I have uploaded a short Tracker tutorial (Version 1.98 at the time of this writing) to YouTube; a recent customer asked for some form of documentation, as I currently don't have anything about the Tracker program in the Github repo. Here you go, hope it helps!
Here is the latest creation from DOWNPOLY, who is by now using MIDI/80 Tracker 1.98 and its parallel-port clock synchronization mechanism in order to synchronize multiple MIDI/80 Tracker machines:
The latest version of the Tracker, Version 1.96 (tracker5/cmd on the
disk images) is now sending an external clock signal over the parallel
port, on Data 0. Another TRS-80 Tracker can then be configured to
latch on to this external clock by setting it into external clock
mode with the ' key. The receiving TRS-80 Tracker is called the
secondary, and the clock generating Tracker the primary. Enable the
external clock mode on the secondary with the ' key. Then start
playback as usual, in pattern (P) or song playback mode (!). As
usual, you can always refer to the help page for key bindings (H).
The secondary Tracker is frozen until it starts receiving the clock
signal from the primary Tracker via the parallel port cable; the tempo
setting of the secondary will be disregarded, as the tempo is
determined by the external clock from the primary. External clock can
be en- and disabled using the ' at any time; also, with the
exception of the tempo setting, recording and all the other Tracker
operations and settings work identical as if the internal clock was
used.
To make the cable, simply connect the Centronic ports of the two
machines as follows: GND to GND (e.g., Centronics pin 2; note that
there are multiple options for GND), and the Data 0 output
(Centronics pin 3) of the primary to the BUSY input (Centronics pin
21) of the secondary. And easy way to construct the cable is to cut
two TRS-80 printer cables in half, and solder the wires together:
... celebrating the newest member of the TRS-80 MIDI Studio: the Behringer Wave, a clone / recreation of the legendary iconic PPG Wave 2.3 from 1982!Created by Wolfgang Palm, the inventor of Wave Table Synthesis, in my birth-town Hamburg, Germany.
It's mind boggling how much he achieved with so little, back in the day. All of the PPG software was programmed in bare-metal 6809 assembly language, no C-compiler, no libraries, nothing.
Thank you, Behringer, for bringing this legend back to life, and for making it affordable! Now everybody can experience the magic that radiates from the legendary instrument. The build quality and sound is amazing!
Just getting my feet wet, but here is first demo using the latest MIDI/80 Tracker 1.95 and the S2 for drums. Enjoy!
Michael Wessel
