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Welcome to the Qtractor wiki!

This is an amalgamation of various existing documents, originally wiki-fied by junkyardsparkle and Yassin Philip, with updates by several others. The current working pages are as below:

[Manual - Table of Contents]
[Manual - 1 Introduction]
[Manual - 2 Installing and Configuring Qtractor]
[Manual - 3 Learning Qtractor--An Example Session]
[Manual - 4 Qtractor--An Overview]
[Manual - 5 Qtractor Menus]
[Manual - 6 Appendixes]

The How-To's section, started by Sean Beeson, contains the following pages:

[How To - 1 Compile Qtractor]
[How To - 2 Create Individual MIDI and Audio Buses-Ports]
[How To - 3 Set the number of channels an audio track records]
[How To - 4 Sample MIDI Composition Workflow]
[How To - 5 Sidechain Workflow with Carla Plugin]
[How To - 6 Alternative Sidechain Workflow with Aux Sends]
[How To - 7 Equal Latency for Tracks and Buses]
[How To - 8 Controlling a Plugin's Parameter from a MIDI Clip]
[How To - 9 Distributing Plugins' Load to multiple CPU Cores]
[How To - 10 Get SOLO functionality on Buses]
[How To - 11 Prevent Color Picker Freezing Qtractor]
[How To - 12 Automate Buses Experimentally with MIDI filters]
[How To - 13 Make Successful Audio Connections]
[How To - 14 Automate Buses and Tracks by Layer with Insert Controller]
[How To - 15 Use Multiple SoftSynths on a Track]
[How To - 16 Obtain a Multi Ghost Reference]
[How To - 17 Get Individual Drum Instruments with a MIDI Track]
[How To - 18 Take Advantage of Qtractor's Hidden Tricks]

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Unofficial resources:

[Unofficial tutorials that are worthwhile]

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Older manuals, which contain some different information to the wiki, can be found here:

• 0.3 and 0.5 user manuals, wiki-fied by junkyardsparkle:

[qtractor 0.3.0 manual pt1]
[qtractor 0.3.0 manual pt2]
[qtractor 0.3.0 manual pt3]

[qtractor 0.5.x Part 0. Installing Qtractor]
[qtractor 0.5.x Part 1. Quick Start]

• The latest [Qtractor User Manual] from Seth Kenlon (not)klaatu, as worked on by Phil CM

Manual Drafts of features for future versions can be found here:

• [Manual Draft - Loop Mode Recording] Recording multiple takes using loop mode recording (now added to wiki)

junkyardsparkle also started the [Meta - Discussion] page, for general discussion of Qtractor documentation creation.

The wiki uses Markdown syntax.

Project Members:

• Daniel MacDonald
• G3N-es
• Holger Marzen
• Jeremy Jongepier
• Jim Hines
• Jérôme KASPER
• Rounak
• Rui Nuno Capela (admin)
• Sean Beeson
• fuchs
• notKlaatu
• planar
• steve_d
• yPhil
• yubatake