Short: StoneTracker 1.26 demonstration version Author: marty@crit2.univ-montp2.fr (Emmanuel Marty) Uploader: marty@crit2.univ-montp2.fr (Emmanuel Marty) Type: mus/edit Replaces: Stone1.25.lha 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! ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2273 565 75.1% 02-Oct-95 00:06:22 +Docs.info 190984 55884 70.7% 18-Dec-95 02:15:16 +StoneTrackerDemo.Guide 3025 1104 63.5% 02-Oct-95 00:06:20 +StoneTrackerDemo.Guide.info 174122 51171 70.6% 18-Dec-95 02:17:24 +StoneTrackerDemo_E.Guide 3025 1104 63.5% 02-Oct-95 00:06:20 +StoneTrackerDemo_E.Guide.info 753 395 47.5% 18-Dec-95 02:58:30 +Install English.info 754 395 47.6% 18-Dec-95 02:58:22 +Install Français.info 4204 1157 72.4% 18-Dec-95 02:22:16 +Install-StoneTracker 2273 561 75.3% 02-Oct-95 00:07:18 +Libs.info 3088 2068 33.0% 09-May-95 23:39:16 +voc.datatype 3120 2011 35.5% 09-May-95 23:39:16 +wav.datatype 43628 28530 34.6% 07-Aug-94 12:31:32 +reqtools.library 8492 5190 38.8% 27-Sep-95 21:08:18 +StonePacker.library 86748 21112 75.6% 18-Dec-95 02:26:58 +StonePlayer.Library 2273 564 75.1% 02-Oct-95 00:07:04 +Locale.info 18386 6955 62.1% 18-Dec-95 02:49:08 +StoneTrackerDemo.catalog 2273 560 75.3% 02-Oct-95 00:06:40 +Modules.info 5186 1627 68.6% 04-Dec-92 13:27:32 +SPM.Fatum-final 1956 901 53.9% 05-Jul-95 16:18:34 +SPM.Only for her... 4226 1401 66.8% 05-Jul-95 16:19:38 +SPM.Stone or not Stone ??? 2194 689 68.5% 05-Jul-95 16:20:26 +SPM.StoneMania 23650 6534 72.3% 05-Jul-95 16:22:00 +SPM.Virtual 1stRage. 95384 90673 4.9% 04-Dec-92 13:27:54 +SPS.Fatum-final 132506 132506 0.0% 05-Jul-95 16:18:52 +SPS.Only for her... 153744 153744 0.0% 05-Jul-95 16:19:56 +SPS.Stone or not Stone ??? 9664 8883 8.0% 05-Jul-95 16:20:30 +SPS.StoneMania 73032 73032 0.0% 05-Jul-95 16:22:12 +SPS.Virtual 1stRage. 5234 1090 79.1% 18-Dec-95 02:21:32 +StoneTracker.prefs 6391 2903 54.5% 18-Dec-95 02:56:36 +readme 2560 770 69.9% 02-Oct-95 00:04:56 +readme.info 148612 77053 48.1% 18-Dec-95 02:46:26 +StoneTracker 8940 4039 54.8% 02-Oct-95 00:04:58 +StoneTracker.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 1222700 735171 39.8% 18-Dec-95 21:46:40 32 files