Atari musicians and fans. ;-)

I'm still working on this RMT project in my spare time (it means already hundreds of hours of programming, debugging, testing, etc.).

Complimentary suggestions are welcomed, as well as sponsor donations. :-)

(Sorry for my weak English.)

O projektu

RASTER Music Tracker (RMT) je program na vytváření hudby pro Atari XE/XL pomocí počítače PC (s OS Win9x). RMT používá mou vlastní Atari XE/XL hudební rutinu, kterou jsem promýšlel a vyvíjel velmi dlouhou dobu a doufám, že bude přínosem v hudební tvorbě pro 8bitové Atárko. ;-)

Na tomto RMT projektu dál průběžně pracuji - trávím tím dost svého volného času (celkově už to jde do stovek hodin vymýšlení, programování, ladění, testování a vylepšování).

Případné kladné ohlasy či sponzorské dary jsou samozřejmě vítány. :-)

Další informace na této stránce jsou už jen v rádoby angličtině - děkuji za pochopení.

Hot news

11.5.2009 ... RMT 1.28 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt128.zip (511 kb).
It also contains new version of Atari XE/XL player of RMT module files RMT1PLAY 1.07 - rmtpl107.txt, rmtpl107.xex (5 kb).

3.9.2008 ... RMT 1.27 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know very very long list of changes. Download here: rmt127.zip (472 kb). Enjoy it! ;-)

17.9.2007 ... RMT 1.26 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt126.zip (312 kb). Enjoy it! ;-)

11.12.2006 ... RMT 1.25 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt125.zip (283 kb). There is a lot of improvements... Enjoy it! ;-)

14.8.2006 ... RMT 1.24 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt124.zip (270 kb).
It also contains new version of Atari XE/XL player of RMT module files RMT1PLAY 1.06 - rmtpl106.xex (5 kb).

20.2.2006 ... RMT 1.23 tracker with SFX support. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt123.zip (257 kb).
Also updated screenshot (Export RMT stripped file dialog) in screenshots section.

27.12.2005 ... RMT 1.22 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt122.zip (249 kb).

22.8.2005 ... RMT 1.21 tracker with enhanced mouse control. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt121.zip (248 kb). Also two new screenshots in screenshots section. Enjoy it! ;-)

23.5.2005 ... RMT 1.20 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt120.zip (244 kb).
It also contains new version of Atari XE/XL player of RMT module files RMT1PLAY 1.05 - rmtpl105.xex (5 kb).

15.4.2005 ... Hi all Atari musicians! Short message only: I want to tell you I'm working on new RMT version with some new good improvements. So, if you want to boost up my work, you can compose some nice RMT music meanwhile. ;-) Please, be patient...

29.11.2004 ... RMT 1.19 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt119.zip (227 kb).

25.10.2004 ... RMT 1.18 tracker. Important keyboard bug fix only - see the file changes.txt. Download here: rmt118.zip (203 kb).

4.10.2004 ... New RMT 1.17 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt117.zip (198 kb).
It also contains new version of Atari XE/XL player of RMT module files RMT1PLAY 1.04 - rmtpl104.xex (5 kb). 
Enjoy it! :-)

23.2.2004 ... New RMT 1.16 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt116.zip (171 kb). Enjoy it! :-)

16.2.2004 ... New RMT 1.15 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt115.zip (170 kb). Enjoy it! :-)

29.1.2004 ... RMTD5200.BIN - it is Atari 5200 cartridge conversion of RMT demo by Classics.

27.10.2003 ... New RMT 1.14 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt114.zip (165 kb).
It also contains new version of Atari XE/XL player of RMT module files RMT1PLAY 1.01 - rmt1play.xex (4 kb) and RMT versions of well-known songs: "Hymn to aurora" [4:13] and "Turrican 2 noise 3" [5:24] - aurora_s.sap, turrican2_rev2s.sap (revision 2).
And here is some extra bonus - new Atari XE/XL music demo rmtdemo.xex (17 kb).
Enjoy it! :-)

6.10.2003 ... I'm working on one special feature for RMT tracker - import of ProTracker MOD modules. 
BTW - Support for import of Theta Music Composer TMC modules will follows in future... :-)

18.8.2003 ... RMT1PLAY is the first version of easy player of RMT module files on Atari XE/XL. You can download XFD disk image file rmt1play.xfd with this player "RMT1PLAY.COM" and some known demo songs.

14.7.2003 ... New RMT 1.13 tracker. See the file changes.txt and midi.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt113.zip (129 kb). Enjoy it! :-)

30.6.2003 ... Demo song "SLOW-song" by MK - slow.zip (5 kb). Please read the slow.txt in ZIP package.

26.5.2003 ... New RMT 1.12 tracker. See the file changes.txt to know all the changes. Download here: rmt112.zip (127 kb). Enjoy it! :-)

25.3.2003 ... Section "other links" added. There is a link to RMT POKEY player for 7800 by Eckhard Stolberg.

24.3.2003 ... New RMT 1.11 tracker with MIDI IN support (!) and new input/output text format: TXT song files (*.txt). (It's simple text format for easy making of any convert tools. If you make such tool, you can send me it for free publish on this RMT website.) See the changes.txt to know all the improvements. Download here: rmt111.zip (123 kb). Enjoy it! :-)

24.2.2003 ... Well, RMT 1.1 tracker based on new version 01 of RMT player routine with support for required (and much more other) features is here! 
You can download it - rmt11.zip (114 kb). It contains also assembler source codes of new RMT routine and examples of its use, as well as example for optimized compilation of RMT routine for concrete RMT module (very useful for background music in your demos, games, etc.), see the optimize.txt or screenshot of export dialog below.
Please, read the changes.txt to discover all the improvements it has. And of course, Enjoy it! :-)

7.2.2003 ... Good news for the Atari coders. 6502 assembler source codes of the RMT player routine with example of its using are here: rmt_asmsrc0.zip (Source codes are for the XASM 6502 cross-assembler by Piotr Fusik.) Please, read my comments inside the source code files.

3.2.2003 ... New RMT 1.02 beta with a lot of improvements. Please, read the readme.txt and changes.txt at first, then you can download it here: rmt102b.zip (94 kb). Enjoy it! :-)
Also finished the website "SA LIBRARIES (DLLs)" - You can visit it here.

27.1.2003 ... Oh yes, I'm still still still working on RMT, so that RMT beta 1.01 is here. ;-)

23.1.2003 ... Well, enjoy, I'm still working on RMT (block copy/modify functions). Yesterday I went to bed at 01:41 (it's today really, ugh). Please, If you have done some song(s) in RMT (*.rmt) or any amazing RMT instruments (*.rti), you can send me it to my e-mail. I would like to hear it. Thanks.
BTW - If you want to say your opinion about need for implementation of some other special features (for example possibility for setting AUDCTL 1.79MHz resolution bit without join of two channels), please use the message board.

20.1.2003 ... So, RMT spent the whole weekend time again. Well, You want RMT very much, You can get it now. IMPORTANT WARNING! It's very early beta 1.00 version with some ugly bugs (mainly there is a problem with sound output and inaccurate Pokey emulation), with incomplete unfinished not revised documentation, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK IS ASSUMED BY YOU. Download here: rmt10b.zip (90 KB) (also some example songs, instruments and demo songs included.)
Oh, I'm quite tired... Can I take a rest now? Please... ;-)

13.1.2003 ... Thank you very much for all the greetings and "good luck" wishes. However, I am concerned to state the beta version isn't finished yet. You don't be sad, I'm still working on it, be sure. Main reason why I don't public RMT in currently state is that one very ugly bug coherent to sound output is still inside. But I'm on the scent of it and I hope it will repaired soon. Likewise I started to write a simple manual. That's all for now. Have a good time.

Screenshots

RMT screenshot 1 RMT screenshot 2
RMT screenshot 3 RMT screenshot 4
Export RMT stripped file and RMT FEATures definitions...

Main features

Download

RMTdemo

Old versions:

Delta - Atari version (original C64 version by Rob Hubbard)Download of experimental demo songs

(Songs are in standard Atari format - executable binary file. It works on real Atari XE/XL as well as under Atari800 emulator.)

Well, You have seen I'm working on.
Please, stay tuned...

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