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OpenMPT is described as '(short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great music on your computer. Based on the original ModPlug Tracker written by Olivier Lapicque, OpenMPT is free' and is a popular music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to OpenMPT for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best OpenMPT alternative is Bintracker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenMPT are MilkyTracker, Qtractor, Renoise and Schism Tracker.




Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.



OpenMTP is a tracker, Rosegarden is a MIDI sequencer. Two functionally different types of musical composition.


Experience transformative music production with multitrack recording, comprehensive MIDI sequencing, legendary looping, and Transparent Technology for seamless creative flow without barriers in professional audio creation and post-production.




Bosca Ceoil is all about looping, and designed that way at its heart. Songs are built up from lots of tiny 16 note patterns – the intended workflow is that you loop over these single patterns until you have something you like, then you start making variations.




Prototracker is a fakebit chiptune tracker that uses a single-oscillator synth with 256 preset waveforms. Macros are used to create instruments and keyboard shortcuts are similar to the familiar Protracker.

Prototracker is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to OpenMPT.

Arkos Tracker is the ultimate musical tool (or "Tracker") for 8/16-bit computers from the 80's, such as Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Oric, Apple 2, Vectrex, and SHARP MZ-700!





Skale Tracker is a music tracker (a special kind of music sequencer) available for Windows and Linux on the desktop as well as in a Flash-based browser verison.




MadTracker is the composition tool that creates the shortest path between imagination and music. Based on the tracker concept, MadTracker provides a clean and intuitive interface for a powerful and efficient approach to making music.


16-bits FastTracker is a clone of the infamous DOS tracker but made for modern computers with a GPU and CPU and monitors with 60Hz refresh rate.

Oxide Tracker is a chiptune music tracker featuring an envelope-based instrument editor that allows you to vary an instrument's volume, duty cycle and smoothness over time to create your own 8-bit sounds.


Rosegarden is a DAW; OpenMPT is a sample sequencer, more akin to FL Studio that a DAW.
Rosegarden is more similar to Ardour.