Software with Sample Editing

MilkyTracker recreates the FastTracker II workflow for XM and MOD files, with sample editing and playback on every platform.

Renoise is a tracker that grew into a full production environment: the pattern editor is the classic vertical one, but underneath it are VST hosting, automation, a sampler with its own modulation, and rendering to audio. It suits chiptune work that has to sit in a finished mix.

Schism Tracker is a faithful rewrite of Impulse Tracker that runs on modern machines and keeps the original keyboard layout, so muscle memory from the DOS original still works. It is sample-based, reads and writes the old module formats, and is a common way to write chiptune that is not tied to one chip.