#s3m
- OPL / AdLib FM instruments in trackers techniqueA second sound chip inside the PC tracker: scream-tracker-3 plays up to 9 FM voices on a Sound Blaster's Yamaha OPL2 next to its digital channels, and the s3m-format stores such instruments alongside samples; openmpt …
- Effect command crosswalk (MOD / XM ↔ S3M / IT) conceptThe PC and Amiga trackers use two alphabets for the same jobs: protracker 's numbers 0 – F (kept by fasttracker-2 's xm-format , which adds letters) and scream-tracker-3 's letters A – Z (kept and extended by …
- OpenMPT tool"A third-generation tracker" for Windows (runs in Wine on macOS and Linux): the open-source continuation of olivier-lapicque 's ModPlug Tracker, which grew out of his mid-1990s ModPlugin browser plugin and went open …
- S3M module format (.s3m) formatscream-tracker-3 's format (1994), documented by sami-tammilehto in TECH.DOC (summary: s-st3-tech-doc ). Compared with mod-format it added per-sample tuning (C4Spd, the frequency of middle C), up to 32 channels (16 …
- Scream Tracker 3 toolThe DOS tracker by sami-tammilehto ("Psi") of future-crew , freeware, behind the s3m-format : 3.01 beta on 1994-04-18 ("S3M format, 16 channels, GUS, Adlib"), 3.20 on 1994-12-06 and 3.21 on 1994-12-25, descended from …
- The Grey Note (Necros) songnecros 's saxophone piece from the musicdisk Progression ( greynote.s3m ) — the PC scene's standard example of a realistic solo instrument inside a module, and its standard example of a sample that must not be ripped …
- 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 — 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.
- Scream Tracker 3.2 User's Manual (ST3.DOC) summaryThe manual of scream-tracker-3 , written by Kalle Kaivola ("Edge") for "those who have worked with similar programs before" — a musician, "not a coder". Four chapters: introduction, a brief guide with the complete …
- Scream Tracker 3.20 File Formats And Mixing Info (TECH.DOC) summary"The OFFICIAL information on s3m format and much more" — the S3M header, the instrument/sample header, the AdLib instrument layout, the packed pattern format, the STIMPORT and SIMPLEX exchange formats, the …
- TW #58–59 — The Finishing Touches (Catspaw) summarycatspaw 's two-part guide to "the finer technical points of writing module-based music", in ST3/IT notation ( | C#5 16 48 H83 | = note, sample, volume, effect). Greg Heo later pointed readers here for frames and tempo.
- TW #77–81 — A Chip Off the Block / Chiptune Seminar, parts 1–4 (The Modsquad) summaryA four-part, mostly satirical "seminar" on making chiptunes by the-modsquad ; the editor noted he was "not that enthused". Parts 3 and 4 are almost entirely nonsense (paper boats, Elvis, nail collections, "encryption"); …