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From: bims@diku.dk (Asger H|gsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: a new music standard
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.150100.2893@diku.dk>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:01:00 GMT
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Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes:

>On 31 Oct 90 14:26:52 GMT you said:
>>
>>                SO WHAT IS MY POINT?
>>I think that there should be a new standard for songs that resembles
>>the format that the SoundTracker modules are in.  It will offer higher
>>quality music, allow more people to become musicians, and be easy to
>>play.  The main point is that the quality of the music will be a lot
>>higher.

>Hear! Hear!  Yes!  Si!  Oui!  Da!  I agree 100%  The mod. files are becoming
>quite abundant compared to SMUS files.  There has to be some kind of a
>synthesized type sound included in the file format so that, when available,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
The new startrekker V1.2 will be supporting synthesized sounds, so no
need to worry! (Well, Exolon says this in the manual for the 1.1, so 
assuming he isn't lying, there will be no prob!)
>we are not stuck with samples only.  It might be wise to agree on a standard
>.mod and song file format because of the variations in each of the successive
>ST type programs.  MED can either save .mod files or it's own version of a
The new startrekker 1.1 supports also startrekker 1.0, Noisetracker 2.0
and previous versions of Noisetracker.
>mod format.  I think that there NEEDS to be a standard before we take the
>plunge.
Never wait with plunging tomorrow when you could do it today.
>>dan.
>>
>>chopin!dan@uunet.uu.net    --> please use.
>>st00482@auvm.bitnet        --> yeeeech
So long,
  Xeno of Gnu design (bims@freja.diku.dk)


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