Alternatives to OpenMPT
A free tracker for Windows for composing and playing module music, based on ModPlug Tracker. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
OpenMPT
A free tracker for Windows for composing and playing module music, based on ModPlug Tracker.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as OpenMPT.
MilkyTracker
An open-source, multi-platform music tracker compatible with FastTracker II modules.
MilkyTracker is an open-source tracker for Windows, macOS and Linux that follows FastTracker II workflow and adds a built-in synthesizer, though without VST plugin support.
Furnace
An open-source multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules.
Furnace is an open-source cross-platform chiptune tracker focused on many classic sound chips and compatible with DefleMask modules instead of IT, XM, S3M and MOD.
Renoise
A multi-platform digital audio workstation that composes music with a tracker-style pattern editor.
Renoise is a paid tracker-based DAW for Windows, macOS and Linux, adding phrase scripting, microtuning and Ableton Link sync, with VAT added to the licence.
SunVox
A small modular synthesizer with a pattern-based tracker sequencer for desktop and mobile.
SunVox is a freemium, closed-source modular synth with a tracker sequencer that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
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.
puNES
A Qt-based Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that also plays NSF, NSF2 and NSFe music files.
