The Amiga tracker, rebuilt as a studio plugin
Idle — press play to synthesise
Four Paula voices, synthesised in your browser — no file is downloaded. The beam above is the engine output, not an animation. Drag & drop any .wav on the screen to put it through the same chain.
That is four Paula voices and nothing else. OctaMED is one of the legendary sound sequencers of the Commodore Amiga era: released in 1989, it became the workbench of the underground — the jungle, hardcore and breakbeat records of the early nineties were cut on it, one 8-bit sample at a time.
OctaMEDSync Studio Pro runs that original engine inside your DAW as a plugin. The tracker locks to the host grid sample-accurately, its four Paula voices arrive in your mixer as four discrete stems, and the whole Amiga session is recalled with the project — no cables, no drift, no vintage hardware on the desk.
The installer is free to download and run before you buy anything. It inspects your system and tells you whether OctaMEDSync will work on it. A licence is only needed at the point it deploys the software.
Download installer — Windows 64-bitSHA-256 checksum — linked rather than printed here, because a digest pasted into a page goes stale the next time the installer is rebuilt, and a wrong checksum is worse than none.
What the plugin actually does
Two things make an Amiga tracker sound the way it does: a chip that does no interpolation, and a clock that owes nothing to an operating system. Studio Pro keeps both, and adds the one thing the hardware never had — a sample-accurate lock to your project.
The tracker runs off the Amiga vertical blank. VBlank-Warp bends that interrupt onto the host tempo map, so step N lands on the same sample every pass: bar after bar, render after render, at any tempo.
Paula’s four voices leave the plugin as four separate channels, Paula-1 to Paula-4, straight onto your mixer. Each one takes its own EQ, its own compressor, its own send — sidechain the bassline to the kick, delay one channel and not the others, bus the break on its own.
The Amiga session is stored inside the DAW project: .als, .rpp, .flp. Reopen the song in six months and the tracker comes back with it, patterns, samples and all. The tracker window is borderless and scalable 1×–4×, and remembers where you left it.
Two hundred tracks is not freedom, it is an invitation to layer forever and fix phase afterwards. Four channels forces the decision that makes the record: what matters, and what goes. Then the modern half of the session — pads, vocals, instruments — lives in the DAW alongside it, with zero phase drift between the two.
Local to this browser
The console remembers how you like it. Everything below is written to localStorage on this device and read back on your next visit — there is no account, no server, and nothing leaves the machine.
The dock hides itself below the bottom edge and comes back when the pointer reaches for it, the way a Mac one does — pin it if you would rather it stayed. The POST screen runs once per browsing session; reboot in the terminal, or a press on the DF0: readout in the top bar, runs it again on demand. On a touch screen the dock is always open and never hides.
If your system is set to reduce motion, the deck honours it: no beam animation, no switch flash, and pages appear fully printed.
Shell 1.4 — type a command
Try specs, paula, stems, mem, reboot, dock pin, sysinfo, theme amber, order or crypto xmr. ↑ and ↓ walk your history.
One licence, one machine’s worth of history
A working Amiga 1200, a MIDI interface and the expansion to drive it runs $400–600 today — and it still cannot lock to your grid, still drifts as it warms up, and still will not fit in a laptop bag. This is the same sound with none of that.
Start with the installer: it is free, it runs before any licence is involved, and it will tell you whether your machine is up to it. The licence key unlocks deployment.
1 — Download the installer (free)Instant · zero KYC · direct wallet transfer
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The ticket is computed here, in this browser, from the three things you entered — nothing is sent anywhere by this page, and nothing about you is stored on it. Keep the ticket: it is what identifies your payment when the key is issued.
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The card route runs through the payment processor rather than through this page. The deck holds no card details and never sees one: you are handed to the checkout, pay the $100 there, and the licence key is issued to the email you give it.
💳 Pay with card / Apple Pay ($100)Would rather keep a processor out of it? The crypto tab is a direct wallet transfer: no account, no KYC, and nothing asked of you but an address to send the key to.
The same tracker, free forever and open source. It runs the WinUAE engine with the original OctaMED v4.03 disk image and the pre-configured Amiga OS, straight out of a one-click installer, and sends a stereo mixdown through JACK2 or ASIO. What the Pro licence adds on top is the DAW half: the sync plugin, the four discrete stems, transport and session recall.
⬇ Download community edition (.exe)Windows 64-bit, Inno Setup, no licence and no account. SHA-256 checksum — linked rather than printed, for the same reason as on BOOT: a digest pasted into a page goes stale the next time the installer is rebuilt.
The site itself is static: no account, no card details, no database, and the $100 is a one-off for a lifetime licence. Questions first? Try HELP or the DAW setup notes.
Forty thousand sources, already sliced
The golden age left its working files behind. Tens of thousands of .mod and .med modules are online, each one carrying the original samples, basslines and breaks of the track it was. Load one into the plugin, let it warp to your project tempo, and the parts land on your mixer ready to remix.
Open an original song file straight in the emulated tracker, let the tempo be warped onto your project, and distribute the parts across the mixer. You get a legendary track laid out channel by channel, ready for modern processing — the fastest remix workflow there is.
These archives are run by other people and their terms are their own. Check the licence on anything you intend to release.
Getting the stems onto your mixer
One click cold-starts the studio: JACK, the router, the emulator and the tracker come up in order, and the auto-patchbay wires the ports to whichever DAW it finds running. What follows is the host-side half.
Load OctaMEDSync on a MIDI or audio track, then pick up Paula-1 to Paula-4 on four further audio tracks with their inputs set to the plugin’s outputs. Arm none of them — just monitor. Transport follows Live, including loop and scrub.
Add the plugin to the mixer, then assign each Paula output to its own mixer insert from the plugin’s output routing. Patcher works too if you prefer the whole rig in one box.
Put the plugin on a track, raise the track channel count to eight, and send channels 1–2, 3–4, 5–6 and 7–8 to four child tracks. Reaper’s routing matrix makes this the quickest of the four.
Logic is macOS only. The current Studio Pro build is Windows 64-bit, so Logic is not supported yet — if you are on a Mac, the installer will tell you plainly rather than part you from your money.
Still stuck? Run the installer first — it inspects the machine and reports what it finds. Then see HELP for latency and compatibility answers.
Latency, buffers, compatibility
What buffer size should I run?
128 or 256 samples on an ASIO interface. The tracker is clocked by the emulated machine, not by the buffer, so a larger buffer costs you monitoring latency and nothing else — the parts still land on the grid sample-accurately.
Does the plugin add latency to the project?
It reports its delay to the host and the host compensates, the same as any other plugin. Tempo drift is compensated separately and continuously, which is the part a hardware Amiga could never do.
Do I need an ASIO driver?
For a real session, yes — ASIO or JACK2. The backend is there for low-latency device access; shared-mode WDM will work for a listen but is not what you want under a tracker.
VST2, VST3 or CLAP?
VST2 and VST3 ship today, Windows 64-bit. CLAP is not in this release.
Is there a Mac build?
Not yet. The current build is Windows 64-bit, which also means no Logic Pro. The installer checks before you spend anything.
Do I need a real Amiga, or ROM files?
No. The system ships pre-configured: the OctaMED v4.03 disk image and a ready Amiga OS workbench are installed for you and come up on the first run.
Why only four channels?
Because that is the instrument. Paula has four DMA voices, and the choking that happens when a new note cuts the last one on a channel is where the groove comes from. The modern layers go in the DAW alongside, phase-locked.
Can I open old .mod and .med files?
Yes — that is one of the better reasons to own it. See LINKS for where to find them.
What does the licence cover?
$100, lifetime, commercial use, updates included. Buy it from SHOPPING; the installer itself is free to run first.
What does this site store about me?
Your deck settings, in this browser’s localStorage. There is no backend, no account and no analytics on this page. The video demo on BOOT loads nothing from youtube.com until you press it.