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- From: jholdern@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (J E Holderness)
- Subject: Volume slide effect in MOD files
- Message-ID: <Bu8Euy.9ru@casper.cs.uct.ac.za>
- Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:35:21 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but here goes.
-
- I'm a PC user, and am trying to establish what the volume slide effect
- in mod files is supposed to sound like so I thought Amiga users would
- be the best people to ask.
-
- On the PC, different MOD players handle the effect differntly, and I am
- not sure which ones are correct. The easiest example I can think of is
- in the mod file AVOID.MOD - has the title "tune 2" if that helps. The
- first couple of lines of track 2 in the first pattern are:
-
- Sample Note Effect
- 02 C1 Vls 0B
- .. .. ... ..
- 02 C2 ... ..
- 02 C1 Vls 0B
- .. .. ... ..
- 02 C1 Vls 0B
- 02 C2 ... ..
- .. .. ... ..
- 02 C1 Vls 0B
- 02 C1 Vls 0B
-
- Now the volume slide effect (Vls) used above gives those notes a sort of
- stacatto effect on some mod players, but on others the notes last their
- full duration, i.e. the volume slide doesn;t have time to take effect.
- What I would like to know is how they would sound on an Amiga mod player
- - preferably protracker since I'm not sure if the others do volume slides.
-
- And in case there are some of you that have a PC as well as an AMiga, here
- is a list of mod players I have tested on the PC:
-
- Ones that produce the stacatto effect: Super Pro Play, WOW, Whacker Tracker,
- Digi Studio.
- Ones that don't: MODPLAY, PLAYMOD, Tetra Compistor, JMPLAYER, BPT.
-
- However, of the ones that don't, I think MODPLAY is probably the only one
- that actually supports the volume slide effect at all, so the others
- probably don't count.
-
- Hope someone can help. Thanks.
-
- - Jim
-
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-