Important UI Controls & Buttons - MilkyTracker and Chiptune Tutorial #02

A tutorial dedicated to all the important controls and buttons in MilkyTracker's main view. 

BPM and SPD are the most complex of all the buttons, so I've reserved NEXT tutorial to talk specifically about those.  The first couple of tutorials are pretty technical, but sometimes this information is hard to find, or not explained thoroughly.  I'll start writing some music in the next tutorial!

Below are all the buttons/topics covered in the video with time stamps (the time stamps are best used directly in YouTube)

Of course, feedback is welcome and appreciated. Need clarification?  Did I forget something?  How can I make these better?  Is there a topic you’d like to see covered?

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Pattern Controls 0:25

• Adding patterns to your project
• Increasing the length of the patterns
• Expand and shrink your pattern

Pattern Sequence Controls 2:00

• Sequence your patterns
• Insert and delete patterns from the sequence
• Clone patterns
• Increase and Decrease the length of your sequence
• Repeat / Loop controls

Title, Time, Peak, FPWL controls 4:32

• Title - write in your title!
• Time - estimate the length of your song
• Peak - will measure the volume of your song
• Follow (follows cursor when playing) 5:27
• Prospective Pattern View (shows all the patterns before and after) 6:15
• Pattern Wrapping (Scrolling to the edges of a pattern loops the cursor to the end/beginning of the pattern 6:42
• Pattern Change Behaviour (will loop the pattern if you put the cursor on it while playing!?) 7:23

Zap - Will permanently erase something 8:08

Play Song, Pat, Pos 8:39

• play though the sequence of patterns 
• play and loop the current pattern
• play loop the current pattern from the cursor position

Add & Sub 9:27

• Adds and subtracts channels (2 at a time) 

Add 9:49

• Inputting notes and information will skip this number of rows
• Sometimes handy to have on 0
• If you can figure out how to hotkey this - VERY HANDY!

Flip 11:17

• Mostly useless
• COULD be useful to change the octave range, but if you are using a MIDI control or hotkeys, you don’t need this button

BPM & SPD

• Probably the most complex buttons in the UI. So, I be covered these next tutorial!

HOTKEYS!

CMD (Ctrl)+F - Toggle song follow
CMD (Ctrl)+P - Toggle prospective pattern view
CMD (Ctrl)+W - Toggle pattern wrapping
CMD (Ctrl)+L - Toggle pattern change behavior (live mode)