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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Karsten Obarski is possibly THE most elusive Grandfather of the Amiga.
		Obarski was a part of that team, working as both a musician and programmer.
		Obarski's disappearance and inactivity are a real tragedy for those that are ardent supporters of the demo music scene.
	www.therealamiga.mcmail.com /features/karstenobarski.html (1133 words)

	Karsten Obarski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karsten Obarski (born May 11, 1960), handle "Obi", is considered a pioneer of the demo scene for the creation of the program "Ultimate Soundtracker", the ancestor of all Trackers.
		The author of this article was not able to find out which role Karsten Obarski had in the development of these games.
		"Rotator" is a special case: when asked about his own compositions, Obarski said he liked track 3 from "Rotator" very much - but the author of this article was unable to find any music from this game created by him.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karsten_Obarski (249 words)

	Tracker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later tracker software, most famously OctaMED, allowed for eight channels of music or more, whilst special hardware could allow for 16-bit playback.
		Karsten Obarski's original Ultimate Soundtracker, often just called Soundtracker, was originally an internal development tool for EAS (a German Software Company) which goes some way towards explaining its programmer-friendly interface.
		The company eventually released it as a commercial product.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tracker (725 words)

	Amiga Gaming Retrospective: Part 4 - More on Crystal Hammer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I just wanted to point out that the maker of the music was the Legend Karsten Obarski who made the first SoundTracker which fast became a standard and today ten years later the newest tracker is based on that.
		It's also rather ironic that the "secret" connection Karsten Obarski and modern Amiga MOD music was revealed to us twice in one issue: once from Sidewinder, and again now.
		Obarski, please feel free to send us that information; it would not only provide a sense of closure to our look back at Crystal Hammer, but also give us an intriguing connection to those earlier days.
	www.blksheep.demon.co.uk /AmigaMonitor/cryham.htm (504 words)

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		Karsten Obarski (born May 11 1960), Pseudonym handle "Obi", is considered a pioneer of the Demo scene demo scene because he created the program "Ultimate Soundtracker", the ancestor of all Tracker s.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Karsten Obarski.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Karsten_Obarski.html (367 words)

	[No title]
		Electronics Arts was part of them, and a 21 year old German employee, a certain Karsten Obarski, didn't know he would write a part of the musical computers history.
		So, Karsten Obarski, as a programmer and musician (remember that at this time, it was frequent that one person could make a whole game: coding, music, gfx), decided to code his own music software...
		And this is one of the reasons that pushed Karsten Obarski to stop the development of Soundtracker.
	istari.sozialistischer-plattenbau.org /sound/trackinginfo/historyoftracking.txt (3886 words)

	Station Information - MOD
		However, the biggest advantage of MOD family over standard MIDI files is that MOD includes its own audio samples and should sound almost exactly the same from one player to another.
		MOD files are often referred to as "Tracker modules", and composing modules is known as "Tracking", simply because the first ever module creating program was Soundtracker, created by Karsten Obarski in 1987.
		Soundtracker was cloned many times, with programs such as "Noisetracker", and "Protracker" being direct descendants from the original Soundtracker code, and others such as "MED" and "Oktalyzer" being written from scratch.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mod.html (543 words)

	lynnemusic.com :: View topic - AMP - Amiga Music Preservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Karsten Obarski, IIRC, is the "father" of Soundtracker whom basically pioneered the whole concept of tracking/trackers/mods.
		Musically, his mods were noted for being memorable and unique, having his own distinctive style - musicians/trackers practically learnt and based their music on his mods.
		Many people consider Karsten Obarski (for what he has done for Amiga music) comparable to Rob hubbard on the C64...although TBH I don't really recall any of his music
	www.lynnemusic.com /messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=137 (724 words)

	SourceForge.net CVS Repository - markup - cvs: xmp/xmp2/docs/formats/Ultimate_Soundtracker-format.txt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1988 and later Karsten Obarski's original program was hacked, ripped off, and improved by various programmers from cracking and demo groups.
		Old Soundtracker modules that are likely to be found in any classic collection are those composed by Karsten Obarski himself, such as famous game sounds from Amegas, Crystal Hammer, Ralleymaster (sic!), or Sarcophaser, to name a few, and others done in 1987 and 1988, most noticably the unforgotten tunes by SLL.
		Thus: freq = 716 kHz / ((240-bpm)122) [freq] = kHz Rumours state that Karsten* Obarski made a failure upon calculating that default speed and planned to get a default of 50 Hz.
	cvs.sourceforge.net /viewcvs.py/xmp/xmp2/docs/formats/Ultimate_Soundtracker-format.txt?rev=1.1&view=auto (1141 words)

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		While the Commodore 64 and the SID chip set the stage for tracking (the act of making module music), it was not until 1987 that module music as it exists today started in earnest.
		The event which set the foundation for module music was the creation of a program titled Ultimate Soundtracker by a 21 year-old German employee at Electronic Arts, Karsten Obarski (Tribute).
		Newer versions of Karsten Obarski's original Ultimate Soundtracker, as well as the large number of similar programs, now allowed for composers to sample their own sounds and so move past the rather limited palette of pre-sampled sounds available previously.
	rachot.misto.cz /info.htm (4585 words)

	XM-Module download page
		The playback from machine to machine should replay 100% correctly (either through FastTracker or another music playback program) due to the fact that these file formats hold a sampled sound copy of each instrument within the file itself.
		The tracker data format was originally invented by Karsten Obarski around 1987, and was quickly copied by lots of other people around the world.
		The original "SoundTracker" is an Amiga based program, which could play back 4 channels of stereo sound (the Amiga's standard hardware limit, though clever audio mixing programs could produce several "Virtual Channels").
	www.cosine-systems.com /xm-modules.html (317 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first 5 disks of the ST-xx series were originally taken from the famous Soundtracker by Unknown of DOC.
		I think, he took them from the first tracker on the Amiga Soundtracker by Karsten Obarski.
		Most of the samples are saved in the IFF-Format, but have no additional ex- tension to their filename.
	us.aminet.net /mods/inst/st-01.readme (234 words)

	Tracker -[ruv.net : Information Portal]-
		Other things that can be done to sound samples include increasing/decreasing the duration of the sound sample (thus shortening/elongating the sound).
		The first tracker program was created under the name Soundtracker for the Commodore Amiga in 1987 by the German Karsten Obarski and sold through the software company Electronic Arts[?].
		By reverse engineering the source code of this tracker, and later re-implementations, several mutations appeared.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/tr/Trackers.html (236 words)

	Silent Dreams - Module Site
		Das Prinzip des Komponierens mit diesen Trackern ist seit dem Erscheinen des "Urvaters", dem Soundtracker von Karsten Obarski, im Prinzip unverändert geblieben.
		Karsten war Musiker und Programmierer der deutschen Truppe Reline, aus der später Factor 5 hervorging.
		Obarski ("The Tracker Attacker") erschuf 1987 ein sequenzerähnliches Programm, welches keinerlei Partiturenkenntnisse voraussetzt.
	www.silent-dreams.de /mods.html (329 words)

	TP: Open Source Music
		Richtig ins Rollen kam der Kult dann, als 1987 ein gewisser Karsten Obarski ein Programm namens "Soundtracker" für den Amiga veröffentlichte.
		Obarski arbeitete bei der Spieleschmiede Eidos und hätte sich sicher damals nicht träumen lassen, dass er mehr als 10 Jahre später für diesen Schritt als Held gefeiert wird (
		D abei bot Obarskis Soundtracker verglichen mit heutiger Musiksoftware eher bescheidene Möglichkeiten.
	www.heise.de /tp/deutsch/inhalt/musik/3505/1.html (1490 words)

	ST Soundtracker v2.4 by Equinox
		Of course Karsten Obarski made it first on amiga in 1987
		I thought TCB Tracker was the first tracker on Atari.
		Trackers definitely have their place here imho (especially Karsten Obarski's)
	www.pouet.net /prod.php?which=13335 (789 words)

	The Mod Archive - Mod Archive General Discussion - Re: Crash: Need modules back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Need more info on the other mods you asked about, if you have any...
		Karsten Obarski wrote the original Soundtracker in 1989.
		> > Karsten Obarski wrote the original Soundtracker in 1989.
	www.modarchive.com /cgi-bin/view.cgi?board=mageneral&msg=3506 (227 words)

	Game music base - database of Games, Games music and soundtracks
		Music originally composed by Karsten Obarski and these tunes are made by Karsten Obarski as well:
		Game music where was Karsten Obarski found between original/port composers, but these tunes are actually done by someone else (they can be either arranged tunes, or converted game rips, or tunes where Karsten Obarski composed the tunes for different platform.
		Games which composed Karsten Obarski music in: (if there is platform in the parenthesis, it means the composer composed or ported the music for this platform)
	www.mirsoft.info /gmb/musician_info.php?id_ele=ODM= (325 words)

	Rips Page
		ST_FutureTank.lzx (89981 bytes) - all Ultimate SoundTracker modules from the game "Future Tank", composed by Karsten Obarski.
		ST_OilImperium.lzx (56510 bytes) - all Ultimate SoundTracker modules from the game "Oil Imperium", composed by Karsten Obarski.
		ST_RallyeMaster.lzx (55703 bytes) - Ultimate SoundTracker module from the game "Rallye Master", composed by Karsten Obarski.
	amiga.emucamp.com /wt/rips.html (2070 words)

	Ambien's Modbox
		On this page you will find 23 modules which I composed from the year 1989 to 1997, most of them using my handle Ambien as a member of the E&L Software Team.
		I used my Amiga 500 and my Amiga 1200 with the programs Soundtracker by Karsten Obarski, Protracker by the Crusaders and Face The Music by Maxon for it.
		If you want to listen to them please use the Deliplayer which is able to play both ("mod" and "ftm") formats.
	www.ambien.biglouis.com /index.php?SortBy=Size&StartAt=1&Show=15&Order=Desc (143 words)

	Karsten Obarski at Nectarine with Bluesong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Karsten Obarski at Nectarine with Bluesong - !http://www.scenemusic.net - Your Demoscene Radio
		Comment : A quite long slow Obarski tune.
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	www.scenemusic.net - Your Demoscene Radio - !http: //www.scenemusic.org/info.htm?idsong=58514 (223 words)

	E-Tracker (SAM)
		In the beginning there was the Amiga, and an all-round good egg called Karsten Obarski.
		Being such a nice fellow, Karsten came up with Soundtracker.
		It was popular, to say the least, and was ripped off quite a bit.
	www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/sametracker.htm (890 words)

	Spaceship by Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Crackings
		I can not see this demo but the screenshot seems that this demo is exactly like THE DEMO menu by the LOGON SYSTEM on CPC in 1992..
		TMR: as far as I remember it is indeed done by Obarski (this song was on the first Soundtracker disk along with Obarski's other classics).
		Finally, in The Light Circle's "Powertrax" musicdisk (march 1988) they give credit to Karsten Obarski.
	www.pouet.net /prod.php?which=10366 (314 words)

	AmigaScene 0x0F - ProTracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The program SoundTracker V1.0 wasn't sold in as great the numbers as the number of copies that were around shortly thereafter - yeah, there were plenty of crackers, and why pay when you could get it by some other means?
		Soon there were umpteen versions of this program around and in the end Karsten gave up developing the program further.
		Understandably, who still has any interest when your own program creation is not sold, but instead widely stolen and disassembled?
	www.amigascene.at /amigascene/english/0x0122.html (962 words)

	GNU Octal
		Then you can add effects, tempo changes, drum tracks, or anything else you please.
		A man named Karsten Obarski wrote the original tracker application for the Amiga computer back in the 80's.
		He took advantage of the Amiga's advanced multimedia hardware to accomplish the then-difficult task of mixing all those samples in real time.
	www.creativelinux.com /htm/features/octal.htm (718 words)

	History of Tracking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If anyone knows the precise dates when particular trackers/players were released then please let me know, dig out those old disk/magazines)(This whole section is likely to be very inaccurate for a long time)
		Soundtracker v1.0 - Coded by Karsten Obarski and marketed by Electronic Arts.
		Supported 4 channels and 15 instruments, along with 5 effects: Portamento Up/Down, Set Volume, Set Secondary Tempo and Arpeggio.
	www.winds.org /pub/mod/html/History.htm (125 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I August, a tool was released that would change the demo world forever.
		A german coder by the name of Karsten Obarski released his music composition program "SoundTracker" through the software house EAS.
		The original version supported 5 effects; Portamento Up/Down, Set Volume, Set Secondary Tempo and Arpeggio =] Version 1.21 was released in december.
	www.textfiles.com /artscene/history/scenery/scenery/scne1987.txt (390 words)

	Chaz Roman - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
		I have written and recorded five albums, but this is my first Public Release.
		For my current style of music (melodic electronic) the Crystal Hammer theme, by Karsten Obarski (on the old Amiga 500 computer) was the most influential piece of music.
		I always try to write a melody that I like and have multiple layers of sound and melody.
	www.soundclick.com /chazroman (360 words)

	Phlow: netzkultur: Netlabels - Free Art since 1989! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Die Grundweichen wurde 1987 gelegt, vom seinerzeit bekannten C64 Musiker Karsten Obarski (Oil Imperium, Traders).
		Wer sich in das Programm einarbeitete, war binnen kürzester Zeit in der Lage kurzweilige Songs zu schreiben, auf Diskette zu kopieren und seinen Freunden mitzugeben.
		Nachdem Karsten Obarski aber sah, daß sich sein Programm mies verkaufte, und unzählige Kopien oder Cracks des Ultimate Soundtrackers im Umlauf waren, stellte er die Entwicklung des Programms ein.
	www.phlow.net /nu_archives/000033.html (1967 words)

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