soundtracker1

A tracker for gnome that supports .xm files

Usage

soundtracker

Overview

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.

History

Debian 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian 3.1 (Sarge): the text shown here
Debian 3.0 (Woody)
Debian 2.2 (Potato)