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[joule]

I am currently using milkytracker for editing and mixing chiptunes. However, i would like to start using the .IT format, mainly because it has NNA (and some other features such as channel panning). The problem is no .IT able tracker i have tried has a sample editor with sample drawing abilities. This makes tweaking the mix very difficult, unless you settle for using standard chip samples or zapping other tracks. I am still stuck with the .xm format because i consider sample drawing essential.

Does anyone know some way to resolve this dilemma? Nagging the openmpt coding team?

[barryvan]

I doubt OpenMPT is going to give you sample-drawing capability. There are, however, a couple of ways around this:

1. Do your sample-drawing in an external tool (like Milkytracker), and then load these into OpenMPT.
2. Get yourself a VST that supports sample-drawing (a quick search at KVR turned up this, which I haven't tried, but is free, and might do the job).
3. Use VSTs to generate the sounds, rather than drawing the samples directly.

If you really want to see this in OpenMPT, you can probably open a feature request at the Modplug forums, but as I say, I'm not convinced that it'll get implemented.

[Saga Musix]

You don't have to open a feature request, because

4) This is going to be supported in OpenMPT "soon" (don't ask me how soon "soon" is)

[barryvan]

:O Really?

[Saga Musix]

Yes. I've opened that feature request some time ago because I was constantly being nagged (by joule ) to implement it and I think it's useful anyway.