tektracker

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.