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A useful story.
With the facts intact.
Short project information, identity assets and the test boundary for people sharing or trying TrackWerk.
- PROJECT
- TrackWerk
- CREATOR / PUBLIC ARTIST
- Kid Bunka
- VERSION
- 0.9 beta
- PLATFORMS
- Android, Trimui Brick / KNULLI, Miyoo Mini and Mini Plus / Onion
- PRICE / SOURCE
- Free, open source, GPL-3.0-or-later
- HERITAGE
- Independent fork of PocketTracker; upstream and DSP credits retained
Short description
TrackWerk is an independent, open-source handheld music studio by Kid Bunka. It combines an eight-track sequencer with archive-audio discovery, detailed sample editing, Mutable-derived synthesis, categorized presets, live punch effects, Drumlab and mastering tools. Version 0.9 brings a new demoscene identity, 17 typefaces, 50 themes and storage-based preview and excerpt editing for long WAV files.
What makes the workflow concrete
- Archive to instrument: discover a result, choose a recording, preview, mark IN/OUT, render a WAV and open it in the editor.
- Long WAV sources: seek and preview from storage, then create a memory-appropriate excerpt for editing.
- Sound design: explore synthesis families and edit a loaded instrument live, with an audition note for listening.
- Rhythm: assign 5–8 sounds to Drumlab, generate a pattern and edit its tracker phrases.
- Performance: 64 momentary punch effects in eight banks, with internal resampling for capturing the app's output.
- Presets: 2,048 synth instruments plus 256 added reverb, delay, Studio FX and mastering settings.
- Updates: matching app identities and data paths retained to preserve projects, samples and personal settings.
Identity assets
Use the name TrackWerk with a capital W and the artist name Kid Bunka. Keep the original mark's proportions. Caption app screens as native renderer captures unless a particular physical device recording is explicitly supplied.
Reporting the beta fairly
Final 0.9 physical acceptance is still in progress. Software tests include constrained ARM32 runs, private-build Android update preservation and public-package startup and real Internet Archive search/preview/render/import. These results do not certify every handheld or heavy real-time workload.
The original Mini has no built-in Wi-Fi. Mini Plus Online includes the HTTPS runtime-selection correction; physical connection confirmation remains pending. Direct iPhone-to-Brick USB audio did not work in the owner's tested setup. Class-compliant interfaces require separate device tests.
Read the compatibility table before describing support. Public downloads do not contain the owner's private drum library or private demo collection.
For communities and testers
Use the topic, self-promotion policy and beta-post rules of the community where you share the project. A short workflow example and a clear test request are more useful than repeated release announcements. TrackWerk is an independent fork; credit the upstream project and describe what changed.
Bug reports are most useful with the device, firmware, TrackWerk version, reproduction steps and a minimal project or relevant log with private details removed.