tektracker [ttrk]
by Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>
ttrk is my MIDI sequencer application. I was annoyed by the bad step editors found on pretty much all MIDI sequencers I could find, and since I was big fan of the tracker interface, I used the user interface ideas behind a tracker in my design.
There are five main goals of ttrk:
- Tracker-style step editor, think ScreamTracker3.
- Pattern based sequencer per track, more like Sonic Foundry's ACID.
- Big, accessable track mute buttons, think Alesis MMT8.
- Realtime editing, never need to push stop.
- All functions directly accessable from the keyboard for rapid editing.
The original version of ttrk was written in 1999 and was a Qt application which ran under X. It was pretty cool, had some neat custom widgets and looked a bit like Sonic Foundry ACID with little tracker editors. However, I didn't like the idea of using my main PC in my studio or at shows, so in late 2000 and early 2001 I rewrote ttrk as a console application so I could run it on my older computer.
Features
- Tracker-style step editor.
- 256 channels, each with 256 patterns.
- Songs up to 4096 patterns long.
- Pattern copy and paste.
- Sync to external MIDI.
- Sends MIDI sync.
- Convenient channel mute buttons for live play.
Requirements
ttrk uses the s-lang library for help with the console output, libpthreads for threading, and zlib to make the saved files really small.
Documentation
ttrk comes with a detailed usage guide and a key listing. An online version in html is on this webpage. Please let me know if you can't understand something, or find a feature unintuitive, and I will attempt to explain it better. If there is anything you would like to know how to do, and can't find it in the documentation, please email me at vektor@dumbterm.net.
Source code
Please see the ChangeLog for details on what was updated.
[30 Jun 2004] ttrk-0.7.0.tar.gz: updated autoconf, compile fixes for gcc-3
[13 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.8.tar.gz: fixed a typo
[13 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.7.tar.gz: autoconf fixes, now using a .ttrkrc file
[11 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.6.tar.gz: now uses autoconf and automake
[11 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.5.tar.gz: compile fix for 2.4
[10 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.4.tar.gz: added the RTCRES environment variable. see usage.txt
[10 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.3.tar.gz: minor bugfixes.
[10 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.1.tar.gz
[10 Feb 2001] ttrk-0.6.0.tar.gz: initial release.
Screenshots
ttrk in pattern view |  |
ttrk in song view |  |
Old Qt version of ttrk |  |