
SoundTracker is a music tracking tool for Unix / X11 with
a design similar to the DOS program FastTracker and the
Amiga legend ProTracker.
The basic concept is
simple: you have a number of soundsamples, and you can
arrange them on so-called tracks. A track (or channel) can
not play more than one sample at the same time. A set of
tracks which are played at the same time is called a
pattern.
A pattern typically has 64 entries per track; these entries
are cycled through at equidistant time intervals. Finally,
a
module is a compact file containing various patterns and
samples, including a position list which specifies playback
order of the patterns, forming a song. SoundTracker works
with modules of the XM and MOD formats.
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