#openmpt
- MIDI output from trackers (Impulse Tracker macros) techniquePlaying an external synthesizer from the pattern: a MIDI instrument sends NOTE ON/OFF with the note and volume column, and MIDI controllers (volume, modulation, pan, program change, sysex) are written as macros — Zxx …
- Olivier Lapicque personAuthor of ModPlugin, "originally developed in the mid-90s … as a plugin for Internet browsers to listen to tracked music files", and from it ModPlug Player and ModPlug Tracker — "the first Windows-based tracker" — which …
- DUET docs: the system clipboard and its text format (summary) summaryHow pattern blocks move between duet (m64's tracker, not yet published), openmpt , schism-tracker and any program that writes text to the OS clipboard. system-clipboard.md is the DUET-side reference; clipboard-format.md …
- OpenMPT manual — About OpenMPT summaryThe manual's own description of openmpt : what kind of tracker it is, its feature list, limitations and history from ModPlugin to open source.
- OpenMPT manual — Compatible Playback summaryWhy openmpt has a "compatible playback" mode and a list of every quirk it can emulate, format by format — in effect a catalogue of how impulse-tracker , fasttracker-2 , scream-tracker-3 and protracker really behave, and …
- OpenMPT manual — Effect Reference summaryThe complete command table of openmpt for every format it writes — MOD, XM, S3M, IT and its own MPTM — with the effect-memory rules, the oscillator waveforms, the retrigger volume table and the "sound control" …
- OpenMPT manual — Instruments summaryThe instrument tab of openmpt : multisampling and the sample map, volume/pan/pitch-filter envelopes, New Note Actions, the resonant filter defaults, random variation, pitch/pan separation and plugin routing — the IT …
- OpenMPT manual — Module formats summaryWhat each module format can hold, in openmpt 's words: MOD, S3M, XM, IT, MPTM and MIDI import, followed by the fifty-odd import-only formats and the compression containers OpenMPT opens.
- OpenMPT manual — Samples summaryThe sample tab of openmpt : formats, the edit toolbar, tuning per format, loops and sustain loops, auto-vibrato, time-stretching, the drawing and resizing tools that make chip samples, and the OPL (AdLib) FM instrument …
- OpenMPT manual — Song Properties (and Tempo Swing) summaryThe global switches of a module in openmpt : format conversion, the playback flags (linear slides, fast volume slides, filter range, IT old effects, compatible Gxx, ProTracker mode, Amiga limits), mix levels, the three …
- OpenMPT manual — Zxx Macros summaryHow the Zxx (and smooth \xx ) commands drive openmpt 's built-in resonant filter, plugin parameters and external MIDI — the PC tracker's equivalent of a SID filter table ( filter-programming ).
- tracker-history release notes (ProTracker, FastTracker, Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker, Schism, OpenMPT) summaryClaudio Matsuoka's dataset of tracker releases — name, author, date with its evidence (exit messages, file dates, changelogs, Wikipedia), and "based on / influenced by" links — for the six trackers this wiki covers. The …