Tracker

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ækÉ™(r)

Origin

{1} + -er

Full definition of tracker

Noun

1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
2. In the 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 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...
• 2008, Karen Collins, Game soundAlthough 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.
4. (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
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