home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Aminet 10
/
aminetcdnumber101996.iso
/
Aminet
/
mus
/
edit
/
stone126.lha
/
StoneTracker
/
readme
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1995-12-18
|
6KB
|
162 lines
Welcome to the electronic distribution of StoneTracker 1.26 !
As its name says, StoneTracker is a music composing program of the tracker
kind, like its famous ancestors ProTracker, NoiseTracker, Art Of Noise
and others, although everything has been written from scratch.
This is a demonstration version which won't allow you to save anything,
but will let you test the skills of our program and decide if you need
it or not. After all, even if we believe this is the most powerful and
user friendly tracker available on the Amiga, the 'best' program is the
program that best suits your needs.
The main features are :
- System friendly, OS 2.0 look (with our personal touch of
course), no enforcer hit!, installs as commodity, AppIcon,
AppMenuItem... Allocates channels, can deallocate without
quitting. Compatible with VGA/Multisync etc. screens. Gets
the best from the Amiga and puts you in a secure environment.
- Locale support. English and French currently; German planned.
Any translator is welcomed.
- "Everything on screen" and ergonomic user interface, studied with
a tracker musician. Secure against unwished operations..
- full-featured AREXX port
- Extreme configurability.
- Noise/ProTracker keyboard shortcuts emulation.
- Custom module format, allows compression of sample banks with
three different and dedicated methods.
- Import of 13 existing formats (e.g. ProTracker, FastTracker,
OctaMed, Oktalyzer, ThePlayer...)
- Export of ProTracker and FastTracker formats in addition to
its own format (full version only)
- XPK support. Passwords handled.
- XFD support (allowing decrunching of more than 100 packers,
like CrunchMania, StoneCracker...).
- Builtin decompression routines for Powerpacker and
CrunchMania (if XFD is not available).
- Multi-song (65.535 possible)! Available song-synchro
commands in the player for interactive music.
- Up to 65.535 patterns!, shared between songs.
- Patterns seperated for each track, allowing you e.g. to reuse a
beat or a bass line from a position to another !
Command for "remapping" duplicate patterns in imported
modules that haven't this feature (ex. ProTracker) saving
a lot of memory!
- Up to 255 samples! Can be loaded in FAST memory : no size
limit except the size of your fastmem.
- 4 ("native") tracks or 5,6,7,8 tracks, all with configurable
mixing quality, from 4 to 50 Khz (28 Khz on PAL/NTSC "basic"
displays). All effects can be used in all modes, no
restrictions! Mixing technique is more like TFMX than OctaMed
or ArtOfNoise resulting in high quality sound. Each song
can have its own number of tracks, and you can jump from
e.g. one song in 4 tracks to one in 7 without hearing a
noise or whatever!
- Each track has its own volume. General volume for the music.
Master volume on top of all controlled by the programmer.
- Loads samples in CHIP or FAST memory, no difference.
- Up to SEVEN effects per note per track!
- Special "FX" track with up to EIGHT effects per line,
dedicated to speed and general control commands.
- Extended effects!
- Effect for gearing your program to the music (calls a user
function when this effect is reached). Ideal for game intros,
demos, etc.
- Command for MIXING a position into a sample ! Make your arpeggios,
drums or whatever...
- Command for timing a song; no need to play the whole song to know
its duration anymore.
- Highly optimized play and mixing routines.
- Player is a shared library, used even by the editor!
- AmigaGuide Documentation in English and French (German planned).
- Nice example musics in 4 to 8 tracks, composed by Jerôme
Angelot, the musician who helped us designing this tracker.
(more musics in the full version)
- Provided Harddisk-installation Installer script.
- Full developer documentation for player and fileformat, with
examples in Assembler and C, link library for SAS; you can
use the player library or include the player in your
programs ("system friendly" and "no operating system" (for
games and demos) versions provided) (full version only)
- Players for DeliTracker and EaglePlayer and independant
player (full version only)
- Editor, player and packers fully programmed in Assembler.
- Constant support. Most user requests have been satisfied yet and
we will continue to do so.
Sounds nice? Then, have a look at the demonstration version, and if you
like it, send 190 FF (French Francs) (any form but CASH!) and of course
a little word with your address and what you want (they also sell other
products!) to :
QUARTZ Informatique
2 bis avenue de Brugny
74000 Annecy
FRANCE
You will receive your personal copy consisting of three disks within
a reasonable delay.
You can also phone them for any information at : (+33) 50.52.83.31
in English or French. Don't hesitate, they are truly friendly.
If you have bought a previous version, you can get this new version
by returning the original disks to Quartz Informatique, you will
be shipped the new ones soon. You only have to pay for the stamps
required for sending the disks.
Authors can be reached for any reason at :
(Editor) (Player)
Emmanuel MARTY Michael LAVAIRE
10 Impasse du Romarin 99 rue François Villon
34920 Le Crès 34130 Mauguio
FRANCE FRANCE
Or via e-mail : marty@crit2.univ-montp2.fr (Internet)
Again, English and French is ok.
If you are downloading from Aminet, don't forget to download along with
the program the XPK and XFD packages (in util/pack) if you haven't
installed them already. StoneTracker makes use of them.
All right, we hope you will like our work and that we will have a
lot of feedback!