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.XM , .IT , or .S3M?
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:50 pm
by Psychophanta
Does anyone know what could be the reason to choose .XM, .IT or .S3M when choosing one for composing?
Re: .XM , .IT , or .S3M?
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:36 pm
by traumatic
Psychophanta wrote:Does anyone know what could be the reason to choose .XM, .IT or .S3M when choosing one for composing?
Are you talking about the difference to each other or compared to other (non-tracker-)formats ?
The pro on ImpulseTracker is that it supports some (limited) kind of synthesizing functions allowing
to make chipsounds without the help of samples, i.e. "real chipsounds", resulting in a even smaller file.
FastTracker and ScreamTracker are quite similar. AFAIK FastTracker also allows more channels, but I could be wrong.
In comparison to other formats trackers have one big advantage: Size!
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:42 pm
by Psychophanta
Thanks
Are you talking about the difference to each other or compared to other (non-tracker-)formats ?
Only about the difference to each other.
In ModPlug tracker, those three seem to have very similar commands for notes, etc. but i guess there must be other differences. For example the max number of channels allowed is an important difference, synth funcs are important too...
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:51 am
by Comtois
Psychophanta wrote:
Only about the difference to each other.
Maybe you can learn more here ?
http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?page=8&s=music
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:15 pm
by Psychophanta
Comtois:
I don't requested about file-specs (files formats) but about specifics characters if each for composer users, not computer users. :roll:
But thanks for that useful link. I didn't know about, and it is useful to get propietary files formats to convert files.
I used
http://www.sonicspot.com/, which is very good too, because there are file-specs explained in a very good and easy way.
