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Projects
3.1 Project Overview
A project is the highest order of Tracker's functions. It allows projects to
managed, saved and loaded and new projects to be created. Think of a
project as container for a complete song for an album or live set. Access to
project level features exists in various parts of Trackers functions and does
not have a dedicated single point of access.
Project - Max 100 Available in Tracker.
More projects can be available on the SD Card but tracker can access 100.
Tracks - 8 Per Project
Tracks are used to organise parts of a pattern such as bass, drums, etc
Patterns - 255 Patterns Per Project
Patterns are sequenced into tracks to create musical elements.
Steps - 128 Steps per pattern
These are the discrete building blocks each with a note, instrument and effects
Song - 255 Slots (Slots = Rows for the 8 Tracks)
A song is an arrangement of patterns to create a complete production
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3.2 Opening & Saving a Project - File Menu.
Projects are auto saved but can also be manually saved and renamed etc.
Loading of a saved project is also possible, although on power up the
previously active project will be restored. These project management
functions are in the file menu. Note that projects copied to the SD card
must be in the main project folder. Sub folders are not viewed directly from
the 'file' menu.
▌ CREATING A NEW PROJECT
1. Press [File] to open the file browser menu.
2. Press [New Project] - 1 st screen button.
3. A blank project named 'NewProject' is created.
▌ OPENING AN EXISTING PROJECT
1. Press [File] to open the file browser menu.
2. Press [Open] - 2 nd screen button. The project list is displayed.
3. Turn (Jog) or Press [Up] or [Down] to navigate the list of projects to
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load. Also press [Up] - 1 screen button or [Down] - 2
scroll the list. The highlighted option will show with a bounding box.
4. With the desired project highlighted, Press [Open] - 8
5. If the currently active project has been edited a prompt 'Do you want to
save the change to 'xxxx'' will be presented. Press [Save] - 8
screen button to save current project or Press [Don't Save] - 7
button from left to proceed without saving.
6. If the current pattern is new, a 'Save As' command is activated.
7. If required, Press [Pattern] to display pattern page.
▌ MANUALLY SAVING THE CURRENT / EXISTING PROJECT
1. Press [File] to open the file browser menu.
2. Press [Save] - 5 th screen button from left.
3. The project will be saved and overwrite the previous version.
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