Polyend Tracker+ - 3. Projects

Projects are the highest order structural
element in Tracker+. A project contains all the
elements of a full track. Think of each project
as a fully arranged song for an album or a song
for live set. Tracker+ auto saves projects,
which are stored, on the installed Micro SD
Card. Although the card itself can contain
more, Tracker+ will have up to 100 projects
visible and accessible. A project should be
opened for playback and editing and new
projects can be created from scratch. Each
project contains a maximum of 255 patterns
across 8 tracks. While patterns are the musical
composition functions, some elements, such
as the 48 available instruments are managed
at project level, and hence accessible to all
patterns. Projects are structural and
organisational functions more so than part of
the creative environment but nevertheless
serve an important purpose in the Tracker+
workow. Project memory for sampling is
approx 133 seconds as standard although this
may vary depending on the audio quality and
format. Samples are stored on the Micro SD
Card but can be also are held in the Tracker+ on
board sample pool where samples effectively
become instruments. Projects have an
instrument pool populated with samples or
instruments to be available when creating steps.
This is prerequisite to creating sequences. This
section covers the general project management
in Tracker+ and it’s SD card plus some key
specic project level functions such as tempo.
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