Hex or dec - which one you're using?

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As an old-school “tracker” I obviously went for the hexadecimal mode, but I was wondering what you guys (& girsl) are using?

BTW, kudos to the developers for including it - it’s fantastic! :folded_hands: :heart:

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Even back on Protracker i used decimals, so i just went automatically back to that :laughing:

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I used both, hex with fast tracker, dec with buzz (the fx slots were hex and 4 bit) :sweat_smile:

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Same as Protracker then. Had no idea. :hugs:

Steps, Patterns, Sample/File lenghts could be in Dec but Commands/FX were always Hex.

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Ah cool! Efficient to save space for larger numbers. Even more with the 4 digits 4 bit thing.
I remember always typing f7 ALL IN! :joy:

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Hmm, I think in ProTracker everything was in powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc.) and musically a bar is - usually - 16 steps, so hex also made sense there. And it saved space on screen.

But with Tracker +/Mini I see lots (most?) of stuff is 0-99, so maybe going decimal makes more sense?

I’ll have to experiment back & forth with it. I mean it’s not like I’m TYPING “F” instead of “16” which would save me on key presses - it takes the same number of pressing “+” or turning the dial to get from 8 to 16/F.

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