Schism Tracker Wii U

Schism Tracker
Schism Tracker
General
Author	mrpapersonic
Type	Music Apps
Version	20251014
License	GPL-2.0
Last Updated	2025/10/14
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the Modplug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback.

Where Impulse Tracker was limited to i386-based systems running MS-DOS, Schism Tracker runs on almost any platform that SDL 2 supports. Currently builds are provided for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Most development is currently done on 64-bit Linux. Schism will most likely build on any architecture supported by GCC4 (e.g. alpha, m68k, arm, etc.) but it will probably not be as well-optimized on many systems.

See the wiki for more information.

Media

Schism Tracker Tutorial (Volt 44)

Known Issues

Saving over an existing file may sometimes fail.
USB disks may not be supported.
Stereo left/right orientation may be reversed in rare cases.
Performance/scanning can be slow with large SD cards.

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

GitHub - https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
ForTheUsers - https://hb-app.store/wiiu/schismtracker