FT2-edit-mode only, but i think with a little helloworld-skills you can easily adopt it to milkytracker edit mode. Those CTRL-Fx shortcuts can be used to control the song editor (pattern order editor). Rather than moving your mouse across the whole screen to the top left corner trying to hit one of the tiny plus/minus symbols, now just press CTRL-F10. Voila! Then simply copy a pattern, increase new order with CTRL-F12 and paste into. A process also known as clonebuttonless cloning. I find these shortcuts very useful in my 'everyday-tracking'. No need to touch the mouse anymore to do orderlist operations. By 'everyday-tracking' i mean 'classic-song-tracking', 'making tracks', 'getting a song done'. A 'song' is usually measured in time, it has a beginning and an end. Without doubt it is the most complicated type of tracking.Īnother type of tracking can be described as 'live-tracking' or 'dj-tracking' or maybe 'trackjaying', whatever you like.
It is the process of playing songs (but more often simply patterns) in multible tabs (or different instances) in realtime (jamming). Classic (or first-generation) trackers like fasttracker for example can only load a single song at a time. Loading additional songs causes gaps in playback and unwanted volume changes. In order to 'mix' in a single fasttracker instance you'd need lots of patterns in advance that you'd play and improvise in realtime in 'play-pattern-mode'. Hitting CTRL-CURSOR-LEFT/RIGHT would make a gapless cycle through all patterns. This, however, is not possible in milkytracker. The player logic is different to ft2 in this case. So, in most cases i have only a single pattern in my orderlist when jamming live.
I then use song-play-mode on this pattern. Then open another tab, load something in, sync the bpm/spd and then use my CRTL-F11/F12 shortcuts to cycle through the patterns inna FT2-like way somehow.
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