MilkyTracker addons

About addons

NOTE: addons are enabled for Linux/Mac but not windows [yet]

Addons allow for interfacing with the operating system ♥.
This prevents milkytracker to become a monolyth DAW, stay small, and promote personal computing across all OS'es.

Addons can be accessed via the sample-editor rightclick context-menu.
Because samples ARE key-ingredients for sample-trackers, so an unexplored territory is to integrate external tools with the sampler (not filebrowsers):

• procedural SAMPLERS: sample ANY synth/app/input into milkytracker
• DIY 'plugin grabber' by sampling desktop audio
• generate samples using puredata/csound etc
• apply a complex effect to a sample
• source samples from an online API
• source samples from an local AI agent
• Extend the sampler with your favorite SCRIPTING LANGUAGE(s)
• Create script-pipelines between different tools
• automate tedious tasks
• FUTURE: export/import .xp [processable] patterns in a similar fashion

Also async workflows are possible via the sample editor:

• right-click: Addon > select your addon (audacity %s & e.g.)
• import later: Addon > import from addon

Rationale: parametric cli dialogs

MilkyTracker aims to be a small & portable musicproduction app.
Becoming a multi-plugin-host is simply not on the table, as it would burden its mission with maintenance of various plugin-format (and break lowspec devices).
Having that said, parametric cli dialogs combined with powerful cli-backends are a perfect match for addons♥.

Developer info

Developing addons is much easier compared to developing VST C++ plugins.
You are encouraged to use scriptable DSP-backends instead:

• ffmpeg (effect-filters, aeval for processing, aevalsrc for synthesis)
• SoX (effect-filters, synth for synthesis)
• csound (insane DSP powerhouse for fx/synths with huge ecosystem)

Milkytracker addons are parametric cli dialogs. Basically, it present a UI dialog, before executing the final cli-cmd:

sox %s -D %s speed %~(speed:1:20:1)

produces:

which produces:

sox /tmp/in.wav -D /tmp/out.wav speed 1

for more info see https://github.com/milkytracker/MilkyTracker/tree/master/src/tools/addons.txt

please contribute and do a pullrequest, minimum contribution guidelines:

• create a (topic/author-based) folder in this repo
• put your scripts in there
• and a README.md
• and a screenshot.jpg
• and a addons.txt
• done!