1 Things that are good to know

* Check out the popupmenus, they contain most of the stuff you can do.
* This program features the old Tracker-Favourite: "Keyb-Jazzing"! This means that you can play
  your instruments just by jazzing around on your keyboard. I own no midi-keyb, so don't
  expect any support for that kind of luxuary.
* To get to edit patterns, hit the key below Esc and/or to the left of 1 or click the button
  called Edit ON/OFF.
* To put out effects, hit Enter or Return.
* Song Creation features Drag-and-Drop, drag from the list with patterns and drop on the grid
  surface to the left of the patternlistbox.
* Pressing Shift while clicking Play, Play Loop and Play Pattern will rewind before playback
  begins.
* Try things to figure out how they work. The Make Advanced FX Track for example takes a while
  to explain but is not too hard to understand, so I'll leave it to you to figure it out.
* In the Make Advanced FX Track a Frequency setting of 0 means that the effect will occur when
  a note occurs in the active track.
* The Make Advanced FX Track is a tool to help you create some nice effects that can be hard or
  time-demanding to do "by hand".
* Treat as sample means that the previous note will NOT be turned off, useful when you for
  example want to create echo effects on samples. The sample will be killed with a note off event.
* Note off is the <, > and | button, to the right of left Shift.
* BPM is as usual, RPB is "rows per beat".
* Double-click the SF2-list to load a file, single-click the intrument list to choose instrument.
* Since this file is a poor excuse for a help file users that don't consider themselves
  experienced might want to ask a friend or something to teach them how to track or just explore
  the program by themselves until a proper help file or tutorial is available. If you feel like
  writing your own tutorial, just go ahead! I'll appreciate it and if I think it's good enough
  I'll include it in this package.
* All keyboard references are on the Swedish keyboard layout, they may vary from yours -if they
  do, please try until you find the correct key because it is out there.
* Lock velocity means that if you insert a new note over an old one the new will have the same
  velocity setting as the old one.
* Velocity is the speed with wich you hit your keys, like on a piano -pressing the keys softly
  will give a lower volume, while hitting them as hard as you can will give pretty much power.
  Velocity is simply the individual volume of each note, a way to vary and "smoothen-up" your
  music.
* "+" and "-" increases and decreases the step length.
* "*" and "/" changes octave up and down.
* C of the choosen octave will be found on Q or the button next to tab.
* You may save patterns for use with different songs. There are a few sample patterns enclosed in
  this package, they can be found in the Patterns directory.
* Don't have more than one track with notes in each pattern, you can but it may give you trouble
  when turning off notes. Use parallell patterns instead. The reason why you can have more than
  one track in each pattern is that it allows you to add effects.
* The "Join files in song..." option in the files menu takes the current song file and all
  used sf2's or sbk's and puts them in a directory that the user may name. Then you may pack it or
  what ever, this utility is for easier shipping. If you unpack someone elses song you DO NOT
  have to manually move the sf2's or sbk's to your specified Sf2/Sbk dir, the BushTracker 2.0
  looks for them where it found the song automatically.


2 Troubleshooting

- I don't seem to hear anything.
  + Try changing Output device in the settings page, this will take effect at once.
  + Make sure your AWE/SB32 is properly installed.
  + Check your volume settings.
  + Make sure you have selected an SF2 file and an instrument from it to play with.

- I don't find any songs anywhere.
  + There are two song included in this package, they will probably
    be found somewhere near the Btrack2.exe. And YES! the example files suck, but I can't make
    better ones. Feel free to change them in any way you like!
  + You can set your preferred songdir in the settings page.

- How do I Record my songs?
  + Use your favourite wav-recording program and hit it!

3 Contact

If you want to contact me, send me bugreports, songs, ideas of improvements or just say hello or
whatever I may be reached at the following e-mail:

Gordon_Stryph@hotmail.com