Editing FastTracker 2 (section)

=== Professional usage===
[[Video game developer]] [[Nicklas Nygren]] used Fast Tracker 2 (e.g. [[Knytt Stories]]<ref>[https://modland.com/pub/modules/Fasttracker%202/Nifflas/ Nifflas] on Modland</ref>) to compose his early [[video game music]].<ref name=CTGMusicInterview>{{cite web |author=Gaj Capuder |url=http://www.ctgmusic.com/community-interviews.php?id=7 |title=Interview with Nifflas - CTG Music Community |publisher=Ctgmusic.com |date=2004-05-02 |access-date=2015-02-26 |quote=I quit the lessions, and created no music until early 1999. This was the year I found out about Fast Tracker 2. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319074306/http://www.ctgmusic.com/community-interviews.php?id=7 |archive-date=2006-03-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Demoscene]]r and video game soundtrack composer Matthias Le Bidan used FT2 for the music of the [[free and open source]] video games ''[[Frozen Bubble]]'' and ''Pathological''.<ref>[http://pathological.sourceforge.net/music.php pathological music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207145212/https://pathological.sourceforge.net/music.php |date=2023-02-07 }} on [[sourceforge.net]]</ref> The FT2-based soundtrack of ''Frozen Bubble'' won [[The Linux Game Tome]]'s ''Best Sound/Music'' Award in 2003. 
[[Lee Jackson (composer)|Lee Jackson]] used FT2 to compose the MOD files used in the [[Apogee Software]] game, ''[[Stargunner]]''. 

Several commercial [[computer games]] by [[Epic Games]] like ''[[Unreal (1998 video game)|Unreal]]'' and ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' used the FastTracker 2 XM format (additionally to other mod formats) encapsulated in a "UMX" [[Container (data structure)|Container]], supported by the used ''Galaxy Sound Engine''.<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5exIODbtqkC
|title=Game Development and Production
|author=Erik Bethke
|publisher=Wordware Publishing, Inc.
|isbn=1-55622-951-8
|year=2003
|pages=341}}</ref> Jarkko Rotstén also uses the XM format for [[3D Realms]]'s ''[[Ion Fury]]'' soundtrack.

FastTracker 2 has also been used in the "dance" music scene of the 1990s and early 2000s:<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=huQ6DgAAQBAJ
|last1=Helbig
|first1=Adriana
|last2=Miszczynski
|first2=Milosz
|title=Hip Hop at Europe's Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change
|page=135
|isbn=978-0253023049
|year=2017
|publisher=[[Indiana University Press|IU Press]]
}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUJLAAAAYAAJ
|title=Future Music Magazine Autumn 2001
|journal=[[Future Music]]
|year=2001
|editor=Future Publishing
|issn=0967-0378
|pages=118}}</ref> [[Gabber]], [[Speedcore]] and [[breakcore]] producers were using it, including Deadnoise, Noisekick,<ref name="Noisekick">{{cite web
|url=http://www.ccpar.com/noisekick-interview-hardcore-halloween/
|title=Noisekick Interview
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623013600/http://www.ccpar.com/noisekick-interview-hardcore-halloween/
|archive-date=2019-06-23
|quote=''How did you get into your djing career? I started producing in 1995 when I was 14 years old with Fastrracker 2.''
|publisher=CCPAR}}</ref> [[Neophyte (band)|Neophyte]].