Tutorials

A tracker is not hard, it is just unfamiliar. Half an hour of deliberate practice gets you further than a week of pressing buttons hopefully.

Three videos, in this order. The first gives you the map, the second gets a sound out of the module, the third is where the actual work happens.

These open on YouTube rather than playing here. Embedding them would load a third-party player on every visit, which is the one thing this site deliberately does not do — see privacy.

Everything the manual covers, condensed for learning it: short chapters, the screens as they look on the module, real examples, and one thing to try at the end of each chapter. Read the field guide here on the site, or download it from the same page as a PDF — dark for reading on screen, light for printing.

The mapping screen in the same style: what one row does, how rows work together, and examples that were run on the firmware, built up one plain rule at a time. No programming needed. Read the mapping field guide here, or download it from the same page as a PDF.

The manual is more thorough than its size suggests, and it is the only document that is always current with the firmware. If a video and the manual disagree, the manual is right — videos age as features change, and a great deal has changed between v1.00 and v3.0. Read it on this site — in English, German, French, Spanish or Dutch — or download it as a PDF, and read the release notes for what moved.

A good deal of the best material is made by people who own the modules rather than by us, and it covers musical uses that would never occur to an engineer.

• Sonic Voltage — a long review and tutorial series, and the most thorough walkthrough of the module by somebody other than us.
• The forum — where patches, projects and questions collect, and where answers come fastest.

Some things are easier away from the module — building tables, preparing samples, checking a mapping. Those live at tools.xor.eu and run in the browser.