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From: Jim <jim@micronetics.com>
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Subject: Re: MOD's and SEQ's
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:11:06 +0100
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Manny Najera wrote:
> 
> Aren't the MOD and SEQ formats relatively similar?  If so, has any
> development team, anywhere around the world, ever gotten around to
> writing a MOD2SEQ converter?
> 
> My guess is all you have to do is convert the MOD to midi format (some
> trackers do this) and place the samples into those VB and VH files.
> 
> Manny Najera


Hi Manny,

	Yep, I've tryed it.  There is a xm2mid converter that does a limited
job, only 4 channels. I've also written my own, although not complete
but working all the same.  

The major problem I've seen when converting Mods -> Mid -> Seq is the
channel timing suffers alot.  Especially loops.  I've tryed tweeking the
tempo up and down, but there appears no happy medium.  

One thing I have yet to try though is after going xm->mid is to
resequence the track in a midi package, to tweak the timing back to
normal.

Its very frustrating, since someone has been kind enough to write 4
tracks for my project, but they sound nothing like he intended.

Is there a file spec for .seq available anywhere?

Cheers,

Jim