different between tracker vs retrig

English

Etymology

track +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Noun

tracker (plural trackers)

1. Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
   1. (US politics) A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
2. In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
3. (computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
   • 2004, "dilvie", new.scene.org (on newsgroup alt.music.mods)

     Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are^[sic] now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities […]
4. (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
   • 1999, "Adrian Dunn", Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

5. (computing) A computer program that monitors something.
   1. (file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
6. (finance) A tracker mortgage.

Derived terms

• startracker

Translations

Anagrams

• retrack

English

Etymology

From retrigger.

Verb

retrig (third-person singular simple present retrigs, present participle retrigging, simple past and past participle retrigged)

1. (transitive, computing, tracker music) To retrigger (a note, or a sample within it).
   • 1992, "Ian Tweedie", OK here it is!! Mod-File-Format! (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard)

     This command will retrig the same note before playing the next. Where to retrig depends on the speed of the song. If you retrig with 1 in speed 6 that note will be trigged 6 times in one note slot.

   • 1993, "Justin William Brown", Nausicaa MID... the clicking :( (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard)

     The clicking during the piano part is specially horrid... It sounds a bit like this: Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... etc. (The Whrrrrrr bit sounds a bit like a sample being retrigged at a very high rate (a dozen times per second)).

   • 1996, "Andrew Carlson", MOD composition question (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     However, if you need to use different notes, just use 2 channels and delay the 2nd note instead of retrigging it.

Noun

retrig (plural retrigs)

1. (computing, tracker music) The retriggering of a note or sample.

Anagrams

• gerrit, regrit