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                   Documentation for Real Tracker 1.07
                   
                (c) Copyright 1995,1996 Arnaud Hasenfratz



1. What you need
2. How to use Real Tracker
3. Known bugs and limitations
4. Future improvements
5. Greetings
6. Contacting the author


Real Tracker has been designed to be tracker, but for the moment it has no
edit functions. But it works well as a module player, that's why I release
this version.


1. What you need
----------------

- PC with 80386 processor or better
- VGA graphic card
- Mouse
- Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster 16 or Gravis Ultrasound


2. How to use Real Tracker
--------------------------

        2.1 The control bar
        -------------------
        New                : Clear the current module from memory
        Load               : Open the load dialog box
        Save               : Does not work for now
        
        Rewind and Forward : Go to previous/next pattern
        Stop               : Stop the music
        Pause              : Pause the music
        Play               : Begin playing. If the music is stopped, it will 
                             start from the begining of the current pattern. 
        Rep                : Make the current pattern to be repeated

        2.2 The main menu
        -----------------
        The main menu appears when the right mouse button is pressed and
        allows to open other windows.

        2.3 The sound setup windows
        ---------------------------
        Stereo          : toggle mono/stereo mode 
        Hardware filter : toggle SB Pro filter

        Mixing freq     : mixing frequency wished
        Real freq       : mixing frequency really played by the sound card

        2.4 The channel window
        ----------------------
        Each line display the state of a channel. The button turn the channel
        on/off. A double click on this button or a click with the right button
        turn the solo mode on/off.
        The fields display the current instrument, note, volume and command.
        The slider allows to view and to set the panning. The right mouse
        button display a menu to choose the surround, left, middle or right
        mode.

        2.5 The scopes window
        ---------------------
        The display mode of theses scopes can be changed with a click on the 
        right mode button.


3. Known bugs and limitations
-----------------------------

- ping-pong loops only works with a GUS
- 16 bits samples are converted to 8 bits when using a SB


4. Future improvements
----------------------

- song editing possibility


5. Greetings
------------

Greetings for advices, documentations, beta-testing, tools, test modules and
support goes to :

Frederic Bertrand
Otto Chrons
Shadow Man / The CodeBlaster
Sourcer / The CodeBlaster
Frederic Diebold
Mark Feldman
Psy / Future Crew
Purple Motion / Future Crew
Skaven / Future Crew
Patrick Obert
Emmanuel Roecker
Mr H / Triton
Vogue / Triton

Special thanks to Philippe Malaise for lending me his GUS.


6. Contacting the author
------------------------

To contact the author, use one of the following methods. E-mail would be
preferred.

Normal mail :
Arnaud Hasenfratz
15, rue des Jardins
67560 ROSHEIM
FRANCE

Internet e-mail :
arnaud.hasenfratz@utbm.fr
