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- !Help for TrackCTRL
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-
- Congratulations on obtaining your copy of TrackCTRL v.2.00.
-
- This utility once installed on the iconbar will control
- a playing soundtracker module in the following ways:-
-
- 1) Stereo positions may be set or changed
- (LEFT MOUSE BUTTON = +/-1, RIGHT M. B. = +/-8.)
-
- 2) Turn channels ON / OFF (allows progressive build up.)
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- 3) Pause the music.
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- 4) Turn the internal-speaker ON/OFF.
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- 5) Several TrackCTRL windows may be opened together and
- by moving the mouse-pointer over a window the stereo
- -positions / channels active / freqency of the music
- are automatically updated to those of the host.
- Two windows with different settings could therefore
- be used to create a sudden burst of sound (channels
- turned off in one window) or change in pitch etc.
-
- 6) v.2.00 UPDATE - clicking the middle button over the
- main window will now bring up a pre-set stereo
- position menu of useful settings. By clicking the
- - LEFT M. B. the stereo positions of the system are
- altered to those of the selected set.
- - You can also change a set for example st2 by
- clicking the RIGHT M. B. over the icon st2 - this
- updates st2's values to the current on-screen
- settings. As well as re-definable banks st1-st6
- there are options for Left, Right and Middle -
- non settable.
-
- 7) If you want permanent settings then look in file
- !RunImage - there is an array near the beginning
- which contains all the initial banks values(st's).
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- 8) v. 2.00 also allows a change in pitch to be made
- to samples being played. FREQ. UP and FREQ. DOWN
- will change the pitch up and down (if you click
- on their icons with the LEFT M. B. you get a
- change of +/- 1, RIGHT M. B. you get +/- 4.
- RESET will reset the frequency to normal play-rate.
- For fast, auto-repeat changing you can use the
- numerical icon in the lower section - clicking LEFT
- on this gives -1, clicking RIGHT gives +1 (rapido).
-
- - I was gonna have a 'FREQ. OUT'(!) icon but it would be a
- bit anti-social to other tasks running simulataneously.
-
- Note : If a channel is turned OFF, the channel icon will
- turn white, while ON it is black. This also applies
- to the internal-speaker icon.
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- Bugs
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- a) The PAUSE button only disables sound output, but does
- not stop the music playing in the background.
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- b) WATCH IT! - if you wack up the FREQ. everything else
- running will SLOW DOWN (severely!)
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- Acknowledgements
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-
- Thanks go to:-
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- Mark Drayton - for noticing that the PAUSE button doesn't
- stop the music playing in the background and the idea of a
- 'pre-set stereo positions window'- nice one markus.
-
- Peter de Rivaz - (poor lad owns an Amiga!) for suggesting
- the steps which each mouse button should give when setting
- the stereo-postions (now outdated!).
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- All programming, graphics, desktop front-end, this rubbish
- and initial idea by me (Jez D. Mears.)
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- Contacts
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- Should you wish to contact me or make a donation?!?
-
- I am at this address:
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- Jeremy Mears,
- 21 Collum End Rise,
- Leckhampton,
- Cheltenham,
- Glos.
- GL53 OPA.
- England.
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-
- SampCTRL avaliable soon-
- '8-channel sample control and mixing utility'.