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An oldschool sample-based music composition tool.
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C
For anyone familiar with ScreamTracker and ImpulseTracker from the MSDOS days, a cross-platform IT clone SchismTracker is still maintained and relatively recently transitioned from SDL1.2 to SDL2:
If you remember Impulse Tracker (DOS), schismtracker is a modern day clone:
Eh, the Borland Grahics Interface (BGI) style TUIs were kind of awful. I hated the Borland Turbo C IDE in no small part because of that style TUI. It just wasted so much precious character space on TUI frames and other decorations.
More of my fond TUI memories from that era were the bespoke ones in the demo/art/music/bbs scenes. Those in many cases were still character based but seemed to make better use of the screen space and at least more aesthetically pleasing character sets.
Scream Tracker / Impulse Tracker comes to mind as one example:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Screamtracker...
Which you can still enjoy today in a cross-platform clone via SchismTracker:
Schism Tracker is an SDL-based reimagination of Impulse Tracker [1]. Jeffrey Lim also made the sources of the original project available [2].
SchismTracker is a somewhat maintained GPL ImpulseTracker clone that runs on Mac/Win/Linux (SDL).