What is Traqueur?

Traqueur is a music tracker DAW built for portable game consoles and desktops. It arranges music in a vertical grid like a spreadsheet: each row is a time step, and each column is a channel of sounds. Notes, instruments, and effects commands are controlled on the same grid.

The workflow is minimal. Everything is reachable from the keyboard or gamepad in a handful of keystrokes.

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See It In Action

Get It on Linux (Flatpak)

Traqueur ships as a Flatpak, self-hosted from this site — not on Flathub. The Linux build is in beta and free to install while it's being tested. Both the graphical Software Center and the terminal work; pick whichever you're more comfortable with.

Graphical (Software Center)

If Flatpak support isn't already installed (SteamOS and several other distros include it by default), open a terminal once to add it:

# one-time setup, if needed — example for Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install flatpak gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

Log out and back in (or reboot) so Software Center picks it up.
Download the Traqueur repo file and double-click it. It opens in Software Center — click Install.
If prompted to add the Flathub repository to satisfy a required runtime, accept it — that's expected and only needs to happen once.

Command line

# one-time setup, if Flatpak isn't already installed
sudo apt install flatpak   # or your distro's package manager
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub \
  https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

# install Traqueur
flatpak install https://therohans.com/traqueur/com.therohans.Traqueur.flatpakrepo

# run it
flatpak run com.therohans.Traqueur

You'll be asked for your password once — that's the normal system authorization for installing an application, not anything specific to Traqueur.

Steam Deck (Discover)

Switch to Desktop Mode (Steam button → Power → Switch to Desktop Mode).
Open Discover from the taskbar.
Go to Settings → + Add Sources and paste in:

https://therohans.com/traqueur/com.therohans.Traqueur.flatpakrepo

Back out to Discover's main screen and click All Applications first — search doesn't pick up the new source reliably until you do.
Search Traqueur, then click Install. Accept the Flathub prompt if it appears — it's needed for a required runtime.
To launch from Game Mode, add it manually as a non-Steam game (point the shortcut at flatpak run com.therohans.Traqueur).

Default Controls

All keys can be overridden in config.xml. For gamepad mapping use mapping.xml.

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad
Up	W	D-pad ↑
Down	A	D-pad ↓
Left	S	D-pad ←
Right	D	D-pad →
LT (left trigger)	RCTRL	L1
RT (right trigger)	LCTRL	R1
A (main action)	J	A
B (secondary)	K	B
Start / Stop	Space	Y
Full screen	F	—

Phrase Commands

Each phrase row holds up to two commands, from filter and pitch slides to MIDI CC and tempo changes. The full command reference, key mapping, and config.xml options live in the manual.

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