FAC Soundtracker 2
Contents |
introduction
The second version of FAC Soundtracker was released in September 1991 by the Federation Against Commodore (FAC).
Content
The FAC Soundtracker 2 package contains 2 disks:
- the first disk is the music utility, it includes also BASIC2.BAS, a BASIC loader to play the songs composed in the FAC Soundtracker 1 or 2 format (MUS, SM1 and SM2 files)
- the second disk is a music disk with 8 compositions - see FAC Music Disk 3 for details
Screens
Main screen
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Voice/Volume editor
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Useful keys
(list of FAC Soundtracker 1 - needs to be completed)
Function keys
- F1 - play a song with possibility to specify start and end tracks
- F2 - play current track
- F3 - copy one or several tracks
- F4 - change speed (default value: 19)
- F5 - info screen
- F6 - load or save song
- F7 - voice/volume editor
- F8 - samples/drumkit menu (only for MSX-AUDIO)
- F9 - input title song and name of composer
- F10 - install default parameters
Other keys
- INS - toggle US notation/numeric notation
- SELECT - toggle MSX-AUDIO/MSX-MUSIC
- cursors - change cursor position
- CTRL+cursors - go to other track
- HOME - clear channel in current track
- CTRL+HOME - clear current track
- O - note-off event
- 0 (zero) - make empty step on the cursor position
- S - specify sustain mode (only for MSX-AUDIO)
- ESC - input again possible during note-event
In the voice editor
- F1 - previous page in the list of voices
- F2 - next page in the list of voices
- F3 - decrease volume of selected music channel
- F4 - increase volume of selected music channel
- F5 - toggle split level
- 1 to 9 - select music channel
- SELECT - toggle MSX-AUDIO channels/Original MSX-MUSIC voice/MSX-MUSIC channels
- cursors - change cursor position in the list of voices
- spacebar - select voice