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- Welcome to the electronic distribution of StoneTracker 1.25 !
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The main features are :
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- - 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.
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- - Locale support. English and French currently; German planned.
- Any translator is welcomed.
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- - "Everything on screen" and ergonomic user interface, studied with
- a tracker musician. Secure against unwished operations..
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- - full-featured AREXX port
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- - Extreme configurability.
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- - Noise/ProTracker keyboard shortcuts emulation.
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- - Custom module format, allows compression of sample banks with
- three different and dedicated methods.
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- - Import of 13 existing formats (e.g. ProTracker, FastTracker,
- OctaMed, Oktalyzer, ThePlayer...)
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- - Export of ProTracker and FastTracker formats in addition to
- its own format (full version only)
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- - XPK support. Passwords handled.
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- - XFD support (allowing decrunching of more than 100 packers,
- like CrunchMania, StoneCracker...).
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- - Builtin decompression routines for Powerpacker and
- CrunchMania (if XFD is not available).
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- - Multi-song (65.535 possible)! Available song-synchro
- commands in the player for interactive music.
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- - Up to 65.535 patterns!, shared between songs.
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- - 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!
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- - Up to 255 samples! Can be loaded in FAST memory : no size
- limit except the size of your fastmem.
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- - 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!
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- - Each track has its own volume. General volume for the music.
- Master volume on top of all controlled by the programmer.
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- - Up to SEVEN effects per note per track!
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- - Special "FX" track with up to EIGHT effects per line,
- dedicated to speed and general control commands.
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- - Extended effects!
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- - Effect for gearing your program to the music (calls a user
- function when this effect is reached). Ideal for game intros,
- demos, etc.
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- - Command for MIXING a position into a sample ! Make your arpeggios,
- drums or whatever...
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- - Command for timing a song; no need to play the whole song to know
- its duration anymore.
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- - Highly optimized play and mixing routines.
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- - Player is a shared library, used even by the editor!
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- - 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.
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- - Provided Harddisk-installation Installer script.
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- - 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)
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- - Editor, player and packers fully programmed in Assembler.
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- - Constant support. Most user requests have been satisfied yet and
- we will continue to do so.
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- 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 :
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- QUARTZ Informatique
- BP 27
- 74401 Chamonix CEDEX
- FRANCE
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- You will receive your personal copy consisting of three disks within
- a reasonable delay.
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- You can also phone them for any information at : (+33) 50.53.82.62
- in English or French. Don't hesitate, they are truly friendly.
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- 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 :
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- (Editor) (Player)
- Emmanuel MARTY Michael LAVAIRE
- 10 Impasse du Romarin 99 rue François Villon
- 34920 Le Crès 34130 Mauguio
- FRANCE FRANCE
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- Or via e-mail : marty@crit2.univ-montp2.fr (Internet)
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- Again, English and French is ok.
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- 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!
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-