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Blipp Blopper v0.89
Release date:
1991

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
STe DMA digidrums (3+1 channels!)

Description:
The only(?) chip editor with STe DMA digidrums allowing three YM channels to play while digidrums are active (using 0% cpu and no irq). Has a nice instrument editor as well, but does however lack any form of modern ym effects (sid etc). There is an older version available as well, with more demosongs (they are not compatible to v0.89 unfortenly).

Credits:
Made by Jason / TKT (Unit 17).

Blipp Blopper v0.89

Download
78 kilobytes

Dowload v0.79 (84 kilobytes).



Chipmon II v1.9H
Release date:
1992

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Double sidvoices and digidrums.

Description:
The ym chip-editor from Synergy. The legendary Scavenger wrote his fantastic songs with this program. Two sidvoices and digidrums support.

Credits:
Made by Synergy Software Development.

Chipmon II v1.9H

Download
279 kilobytes



CLS Soundchip Editor
Release date:
1991

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Cracked version.

Description:
This one seems not that bad, but is a bit old to have any newer features. Some nice palette settings and such, but no instrument editor. A few demo songs included.

Credits:
Made by CLS/Risk.

CLS Soundchip Editor

Download
46 kilobytes
 
Download
CLS Demo version



Crazy PSG
Release date:
1992

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.


Description:
A onochrome editor. Has a very unusual style, and seems to be in a very early stage. There are some Mad Max files included, but they doesn't seem loadable to the editor.

Credits:
Made by M.Ex / III.

Crazy PSG

Download
32 kilobytes



Edsynth v1.2
Release date:
1989

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
n/a

Description:
A quite strange ym chip editor. Doesn't remind of anyone else. The included song proves it is quite capable of generating sounds (ala madmax late 80's at least). Big manual included (it is needed!).

Credits:
Made by Chris Horton.

Edsynth v1.2

Download
32 kilobytes



Madmax editor
Release date:
n/a

Platform:
ST/STe/Falcon 512k or more.
Some Madmax songs included.

Description:
Preview of a chipcomposer which never made it to final state. Currently plays some classic Mad max music and display the notes..

Credits:
Made by Adm (from Australia).

Madmax editor

Download
48 kilobytes



Medi v4
Release date:
1988

Platform:
ST/STe 1MB only
Full version

Description:
A very very old editor from X-Troll. Described as very user unfriendly (manual typing of full paths to load/save files etc) and lacks any new kind of effects. But on the other hand uses only a small amount CPU to replay.

Credits:
Made by Mirko Mönninghoff (Nexus 6) / X-Troll.

Medi v4

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18 kilobytes



maxYMiser v1.29
Release date:
June 8, 2009

Platform:
Any ST, TT or Falcon


Description:
A completely new YM tracker released in the year of 2005. It is quite revolutionary with it's moden advanced sound engine, which can produce sounds like no other editor. The editor is built to work (and a bit) look like the famous Fasttracker 2. New in maxYMiser DMA is dual DMA sample channels along with the three chip channels. Perfect for digidrums. Further news in maxYMiser Live (released feb. 2008) is wastly improved Midi sync and control.

Credits:
Made by Gareth Morris (gwEm) / preromanbritain

maxYMiser v1.29

Download
240 kilobytes



Magic Synth v2.5.2
Release date:
?

Platform:
ST/STe
Full version

Description:
Ok this is it. The best soundengine on the ST hands down. Cream has made an incredible effort to push everything out of the old YM that is possible. You'll find the usual sid voices, but also soft sid voices, sine waveforms, modulated waveforms, buzzers, sync buzzers (very cool!) and much much more YM galore. The editor looks pleasant, but takes a while to learn, especially as it comes without a manual. However no other YM-editor has sound-potential like this one. Alot of well known TAO-tunes are included with ready-to-use instruments. The tracker says (c) 1997, but for sure it is newer than that considering all new special effects that are included.

Credits:
Made by Frank Seemann (TAO / Cream)

Magic Synth v2.5.2

Download
45 kilobytes



Megatizer v2.95
Release date:
n/a

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Unreleased sid version!

Description:
This is a quite rare version of Megatizer; a preview of the never finished v3.0. However it features SID voice support, as heard in Virtual Escape demo (the main VE song is included as example). You can still download the official v2.40 version as well, it got much more instruments, songs etc - but no SID voice..

Credits:
Made by Jedi/Sector One.

Megatizer v2.95

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80 kilobytes
 
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Megatizer v2.5
 
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Megatizer v2.4
 
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Megatizer v2.3



Music maker v1.0
Release date:
1989

Platform:
ST/STe2 512k ram or more.
Digidrums

Description:
A note-sheet style chipsound editor. If I'm not mistaken this was shipped with some of Ataris software packages for the ST. The special thing is digidrums, and they don't sound particulary good, the YM audio is rather lame, mostly simple bleep and bloop.

Credits:
Made by Music Sales.

Music maker v1.0

Download
239 kilobytes.



Musicmon v1.0
Release date:
April, 1991

Platform:
ST/STe 512k ram or more.
Full version.

Description:
A chipeditor which never was a big success (due to commercial reasons). It is quite ok (seems to handle at least madmax ala 1988 sounds) and is used by a few musicans today (Msg/RG for example). No SID voices or other advanced effects. This is one of the very few (the only one?) to work in ST-HIGH monochrome mode as well (see screenshot).

Credits:
Made by Frank Lautenbach / Galactic Software.

Musicmon v1.0

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230 kilobytes



MusicMon v2.5e
Release date:
November 24, 2007

Platform:
ST/STe/Falcon 1MB ram or more.
Full version.

Description:
With version 2.5 of Musicmon Frank brings the tracker to the absolute elite when it comes to advanced YM effects and audio quality. Most things heard in maxYMiser and Magic Synth can also be done in Musicmon. Version 2.5 also save your tunes into SNDH file format from within the tracker.

Credits:
Made by Frank Lautenbach (Dark Angel / Aura).

MusicMon v2.5e

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340 kilobytes
 
Download
A data disk for Musicmon II
 
Download
Musicmon 2.1b
 
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MusicMon II SID
 
Download
MusicMon II



MV2000
Release date:
Unknown

Platform:
ST/STe2 512k ram or more.
n/a

Description:
Chipmusic editor from the crew 'X-trolls' (most known for the shoot'em up Lethal Xcess). The editor is quite unusual and definitly needs a bit of training. It supports sounds similar to Mad Max 1991-era, including digidrums and buzzer bass.

Credits:
Made by Mirko Mönninghoff (Nexus 6) / X-Troll.

MV2000

Download
74 kilobytes

Download
extra songs.



PSG Tracker v2.0 demo
Release date:
n/a

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Demo version.

Description:
A commercial chiptracker from the democrew Chronicle. Mad max ala 1990 style sound with digidrums.

Credits:
Made by Crawdaddy / Chronicle (Vesa Pellinen / Chart Top Design).

PSG Tracker v2.0 demo

Download
64 kilobytes



Sid Sound Designer v3.5p
Release date:
1994

Platform:
ST/STe/Falcon 512k or more.
Full version.

Description:
Chiptracker with tripple sidvoices. Used by many active musicans today. The tracker is a beta release, and contain some bugs. However it is still very usable and can be recomended for those wanting to write YM chiptracks. SSD can also be used together with MIDI keyboards to enter notes to the sequencer, supporting note on/off.
 
The older versions (v2.4x) only have one SID channel, but can also use a digidrum track together with the SID.

Credits:
Made by MC/Animal Mine.

Sid Sound Designer v3.5p

Download
260 kilobytes
 
Download
Sid Sound Designer 3.1 preview
 
Download
Sid Sound Designer 2.44
 
Download
Sid Sound Designer 2.42



S.O.T.E. Tracker
Release date:
1993 (?)

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Never released.

Description:
Another unique editor which has never been released officially. It's not the easiest to use I can tell you, but it has a bit of potentional to create good ym sounds. There are three different versions of the editor included, the "sotedigi.prg" seems to be the latest and play all the included demosongs. Speaking demosongs, the majority of these are never released either (afaik).

Credits:
Made by Donald Fakk/Scum Of the Earth.

S.O.T.E. Tracker

Download
118 kilobytes



Sound Chip Synth
Release date:
April 13, 1999

Platform:
ST/STe/TT/Falcon 1MB or more.


Description:
This is not a music editor as the others here, but is a midi synthesizer using the YM2149-chip, something alot of people have asked for. You can control all three channels over MIDI. It needs a screenmode of 640x400 pixels or more in any colour depth (ST-HIGH is fine). Check the screenshot for ST-HIGH/TT-MID dumps of the program.

Credits:
Electronic Cow

Sound Chip Synth

Download
47 kilobytes



Triplex 2k4
Release date:
February 6, 2005

Platform:
ST/STe/Falcon 512k or more.
New Triplex version continued by Damo of the Reservoir Gods

Description:
A great update of the original Triplex from Big Alec. Damo of the Reservoir Gods have implemented new GUI features (pattern scroll and more), new sound effects and Falcon compatibility.

Credits:
Made by Big Alec / Radical Systems / Delta Force and Damo / Reservoir Gods.

Triplex 2k4

Download
110 kilobytes
 
Download
The original Big Alec version of Triplex



Insignia Trisound Sequencer v1.0
Release date:
n/a

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more (bugs with 4mb).
Pre Sid Sound Designer.

Description:
Ym chiptracker from Insignia. Handle digidrums (rather good quality) and nice ym sound. There is no SID voices. The interface is well known as Sid Sound Designer was made from it.

Credits:
Made by Miq & Qiz / Insignia.

Insignia Trisound Sequencer v1.0

Download
32 kilobytes



Xbios Music Construction
Release date:
n/a.

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.


Description:
A simple GEM-based soundchip editor with note-scores. Should work in ST-MED and ST-HIGH, but some lamer seems to have removed the mono rsc-file. If somebody got a clean copy of this one, please get in touch!

Credits:
Made by D.A.O 'Connel

Xbios Music Construction

Download
60 kilobytes



Xlr8 v1.0
Release date:
May, 1993

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Full version.

Description:
A very sophisticated ym-chiptracker. If this hade made it back in the early 90's, it would have been a big success for sure. For a long time the Sidvoice feature of Xlr8 was useless, as the replaycode (outside the tracker) didn't feature the SID effect. Now however, Gwem's XLR8->SNDH converter fixes this situation and XLR8 is now an excellent choise for creating Atari chipmusic with SID-voice. We recently learned that XLR8 also works with monochrome monitors (same app autodetects monitor, see screenshot).

Credits:
Made by Eagle / Sentry.

Xlr8 v1.0

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180 kilobytes
 
Download
The same app but with another (earlier) name (Sentry Chip composor v1.0).



YM Tracker v1.0
Release date:
February, 1993

Platform:
ST/STe 512k or more.
Full version.

Description:
A quite "normal" YM chip editor. Doesn't seem to offer much over the ordinary. Some Madmax example tunes included.

Credits:
Made by Augustin Vidovic

YM Tracker v1.0

Download
176 kilobytes

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