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## Name

soundtracker - a tracker for gnome that supports .xm files

## Synopsis

soundtracker

## Description

This manual page documents briefly soundtracker.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has some documentation in /usr/share/doc/soundtracker which will be more uptodate than this man page.

soundtracker is a program that allows one to arrange many sound samples into a tune, comprising of multiple ‘tracks’ which are mixed together, typically in software.

## Using

Note that some functions are only accessible using the keyboard. These are all important key combinations, mostly inspired by the great Amiga ProTracker (most alphanumeric keys are mapped to a piano keyboard):

### Track Editor

Right Ctrl
  Play Song
Right Alt
  Play Pattern
Right Shift
  Record (Play Pattern & Edit On) -- not yet!
Space
  Stop Playing; edit mode on/off

F1 ... F7
  Change editing octave
Left Ctrl-1 ... -8
  Change jump value
CrsrUp / Down
  Walk around in current pattern
PgUp / Down
  Walk around in current pattern, quickly
F9
  Jump to position 0
F10
  Jump to position L / 4
F11
  Jump to position L / 2
F12
  Jump to position 3 * L / 4
CrsrLeft / Right
  Change pattern column and/or channel
Tab
  Skip to same column in next channel
Left Ctrl - CrsrLeft
  Previous Instrument (faster with Left Shift)
Left Ctrl - CrsrRight
  Next Instrument (faster with Left Shift)
Left Ctrl - CrsrDown
  Previous Sample (faster with Left Shift)
Left Ctrl - CrsrUp
  Next Sample (faster with Left Shift)
Left Alt - CrsrLeft
  Previous Pattern (faster with Left Shift)
Left Alt - CrsrRight
  Next Pattern (faster with Left Shift)
Left Ctrl - B
  Start marking a block (one track horizontally)
Left Ctrl - C
  Copy block
Left Ctrl - X
  Cut block
Left Ctrl - V
  Paste block and advance to end
Left Shift - F3
  Cut track
Left Shift - F4
  Copy track
Left Shift - F5
  Paste track
Left Alt - F3
  Cut pattern
Left Alt - F4
  Copy pattern
Left Alt - F5
  Paste pattern
Any other keys
  Play notes on the keyboard.

### Sample Editor

Hold Shift and use left / right mouse buttons to set the loop points in the sample display.

## See Also

If you want to know more about tracking in general, http://www.united-trackers.org/ has a lot of resources.

Also see the SoundTracker homepage, http://www.soundtracker.org/

SoundTracker still needs detailed documentation. If you want to help out with this, you should become familiar with DocBook or similar SGML tools first.

## Author

Michael Krause [ raw style / lego ] <m.krause@tu-harburg.de> wrote SoundTracker.

This manual page was mostly lifted from /usr/share/doc/soundtracker/README by Frankie Fisher <frankie@skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

## Bugs

This documentation is possibly outdated.

Table of Contents

- Name
- Synopsis
- Description
- Using

- Track Editor
- Sample Editor

- See Also
- Author
- Bugs