Schism Tracker Wii U
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| Author | mrpapersonic |
| Type | Music Apps |
| Version | 20260524 |
| License | GPL-2.0 |
| Last Updated | 2026/05/24 |
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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
20260524
- Happy new year!
- Fixed a bunch of performance problems causing ridiculous amounts of CPU usage.
- Fixed MIDI input when multithreading is enabled.
- Fixed a nasty memory leak in the zlib decompressor.
- Fixed import of boobiesqueezed XM files.
- Fixed buffer overrun in 24-bit video scalers.
- Fixed a possible race condition in the timer subsystem, which could result in a thread leak.
- Fixed typing of
/and\on Spanish keyboards. - Fixed typing tab in the message editor.
- Fixed incorrect writing of AIFF files.
- Fixed copying of pattern data including instrument numbers higher than 99.
- Better import of .mod notes (thanks @0x5742).
- Properly ignore Zxx effects in NNA channels.
- Show arrows in the corners of listboxes when there are more items beyond whats displayed.
- Made the built-in FFT variable width (it will probably not work very well still if the buffer size is not a power of 2).
- Switch cursor shape when leaving a page (thanks @hotgar, #790).
- Added "Hotdog Stand" and "Acid Gas" palettes.
- Big endian ASIO formats now work.
- Added SNES BRR sample loader.
- Fixed Win95 support.
- Fixed negative coordinate wraparound.
- SDL 1.2 hardware video now uses OpenGL or hardware YUV overlays if available.
- Fixed weirdness when combining sdl12-compat and sdl2-compat.
- Removed OS/2 binary builds for now, they are hopelessly broken.
- ASIO drivers can be loaded under Mac OS 9.
- Detect AltiVec support on Mac OS 9.
- Added OpenGL support to Mac OS 9 build. it's way too slow to be considered usable, though.
- Honor
gl_bilinearoption in very old config files. - Switch to SDL 1.2 on the Wii and honor current widescreen mode.
- Fix versioning being off by roughly a month.
- Force block screen keyboards on SDL 2 and SDL 3, they do not play well with Schism.
- Limited FPS to screen refresh rate. If it cannot be retrieved it defaults to 60hz.
- Plenty of other smaller things.
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_headerfunction infmt/aiff.c. - FLAC exports and saves now include
ENCODERmetadata 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.
External links
- GitHub - https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
- Homebrew App Store - https://hb-app.store/wiiu/schismtracker