Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Russell Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: Pain in the... Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 15:44:16 +1200 Organization: Peace Computers NZ Ltd Lines: 35 Message-ID: <340E2E90.388F@peace.co.nz> References: <33B8DB74.51136F58@micronetics.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.37.70.35 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Jim wrote: > > Is there expected to be a manual addition soon describing how to create > vab files? There's more in the User Guide that's downloadable here than there was in the manuals I received - I saw enough info to use mkvab well now using def_files. > Now what are programs and tones? These .def files have really confused > the pants off me. :-) See the thread MOD player in this newsgroup for an explanation. > 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? XM -> Midi -> Seq? I was going to try this, but I'm not sure how SEQ integrates with VAGs. Plus, XM has > 16 tracks, whereas MIDI can only handle 16. Not sure how MIDI takes up the 24 voices either. We really need the equivalent of the Amiga Hardware Reference manual :O) -- ==PEACE COMPUTERS ==James.Russell@peace.co.nz - 64(9)3730400 -Fax 64(9)3730401 A tree falls. Hits Milli Vanilli. Someone else screams.