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soundtracker - a tracker for gnome that supports .xm files
soundtracker
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.
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):
- 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.
Hold Shift and use left / right mouse buttons to set the loop points in
the sample display.
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.
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).
This documentation is possibly outdated.
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