Week of the 05/19/2025 - #21

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tech

• Adlib Tracker 2

Adlib Tracker 2

I use Adlib Tracker 2 (at2) to understand what type of music can be generated by the OPL2 chip. At2 is great but if you try to look at the keybindings is a little but overwhelming. In here I will do a little summary of the basic usage of AT2.

• With F3 you can load the module
• With F5 you can play the whole song and F6 to pause and F7 to stop.
• With F9 you can play the current pattern
• With CTRL+ENTER you can go to the next pattern
• In the main screen you can use SPACE bar to step through the pattern.
• CTRL-P opens the pattern list
• CTRL-I while playing, you can see the instrument list and see which instruments are activated by the pattern.
• To silence certain channels you can use ALT 1…9 for (channels 1-9) and ALT+SHIFT 0…9 for (channels 10-19)
• ALT-R will reset the channels
• F1 can be used to see the help screen on any screen

Main screen

F1 - Help

F2 - Save F3 - Load

F5 - Play F6 - Pause F7 - Stop F9 - Play cur pattern

[ENTER] - Ir al pattern order

CTRL-P - Pattern list CTRL-I - Instrument List

Pattern editor

[SPACE] - Avanzar de un paso. CTRL+ENTER - Next pattern

Toggle channels

ALT 1…9 - Toggle track channel ALT+SHIFT 1…9 - Toggle track channel 1x ALT+R - Reset

Links 🔗

• Diode Milliampere - While listening to AT2 tracks I came across Diode Millampere (DIODEmA) who has some great tunes. I particularly like [Altair] which appeared in Psychic Pizza Connection ep. This track is also distributed with AT2 in modules/DiODEMA/altair.a2m
• 2G1B - Another great AT2 artist who is also from Argentina. He recetly released Musica de Computadora II in Cassette!