VelvetStudio

About

Beginning of 1994 they started planning of an own tracker.

In the first iterations of the tracker the name was Extreme Tracker, but that eventually changed to Velvet Studio, since they figured it was so advanced it was more like a complete studio.

In summer 1996 the final version of Velvet Studio was released. It was heavily promoted for at the demo party Assembly '96 and a lot of copies were sold.

Then, in spring 1997, Vicious (Pontus Munck) decided that this project was too great to be spoiled. He offered to take over the further development of Velvet Studio and at the same time, Baldric and Zyric agreed that Velvet Studio from now on should be fully shareware, meaning that everyone could use the full version of the tracker for free!

In the autumn of 2013 Baldric found out that the AMS format was still used in plugins for Winamp, and even as a format that the Windows Tracker OpenMPT could read. This interest for the format and the tracker as a whole convinced him to release the tracker as open source.

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