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- Module formats FAQ 1.4 by Pauli Porkka. (paporkka@freenet.hut.fi)
-
- This FAQ concentrates on module formats that has originated from PC
- and has been ported to Amiga or are about to be/may be ported to Amiga.
- This text does not discuss about normal Amiga native module formats nor
- does it discuss about other PC formats which have not been ported to
- Amiga. (Porting = Modules playable with Amiga, not necessarily editable.)
-
- This text is mainly for Amiga users and it is written accordingly.
- You may and SHOULD spread this text around so that as many as possible
- finds out about these things.
- Sorry about all the spelling and grammar errors. I am not very good
- in english. I just decided to do this since no one has done it yet and
- there has been so many questions hanging around.
-
-
- Date:
- V1.0 08 July 94
- V1.1 08 July 94 - Added FTP sites to get these modules from.
- V1.2 12 July 94 - Added some text and explanations.
- Fixed some spelling errors.
- V1.3 18 July 94 - Added some composer information
- V1.4 03 August 94 - Some fixes (suggested by J. Paananen)
-
-
- Includes FAQ of following (musical) module formats:
-
- S3M - Scream Tracker ]I[
- MTM - MultiTracker Modules
- FT - FastTracker (6-8CH)
- FAR - Farandole
-
- Questions are in following order.
- Q: What is this?
- Q: How can I play them with my Amiga
- Q: Can I make modules myself using this format?
- Q: 14-bit playing in Amiga is it possible??
- Note: Composers worth listening.
-
- Explanations on certain expressions:
-
- Channel = Normal OCS/ECS/AGA Amiga has 4 x 8-bit Digital Audio
- channels. In this FAQ with Channel I mean virtual
- channels which are mixed together. If I am talking
- about 32 channels I am by no means trying to say that
- your Amiga has that many ACTUAL AUDIO CHANNELS.
-
- 14-bit = Method used to accomplish quality comparable to
- actual 14 bit samples. Two Amiga's 8 bit channels are
- concatenated and controlled with volume to accomplish
- this amazing stunt. Most usefull with 12-32 channel
- modules.
-
- Where to get these modules:
-
- There are several FTP places to get modules of these formats.
- I suggest that you start roaming around the cyberworld as I did
- and find out what these places have. Always use the nearest site
- to save bandwith.
-
- 1. /aminet/mods/8voic/
- - Several dozens of S3M modules has been uploaded to aminet.
- All s3m modules are named like this: s3m_<mod name>
- - Also few MTM modules has been uploaded so far
- I named them like this: mtm_<mod name> So if you upload
- MTM or any other of these types, please attach appropriate
- prefix to them, it is much easier for the user to get them.
-
- 2. [*] pub/msdos/demos/music/ Which holds several
- sub directories such as "songs", "artists" and so on..
-
- 3. [**] /pub/msdos/ultrasound/
-
-
-
- [*] Mirror sites for /pub/msdos/demos....
-
- ftp.eng.ufl.edu - pub/msdos/demos ??
- ftp.uni-paderborn.de- pub/msdos/demos GERMANY (contact ?)
- ftp.uni-erlangen.de - pub/msdos/demos GERMANY (contact ?)
- ftp.luth.se - pub/msdos/demos SWEDEN (contact peppar@ftp.luth.se)
- ftp.sun.ac.za - pub/msdos/demos South Africa (contact ftp@ftp.sun.ac.za)
- ftp.uwp.edu - pub/msdos/demos USA 1 (contact datta@cs.uwp.edu)
-
- [**] Mirror sites for /pub/msdos/ultrasound/
-
- Main N.American Site:
- archive.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis
- wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound
- Main Asian Site:
- nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound
- European Callers ONLY:
- theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de pub/sound/gus
- Submissions:
- archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
- Newly Validated Files:
- archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound
- Mirrors:
- garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound
-
-
- [S3M] *********************************************************
-
- Q: What is this?
-
- A: Scream Tracker III is PC module editor which saves its modules
- in S3M module format. This format supports up to 32 different
- channels of which 16 are actual digital sample channels, others
- are Adlib (or something like that) synth channels.
- Effects are mostly compatible with ProTracker effects.
-
-
-
- Q: How can I play them with my Amiga
-
- A: You will need appropriate module player. When I was writing this
- FAQ there were three different players which were capable of playing
- this module format.
-
- D.A.S.MP 3.x: With dasS3M0.library
- - MUI application.
- - Requires KS2.04++
- - By Pauli Porkka (yes, thats me.)
-
- PS3M 2.x :
- - Requester driven program
- - By Jarno Paananen
- - J.P. Has done the mixing routines which are used
- in all of the players mentioned here.
-
- HippoPlayer 1.x :
- - Requires only kickstart 1.2++
- - Intuition GUI.
- - By Kari-Pekka Koljonen
-
- Delitracker II (V2.07):
- - by Peter Kunath & Frank Riffel
- - Intuition GUI
-
- Q: Can I make modules myself using this format?
-
- A: No unless you own an PC to play with. I am not sure if someone
- was doing a Editor for Amiga, but no such thing has yet appeared.
-
-
- Q: 14-bit playing in Amiga is it possible??
-
- A: YES! Fortunately someone bright enough worked an easy way
- to accomplish this.
- All above mentioned players are capable of playing this format
- in 14 bit.
-
-
- Note: Composers worth listening (In alphabetical order).
-
- Duellist/F10
- HMW <Ho Ming Woei>
- Miika Kuisma
- Nemesis/ICE
- Purple Motion/FC
- Skaven/FC
- Zapper/F10
-
-
- [MTM] *********************************************************
-
- Q: What is this?
-
- A: MultiTracker Module Editor is a PC module editor capable of
- max. 32 channels and with 16 bit samples (V1.01b of the editor
- didn't support the 16-bit yet..) unlike with S3M all the 32
- channels are digital.
- All effects compatible with ProTracker, internal layout is different.
-
-
- Q: How can I play them with my Amiga
-
- A: You will need appropriate module player. When I was writing this
- FAQ there were three different players which were capable of playing
- this module format.
- Same as above with S3M but for D.A.S.MP you will need dasMTM.library.
-
-
- Q: Can I make modules myself using this format?
-
- A: No unless you own an PC to play with. I am not sure if someone
- was doing a Editor for Amiga, but no such thing has yet appeared.
-
-
- Q: 14-bit playing in Amiga is it possible??
-
- A: YES! Fortunately someone bright enough worked an easy way
- to accomplish this.
- All above mentioned players are capable of playing this format
- in 14 bit.
-
- [FT] *********************************************************
-
- Q: What is this?
-
- A: FastTracker supports up to 8 channels. This is exactly like
- protracker module but instead of four tracks per pattern there
- are either 6 or 8 of them. All effects compatible with ProTracker.
- These modules are little harder to find since they are usually
- not separated from normal 4 channel modules and have the same
- suffix (.mod) Occasionally suffix like .6ch or .8ch are found.
-
- Q: How can I play them with my Amiga
-
- A: You will need appropriate module player. When I was writing this
- FAQ there were four different players which were capable of playing
- this module format.
-
- Same as above with MTM and S3M but for D.A.S.MP you will need
- das68CH.library.
-
-
- Q: Can I make modules myself using this format?
-
- A: No unless you own an PC to play with. I am not sure if someone
- was doing a Editor for Amiga, but no such thing has yet appeared.
-
- Q: 14-bit playing in Amiga is it possible??
-
- A: YES! Fortunately someone bright enough worked an easy way
- to accomplish this.
- All above mentioned players are capable of playing this format
- in 14 bit.
-
- [FAR] *********************************************************
-
- Q: What is this?
-
- A: Farandole Tracker module format supporting up to 16 channels.
-
-
- Q: How can I play them with my Amiga
-
- A: At this time you have no means of playing modules in this
- format with Amiga. There is hope though... (or is there?)
-
-
- Q: Can I make modules myself using this format?
-
- A: No unless you own an PC to play with.
-
-
- Q: 14-bit playing in Amiga is it possible??
-
- A: Not with this one, since there isn't player capable of playing
- this module format in Amiga at all.
-
- ***************************************************************
-
- I know there are lots of other (PC) module formats but since there
- wasn't support for them in Amiga I do not mention them here.
-
- ** END OF FAQ **
-