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.

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This documentation is possibly outdated.