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TakeTracker 0.7 Revision 6
16 Channel tracker for Gravis Ultrasound
TakeTracker has been created in
Turbo Pascal 6.0 (asm)
TakeTracker can load and save all these formats:
Standard NT/PT mod format:
from 1 to 32 channels of music data
(beta loads and saves 4, 6, 8 and 16 channels)
Sound system,
mouse routine,
graphic text-output,
and one of the keyboard routines
by Twaddler
TakeTracker idea,
rest of code,
and documentation file,
by Dr. Zon
The code goes in about 10,000 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:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Bragging, info and credits.....................................Above
General info on TakeTracker........................................1
Effects............................................................1
Keys...............................................................1
Using effects in TT................................................1
File formats.......................................................1
Loading and saving files in TT.....................................1
Scopes.............................................................1
The command line players...........................................1
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Files
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These files goes with the TT archive:
TRACKER.EXE | The beta version
TRACKER.DOC | This documentation
mmGFX1.DAT \
doGFX2.DAT | All are graphic files, and
seGFX3.DAT | all are 32000 bytes
meGFX4.DAT /
PLAY16.EXE | GUS 16 Channel player
NEW08.TXT | Updates since last release
README.TXT | Last info, and forthcoming things
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 16
channels of music. For long time there have been a standard that
was limited to 4 channels. Taketracker takes a step beyond into 16
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. Actually, now I think the PT on the AMIGA looks a bit
"weird". For a while, I planned to do the tracker in a special
320x240 resolution, but then I considered compability problems, so I
kept resolution to 320x200. 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))
EAx - Fine volume slide UP
EBx - Fine volume slide DOWN
With such a small sortiment of effects, TT is able to play a lot of
modules, even if they use effects not supported by TT, yet.
Keys
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F1/F2 - Octave lo/hi
Enter - Play all notes and effects in current row
Space - Toggle edit mode
Tab - Next channel (or first of the 4 displayed)
Arrow up/down - One row up/down (rows, files...)
Arrow left/right - Next edit position (note, samplenumber,
effect...)
Page Down - Go 15 rows down
Page Up - Go 15 rows up
Home - Go to top of sheet
End - Go to last row of sheet
+ (numeric keyboard) - Next songposition
- (numeric keyboard) - Previous songposition
Shift+1-0 - Store effect at cursor position
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 from buffer
Shift+Left/right - Shift channels left/right
Shift+Tab - Last channels
Alt+1-0 - Paste effect previously stored at cursor
Alt+F4 - Copy effects to buffer
Alt+F5 - Paste effects from buffer
Alt-S - Sampler
Alt-D - Disk op.
Right Alt - Play pattern
* Ctrl-E - Insert space at every 2nd row
* Ctrl+F4 - Copy pattern to buffer
* Ctrl+F5 - Paste pattern from buffer
Ctrl+Left/right - Next/previous sample
Ctrl+1-0 - Set editjump (editskip)
Right Ctrl - Play song
*: Not implemented yet
Using effects in TT
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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 quickly.
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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 (64 decimal).
The volume slide works another way. It slides the volume in the
same amount as the speed goes. The volume slide works two different
ways; either volume slide UP or volume slide DOWN.
If you are going to slide the volume DOWN - set the effect to A -
and the the second digit is set to 0 and the third digit to the
volume slide amount (ex: A02 will slide the volume 2*speed DOWN).
The opposite, volume slide UP uses the first of the two digits.
(ex: A20 will slide the volume 2*speed UP).
When volume has reached either miximum (0) or maximum (040h) volume,
it will stop sliding.
I hope this will give a little understanding how the effects are
used. I'm not so good explaining things, you see.
Copying and pasting
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There are many things to copy and paste around in a notesheet.
You can copy/paste effects only, notes only, or both. You can also
only copy ONE single effect. All this is controlled from the
keyboard. And the keypresses may be hard to remember in the
beginning. First, copying a single track into a buffer, is done by
pressing Shift+F4. And when this is properly stored in the buffer,
you can paste it. Shift+F5.
NOTICE: Pasting a track will OVERWRITE all info already placed on
track.
Copying whole patterns, effects only, are NOT implemented yet.
There is also a 10-buffer possibility to copy and paste one single
effect only. This is done by pressing Shift+0-9. The number
indicates which of the ten buffers to copy to. To pasting
these effects, press Alt+0-9.
Fileformats
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The MOD format goes like this:
SONGName 20bytes
SampleINFO 31samples*30 byte = 930 bytes
SampleName 22bytes
Volume 1byte
Finetune 1byte
SampleLength 1word (div 2)
SampleRepeat 1word (div 2)
SampleReplen 1word (div 2)
osv...osv...osv...osv...osv...osv...osv...osv...
Loading and saving in TT
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Loading and saving has been done very simple in TT. You enter the
DISK.OP menu by pressing the DISK.OP button, and then you simply
press the mouse cursor at what file to load.
If you would like to save a work, click on the either the
MODULENAME or the SAMPLENAME gadget, depending on work to save, and
type in the filename to save. Afterwards you press the SAVE MOD or
SAVE SAMPLE button (also depending on what work to save).
Scopes
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Skriv noe som scopesene her!!! (etter at de er laget :)
Future versions/releases of TT
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TakeTracker will in the soon future, take (!) another step beyond.
When I have finished the TakeTracker 1.2 (which will be the finished
release), I will continue on it - creating a TakeTracker 32 1.2
which will be a tracker supporting GUS only. AND IT WILL USE ALL
THE 32 GUS CHANNELS. Ofcourse, I will have to rewrite some of the
interface code, since I will increase screen resolution to 640x480,
so it might still take some time. But look out for a TakeTracker
32 1.1, which will be a 320x200 tracker.
Also, better support for MIDI. Actually, there is no support for
MIDI at all at this moment. So better keep updated on this area.
Sample save will also be added sometime - it should be possible to
save samples in a new TTSample format, and in RAW format (same as
FastTracker :)
The command line players
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There goes two players with the TT archive. There is one for GUS
and one for SB. These are added for those who haven't got hands on
a better player-routine, or for those of would like to play these
modules "the way they originally is supposed to hear". Another nice
things with these, is that you can use them with NC with the
EXT-edit. But if you then would like to play modules in NC, why not
the X-Pose ModulePlayer for Norton Commander??? (soon ready)
The usage of each player is equal:
PLAYSB or PLAYGUS [filename] {switches}
-Where {switches} can be:
/L - Looping off
(husk å skrive resten av switchene senere)
And then...
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...Hi to all I know ...
(both of you :)
Dr. Zon October 1993