The Rohans — Music
Traqueur
A music tracker DAW for composing lo-fi music. Built around a simple vertical grid sequencer.
macOS Apple Silicon
Linux — coming soon
Steam Deck — coming soon
The Rohans — Music
A music tracker DAW for composing lo-fi music. Built around a simple vertical grid sequencer.
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.
All keys can be overridden in config.xml. For gamepad and Steam Deck mapping use mapping.xml.
| Action | Keyboard | Steam Deck |
|---|---|---|
| Up | W | D-pad ↑ |
| Down | A | D-pad ↓ |
| Left | Right Ctrl | D-pad ← |
| Right | Left Ctrl | D-pad → |
| LT (left trigger) | S | L1 |
| RT (right trigger) | D | R1 |
| A (main action) | J | A |
| B (secondary) | K | B |
| Start / Stop | Space | Y |
| Full screen | F | — |
Each phrase row holds up to two commands. Commands run on any step,
including the step that triggers an instrument.
Commands marked * may behave differently by platform.
| Command | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ARPG | abcd | Cycle relative pitches a/b/c/d by semitone in a loop |
| CRSH * | aabb | Pre-crush drive aa; bit depth bb (0x0=1 bit, 0xF=16 bit) |
| DLAY * | --bb | Delay note by bb ticks |
| FBMX | aabb | Approach feedback mix xxbb at speed aaxx |
| FBTN | aabb | Approach feedback tune xxbb at speed aaxx |
| FCUT | aabb | Adjust filter cutoff to bb at speed aa |
| FLTR | aabb | Lowpass: set absolute cutoff aa and resonance bb |
| FRES | aabb | Adjust filter resonance to bb at speed aa |
| HOP * | aabb | Jump to step bb in next phrase; in tables: jump to row bb aa times |
| IRTG | aabb | Retrigger instrument transposed bb semitones (cumulative) |
| KILL * | --bb | Stop instrument after bb ticks |
| LEGA * | aabb | Exponential pitch slide to bb at speed aa |
| LPOF | aaaa | Shift loop start+end by aaaa (values > 0x800 go backward) |
| MDCC | aabb | MIDI CC: control# aa, value bb |
| MDPG | --bb | MIDI program change (0000 = program 1) |
| PAN * | aabb | Pan to bb at speed aa |
| PFIN | aabb | Pitch fine-tune: width bb at speed aa |
| PLOF | aabb | Play offset: jump to chunk aa or move ±bb chunks (256 chunks) |
| PTCH * | aabb | Linear pitch change: time aa, semitones bb |
| RTRG * | aabb | Retrigger: advance loop aa ticks each cycle, loop length bb ticks |
| TABL * | --bb | Trigger table bb |
| TMPO * | --bb | Set tempo in hex (0x3C = 60 BPM, 0x190 = 400 BPM) |
| VOLM * | aabb | Approach volume bb at speed aa (bb 00 = silent, aa 00 = instant) |