$VER: AHX000 v2.3d-sp3 (01.12.98) AHX-dEXtEr/aBYSS! Here's Your Damn ScreenMode-Requester Songs Instr Allocate Audio-Channels Save Cancel ? ? Current Transparent VolumeMeter Volume Meter Cursor Rastertime pt.font in Requesters Explicit VBL Startup Cursor Move Choose ScreenMode Flashing Color 0 Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Flashing Color 0 Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Flashing Color 0 Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Slowest Slow Fast Fastest Immediate AHX Preferences PROGDIR:AHX.prefs PROGDIR:Songs PROGDIR:Instruments AHX Prefs" Select AHX-Module to Load Select AHX-Module to Save Select AHX-Instrument to Load Select AHX-Instrument to Save Removed equal tracks, replace unused tracks by... Didn't find equal tracks, replace unused tracks by... Sure to OPTIMIZE Current Song? If you haven't saved yet, better press >Cancel< now! Sure to DELETE Current Song? Sure to DELETE Current Instrument? Sure to QUIT AHX ? No AHX-Module! Imported Protracker File! Removed ALL Commands THAT aren't the same in AHX as in PT! So look in PT what special effects there were Command 9 occured (Sample Offset!) Command NOT removed, please make it fit to AHX's Cmd 9 which is SetSquareRelation! Command B occured (Position Jump!) Command NOT removed, please make it fit to AHX's Cmd B/0 Protracker uses HEX parameter AHX uses DECIMAL parameter if greater $63 (hex) use Command 0! Couldn't allocate audiochannels! You can disable allocation in the preferences. Couldnt Get CIA-Timer Unable to Load double/triple/quadruple-speed AHX-Module No AHX-Instrument! Entitle your song first! Couldn't open Prefs-Window Try to load some patches! Couldn't fix that problem. Use Save Currrent Prefs Failed to Open File! Failed to Create File! Failed to Write File! Couldn't load Help! Created file 'PROGDIR:AHX.waves' to speed up AHX initialization Out of Bounds! Song too short for that subsong-position AHX-Message O.K. ALL|Pos|Track|Ins|Cancel Delete|Cancel O.K.|Cancel Quit|Cancel ...following|...last|Cancel PROGDIR:AHX.guide LINK Main Workbench AHX v2.3d-sp3 Š Abyss Pink & Dexter. Project Load Module L Save AHX-Module S Optimize... Save Waves to Disk Clear... C About... A Quit AHX Q Instruments Load AHX-Instrument Save AHX-Instrument Delete AHX-Instrument... . Instrument Editor Esc Settings Switch CIA<->VBL Volume Meter O Flashing Color 0 Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Transp Rastertime R Flashing Color 0 Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Cursor Flashing Color 0 Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Slowest Slow Fast Fastest Immediate Preferences P Save Current Prefs AHX v2.3d-sp3 December '98 Standing by... Playing... xx% 00:00/00 Playing position... Recording position... Editing... Module loaded... Imported PT-Module... Killed notes up to end of track Marking positions 000-0 -> 000-0 Copied marked positions to buffer Pasted positions from buffer Inserted position from buffer Marking track 000 00 -> 00 Copied marked notes to buffer Cutted track to buffer Copied track to buffer Pasted track-buffer to track Cutted commands to buffer Copied commands to buffer Pasted command-buffer to track External timing occured with ?? Multi-mode enabled Multi-mode disabled CIA failed Initialization... CIA active VBL active Swap with voice (1|2|3|4) ? 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Productions This program is Public Domain Written by & Help: Martin "Dexter" Wodok Layout: Manfred "Pink" Linzner USE CURSOR LEFT/RIGHT TO SELECT TOPIC, AND UP/DOWN TO READ ABOUT THAT TOPIC. PRESS ESC OR HELP TO EXIT HELPSCREEN. <-- GENERAL DOWN MAINSCREEN --> Thanks must go to the following for contributing with suggestions and bug-reports/tunes/code: K-P Koljonen, Tommy, Florian Vorberger, Twice/Lego, Evert-Jan Slypen, Ramosa, Ben Preece, Kaare Johansen (Thanx for writing AHX- Ripper!), Frostycat, freQvibez/Offence Oxide&Stargazer/Sonik, Geir Tjelta ĄTony Stuvo Aky! / Odrusba+Llfb Rawstyle/Lego and many more. Helloes go to: Twice/Lego, Gryzor Offa/TBL, Equalizer/TBL, Geggin/Censor Design, Peter Kunath, Ixxy/TRSI Abyss/Future Crew, Magic Toon and all the guys i haven't written back :-) <-- GENERAL UP/DOWN MAINSCREEN --> Hi there music lovers! We finally made it; AHX Version 2.xx has come to stay! At last we can be proud of saying that it is the best! There has been a lot of changes this time, especially to finally include filtering, preferences and volume- meters in AHX. And it works! (as far as we know, at least). Don't hesitate to contact us if you can't get it working or there's some- thing you can't figure out. <-- GENERAL UP/DOWN MAINSCREEN --> Some technical info: Sourcecode: 326k / 14500 lines Main Program: 186k (unpacked) GFX data: 60k (unpacked) Worktime: 9958654985476 hours ASM time: about 27 minutes 'I hate this!' -------------- Dexter had quite a job this time, and since we don't have more AHX coders, and he's extraordinarely lazy, it was hell on earth. He coded the filters about 12-13 times and much time was <-- GENERAL UP/DOWN MAINSCREEN --> lost on thinking about why it doesn't work but afterwards, it all ended well. You're looking at the result now. :-) What do you think?! AHX finally deserves to be called 'the best sid tracker around', which many of you have been calling it in your psychotic letters to us... One thing that surprised us though, was the fact that all of you said it was "great", "superb" and so on. <-- GENERAL UP/DOWN MAINSCREEN --> Very few (Noone!) complained or came up with new, original ideas and/or useful features! Most of the things in AHX2.0 are self-invented, but thanks must go to the Hamre brothers who wrote the original pt-docs and of course to MAHONEY&KAKTUS. Thanks guys, you really are a great bunch of people! C64 lives - SID rulez PC is dead - Soundblaster sucks All AHX composers: Please send all your tunes to me (Dexter and/or Pink) <-- GENERAL UP/DOWN MAINSCREEN --> Something you'd like in the next version of Protracker? Have you found any bugs? Or do you just want to play tic-tac-toe by mail? Anyway, write to: Martin Wodok (Dexter) Rattenberger Str. 28 81373 Muenchen Germany (No games, please!) <-- GENERAL UP/DOWN MAINSCREEN --> Planned release date for AHX v3: Haven't got the foggiest idea... For musics, write to: Manfred Linzner (Pink) Rupert-Mayer-Str. 6 81379 Muenchen Germany (No handle on envelope, please!) <-- GENERAL UP MAINSCREEN --> MAINSCREEN ---------- ## PLAY ## Will play the song from the current position in the song. The pointer won't turn yellow, but you'll hear and see when AHX is playing :-) Holding down the right button while pressing play will play from the current patternposition. ## STOP ## Will stop playing of songs and pos- itions, recording, and will turn edit mode off. <-- AHX DOWN PLIST CMDS --> ## POS ## The current position being displayed/ played. ## LEN ## The length of the song in positions. ## RES ## The position where AHX restarts the song at. ## TRL ## The length of the tracks in steps. <-- AHX UP/DOWN PLIST CMDS --> ## SS ## Number of subsongs (exluding the mainsong!). ## SSN ## Number of subsong to edit/play. ## SSP ## Position of subsong nr. SSN. refer to topic Subsongs for more detailed information on subsongs! <-- AHX UP/DOWN PLIST CMDS --> The small gadgets labeled marked with ## speaker symbols ## represent the audiochannels of your amiga. When lit, that channel is on. When not lit, the channel is muted and and the notes in that track will not be played. *You can also use ctrl-a to toggle an *audiochannel, and ctrl-q to unmute all *channels. Ctrl+shift-a will solo the *current channel. <-- AHX UP/DOWN PLIST CMDS --> Instruments ----------- Clicking on the instrument up/down gadgets will flicker through the instruments. You can use up to 63, or hex $3F instruments in a song. Holding down the right button when pressing the Pos, Len, Ins and Res gadgets will speed them up a bit. <-- AHX UP/DOWN PLIST CMDS --> EFFECT COMMANDS --------------- Effect commands on AHX should mostly be compatible with all other trackers. 0 - None/JumpPos Hi 8 - Ext. Timing 1 - Portamento Up 9 - Overr. Square 2 - Portamento Down A - VolumeSlide 3 - TonePortamento B - PositionJump 4 - Set/Overr. Filter C - Set Volume 5 - ToneP + VolSlide D - PatternBreak 6 - * NOT USED * E - Misc. Cmds 7 - * NOT USED * F - Set Speed <-- PLIST CMDS DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 0. Set Pos-Jump Hi [HiPos:$0-$9] ------------------------------------ Usage: $0 + positionjump hi Jumping to e.g. position 123 (decimal) must be done using Cmd. $0 + $01 and Cmd. $B + $23. Value will be reset to $00 after jumping (using $B) to the desired position. Example: ---00002 0 is the command, 2 is positionjump hi <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 1. Portamento up [Speed:$00-$FF] ------------------------------------ Usage: $1 + portamento speed Portamento up will simply slide the sample pitch up. You can NOT slide higher than B-5! (Period 113) Example: C-300103 1 is the command, 3 is the portamentospeed. NOTE: The portamento will be called as many times as the speed of the song. This means that you'll sometimes have trouble sliding accuratly. If you change the speed without changing the sliderates, it will sound bad... <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 2. Portamento down [Speed:$00-FF] ------------------------------------- Usage: $2 + portamento speed Just like command 1, except that this one slides the pitch down instead. (Adds to the period). You can NOT slide lower than C-1! (Period 856) Example: C-300203 2 is the command, 3 is the portamentospeed. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 3. Tone-portamento [Speed:$00-$FF] -------------------------------------- Usage: Dest-note + $3 + slidespeed WON'T WORK IF THE TRACK IS TRANSPOSED!! This command will automatically slide from the old note to the new. You don't have to worry about which direction to slide, you need only set the slide speed. To keep on sliding, just select the command $3 + 00. Example: A-200000 First play a note. C-300305 C-3 is the note to slide to, 3 the command, and 5 the speed. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 4. Set/O. Filter [$01-$3F,$41-$7F] -------------------------------------- Usage: $4 + filter / filter+$40 Example: C-300405 4 is the command, 5 is filter $05 (when Cmd 0 in pList), C-300443 4 is the command, 43 is filter $03 and set filter immed. Values $01-$3F will override Cmd.$0 in pList and set the filter when it's set through Cmd.$0 in the pList. Add $40 to the filter you want to set to set the filter immediately. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 5. ToneP + Volsl [Spd:$0-$F/$0-$F] -------------------------------------- Usage: $5 + upspeed + downspeed This command will continue the current toneportamento and slide the volume at the same time. Stolen from NT2.0. Example: C-300503 3 is the speed to turn the volume down. C-300540 4 is the speed to slide it up. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 8. External Timing [User:$01-$FF] ------------------------------------- Usage: $8 + externaltimingdata This command will set the External Timing byte in replayer's public-mem section. Refer to replayer's documen- tation for further information/usage. Example: ---00827 27 is the value set for external timing. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd 9. Set SquareRelation [SR:$01-$3F] -------------------------------------- Usage: $9 + square-relation This command will set the square- relation (set in pList using Cmd.$3xx) immediately and will disable the first $3xx Cmd. (if appearing in the pList). Example: C-300920 20 is the square- relation ---00918 18 is the square- relation ---00910 10 is the square- relation <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd A. Volumeslide [Speed:$0-$F/$0-$F] -------------------------------------- Usage: $A + upspeed + downspeed Example: C-300A05 5 is the speed to turn the volume down. C-300A40 4 is the speed to slide it up. NOTE: The slide will be called as many times as the speed of the song. The slower the song, the more the volume will be changed on each note. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd B. Position-jump [Pos:$00-$99] ---------------------------------- Usage: $B + position to continue at Example: C-300B00 B is the command, 0 is the position to restart the song at. This command will also perform a pattern-break (see 2 pages below). You have to enter the position in decimal (NOT in hex as in PT). Use Cmd. $0 to jump to positions >100. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd C. Set volume [Volume:see below] ------------------------------------ Usage: $C+$00-$40: Instrument volume $C+$50-$90: VMvol. 4 all voices $C+$A0-$E0: Voice Master vol. Well, this old familiar command will set the current volume to your own selected. The highest volume is $40. All volumes are represented in hex. (Programmers do it in hex, you know!) Example: C-300C10 C is the command, 10 is the volume (16 decimal). <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd D. Pattern-break [Pattern-pos:00-63, decimal] -------------------------------------- Usage: $D + pattern-position This command just jumps to the next song-position, and continues play from the patternposition you specify. Example: C-300D00 Jump to the next song-position and continue play from patternposition 00. Or: C-300D32 Jump to the next song-position and continue play from patternposition 32 instead. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> E - COMMANDS ------------ The E command has been altered to contain more commands than one. E0- * NOT USED * E8- * NOT USED * E1- Fineslide Up E9- * NOT USED * E2- Fineslide Down EA- FineVol Up E3- * NOT USED * EB- FineVol Down E4- Vibrato Control EC- NoteCut E5- * NOT USED * ED- NoteDelay E6- * NOT USED * EE- * NOT USED * E7- * NOT USED * EF- * NOT USED * <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd E1. Fineslide up [Range:$0-$F] ---------------------------------- Usage: $E1 + value This command works just like the normal portamento up, except that it only slides up once. It does not continue sliding during the length of the note. Example: C-300E11 Slide up 1 at the beginning of the note. (Great for creating chorus effects) <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd E2. Fineslide down [Range:$0-$F] ------------------------------------ Usage: $E2 + value This command works just like the normal portamento down, except that it only slides down once. It does not continue sliding during the length of the note. Example: C-300E26 Slide down 6 at the beginning of the note. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd E4. VibratoDepth [Value:$0-$F] ---------------------------------- Usage: $E4 + VibratoDepth. This command will set/override the VibratoDepth value set in the current instrument's Performance- List! Example: C-301000 Hit Insturment 1 ---00E40 Stop Vibrato ---00E48 Medium Vibrato <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd EA. FineVolsl up [Range:$0-$F] ---------------------------------- Usage: $EA + value This command works just like the normal volumeslide up, except that it only slides up once. It does not continue sliding during the length o the note. Example: C-300EA3 Slide volume up 1 at the beginning of the note. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd EB. FineVolsl down [Range:$0-$F] ------------------------------------ Usage: $EB + value This command works just like the normal volumeslide down, except that it only slides down once. It does not continue sliding during the length of the note. Example: C-300EB6 Slide volume down 6 at the beginning of the note. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd EC. Cut note [Value:$0-$F] ------------------------------ Usage: $EC + Tick to Cut note at. This command will cut the note at the selected tick, creating extremely short notes. Example: C-300F06 Set speed to 6. C-300EC3 Cut at tick 3 out of 6. Note that the note is not really cut, the volume is just turned down. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd ED. NoteDelay [Value:$1-$F] ------------------------------- Usage: $ED + ticks to delay note. This command will delay the note to the selected tick. Example: C-300F06 Set speed to 6. C-300ED3 Play note at tick 3 out of 6. <-- PLIST CMDS UP/DOWN KEYBOARD --> Cmd F. Set speed [Speed:$00-$FF] -------------------------------- Usage: $F + speed This command will set the speed of the song. Vblank: Range 01-FF - Normal timing CIA: Range 01-FF - Normal timing Both: Range 00 - STOP song. <-- PLIST CMDS UP KEYBOARD --> EFFECT COMMANDS (pList) ----------------------- Effect commands on AHX v2.3d should be compatible with older AHX-Versions. 0 - Init Filter 1 - Portamento Up 2 - Portamento Down 3 - Init Square 4 - Toggle Mod. (S+F) 5 - Jump to Step 6 - Volume (C) 7 - Speed (F) <-- MAIN SCREEN DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd 0. Init Filter [Filter:$01-$3F] ----------------------------------- Usage: $0 + filter Sets the filter. Value $01-$1F: Low-Pass Filter $01: heavy filtered $1F: slightly filtered $20: No filter (std. value) $31-$3F: High-Pass Filter $21: slightly filtered $3F: heavy filtered <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd 1. Portamento up [Speed:$00-$FF] ------------------------------------ Usage: $1 + portamento speed Portamento up will simply slide the sample pitch up. You can NOT slide higher than B-5! (Period 113) Example: C-3x103000 1 is the command, 3 is the portamentospeed. NOTE: The portamento will be called as many times as the speed of the pList. This means that you'll sometimes have trouble sliding accuratly. If you change the speed without changing the sliderates, it will sound bad... <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd 2. Portamento down [Speed:$00-FF] ------------------------------------- Usage: $2 + portamento speed Just like command 1, except that this one slides the pitch down instead. (Adds to the period). You can NOT slide lower than C-1! (Period 856) Example: C-3x203000 2 is the command, 3 is the portamentospeed. <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd 3. Init Square [Sq.-Rel:$01-$3F] ------------------------------------ Usage: $3 + square-relation Sets the square-relation. Values depend on the wavelength of the instr. !! Don't use lower values than: Wavelength $80: Range $01-$3F $40: Range $02-$3F $20: Range $04-$3F $10: Range $08-$3F $08: Range $10-$3F $04: Range $20-$3F Only for SquareLowerLimit these Values will be corrected if a new WLen is set! <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd 4. Toggle Mod. [$00,$1/$f,$1/$f] ------------------------------------ Usage: $4+toggle filter/toggle square The upper nibble will toggle filter- modulation, the lower nibble will toggle square-modulation: Values $1 for pos. start-signum/off $f for neg. start-signum/off Cmd. $4 + $00 is kept compatible with older AHX-Versions and is the same as Cmd. $4 + $01 (toggle squaremod. with positive signum! NOW YOU CAN ALSO SET THE START VALUE >OUT OF< THE RANGE! THEN THE SIGNUM WILL BE IGNORED! <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd 5. Position-jump [Pos:$00-$ff] ---------------------------------- Usage: $5 + position to loop to You have to enter the position in HEX-Values !! <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd C. Set volume [Volume:see below] ------------------------------------ Usage: $C+$00-$40: Instrument volume $C+$50-$90: perfSub volume $C+$A0-$E0: Voice Master vol. Well, this old familiar command will set the current volume to your own selected. The highest volume is $40. All volumes are represented in hex. (Programmers do it in hex, you know!) The perfSub volume is for relative volume in the instr. while you're playing the same instrument in the tracks only with other Instr. volume <-- MAIN SCREEN UP/DOWN EFFECT CMDS --> Cmd F. Set pList-speed [Speed:$00-$FF] -------------------------------------- Usage: $F + pList-speed This command will set the speed of the Performance List. Vblank: Range 01-FF - Normal timing CIA: Range 01-FF - Normal timing Both: 00 - STOP pList (don't use!-senseless! just set the pList-Length!) <-- MAIN SCREEN UP EFFECT CMDS --> KEYBOARD -------- The keymap on protracker is a standard us keymap. Remember to always use the left shift and alt, as the right ones are used for other things. Keys marked with a star (*) are not (yet) built in !!! High notekeys: 2 3 5 6 7 9 0 = Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] Low notekeys: S D G H J L ; Z X C V B N M , . / <-- EFFECT CMDS DOWN GENERAL --> F1 - Choose lowest octave (C-1 to G-3) F2 - Choose second octave (C-2 to G-4) F3 - Choose third octave (C-3 to G-5) F4 - Choose fourth octave (C-4 to B-5) F5 - Choose highest octave (C-5 to B-5) shft+F3 - Cut track to buffer shft+F4 - Copy track to buffer shft+F5 - Paste track-buffer to track ctrl+F3 - Cut commands to buffer ctrl+F4 - Copy commands to buffer ctrl+F5 - Paste cmd-buffer to track <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> F6 - Go to patternposition 0 F7 - Go to patternposition 16 F8 - Go to patternposition 32 F9 - Go to patternposition 48 F10- Go to patternposition 63 L-Amiga+Return - Update Track/Voice Display according to the given Tracks given in the PosEd's current Position. Esc - Exit Help Toggle Main/Instrument Editor <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> shft+Return - Insert blank note at cursorposition and move the others down. Notes beyond patternposition 63 will be lost! shft+Bckspce - Delete note above cursorposition and move the others up. You can NOT do this if you're at patternposition 0! *alt+Return - As above, but with all 4 tracks *alt+Backspace - As above, but with all 4 tracks <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> ctrl+Return - Push cmds one down ctrl+Backspace - Drag cmds one up ctrl+0-9 - Select how many slots PT will jump down each time you insert a note (this is only in Edit-mode) EDITSKIP alt+cursor right - tracknumber up alt+cursor left - tracknumber down ctrl+cursor up - vice-versa up (try) ctrl+cursor down - vice-versa down BackwardsSingleQuote (The key over TAB, you know?) - Go to Workbench <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> Help - Go to help screen shft+Help - Open AmigaGuide help on Workbench Space - Toggle between Stop/Edit-mode < (beside Z) - Kill DMA & Volumes to 0 right Amiga - Play Pattern right Alt - Play Song right Shift - Record Caps Lock - Toggle TestMode in InsEd Del - Delete note under cursor alt+Del - Delete command only shft+Del - Delete note and command <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> On Numeric pad: 1 - Select Instrument 01 9 - Select Instrument 09 Enter + 3 - Select Instrument 39 4 - Select Instrument 34 Enter + 0 - Select Instrument 04 1 - Select Instrument 01 Holding Enter + the other keys select the upper digit Period (.) - Kill current sample <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> Tab - Move cursor to next track Shft+Tab - Move cursor to prev track Ctrl+Tab - Move cursor to note-column Alt+Tab - Combines Tab and Ctrl-Tab *Ctrl+A - Toggle channel on/off Ctrl+B - Mark block Ctrl+C - Copy block to buffer *Ctrl+D - Delete block, drag notes up *Ctrl+e - expand track *Ctrl+g - Boost all samples *Ctrl+h - Transpose block up Ctrl+i - Insert block, push notes down *Ctrl+j - Join-paste block Ctrl+k - Kill to end of track <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> *Ctrl+l - Transpose block down Ctrl+m - Toggle multikeyboard on/off *Ctrl+n - Re-mark last block *Ctrl+o - Contract track Ctrl+p - Paste block *Ctrl+q - Unmute all channels *Ctrl+r - Restore F6-F10 positions *Ctrl+s - Toggle split keyboard on/off Ctrl+t - swap tracks *Ctrl+v - Filter all samples *Ctrl+w - Polyphonize block *Ctrl+x - Cut block to buffer *Ctrl+y - Backwards block *Ctrl+z - Restore Effects <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> *shft+0-9 - Store current command on selected key * alt+0-9 - Insert command in current track alt+"\" - Copy command above cursor to current patternposition. alt+"=" - Copy command above cursor to current patternposition and add one to the value. alt+"-" - Copy command above cursor to current patternposition and subract one from the value. <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> *alt+A - Monitor/Start sampling *alt+B - Boost sample alt+C - Toggle channel 3 *alt+D - Go to Disk Op. *alt+E - Go to Edit Op. *alt+F - Filter sample *alt+I - Autoinsert volume *alt+K - Delete current sample/track alt+Q - Quit AHX *alt+R - Resample *alt+S - Go to Sampler screen *alt+T - Tuning Tone alt+V - Toggle channel 4 <-- EFFECT CMDS UP/DOWN GENERAL --> alt+X - Toggle channel 2 alt+Y - alt+Z - Toggle channel 1 alt+F3 - Cut (instrument) alt+F4 - Copy (instrument) alt+F5 - Paste (instrument) * \ - Toggle keypad mode (dots!) *Return - Step one note forward *Backspc- Step one note backward * Alt+any key on keypad - tune drumpad ctrl+arrows left/rite - Instr up/down <-- EFFECT CMDS UP GENERAL --> GENERAL INFO. ------------- Making Music ------------ Any piece of music written with AHX is built up from positions. Each position is built up from four tracks, one for each of the amiga's audiochannels. A pattern is 64 lines long. The magni- fied line is always the one you edit. If you need shorter patterns, just set the TrackLength (TRL) field or use the patternbreak effect command. <-- KEYBOARD DOWN AHX --> A track is built up like this: 32 C-3 01 C20 / \_/ I/ \_/ / / I \ Step Note Instr. Effect cmd. The C-3 is the note being played at trackposition 32. 01 is the instrument number, and the three last digits are the effect command, in this case, set volume to $20 (C-Command, 20-Value). <-- KEYBOARD UP/DOWN AHX --> Protracker holds a table with info about the sequence in which the tracks will be played. With the "Pos" gadget you determine your position in the table. Enter the 4 "Tracks" and the "Transposing" that define what track to play transposed or not at that position. "Length" defines the total size of the table. The full sequence of tracks is the Song. A song is built up from up to 256 different tracks, 4 of them being played at up to 999 different positions. <-- KEYBOARD UP/DOWN AHX --> >pos voice1 voice2 voice3 voice4< 000 001-00 000-00 000-00 000-00 001 001-0C 000-00 000-00 000-00 002 001-00 003-00 007-00 000-00 003 002-00 004-00 007-FC 000-00 004 001-00 003-02 006-00 010-00 005 002-00 005-00 006-00 011-00 III II III II trackII II transpose <-- KEYBOARD UP AHX --> --- C-1C#1D-1D#1E-1F-1F#1G-1G#1A-1A#1B-1 C-2C#2D-2D#2E-2F-2F#2G-2G#2A-2A#2B-2 C-3C#3D-3D#3E-3F-3F#3G-3G#3A-3A#3B-3 C-4C#4D-4D#4E-4F-4F#4G-4G#4A-4A#4B-4 C-5C#5D-5D#5E-5F-5F#5G-5G#5A-5A#5B-5 ???