REQ: NoiseTracker or ProTracker System friendly source

[redblade]

Hi.

Is there any NoiseTracker or ProTracker system friendly source floating around that uses audio.device and _LVODoIO, some of the source I have seen opens audio.device then hits the custom registers directly.

Thanks in advance.

[h0ffman]

Doesn't exist I don't think. Almost all amiga play routines work by smashing the registers.

[meynaf]

It's not possible to play Protracker by just using audio.device. It's too limited.
A few other formats such as Maxtrax can be played, but audio.device has a tendency to miss notes on accelerated machines.

[Photon]

Direct answer: no. Protracker doesn't use audio.device, because it's too limited. It's like asking the built-in Windows sound system (the one that reminds you you have a notification) to play DAW music, if you know what I mean.

Something could be explored there perhaps, but... again, direct answer: no.

Detailed answer: There are players that will play a Protracker song for you while using the Amiga normally, though. You could make a script to do the same, and then launch an exe with the tune as background, it's been done before.

Originally Posted by h0ffman

Almost all amiga play routines work by smashing the registers.

If they're well-written, they will use the system to hog the channels for the purpose (and then smash the hardware register just like audio.device does), which means obviously that you can't have anything else playing, but that's about it... no impossibilities there.

Noisetracker was kinda neat on release but didn't add enough to "fork" musicians. Protracker (apparently! ) did, and 2.3D/E/F is now the standard, even though there was 3.x and 4.0. You can convert a Noisetracker song to Protracker and then halve the vibrato (there may be more differences if module author abused the format - this was uncommon in 1989, though.)

[redblade]

Thanks guys, I'll try editing the MED player source.

@hoffman: Thanks, that's what I've seen so far, I guess you have seen a lot of amiga music source over the years.

@meynaf: thanks

@Photon: Yes Protracker is good and has a lot more useful effects (playing partway through a sample) and supports sample sizes bigger than 64k