tutka(1)

💖 tutka(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about tutka — a tracker style MIDI sequencer — and yes this is the general commands manual for it, section 1, so you know it's a real user-facing command and not some little library gremlin hiding in section 3. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tutka — tracker style MIDI sequencer 🎹✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tutka files...

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. you hand it some files... and off you go. slay. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the tutka command. Like, briefly briefly. It's giving "we kept it short on purpose" energy and honestly? iconic. 💖

tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer — and if you know trackers, you already know the vibe: everything is columns, everything is hexadecimal, and your brain slowly becomes one with the pattern editor. 🧚

It's similar to SoundTracker, or Protracker — except for two very important things, and we're not skipping these, bestie:

• it does not support samples 🚫🎤
• it is meant for MIDI use only 🎹💫

so no, you can't just load a .mod in here and expect your crunchy 90s drum loops to play. it's MIDI. it's for MIDI. periodt. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

No options are supported. 😭

not one. not a -h, not a --help, not a sneaky little -v. nothing. zero. the option list is empty and honestly the way it's confidently empty is main character energy. 👑

ngl if you were hoping for flags, this is your vibe check and it failed. pass your files... and move on. 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these too, bestie, they're all in the family fr fr:

• protracker(1) 💖
• traverso(1) 🌸
• qtractor(1) 🎧

okay and finally, the receipts: this page comes to you from December 12 2018 📅 (yes, we know, it's been a minute, but the info still ate), and it's filed under tutka(1) — general commands manual, section 1, where all the coolest binaries live. 🎀✨ bye bestie, go make some MIDI 💜🦋