Alternatives to Furnace
An open-source multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Furnace
An open-source multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Furnace.
MilkyTracker
An open-source, multi-platform music tracker compatible with FastTracker II modules.
MilkyTracker is a free, open-source FastTracker II style tracker with a built-in sample synthesizer, focused on module music rather than emulating many retro sound chips.
OpenMPT
A free tracker for Windows for composing and playing module music, based on ModPlug Tracker.
OpenMPT is a free tracker that edits IT, XM, S3M and MOD files with VST and ASIO support, but the editor runs on Windows only.
Renoise
A multi-platform digital audio workstation that composes music with a tracker-style pattern editor.
Renoise is a paid full DAW built around a tracker pattern editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, adding scripting and microtuning but not chip-specific emulation.
SunVox
A small modular synthesizer with a pattern-based tracker sequencer for desktop and mobile.
SunVox pairs a tracker sequencer with a modular synthesizer and runs on desktop and mobile, but it is freemium and closed source rather than GPL.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
puNES
A Qt-based Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that also plays NSF, NSF2 and NSFe music files.
LMMS
A free digital audio workstation with a piano roll, beat sequencer and a pile of built-in synths.
DeaDBeeF
A light, plugin-driven music player for Linux, Windows and macOS that stays out of the way.
Hydrogen
Program drum patterns with a desktop sequencer and drum machine.
