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[am-fm]

yo,

i noticed, that milky "fucks" up the loop points when i save my song as a MOD... is this normal or a bug??

[raina]

Yes, this is intentional and probably the most important feature of the tracker. The art of "f***ing" up... Enough silliness! Do you mean the loop points are shifted to even values? MODs can't have odd size samples and apparently it applies to loop point places too. A quick scan through random MODs seems to suggest this as well.

[jimee]

I confirm that the 68k (hehe, amiga forever!) has a 16 bits data bus, and an address bus that can only manage even addresses. Odd addresses are accessed by using a special pin of the 68k. All other chips (sound, video) can only use even addresses. So, in MOD format, samplelen loopstart and looplen are always even values. And to get confused a little, these values are written without the last 0 bit! (That means, the values are divided by 2).

A little word about amiga loops: if loopstart=0, the sample is played entierely before starting the loop. That is a special "feature" because the amiga sound processor cant disable loop. Samples with no loop are identified by loopstart=0, looplen=2, and sampledata starting with 2 null bytes. If you dont start the sampledata with 2 null bytes, amiga will play an awful acute sound at the end of the sample.

[Saga Musix]

wee, amigas are complicated i never noticed such things when converting my modules... but that's probably only coz i never played em on a real amiga