Wolfgang from WoMo-Team writes: >Andrew Collier schrieb: >> Can I just make a straw poll here -- >> >> does ANYBODY on this list actually use my ProTracker2 compiler? Or know >> anybody else that uses it? >> >Where to get it from? Would like to try it out. I have "only" E-Tracker 2 >which >is a sampler.
I probably ought to clear up some possible confusion here... ProTracker2, is a program very similar to E-Tracker and was written by BZYK. Don't confuse it with a program called ProTracker on any other platform... it is not a sample tracker, just chip music. However, ProTracker2 is rather more flexible than E-Tracker, it contains a lot more commands for note effects like vibrato, tremolo, portamento etc, in fact the command set is actually based on the same commands as in the MOD file format. ProTracker2 was sold by Persona. I don't know where it might be available now. I reviewed it for Zodiac, and a copy of that article is available here: http://mnemotech.ucam.org/pt2review.html I'm using the word "compiler" in a rather loose sense, but in the same way that E-Tracker does; my program doesn't produce an executable as such. Rather, it produces a packed form of the tracker file which is convenient to parse and play. BZYK didn't write a compiler, he just wrote a routine to play the raw tracker files. These were usually over 100K in size, and his program takes roughly half of all available CPU. So I wrote a compiler myself. The end result is files somewhere usually between 8K-20K, which play in significantly less CPU time than the simplest E-Tracker equivalent. My program eventually ended up on Blitz 4, although I think David may have later started bundling it with sales of ProTracker2 itself. The downside, of course, is that I didn't have any of the specs for BZYK's code - the program didn't even come with a manual, I had to work out myself what all the commands do and how they interact. Apparently I got some of them slightly wrong, and the compiled version of this tune I've done sounds nothing like it does in the editor. So... I can send you a copy of my compiler, but it won't be any use to you unless you manage to find a copy of the Editor somewhere. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Can't think of a quote ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ ---- So I write haiku instead ----- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge --- That should do for now --
