Conference hydra::amiga_v1

4029.0. "Intuitracker song player" by CGOFS::DREW (Steve Drew) Mon Aug 20 1990 22:30

        Heres, a neat program. Intuitracker; this is a player for all
        those SOUND-TRACKER songs. 
        
        Most games  use  this  format  of  song file as it works from
        efficient asynchronous routines  that  dump  directly  to the
        PAULA (sound chip).  For example Christal Hammer, Defender of
        the Crown are just a  couple  of  the  games  that  use SOUND
        TRACKER modules.
        
        This player opens a small Intuition window with gadgets like
        a CD player that allows you to preprogram the order in which
        to play the songs, or choose a random mode. It has the option to 
        produce a real time spectrograph (bar  graph  equalizer)  display  
        as the  music  is  playing. It also has gadgets for volume,  pause,  
    	eject, stop, rewind,  seek and so on.
            
        To use this program just run  it,  and  use  the pull down to
        select the device/dir where the songs are  loaded  (ie DF1:),
        it  then  looks  for  all  mod.*  files  and  builds  a  menu
        displaying these files. 
        
        I  have  put  together 5 (full) disks of songs.    Each  disk
        contains about 10 songs.  Many of them are fantastic,  all of
        them  are  worth  listening  to.  I have LHARC'd them into  5
        separate  files each can be de-LHARC'd to produce a disk full
        of songs. 
        
        The location is CGOU01::AMIGA:[MUSIC.ST]
        
        You will also  find the intuitracker player there.  All these
        songs can be loaded  into  SOUND-TRACKER/NOISE-TRACKER or MED
        (the best one) if you are wanting to extract the instruments,
        or edit the songs.
                
        WARNINGS:
        ---------
        
        1. I can not find a doc file for Intuitracker, although I thing it's
           fairly straight forward.
          
        2. CRASHES my system when actively using VLT (serial port active).
        
        3. The tempo, plays one notch too fast, Intuitracker does have a +/-
           gadget for the temp but it only stays in effect for the current
           track. (about 10 secs). Track is one download into the PAULA chip,
           128 bytes or some such number. Each song shows how many tracks it
           plays for, and the current track.
           

        This is version 1.1 if anyone has a later  version  please let
        us know.
        
        enjoy,
        
        ./Steve/.
    

    
    
    Thanks for the upload Steve , I've been playing/modifying all these
    tunes for the last couple of nights and had some great fun.
    These tunes are really excellent if you find anymore I'd be very eager
    to hear them.
    I've have copies of MED , Soundtracker and Noisetracker , So far I've
    only been able to get the modules working properly in Noisetracker .
    When I use Soundtracker V2.5 it only plays one of the four channels 
    and when I use MED it refuses to load the module .
    
    BTW If any one knows where I can get a more recent version of MED than
    1.1 please let me know .I'm particularly interested in the version that
    supposed to support MIDI .
    
    Steve Collins ...
    
    Thanks again,
    
    
    

Version 2.0 of MED is on fish disk 349. It has some options to allow
loading of Soundtracker modules, though I haven't tried it yet. This version
has some midi support and I found one bug - saving a song with the icons
gadget enabled (the default I think) places the icon in the default MED 
directory instead of the directory where you save the song. Source is included
if anyone with a complier feels ambitious about fixing that.

Nice program. I'm looking forward to trying out the new songs and intuitracker.

Dave

    
    MED 2.0 does load these ST song modules ok. But I have been unsucessful
    in getting Intuitracker to play and modules saved by MED. According to
    the MED 2.0 docs the author mentions he uses a different/better
    compresion when saving modules to disk. Even though MED does have
    gadgets to save in ST-Module format, it still seems to be incompatible,
    my guess is this difference in compression. But if anyone does figure
    out how please let me know.
    
    /.Steve./
    
    
    

    
    IntuiTracker and the song modules are great.  Thanks for compiling
    them.
    
    My one-year-old kid seems to like computer music better than the 'real'
    stuff.
    
    Ed.

    Hi,
    
    Having trouble accessing this node. Error is remote node unknown. Can
    you give a decnet addr ?
    
    Cheers, Dave