man soundtracker (Commandes) - 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.