DigiBooster 3

DigiBooster 3 is a music tracker. Its history has roots in ancient times of Amiga. Amiga was the first popular computer having stereo PCM audio output. Then it had a potential to be used as a device for making music. This potential has been fully exploited. The Ultimate Soundtracker was the first in 1987. NoiseTracker was the second in 1989. ProTracker had beat'em up in 1991. Amiga was getting faster processors. Multichannel software mixing was a logical step forward. Tomasz and Waldemar Piasta have done this step in 1998 creating DigiBooster Pro 2. It has been later bought by APC&TCP. Development stalled after version 2.21, but has been ressurected in 2007 by APC&TCP in cooperation with Grzegorz Kraszewski. It has been decided that DigiBooster 3 will be rewritten from scratch in C. Now, after 4 years of development, DigiBooster 3 reached public beta stage.

DigiBooster 3 runs on three operating systems:

MorphOS (PowerPC)

AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC)

AmigaOS 3 (M68k)

DigiRoller 1.2 released

10 May 2012

We have gathered user feedback after releasing DigiRoller 1.1, the player and renderer of DigiBooster 3 and DigiBoosterPro 2.x music modules. The new, 1.2 version has most of suggested features implemented and a reported bug fixed. The program is also translated to Spanish now. Here is a detailed list:

Volume boost feature.
AHI unit configurable via commandline parameter and icon tooltype.
Current song position displayed also as text.
Filename for output file is generated automatically from module name.
Playback mode is set as default now.
Spanish catalog and guide translation by Dámaso Domínguez.
Polish guide translation by Grzegorz Kraszewski.
Fixed crash when MUI is not installed.

DigiRoller 1.1 released

19 Feb 2012

DigiRoller is a standalone replayer for DigiBooster Pro 2.x and DigiBooster 3 music modules. Version 1.1 contains the latest replayer engine featuring AHI-independent DSP echo effect. It is backward compatible with old echo ("V", "W", "X", "Y" and "Z" commands are fully supported), but the effect is processed inside the engine, so it is always active. Echo in AHI may be safely turned off. Additional feature of the new echo (which will be used in DigiBooster 3) is a new echo mode (command "V2"), where each track can have independent echo parameters.

Another new feature is phase assisted stereo panoraming. Positioning instruments with not only amplitude, but also small phase shifts improves the music experience.

DigiRoller 1.1 includes other improvements in the replayer as well:
working sample offsets (commands "9" and "E7") and fixes to "B" and "D" commands.

DigiRoller is a free program and may be downloaded from the DigiBooster site http://www.digiboosterpro.de .

The Public Beta 22 of DigiBooster 3 Released

12 Jan 2012

After almost a year since the previous public version, APC&TCP releases the next public beta of DigiBooster 3 music tracker. Beta 22 is available for immediate download for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS operating systems in the Download Zone. Key features of this release are:

Basic sample editor with format conversion (can load and save AIFF, WAVE, 8SVX and 16SV formats), cut, copy and paste including system clipboard, realtime loop editor.
ARexx port with 22 fully documented commands.
Improved player engine, better backward compatibility with DigiBooster Pro 2.x.
User configurable track scopes.
Unique feature of single step (and step back) playback with all effects and autosynchronization.
More documentation, extensive descriptions of DigiBooster effects.
Many small improvements listed in the changelog.

The released beta is a demo version. The only limitation of demo is disabled module saving.