soundtracker(1)
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.unitedtrackers.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.