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TakeTracker 0.7 Revision 3
32 Channel tracker for Gravis Ultrasound
TakeTracker has been created in
Turbo Pascal 6.0 (asm)
Loads ProTracker 31 inst./all FastTracker modules
Sound system by Twaddler
TakeTracker idea and code by Dr. Zon
Documentation and demotune by Dr. Zon
The code goes in about 10000 lines of
Pascal and Assembly code,
there are also some smaller TPUs
that have not been included in this
formula.
Said short:
TakeTracker: An X-Pose production 1993
Contents of this document: Page:
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Bragging, info and credits...................................Above
General info on TakeTracker......................................1
Effects..........................................................1
Keys.............................................................1
Using effects in TT..............................................1
Future releases of TT............................................1
The PLAY16.EXE...................................................1
The demo tune....................................................1
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General info on TakeTracker
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Welcome to TakeTracker. You now have the latest version of
TakeTracker. TakeTracker is a multichannel song-editing complex
with very advanced functions. This tracker can handle up to 32
channels of music. For long time there have been a standard that
was limited to 4 channels. Taketracker takes a step beyond into 32
channels. There are also a lot of other trackers, which might be a
lot better than TakeTracker, but I think TakeTracker is a good
alternative.
You can create almost ANY piece of music with a tracker of this
style, from Beethoven classics to todays techno pieces. On the
great Amiga a lot of known (and unknown) pieces has been converted
into modules.
If anyone know the Amiga and the ProTracker - I must say I've tried
to create TakeTracker as equal as possible. I've just got some
troubles with the screen resolution on the PC. Therefore might the
PC version look a bit "weird" the first time. But you will get used
to it. The most used keypresses in PT (that I use) have been
implemented in TT, too.
TakeTracker has been made mainly for private use, actually I never
planned to release it after all. But Twaddler convinced me to
release it. And I don't regret. This tracker is now very dislike
what it looked like in the beginning. Actually, I never planned to
make a such nice program. As long it was better than already
existing programs, it was allright for me.
Effects
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The version of TakeTracker you've got here only supports the
following effects (for more help on this subject, look at: Using
effects in TT)
Cxx - Set volume
Axy - Volume slide (does not work 100% correctly)
Fxy - Set speed (NOT BPM (tempo))
Keys
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Enter - Play all notes and effects in current row
Space - Toggle edit mode
Shift+Enter - Push current track 1 row down
Shift+BackSpace - Pull current track 1 row up
Shift+F4 - Copy track to buffer
Shift+F5 - Paste track to buffer
Shift+Left/right - Shift channels left/right
Alt-D - Disk op.
* Alt-S - Sampler
F1/F2 - Octave lo/hi
* Shift F1-F10 - Store effect at cursor position
* Alt F1-F10 - Paste effect previously stored at cursor
Ctrl Left/right - Next/previous sample
+ (numeric) - Next songposition
- (numeric) - Previous songposition
Page Up - Go 15 rows up
Page Down - Go 15 rows down
Home - Go to top of sheet
End - Go to last row of sheet
*: not implemented yet
Using effects in TT
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By today, TT uses all the normal ProTracker effects, so people
used to effects should have NO PROBLEM AT ALL using the effects.
But for any new users of this kinda trackers, I will explain the use
of effects.
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Effects consists of three hexadecimal numbers - the leading digit
determines WHAT effect to use. Example: If the leading digit is C
and the following digits are 1 and 4 (ie C14) the volume on that
channel will be set to 14 hex when playing the row where C14 is
placed. C20 will set the volume to 20 hex. The maximum volume is
40 hex.
Other effects are described above.
Future versions of TT
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Well, now as TT1 is finished I think it's in time with a REALLY
delay and some REALLY relaxing. But when I feel like I would create
some new version of TT, I will at least improve the following
things:
VGA640x480x16 Resolution (like ProTracker 3.0)
SoundBlaster support
MIDI support
The PLAY16.EXE
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This is a little command-line player of 16 channel modules ONLY!!!
It only plays 16 channel mods since there already exist enough 4,6 &
8 players. This player is actually exactly the same replay-routine
as used in TakeTracker, just with a worse load-routine that only
recognizes 16 channel mods. Watch along new updates of TakeTracker.
I expect a new version of the player-system from Twaddler until next
release.
The demo tune
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The demo tune; TTDEMO.MOD is a little module that has been created
in a very short while. It is composed by me (erm...) in a few
minutes. Hope someone will find help in the tune.
If I'm not too wrong this tune willbe used in our soon-coming demo
- HEADACHE -
...Hi to all I know ...
Dr. Zon October 1993