Toggle menu
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.
Revision as of 23:26, 17 October 2025 by HydeWing (talk | contribs)
Schism Tracker
General
AuthorStorlek
TypeMedia Players
Version20251014
LicenseGPL-2.0
Last Updated2025/10/14
Links
Download
Website
Source

Schism Tracker is a free, open-source music creation software that allows users to create high-quality tracks without the need for expensive equipment. It is a reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a popular music program from the 90s, and is based on a modified version of the ModPlug engine.

Schism Tracker is compatible with a wide range of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and can be built on any architecture supported by GCC4. The Wii port should work the same as on a PC, and it also has some rather simple Wiimote support.

User guide

Unzip it to sd:/apps/, or give it to wiiload.

Controls

Wiimote:

D-Pad - Move cursor

1 - Stop (if playing), Return to file browser

2 - Load/change directory (in browser), Play song

Plus - Yes/OK (in dialog), Seek backward

Minus - No/Cancel (in dialog), Seek forward

Home - Quit to loader

If you have a USB keyboard and mouse attached, they should work identically to the standard PC version.

Screenshots

schismtrackerwii3.png

Media

Schism Tracker Tutorial (o)

Changelog

20251014

  • AIFF exports and saves now include extra metadata like WAV and FLAC; this includes sample loops, autovibrato settings, volume, panning, and the version of Schism used to save the file. For info on how this information is stored, see the aiff_header function in fmt/aiff.c.
  • FLAC exports and saves now include ENCODER metadata which stores the version of Schism used to save the file.
  • Song exports in all supported formats now save the song title as metadata.
  • Implemented S90, S9E, and S9F Modplug extensions.
  • Implemented SSE and AVX enhanced versions of some functions, such as sample min/max, providing a huge increase in speed, especially with very large samples.
  • Fix non-native-endian signed sample saving (mostly relevant for AIFF).
  • Fix sample playback not working when focused on number entries in the Sample List.
  • Fix loading of 7-bit Oktalyzer samples.
  • Fix a nasty bug where Cxx would get ignored if paired with a pattern loop effect.
  • Fix logic bug in the volume ramping portion of the player (regressed in may 2009), which caused some clicking issues with very sudden volume changes.
  • Fix the built-in clipboard and system clipboard getting out of sync, especially with Alt-D.
  • Fix compilation on very old GCC.
  • Respect existing file mode when saving files on POSIX systems.
  • Added support for zlib decompression, allowing native loading of gzip-compressed files.
  • Added support for loading and saving .sbi (Sound Blaster Instrument) files.
  • Reverted Zxx-related changes in 20250825, as they proved to just make things worse.
  • Fixed FLAC multi-channel export.
  • Fixed buffer overflow under some audio drivers when SDL 3 is used.
  • Fixed position display in the info page being completely incorrect on little endian systems.
  • OPL: Fix first note played when keyjazzing being ignored.
  • D00: Fix a problem where a specially crafted input file could be used to hang or crash Schism.
  • D00: Add detection of older D00 files.
  • Windows: Combine MIDI in and out ports with the same name, manufacturer ID, and product ID as one duplex port.
  • ASIO: The "default" device now tries each driver in order, rather than using the first one in the registry.
  • JACK: Fix use-after-free if the JACK daemon fails to start.
  • OS X: Fix a hang on older versions when trying to execute hooks (mainly affects PowerPC).
  • OS X: Fix flicker between aliased and anti-aliased graphics.
  • SDL 1.2/SDL 2: Fix mouse cursor getting completely warped under older SDL versions.
  • SDL 1.2: Use color palettes for 8-bit video.
  • SDL 1.2: Fix audio failing to initialize when using sdl12-compat in conjunction with sdl2-compat.

Release notes

External links

Advertising: