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- From: rjm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ryan Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
- Subject: Re: .MOD editors, MIDI converters
- Message-ID: <BtvI2x.wJ@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 00:16:09 GMT
- References: <Tk57PB2w165w@eternal.chi.il.us> <1992Aug31.062911.17307@jyu.fi>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Aug31.062911.17307@jyu.fi> ap@jyu.fi (Patric Aalto) writes:
- >In article <Tk57PB2w165w@eternal.chi.il.us> jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:
- >>
- >> 2. In lieu of a MIDI-style editor for .MODs, is there a MIDI->.MOD
- >> converter? Again, it's my understanding that this is not
- >> available, but it's worth asking. I do comprehend the fact that
- >> MIDI formats are inherently different from MOD formats, so no
- >> flames on this, please. :-)
- >
- >I made such a beast for my personal use a few months ago. It sort of works,
- >but I then lost interest to develop it further. The main problem is to fit
- >all the important info of a MIDI file into only four channels of MOD. The
-
- I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to just use 4 tracks of MIDI
- and use the converter with this data and some sampled sounds to
- create a MOD file. This would allow one to use any of the fine
- MIDI sequencer programs out in software-land instead of being limited
- by the average MOD editors.
-
- BTW, I would attempt it myself, but after several queries to several
- newsgroups, I've yet to find out either the MOD or the MIDI
- formats (hint, hint... :-)
-
- Ryan
-
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