Soundtrack ?
SoundTrackers are a very old method to compose music born with the Amiga & Atari computers. But SoundTrackers are always used now because these are very good tools to make music quickly and now with Softjee, these are too very powerfull tools for BeOS !
Perhaps you will be disapointed with the composition method used by this kind of software, but we promise to you this is the better and quickly way to make certain music like tekno music ! In France, Digital Home Studio, another software from Softjee on Atari computer are used professionaly to make tekno, dance or rave music under some Sony labels.
For a "real" musician, compose music with this tool isn't very easy in the first time. But you must keep in mind Digital Tracker is also a tools for users who never made music before.
The first thing you must to know is the music is divided in part called "pattern". Each pattern is a table with columns and row. Each columns is a track (a voice) and each row in a track can contain a note. In Digital Tracker your keyboard is used like a piano keyboard to write note in the sequencer. You must keep in mind too Digital Tracker can have 128 sounds samples in memory in the same time and you can use them on the 64 tracks at the same time. You can change the instrument number by touching + and - or by clicking on the instrument number.
Finally, you must to know you can have severals patterns, each pattern
have a number (from 0 to 127). You can set a pattern to a specific position in
your music. Check your Nb Pos to see how much position lenght your music
have.
Digital Tracker
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Compatible Be OS R4.5