Using ProTracker

[hayashi]

I've downloaded ProTracker 1.3 from Aminet to use for tracking and basically to mess around with, but I've encountered a few snafus (besides not really knowing the interface, etc):

1) How do I make files with no icon display on Workbench without having to select "show all files"?

(I figured out #2)

3) Does anyone know of any good sample repositories?

4) Do later versions of ProTracker run on AmigaOS 2.04? I downloaded this one because it said "runs on 2.04" and assumed v3 etc only runs on AmigaOS 3 or later.

Thanks in advance, Matt

[SamuraiCrow]

1)  Use the Icon editor to make an icon for your application.  Otherwise you can click "show all files" and then select "snapshot window" from Workbench.  That way it will stay in "show all files" mode.

3)  Most Protracker samples are acquired from other Protracker mods.  There are other places you can get free samples but they are usually saved in a 16-bit format that must be converted to 8 bits and a lower sampling rate to work with Protracker.

4)  Avoid Protracker 3+ since its playback routines are different from the earlier versions but used the same file format so they'll sound wrong.

[hayashi]

Thanks... but I've got even more questions! D:

5) How do you get it to advance patterns? It won't go beyond pattern 0 for me... (This is while playing, BTW. I can change the pattern during editing, and other mods go from pattern to pattern correctly, but not mine...)

6) When I try to load ProTracker (.MOD) modules from a DOS game, they work fine initially, but 9 times out of 10 end up freezing ProTracker and then start playing weirdly. Why is this?

[SamuraiCrow]

5)  Most tracker editors have + and - buttons somewhere on the user interface that let you switch patterns.  (I've only used other tracker editors but not the original Protracker.)

6)  The latest version of Protracker for the Amiga that doesn't do wierd stuff is 2.3 something I think.  Also, DOS protracker players use command 8xx to mean panning.  Amiga doesn't support panning on the Protracker editor so whatever command 8xx was used for before will mess up on the Amiga.

[Tension]

3) The Walkabout collection (I think) that came with OctaMED are good quality 8-bit samples.  I used to use them all the time back in the day.  You can still download them from the OctaMED website i think...

[cpfuture]

@SamuraiCrow: Interesting, didn't know that about PT. Is there any place I can find out more about these differences/incompatibilities within PT after a certain version?

EDIT: Never mind, I guess this is a good place to start (even though it's in German) :-)