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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

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

Unofficial resources:

Unofficial tutorials that are worthwhile

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.