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From: Jim <jim@micronetics.com>
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Subject: Pain in the...
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 11:27:00 +0100
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Well I guess it was my turn to play with the audio stuff last night. 
Not exactly my idea of a fun night coding... oh well.

Is there expected to be a manual addition soon describing how to create
vab files?  
I managed to hack out a .def file from std0.vag but that was not really
liberal with any useful information.

Incidently I did notice that a .vag file is just the .vh and .vb files
concatonated.  Just "copy std0.vh/b+std0.vb/b std0.vag"

One thing I would like to see is the file format for .seq .vh .vb .vab
files, and clear descriptions of .def.  

Now what are programs and tones?  These .def files have really confused
the pants off me. :-) 

I finally managed to get something playing late last night (or was it
early morning?, can't remember) that almost resembled the .xm I was
trying to convert.  Mind you I don't have the nerve to show it to the
guy who wrote it yet, probably get a bit violent, because of what I've
done to his tune.. :-)

Also anyone have an .xm -> .mid converter that does more that four
channels? or am I best off writing my own?  .seq file format anyone?
How about a .xm -> (.seq, .vh, .vb) converter?  Should not be tricky
with the format?  Unless the sample compression method is a sony
propriatory thing they closely guard.

regards
JiM