{"id":7913,"date":"2024-08-07T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2024-08-07T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:30:58","slug":"tracker-paper-errata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Tracker Paper Errata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2019 I published a paper called <a href=\"https:\/\/musiikki.journal.fi\/article\/view\/87867\">Trackerit: paradigman synty, kukoistus ja my\u00f6hemm\u00e4t vaiheet<\/a> in Finnish. After an unfortunate editorial process I pulled the extended English version out from a journal, even if it had already passed peer review, and decided to simply republish a translated version of the original as <a href=\"http:\/\/widerscreen.fi\/numerot\/ajankohtaista\/trackers-the-rise-bloom-and-later-developments-of-a-paradigm\/\">Trackers: The Rise, Bloom and Later Developments of a Paradigm<\/a> in <em>WiderScreen.<\/em> Even if I tried to check my facts, a couple of inaccuries had slipped in, as kindly pointed out by Saga Musix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The &#8220;M.K.&#8221; tag found in mods is often attributed to Mahoney &amp; Kaktus of <em>NoiseTracker<\/em> fame, but more likely it refers to Michael Kleps who introduced it in a later version of <em>Soundtracker<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <em>Scream Tracker 3<\/em> file format can accommodate 32 channels, but the publicly available versions of the original program only let you edit 16 sample and 9 FM channels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While it&#8217;s true that the CIA-based tempo command was introduced in later <em>ProTracker<\/em> versions, Obarski&#8217;s <em>Soundtracker<\/em> already had tempo as part of its file format. You couldn&#8217;t initially change it within the editor, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The moral of the story: don&#8217;t repeat common &#8220;knowledge&#8221; without checking the details once more \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019 I published a paper called Trackerit: paradigman synty, kukoistus ja my\u00f6hemm\u00e4t vaiheet in Finnish. After an unfortunate editorial process I pulled the extended English version out from a journal, even if it had already passed peer review, and decided to simply republish a translated version of the original as Trackers: The Rise, Bloom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demoskene","category-retro","category-softat","category-tutkimus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}