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new program for amiga music lovers - testing needed please!
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Today's edit 17th November 2010. One year on since the initial release, it's about time to release something, so here is alpha 2. eMod alpha 2 - 17-11-2009.part1.rar eMod alpha 2 - 17-11-2009.part2.rar What is it? At the moment, it's a player, visualiser, mixer, and repair tool for Protracker, Future Composer, and Delta Music 2 modules. Eventually it'll support most formats and do other things. What's new
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q: Why so long to update? a: I work on it every day, but to date it is a solo endeavour q: Why are there not many new features? a: The vast majority of the work is non-visual. Hopefuly you can see it is better if you tried the previous release Suggestions and bug reports greatly appreciated. Thanks for your interest! Credits: UAE emulation code - http://www.amigaemulator.org/ FFTW library - http://www.fftw.org/ Quote:
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Looks very promising already! I've been looking for a proper all-in-one solution to rip, edit and play mods in windows for ages.
Love the tracker view, finally a way to see the note data in FC modules without having to deal with the horrible FC interface! |
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Looks good, unfortunalety it crashes on my PC, if i try to load a module.
Also if i try to unpack the attached rar-archive, i get an error message: "Invalid or destroyed authenticity information." |
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can you please provide as much info about the crash as possible.. which module? details in the crash dump from windows? which version of windows? |
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"XAudio2Create failed" by clicking "OK" button the main program starts. Now, if i try to load a module, i get windows error message: "Emod:music module workshop no longer works". Windows: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0.6001) |
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the problem is that your Direct-X is too old. if it's possible for you, download it from microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en to update to the march 2009 runtimes |
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Impressive!
This is wonderful, looks so finished already... I really like it, the GUI is nice, and it plays the modules very well! However, the pattern offset calculation is rather slow... Hencing the "Seek" box when you jump to another pattern. What's up with that? Should be instant... (What's Delta Music? Is it a format for Amiga?) Last edited by 8bitbubsy; 13 September 2009 at 23:38. Reason: Typo! |
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Yep : http://bitworld.bitfellas.org/demo.php?id=19954 and http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Categ..._Music_Formats
Rather odd format though |
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I like the crispy sound... Interesting, guess there are no userfriendly trackers for it tho. |
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seeking to a random point in the song involves a silenced run of the emulated replayer code from the first vblank to that point. i have done this for accuracy. example; a song may play a string instrument in one channel that never stops, or changes note (the dma isn't reset).. just a constant waveform loop. let's say we seek 3m 30s into the song.. the seek resumes play with an accurate representation of which part of the string waveform is being played at that point. possibly there is a better way to do this? but i can't imagine what it might be.. i had tried other methods like, flagging points in the song which the dma is either off/being turned on ("safe" points), and seeking from there instead of the first frame.. but it saved a mere 10ms, it wasn't worth the added maintenance. additionally, and most importantly, the repayer code could be processing all kinds of things in those skipped 3m 30s. i want that processing to be represented with complete integrity. i love dm's sound. perhaps rather loud in it's average output.. but interesting replayer and synth methods Last edited by snyp; 14 September 2009 at 00:37. |
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I've moved this to news.. I think it's kinda appropriate
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Hi,
Nice effort, for sure. I wish you all the best for this project. On a side note (and I really mean side note), it's good you provide example musics, but 1. I think authors deserve to be credited. Whoever they are 2. "those three.mod" has 2 extra bytes. "classic.fc" has quite a few extra bytes too I'm sorry I'm only running my good old FreeBSD 4.9, here. So I can't check this out. Still, I hope to read from this soon. All the best, Sylvain |
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nice to see you onboard asle
yes, you're right.. i'll redo the upload including a readme edit; i have now included credits for the modules in the initial post Quote:
you may remember i had problems with data integrity on the ripping tool.. i did take your comments on board Last edited by snyp; 15 September 2009 at 23:27. |
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Indeed, I remember. Woaw, now, that was quite some time ago. The thread must be lost somewhere in the archives of EAB .
Well, that's good news. These integrity checks are more of less mandatory I guess, especially when replaying is one of the goals. Thanks for having answered that fast. Again, all the best for your project. I'll keep an eye on it as often as I can spare one All the best, Sylvain |
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Yo snyp,
Impressive work so far. It's good to be able to look back at my old FC-tracks in a completely different light of day, and the replayer does it all nicely as well. In case you haven't done so already, you should really have a chat to BuZz, who runs the Exotica site, to discuss usage of his search engine for information about tracks and all other things surrounding the music since it's amazingly performed and I think you'd make it quite easy for yourself to get to that info to talk to him. Also, since I was one of the members of Musicline and have control of the sourcecode for it, just howl to me if you want it to study for implementation. Keep it up! // Ziphoid P.S. How quickly do you get deleted from this board? I know that I've been registered here before, but that account had apparently been deleted... D.S. |
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wow... amazing! i thought this project was dead since long.
if you want info on the AHX format, and the slightly more advanced Hively format, check out hivelytracker.com and download the latest version of hively tracker, it includes a portable C version of the replayer that plays both AHX and Hively tunes. |
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Greetings,
If it can have the ability to read in and convert and Octamed Sound Studio module / song, packed or unpacked and then be able to output it as MID0 / MID1, that would be absolutely sensational, you will need probably to include ticks per quarter note and alike. Please |
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i've talked to buzz briefly, and he helped me with sonic-arranger files a while ago. on the left panel is a chest of drawers, if you see it? this tool will be to browse 'libraries', with search functions, tables, sorting, etc.. unexotica will be one of them.. high-voltage sid another.. there are a few collections available online and i hope to use eMod to connect directly to them without the need for a browser, or html Quote:
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midi support is something i'm very keen on myself. initially i will focus on midi input.. but midi output will be supported later on too. i will need your suggestions/input when i get to this in the future, thanks |
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What a brilliant project - its so refreshing to see something like this in development.
I'm still using Deliplayer for all my tracker based playback, however its been shelved for a while now, and I never really liked the interface, so I'm still trying to find a good alternative as an 'all in one' tool. As a player already eMod is pretty awesome. Anything that allows me to mute/mix individual channels to get an idea of how instruments are sequenced together is a good'n... really allows me to 'get to the bones' of a track. It would be awesome if this could play some of the rarer formats... especially if it can do like Deliplayer and play .cust files somehow, although I can imagine this isn't an easy thing to program. Let me know if you need a alpha/beta tester, as I'm especially keen to try out midi-sync (would be great if rewire was available for synchronisation with cubase etc), and instrument browse functions. Encountered 1 cash when using this so far.. but I'm unable to replicate it. It occurred when I loaded up a mod whilst one was already playing. Windows XP SP3 Quad Core etc. |
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