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Tracking / Re: Workflow for composing adlib s3m

« on: April 17, 2016, 20:42:22 »

The track I'm working on is already an s3m, but it wouldn't take too long to re-write in something else (it's 4 patterns long. ) Does VGM support samples?

VGM has commands for many kind of sound chips (including multiples at once), and I believe some of them support samples. I think OPL4 will do both FM and samples together (you will have to determine the correct clock rate for this usage and unfortunately I do not know what it is), although you can also use multiple sound chips if needed.

I was *vaguely* hoping to release this as an s3m or other oldschool format but I'm not married to the idea.

DOS .COM format would probably do it but it isn't really a proper music format anyways. VGM uses the commands of many old sound chips although there are the new version of VGM format.

The actual thing I'm using it in will need an mp3/ogg/whatever file anyway.

In that case it should not matter if you use VST or external MIDI devices or multiple files or whatever.

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Tracking / Re: Workflow for composing adlib s3m

« on: April 17, 2016, 04:08:57 »

Would VGM format be suitable?

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Tracking / Re: Convert XM to WAV or MP3 Please!!!

« on: April 16, 2016, 04:47:22 »

openmpt123 is probably more accurate than playmod anyways since it uses the OpenMPT playback library, which as far as I know is more accurate than the other one. (However, playmod also has some features I like that I am not sure if openmpt123 has, although playmod cannot output WAV directly (you have to use another program to convert raw output to WAV or MP3 or whatever other format you want).)

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Tracking / Re: Convert XM to WAV or MP3 Please!!!

« on: April 12, 2016, 06:20:13 »

If you want command-line software (which I do, at least), then another alternative is to use my "playmod" program to render and SoX to convert into the output format you need. Command-line software (whether mine or those written by other people) can help with batch-convert easily too, by writing a batch file. As you can see from this message and all other messages posted here, there are a lot of alternatives.

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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: Use of OpenMPT in C program in Linux with libmodplug

« on: April 09, 2016, 20:37:21 »

They also say it is experimental API

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Tracking / Re: Does Open MPT have OPL support, and should it have it?

« on: April 09, 2016, 06:27:33 »

I certainly did not say that OpenMPT should be able to open VGM. I am saying it could be used if you want to store music that uses FM and other stuff (and there are some programs to use to write such music; I have written one but have not maintained it in a long time).

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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: Use of OpenMPT in C program in Linux with libmodplug

« on: April 09, 2016, 06:23:05 »

As for your other question, libopenmpt supports both seekable and unseekable streams. Unseekable streams will, depending on the file type, require an internal buffer that is up to the size of the full file though.

This is what I have thought.

The reason I have used writing to pattern data is to mute channels/instruments and to tamper with looping, however there may be better ways to do these things (if so, I could not find it in the documentation). In some cases this would be for purposes of mixing separately (which would also require loading multiple copies), although if there are more mixing controls (I could not find it) then that would also be possible (and muting could be implemented by using these extra mixing controls perhaps). (Splitting into two separate programs might also be a way, although it is not what I intended to do.)

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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: Use of OpenMPT in C program in Linux with libmodplug

« on: April 08, 2016, 19:19:10 »

OK, thanks. However note that this program does sometimes write into the pattern data. Also is libopenmpt compatible with input that might not be seekable? (This does seem possible to do even if not seekable as far as I can tell, but there are also other problems which I cannot find the answer in their documentation.) It would be possible to avoid to write into pattern data if it were possible to write plugins in C codes and link them to channels/instruments in the mixer, so that it can be used to mute channels/instruments or for other purposes; this also I would like so that I can do use such thing.

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Project / Coder's Corner / Use of OpenMPT in C program in Linux with libmodplug

« on: April 08, 2016, 06:24:22 »

Can a C program written for Linux that is currently using libmodplug be made to use the playback routines from OpenMPT? Specifically my "playmod" program

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Tracking / Re: Does Open MPT have OPL support, and should it have it?

« on: April 08, 2016, 06:18:40 »

The .VGM format could also be used; it supports samples and FM at the same time, as well as other things.

However I too would like to know the proper playback routines for Adlib in S3M; when combined with the OPL emulation it can make proper sound.