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NAME

6       soundtracker - a tracker for gnome that supports .xm files
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SYNOPSIS

9       soundtracker
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DESCRIPTION

12       This manual page documents briefly soundtracker.
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14       This  manual  page  was  written  for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
15       because the original program does not have a manual page.  Instead,  it
16       has  some  documentation  in  /usr/share/doc/soundtracker which will be
17       more uptodate than this man page.
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20       soundtracker is a program that allows one to arrange many sound samples
21       into  a tune, comprising of multiple `tracks' which are mixed together,
22       typically in software.
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USING

25       Note that some functions are only accessible using the keyboard.  These
26       are  all important key combinations, mostly inspired by the great Amiga
27       ProTracker (most alphanumeric keys are mapped to a piano keyboard):
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29   TRACK EDITOR
30       Right Ctrl
31              Play Song
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33       Right Alt
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36       Right Shift
37              Record (Play Pattern & Edit On) -- not yet!
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39       Space  Stop Playing; edit mode on/off
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41       F1 ... F7
42              Change editing octave
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44       Left Ctrl-1 ... -8
45               Change jump value
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47       CrsrUp / Down
48              Walk around in current pattern
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50       PgUp / Down
51              Walk around in current pattern, quickly
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53       F9     Jump to position 0
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55       F10    Jump to position L / 4
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57       F11    Jump to position L / 2
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59       F12    Jump to position 3 * L / 4
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61       CrsrLeft / Right
62              Change pattern column and/or channel
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64       Tab    Skip to same column in next channel
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66       Left Ctrl - CrsrLeft
67              Previous Instrument (faster with Left Shift)
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69       Left Ctrl - CrsrRight
70              Next Instrument (faster with Left Shift)
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72       Left Ctrl - CrsrDown
73              Previous Sample (faster with Left Shift)
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75       Left Ctrl - CrsrUp
76              Next Sample (faster with Left Shift)
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78       Left Alt - CrsrLeft
79              Previous Pattern (faster with Left Shift)
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81       Left Alt - CrsrRight
82              Next Pattern (faster with Left Shift)
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84       Left Ctrl - B
85              Start marking a block (one track horizontally)
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87       Left Ctrl - C
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90       Left Ctrl - X
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93       Left Ctrl - V
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96       Left Shift - F3
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100              Copy track
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102       Left Shift - F5
103              Paste track
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105       Left Alt - F3
106              Cut pattern
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108       Left Alt - F4
109              Copy pattern
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112              Paste pattern
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114       Any other keys
115              Play notes on the keyboard.
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118   SAMPLE EDITOR
119       Hold Shift and use left / right mouse buttons to set the loop points in
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SEE ALSO

124       If  you want to know more about tracking in general, http://www.united-
125       trackers.org/ has a lot of resources.
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127       Also see the SoundTracker homepage, http://www.soundtracker.org/
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129       SoundTracker still needs detailed documentation. If you  want  to  help
130       out  with this, you should become familiar with DocBook or similar SGML
131       tools first.
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AUTHOR

134       Michael Krause [ raw style  /  lego  ]  <m.krause@tu-harburg.de>  wrote
135       SoundTracker.
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137       This   manual   page   was  mostly  lifted  from  /usr/share/doc/sound‐
138       tracker/README by Frankie Fisher  <frankie@skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk>,
139       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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BUGS

142       This documentation is possibly outdated.
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