Finally, it's here... ************************** IceTracker v1.1 by Icepic! ************************** Okay, this is not another one of those boring doc files that you get with every other tracker that's ever been released. This is just to document the new features and how to use them. Even Newer Features (of v1.1) ----------------------------- Position Editor: Okay, this is an ice-cool freature that will display all your positions in a list followed by their associated sub-patterns. It is possible to scroll through the list and edit which 4 sub-patterns are linked to any position. (Note: songlength is a total of 128 positions with 4 sub-patterns from a total of 256) Chording: This feature allows you to select which tracks will be used while entering note-data (or playing). It will automagically swap between the selected tracks to give a 4 channel polyphonic effect. Configuration: You are now able to save and load your own presets for colors, chording, plst size, master volume, autoexit and pathnames. Autoexit: It is possible to have IT1.1 automagically exit to the main screen after loading a song, module or sample. Or alternativly, you can be left in the disk-op menu. (If you like it that much, I can send you the iff) Master Volume: The total volume output from the playroutine will not exceed this value. It is set through the configuration menu and can be saved. (It's a real hassle to get up and turn the stereo down, I lost my remote... :) CPU Monitor: Should be self-explanatory (but for WB users...) it shows the current ammount of work that the CPU and DMA are doing in the first byte and the second byte is the average ammount of CPU and DMA being used by the tracker. I also removed most of the bugs from v1.0 beta.. :) New Features (of v1.0) ---------------------- Sub-Patterns: This idea was initialy implemented by MnemoTroN/Spreadpoint in his SoundTracker v2.6 (The last one he did I've been told, a pity, as he and Mahoney & Kaktus/Northstar made a great impact on the SoundTracker in it's various incarnations). Basically now a pattern instead of being made up of 4 joined tracks (ie: Channels 1,2,3 and 4 were previously classed as one pattern) are now individual sub-patterns in themselves, that is that now it is possible to independantly call up a single sub-pattern to repeat on a certain track (ie: the main beat, for example) without constantly copying it into every 4-track pattern as was previously required. Play around with it and you'll get the idea. Instrumental Analyzer: This is basically a dynamic display that updates relative to each channel that will display the current instrument being played on that channel. Useful for identifying what instrument is being played at a glance. Drum machine: A cool idea first implemented by Exolon/Fairlight that enables you to use the keypad (after first pressing the keypads '.' key...) to play samples from 00-0f and with the shift-key pressed 10-1f. Functions the same as the StarTrekker Drum machine does, so look at Exolons docs for further explanation. Requester Library support: Ahh Yeah!!! Finally a real requester (No offence Exolon!) that is totally O/S friendly... Now loading/saving/deleting is all done through the O/S via the requestor.library (If you've got a couple of Gigs, you will be able to appreciate this feature, as you can now read directories of any length (providing you have the RAM, of course!). Quantizing: This is another cool feature thought up by Mahoney & Kaktus that makes it easier to enter in notedata... It basically alters the skip between notes during recording. Replay routine: IceTracker has one of the fastest replay routines (with all major effects) to date. New song format: IceTracker will auto-magically convert any song or module made with Star/Noise/Pro/SoundTracker into it's new format. It allows upto 128 patterns with sub-patterning and duplicate track elimination. Proper Task switching: You can task swap with the Back-2-Workbench gadget, or by pressing the left-Amiga key and 'S' at the same time. Okay, if you like this program or happen to find any bugs (oh no...) then write to me (or call my board) and let me know what bugs you found and what machine you have etc... I'll do my best to fix them and get a new you a bugfixed release, providing enough people give a shit and want to see another version. Thats enough of my shit, if you wanna contact me, call Zer0 City II on: +(61)-2-724-2519 (Dual line HST-Dual Standards) or write to: Icepic - P.O. Box 185, Villawood, NSW, 2163, Australia. This program is dedicated to all the guys who made the SoundTracker what it is today... Salutes to: Karsten Obarski, T.I.P./The New Masters, Unknown/D.O.C. MnemoTroN/Spreadpoint, Mahoney & Kaktus/NorthStar Antichrist/U.F.O., Zap/Amiga Freelancers, Exolon/Fairlight Also to all the great musicians who wrote all that cool music we all heard in various demos all over the years... and made SoundTracker as great as it ought to have been. One last word to the Public Domain compaies out there... It's a shame how you all cry out against 'pirates' when what you do is little short of it yourselves... SoundTracker (from the beginning was always commercial, as K.O. will gladly tell you...) and I for one have not and will not place IceTracker in the public domain for that very reason... If you like this program, copy it and enjoy, but if you want to sell it, you know where you can get off, if you don't, write to the above address and I'll gladly tell you. To my friends at Prime Artifax: It's scum like you that give the whole PD industry a bad name which results in programs like this NOT being released as PD or Shareware... Fuck you and the horse you rode in on... Long live the ledgends... - Icepic 10/Jan/1993