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MILKYTRACKER(1) General Commands Manual MILKYTRACKER(1)

NAME

milkytracker, milkycli - music creation tool inspired by Fast Tracker 2

SYNOPSIS

milkytracker [options] [input]
milkycli [options] [input]

DESCRIPTION

milkytracker is a multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program FastTracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.

The program can be used both interactively through its graphical interface or in headless mode for converting module files to wave files.

milkycli is a minimal version of milkytracker for that only allows conversion options and implies the the -headless option.

OPTIONS

General

Run in headless mode without graphical interface (conversion only).
Show a summary of options.
Enable recording velocity for MIDI input devices.
Enable verbose output.

Display

Set bits per pixel for display output.
Run in fullscreen mode.
Do not show the splash screen.
Set display orientation. Valid values are NORMAL, ROTATE90CCW, ROTATE90CW.
Swaps the red and blue values in 24 BPP mode.

Conversion

Export each track to a separate WAV file. Files are named output_01.wav, output_02.wav, etc. Silent tracks are automatically removed.
Specify output file name when using headless mode.
Set resampler type (default: from settings or 4)
Set sample rate in Hz (default: from settings or 44100)
Set mixer shift value (default: from settings or 1)
Set mixer volume level (default: from settings or 256)

SEE ALSO

goattracker(1), BambooTracker(1), hivelytracker(1), protracker(1), ccutter(1), ocp(1), modplug123(1), schismtracker(1).

AUTHOR

milkytracker was written by Peter Barth.

This manual page was written by Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> and James Cowgill <jcowgill@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

August 2025