I don't want to write a boring coursebook and describe every single function of OpenMPT program because such an approach usually discourages for a start, moreover, we shall never use most of these functions. The quickest way to “generate” sound of our tracker is:
1) Creating a new project: File>New>It
2) Clicking an Intruments tab of a newly created component PageControl and clicking a New Instrument icon.
3) Unrolling a list of ready made instruments in the MIDI Library on the left of the screen, choosing e.g. Acoustic Grand Piano instrument and dragging it to a black field as in the picture below.

Using the keys of the PC keyboard we can start playing like on a real keyboard instrument.



Once we have composed a good piece, we can save it. In order to do this we have to:
1) Click a Patterns tab and then an Insert Pattern tab (patterns are subsequent parts of our piece of music played one by one, no matter which number they are linked to)
2) Choose an instrument
3) Choose a pattern in which we will write “score”
4) Write “score” into Channels



If we create music with the help of a computer, in most cases we do not have to know the score. In our program we simply push given keys which we used while composing, and the rest adds on its own. A short summary of what was created is explained in the picture below:
1) Scale of sound (sounds in English mode: C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B) and length of octave (from 0 to 9). A cursor must be placed here if we want to write our “score”.
2) Instrument
3) Sound volume (from 0 to 64)
4) Additional effect (more in the help file)



The most helpful keys:
Backspace – moving one verse up,
Insert – moving one verse down,
= - cutting sound,
Del - deleting,

You can also view an example piece from a game the Knight of Dulcinea: