bratpeki/modern-milkytracker-guide

A modern guide to MilkyTracker v1.03

Table of Contents

0. INTRODUCTION

1. TRACKER BASICS

• What are trackers?
• Origin of the name
• The basics of tracker music
  • Instruments
  • Cells
  • Tracks
  • Patterns
  • Songs
  • Ticks, SPD and BPM

2. THE XM FILE FORMAT

• Notes
• Intro to XM
• Instruments
  • Volume envelope
  • Panning envelope
  • Volume (Instrument slot)
  • Panning
  • Fine-tune
  • Fadeout
  • Vibrato
  • Relative note
  • Samples
• Volume (Track slot)
• Effects
• Tracks
• Patterns
• Songs
  • Global song volume
  • Song title

2.1. EFFECT GLOSSARY

• Effect column effects
• Volume column effects

3. MILKYTRACKER UI REFERENCE

• Startup
• Main window
  • Tabs
• General editor
  • The song arranger
  • Song title, length and peak window + Common MT options toggle window
  • Song and editing properties
  • Pattern editing window
  • General editor buttons window
  • Instrument menu
  • Sample menu
  • Instrument editor
  • Sample editor
  • Disk operations window
    • "List" view
    • "Simple" view
    • HD Recorder window
• Pattern editor
• Scopes
• Transposition window
• Zapper window
• Quick options window
• Configuration window
• Optimization window
• Advanced editor
• About window

3.1. INTERACTIVE UI ELEMENTS

• Buttons
• Checkboxes
• Listviews
• Radio buttons
• Scrollbars
• Sliders
• Text input fields
• Number input fields
• Drop-down menus
• Tickboxes
• Popup windows

3.2. WORKING WITH SAMPLES

• Before we begin
• Sample manipulation
  • New...
  • Undo/Redo
  • Cut/Copy/Paste/Crop
  • Range all
  • Advanced
    • Volume boost...
    • Volume fade...
    • Normalize
    • Backwards
    • Smooth (rect.)/Smooth (tri.)
    • 3 Band EQ...
    • 10 Band EQ...
    • Resample...
  • ProTracker. Boost
  • Generators

3.3. WORKING WITH THE PATTERN EDITOR

• Positioning yourself
• Placing notes and effects into the pattern editor
• Working with tracks
• Working with selections
• Effectively using the advanced options
• Muting and soloing tracks
• Swapping tracks

4. CONFIGURING MILKYTRACKER

• I/O
• Layout
• Fonts
• Misc.
• Tabs

4.1. KEYBIND OPTIONS

5. TIPS AND TRICKS

• Leveling the song
• Chorus
• Delay
• Sample chopping

6. GOOD SOURCES

• Samples
• Instruments
• Modules
• Information

7. MAKING AN EXAMPLE SONG IN MILKYTRACKER

8. THANKS

9. MISSING DOCUMENTATION