---
name: "soundtracker"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "soundtracker"
version: "0.6.8-2+b1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/soundtracker"
---

# soundtracker(1)

a tracker for gnome that supports .xm files

## 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.