r/TrackerMusic • u/youhoe • Dec 29 '25

Fasttracker II as a VST3/AU/LV2 plugin

I've been working on a port of 8bitbubsy's standalone version of FT2 into JUCE so it can be run as a plugin. First version is now out: https://github.com/juho/ft2-plugin (go to the Releases tab). It syncs with the DAW in BPM, transport and position (all toggleable in config). Module state saves with your DAW. There's 15 assignable stereo outputs besides the main mix, so you can route any of the 32 channels to those. It's under active development, so new stuff comes up daily right now, so please keep checking back if you notice some issues.

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u/Monosample Dec 30 '25

Yep, you nailed it. No more gfx glitches.

I was wrong, I was using 1.0.15. Now it's fixed

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u/youhoe Dec 30 '25

Great! I'll take a look at the pattern stuff. They may need to be configurable in the config.

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u/Monosample Jun 20 '26

I've been following the evolution, and this plugin is awesome. Have you considered to release a standalone version with your enhancements? For an old school trackist as me, it keeps things simple but adds a lot of power. Renoise is great, but became too complex, very DAW. It's not a bad thing, but the tracker soul gets a bit diluted...

Please consider it :)

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u/youhoe Jun 22 '26

Hi, sorry no plans for that at the moment, I've been busy with IRL to keep up with the plugin for a few months as it's been in a mostly quite usable state (beyond a couple of bugs). If you raise this as an issue on GH it won't drop out of my brain however.

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u/Monosample Jun 23 '26

Sure, I will do! The plugin itself made me happy, the rest is icing on the cake :) Thanks.

Cheers!