DrWhizBang's Journal: All alone on a Tuesday night

No one showed up for home group again last night. I think we may as well say it's done, since that is about 4-5 weeks that either no one or just one person has showed.

We went to bed early, so I brought my laptop and played with soundtracker a bit. I figured out the bass line for my mod, so I was happy.

Since I have started tracking, one thing has struck me about it - there is no bloody documentation. The tracker itself is awkward to use, although once you discover some of the keybindings it gets better, but the help consists of a page of tracker commands and a pointer to http://www.united-trackers.org. This site looks like it hasn't been touched in a couple years, and the only useful part is a link on the page called "Resources", which indicates that it is deprecated.

Now that I have started playing with this thing, I would like to know how to manipulate patterns, what is the difference between an instrument and a sample, and other fundamental questions. I spent some time googling for more help, but to no avail. So I have a very powerful music making tool, and I have to teach myself how to use it. Bleah!