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tracker

noun
/ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From track + -er.

  1. derived from trec
  2. derived from traðk
  3. derived from trac — “track of horses, trail, trace”
  4. inherited from trak
  5. formed as tracker — “track + -er”

Definitions

  1. Agent noun of track

    Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

  2. In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to…

    In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

  3. A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel…

    A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.

    • 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[…]
    • Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.
    • At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A musician who writes music in a tracker.

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

    2. A computer program that monitors something.

    3. A tracker mortgage.

    4. An album with the specified number of tracks.

      • "Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tracker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA