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Scream Tracker
	Scream Tracker 3.21 screenshot
Developer(s)	Future Crew (FC)
Stable release	3.21 / 1994
Written in	C and Assembly
Operating system	DOS
Type	Tracker
License	Proprietary

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Scream Tracker is a tracker (an integrated multi-track step sequencer and sampler as a software application). It was created by Psi (Sami Tammilehto) of Finland's Future Crew (FC)^[1]^[2] It was coded in C and assembly language. The first popular version of Scream Tracker, version 2.2, was published in 1990.^[3] Versions prior to 3.0 created STM (Scream Tracker Module) files, later ones used S3M (ScreamTracker 3 Module). The last version of Scream Tracker was 3.21 released in 1994. It was the precursor of the PC tracking scene and its interface inspired newer trackers like Impulse Tracker.^[4]^[5]

Scream Tracker 3.0 and later supports up to 100 8-bit samples, 32 channels, 100 patterns and 256 order positions. It can also handle up to nine FM-synthesis channels on sound cards using the popular OPL2/3/4 chipsets, and unusually, can play digital and FM instruments at the same time.

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^ Walker, Martin (July 2004). "PC Music Freeware Roundup". Sound on Sound (in englisch). Retrieved 2010-05-29. When PCs first came of age for music making in the mid '90s, ScreamTracker was one of the first music software packages to appear with sample support,...{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ Leonard, Andrew (1999-04-29). "Mod love". Salon.com (in englisch). Salon Media Group. Retrieved 2010-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sound/st22.zip
^ Lim, Jeffrey. "Features of Impulse Tracker". Retrieved 2009-04-07.
^ Matsuoka, Claudio (2007-11-04). "Tracker History Graphing Project". helllabs.org. Retrieved 2011-01-29. Tracker History Graph {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)

[sos-1] Walker, Martin (July 2004). "PC Music Freeware Roundup". Sound on Sound (in englisch). Retrieved 2010-05-29. When PCs first came of age for music making in the mid '90s, ScreamTracker was one of the first music software packages to appear with sample support,...{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[modlove-2] Leonard, Andrew (1999-04-29). "Mod love". Salon.com (in englisch). Salon Media Group. Retrieved 2010-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[3] tp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sound/st22.zip

[4] Lim, Jeffrey. "Features of Impulse Tracker". Retrieved 2009-04-07.

[histofTracker-5] Matsuoka, Claudio (2007-11-04). "Tracker History Graphing Project". helllabs.org. Retrieved 2011-01-29. Tracker History Graph {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)

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 '''''Scream Tracker''''' is a [[Tracker (music software)|tracker]] (an integrated multi-track [[step sequencer]] and sampler as a software application).  It was created by Psi (Sami Tammilehto) of Finland's [[Future Crew]] (FC)<ref name=sos>{{cite web|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul04/articles/pcmusician.htm|title=PC Music Freeware Roundup |last=Walker |first=Martin|work=Sound on Sound |date=July 2004 |accessdate=2010-05-29|language=englisch|quote=''When PCs first came of age for music making in the mid '90s, ScreamTracker was one of the first music software packages to appear with sample support,...''}}</ref><ref name=modlove>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/1999/04/29/mod_trackers/index.html|title= Mod love |work=Salon.com|last=Leonard |first= Andrew |date=1999-04-29|publisher=Salon Media Group |accessdate=2010-05-17|language=englisch}}</ref> It was coded in [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[assembly language]]. The first popular version of Scream Tracker, version 2.2, was published in 1990.<ref>ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sound/st22.zip</ref> Versions prior to 3.0 created STM (Scream Tracker [[Module file|Module]]) files, later ones used [[S3M (file format)|S3M]] (ScreamTracker 3 Module). The last version of Scream Tracker was 3.21 released in 1994. It was the precursor of the PC tracking scene and its interface inspired newer [[Tracker (music software)|tracker]]s like [[Impulse Tracker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.users.on.net/~jtlim/ImpulseTracker/features.html|title=Features of Impulse Tracker|author=Lim, Jeffrey|accessdate=2009-04-07}}</ref><ref name=histofTracker>{{cite web| url=http://helllabs.org/tracker-history/|publisher=helllabs.org |first=Claudio |last=Matsuoka |date=2007-11-04|accessdate=2011-01-29 |title=Tracker History Graphing Project |quote=''[http://helllabs.org/tracker-history/trackers.svg Tracker History Graph]''}}</ref>
-''Scream Tracker'' 3.0 and later supports up to 100 [[Audio bit depth|8-bit]] samples, 32 channels, 100 patterns and 256 order positions. It can also handle up to nine [[Frequency modulation|FM]]-synthesis channels on sound cards using the popular [[Yamaha YM3812|OPL2]]/[[Yamaha YMF262|3]]/[[Yamaha YMF278|4]] chipsets, and, unusually, can play digital and FM instruments at the same time.
+''Scream Tracker'' 3.0 and later supports up to 100 [[Audio bit depth|8-bit]] samples, 32 channels, 100 patterns and 256 order positions. It can also handle up to nine [[Frequency modulation|FM]]-synthesis channels on sound cards using the popular [[Yamaha YM3812|OPL2]]/[[Yamaha YMF262|3]]/[[Yamaha YMF278|4]] chipsets, and unusually, can play digital and FM instruments at the same time.
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