From: "Metroid" <metroid AT cdc DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Midi to Mod
Date: 11 May 1997 18:06:38 GMT
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Cool...thanks for the info...I may offer the player a choice..Mod or Midi! 

Anyway, do you know of a good tracker?  If i get a good one, i may train my
musician/cousin to use it...
thanks..
cb
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Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in article
<VyImrNAjKcdzEwdt AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>...
> Metroid writes:
> >Looks like Midi for Allegro isn't going to work out for the AWE32...
> >Maybe it will....who knows
> 
> Actually I think it will happen: George Foot is working on an AWE driver
> even as we speak, and it is going quite well...
> 
> >Anyway, I have all of these cool midi songs (for games) and I have a
cousin
> >who writes EXCELLENT midi music but I want to port them to MOD file so I
> >can use a mod player for Allegro...
> 
> Converting from MIDI format into MOD isn't usually very successful.
> There are some utilities that do this on x2ftp (can't remember the
> filenames, but ptmid rings a bell), but in my experience the output MOD
> files sound terrible. You'd be much better off writing MOD files
> directly with a tracker program...
> 
> >Any good info on this?  Also, what is the BEST mod player for Allegro?
> 
> There aren't any 'for Allegro' as such (although Matthew Bowie has
> written some tracker routines that sit on top of the Allegro sample
> mixing routines, so I think Allegro 3.0 will support MOD music). But
> there are several good ones for djgpp which you can use side by side
> with Allegro: try MikMod or SBLIB (both of these are on 
> http://www.rt66.com/~brennan/djgpp/)
> 
> 
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