(Select "instruments" on F12 to enable instrument May want to experiment with it once you have a feel for how the program This tutorial has deliberately omitted the instrumentĮditor (on F4), for the purposes of brevity and simplicity. You can load it again later by pressing F9. To save your new song, press F10, type a filename, and hitĮnter. Other settings on this page, but for now, most of them are fine at their You can also adjust the tempo and a number of You may wish to give your song a title press F12 and typeĪ name in the box at the top. Pattern to the orderlist, and the next time you play the song, your two Now you can write another four bars of music and add the new Go back to the pattern editor and press the + key to change to the next Of course, having only one pattern isn't all that interesting, so That pattern, then advance to the next order, and so forth. The song will begin at the first order, look up the pattern number and play Press F11 to switch to the orderlist page, and Now that you have something in your pattern, you'll need to set upĪn orderlist. Over a hundred key bindings for the pattern editor it is well worth the Shift notes up and down within a channel, Shift-Arrows to mark a block,Īlt-C/Alt-P to copy and paste, and Alt-U to clear the mark. Other important keys for the pattern editor include Ins/Del to (ofĬourse, assuming you loaded a sample!) Press F6 to play your pattern, Try typing "qwerty" into the pattern - it will enter anĪscending note sequence, and you'll hear the notes as they're entered. The "/" and "*" keys on the numeric keypadĬhange octaves, and the current octave is displayed near the top of the The pattern editor help, but you can safely ignore that column for now.Īssuming a US keymap, notes are entered with the keyboard as follows: The four sub-columns of each channel are the Representing 1/16 note to play multiple notes simultaneously, they are In short, the song is laid out vertically, with each row This is where the majority of the composition Now that you've loaded a sample, press F2 to get to the (Keep in mind, however, that some authors don't PressĮnter here to open a file browser, navigate in the list using the up/downĪrrow keys, and hit enter again to load a sample. The F3 key will bring you to the sample list. The scope of this document, but here is a very brief rundown of the basics.Ĭontext-sensitive help can be accessed at any time while running the program USAGE ¶Ī detailed discussion of how to use Schism Tracker is far beyond Module, sample, and instrument paths will be set accordingly. h, -help Print a summary of available options.Ī filename supplied on the command line will be loaded at startup.Īdditionally, if either a file or directory name is given, the default version Display version information and build date. debug= FLAGS Enable some debugging flags (separated by commas). no-font-editor Run the font editor (itf). WAV or AIFF writer isĪuto-selected based on file extension. diskwrite= FILENAME Render output to a file, and then exit. no-play Start playing after loading song on command line. fullscreen, -no-fullscreen Enable/disable fullscreen mode at startup. This is mostlyĬosmetic, although it does change the program's behavior slightly in a few no-classic Start Schism Tracker in "classic" mode, or don't. no-network Enable/disable networking (on by default). video-fb-device= DEVICE Specify path to framebuffer. video-depth= DEPTH Specify display depth, in bits. (Probably does nothing!) -video-gl-path= PATH Specify path of OpenGL library. video-stretch= VALUE Fix the aspect ratio. video-size= WIDTHx HEIGHT Set the size of the video display. This is probably best left alone under normal circumstances. video-yuvlayout= LAYOUT Specific YUV layout to use: YUY2, YV12, RGBA, etc. That this is different from the video driver setting within the program,Īnd is unlikely to be useful. video-driver= DRIVER SDL video driver, such as x11, dga, or fbcon. Name of the device itself, for example hw:2 or driver is the SDL driver to use, e.g.Īlsa (ALSA), dma or dsp (OSS) device is the audio-driver= DRIVER Audio device configuration. Load most common tracker formats, supports saving as IT and S3M, and canĪlso export to WAV and AIFF. Match the look and feel of Impulse Tracker as closely as possible. Schismtracker is a tracked music module editor that aims to Schismtracker - tracked music editor based on Impulse Tracker SYNOPSIS ¶
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