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I. Introduction
I should say, it was fun writing drivers for such nice product. I hope MikMod
becomes the best mod playing engine ever! (it does have some problems, but then
again, nothing is perfect :-)
II. Frequently Asked Question
What is MacMikMod?
MacMikMod is a Macintosh version of MikMod, well known mod player written by
Jean-Paul Mikkers (mikmak@stack.urc.tue.nl). I only wrote sound drivers for it,
though, I am developing my own tracker engine, which should be as cool!
Who am I?
I am a student at the University of Utah majoring in Computer Engineering.
Interested in DSP, music synthesis, real-time graphics, and network applications.
The sound is coming out choppy, why?
Your computer is probably too slow to do real-time mixing at 44kHz rate,
you should lower the mixing rate to 22kHz.
What formats does MikMod read?
S3M - Scream Tracker 3.x/STM - Scream Tracker 2.x/MTM - MultiTracker
XM - FastTracker II/ULT - UltraTracker/MOD - ProTracker
Where to find me?
1. Mail me to: Demos <demos@xmission.com> or <boldyrev@eng.utah.edu>
2. You can find me in EMCB quite often. I am taking CS361/CS354 series this year.
How does it work?
MacMikMod, just like any other mod player deals w/ samples. First, the sample (instrument)
is being transposed to the appropriate frequency according to the note's pitch, and then
mixed all together and played. As you can see it can be quite a task even for a PPC chip.
Why NO 68K version?
I have a reason to belive that Apple has made tiny little bug in routine descriptor
in DoubleBuffer callback function, due to that problem, I am not able to release
68K version.
Mod places, where?
There are many archives with mods, I suggest you check out StarTracker home
page or MMOD home page, I have a lot of pointers to other pages. Here's a list
of links I have on my page:
The Kosmic Free Music Foundation
<http://kosmic.wit.com/~kosmic/>
MMOD electronic magazine
<http://amug.org/~demos/mmod/>
The MOD Page
<http://www.teleport.com/~smithtl/modpage.html>
CDROM MOD Archive
<ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/music/>
Shawn's Music Page
<http://www.mainelink.net/~shawnc/music/>
Depeche Mode Mod Files
<http://bertha.chattanooga.net/~punkboy/depeche.htm>
Lizardking's Modules <http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/cgi-bin/nph-gateway/hphalle4/~brandtf/lizardking.html>
alt.binaries.sounds.mods FAQ
<http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~behrensm/absm-faq/index.html>
Zerius Development
<http://www.islandnet.com/~voltaire/>
Mods
<http://www.wam.umd.edu/~ankh/WWW/mods.html>
Sunsite MOD mirror
<ftp://calypso-2.oit.unc.edu/pub/multimedia/mods/>
Tazmania Desires Music center
<http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rris/music.html>
Mod related FTP links
<http://www.teleport.com/~smithtl/ftplink.html>
Mod related FTP links
<ftp://ftp.lhg.hib.no/pub/mods/>
III. Features
MacMikMod features:
・ Arbitrary mixing rate (44kHz/22kHz/11kHz)
・ Real-time linear interpolation
・ハStereo/Mono polyphony
・ 16Bit/8Bit sampling
・ STM/S3M/MTM/XM/MOD
・ (( Surround stereo ))
・ハInterface (GUI)
IV. New features in this version
・ Better Oscilloscope
V. Featues planned
・ 100% compatibility with XM effects
・ To fix XM bug
・ Do more declicking
・ True Band Spectrum (Fast Fourier Transform analysis)
VI. Acknowledgement
Other MOD engineers
Frank Seide (SoundTracker)
Antoine Rosset (PlayerPRO)
Cody DW Jones (ZSS)
Greetings & Thanks
Oleg Doperchuck/PunkFloyd (Mac coder)
Kirill Medvinsky/medo (PowerPlant coder)
Jamal Hannah/PolarWolf
Leigh Benson/Sbizz (AMUG)
Dan Schnur/_zool_ (AMUG)
Tristan Horn/Tris (web guy)
Andrew Liles/jadin (unix nerd :-)
FireLight (fmoddoc)
DarkShade & wili (3d gfx)
Andrew Meggs (3d gfx & mac demos)
Arnold Kim/arn (3d gfx & mac demos)
Bernie Freidin (3d gfx & mac demos)
Matt Bendiksen (3d gfx)
#macdev & #macintosh (IRC channels)
and others...
Have fun!
Dmitry Boldyrev/Demos <demos@xmission.com>
P.S.
Programmer to hire! I am looking for an internship/contract position for coming summer
(this year - 1996), any ideas?