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The General Tab |
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A = Play from cursor-position B = Play from the beginning C = Octave-range for keyboard editing. Range is 0 to 8. Default = 5 D = Choosing Tracker-type with 'Change'. Choice or change of the number of channels 'New'-default on Impulse Tracker with 16 channels. Starting with 8 columns is normally enough. Adding more still can be done later. I first worked with Protracker's MOD-format and now with the XM-format of FastTracker II. So, here, the screenshots and code-descriptions are thus related to these 2 formats. E = Initial Settings are saved in the file (except in a MOD) 'New'-defaults : Tempo 125 (fine) - Speed 6 (range) - Global Volume 128 (max) - Restart 0. The position of that volume-fader is not in the file, but is a setting of MPT. The term bpm for Tempo is not correct : Tempo 125 - Speed 5 has another playback-speed. Restart is active, if the playback of a song is set in a continuous loop. Restart 0 means : Jump to the beginning after the last pattern. Restart 5 means : Jump after the last pattern back to the 5th pattern in the song-array. Handy if you want to have some intro only once .. Or repeat the last part for a fade-out. F = Also the setting of Effects is not saved in the song. ModPlug starts with the latest setting, of the previous session. So watch it, not to save a song with the effect-settings of another tracker. G = ModPlug Setup. Settings of soundcard, directories and interface. Options for Effects and the Equalizer. 
In both cases the code 'F' is used for that. Numbers must be hexadecimal : |
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The codes also can be in other channels. As long as they are in the 1st and 2nd row. In this example, seen as decimal : Tempo = 131 (83h = 128 + 3) and Speed = 3. The lower part of the General Tab has the used channels : |
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Not much to do here. For global values and muting it's easier to handle in the Patterns Tab. At the bottom options to add external VST-plugins for effects. Here a txt-file by O.L. about using them. |
