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- From: banks_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?
- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:12:53 NZST
- Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
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- References: <JKH.92Dec14042514@whisker.lotus.ie> <1992Dec14.113511.3676@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
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- In article <1992Dec14.113511.3676@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>, tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat) writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- > It could be that you have taken (OCTA)MED files. As far as we know, no
- > Archimedes soundtracker program can take these as input yet. We hope to
- > change this and to build support for reading (and hopefully writing too)
- > (OCTA)MED files in 'Digital Symphony'.
-
- I beleive Tracker loads and converts OctaMED format trackers.
-
- > However you have to be careful when you are converting the 'Tracker'
- > files : the samples are in 'logarithmic' form and have to be converted
- > back to 'linear' form. You will lose your sample quality if you convert
- > several times from 'logarithmic' to 'linear' and visa versa.
-
- Only if the conversion code is written badly. The conversion between
- Log and Linear 8 bit samples retains about 6.9 bits worth of the information.
- However once a sample has been converted from one type to the other there
- should be no further data loss converting in either direction.
-
- Philip
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- Now I have to add some lines to keep this news posting software happy.
- Argggh.
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