VividTracker 4+

Less intimidating and cheaper than anything else on the market. Always did like that trackers helped you focus on rhythm than on waveforms. Proper musicians start with sheet music. Many a tune was engineered on a tracker, even if real hardware™ was used to produce it. Needs a few adjustments for user friendliness (switch screens 3 and 5!), and could use the ability to export to PCM and a menu for editing options, like for interpolation, Hz, and colors. PS, it can't handle some of the more advanced techniques that mods like Hoffman's "generator.” I think it’s that double sample offset that causes it.

Thanks for your comments. Switching screen 3 and 5 is a good idea, I will take a look at it. A menu for changing colours would be nice too. I downloaded Hoffman's "generator" and you are correct; something is not working the way it should. I will compare the sound with Protracker 2.3d on my Amiga 1200, then fix this problem.

I love this old school tracker. But I have a couple of requests for features.
1. The ability to sort that mod file list into alphabetical order. I seriously don’t know what method the app uses to sort mods, but they seem to be sorted randomly, making it difficult to find tunes you want if you have a lot of files.
2. I really think, in addition to being able to load samples from other mods, it would be really nice to create a folder where we could just put our own sounds, instead of having to use a mod editor on a pc to load sounds into a mod file, and then upload the thing. It would remove a step and make things a lot easier. I have an extensive library of samples that I use for making my tracker music, and I would really appreciate the ease of just...uploading samples straight into a folder on my iPhone to use with VividTracker. Putting all those samples into mod files and then uploading the mod files to my iPhone is a time consuming pain compared to the ability to just... upload the samples themselves.
Other than those two complaints, I love this tracker and would like to see further development on it.

A new file browser is coming in the next version that will solve these issues. 😀

I really love that this app exists and it’s cool to see old things given a update sometimes, I know this is supposed to directly copied the Amiga mod tracker but the interface is just not good for iOS. I have used Medly 4 for iPad for around 3 years now and after an hour of messing around in this app, I just can’t rap my head around it, the interface is just bad nowadays. I understand how this would be great for someone who actually used a mod tracker back in the 90’s but, if you’re looking at this as a beginner app, I can not recommend it. I like how this brings back the old limitations of older hardware, forcing you to work differently, but using the interface is just to hard for me. If you’re looking for something to just make music on I would recommend Medly 4, it’s also on IOS. It’s not like this but it’s a lot easier to use, better than garage band in my opinion.

Thanks for your honest review. Indeed, in the making of a Protracker clone for iOS, the tracker interface was not optional as it is the very core of Protracker. A piano roll wouldn't work. VividTracker was aimed to be an app for Protracker users and they understand the interface pretty quickly.

However, to my surprise, there are many newcomers to the tracker format as well where VividTracker is their first tracker experience - and some really like it and want to learn more. I am working to give them a better experience, not through changes in the interface (that is what it is), but through tutorials and documentations. I do recommend reading the first chapter in the guide book (press the help button); many more chapters are coming soon.

There are other apps if you don't enjoy the tracker interface, but I thank you for giving it a honest try. For me personally, it is the easiest interface to get by - even on an iPhone - but that is just my personal preference (and indeed the reason why I made VividTracker).

A final thing: VividTracker also supports qwerty keyboards, just like Protracker.