#xm
- 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 …
- FastTracker 2 toolThe DOS tracker of triton — Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl — behind the xm-format . Work began in June 1993 "to write a music program that could set a new standard in the confused PC-scene"; the design idea: "Who want …
- 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 …
- XM module format (.xm) formatfasttracker-2 's format (November 1994): the mod-format effect alphabet plus a few letters of its own, and — the point of it — instruments : volume and panning envelopes over samples, several samples per instrument, …
- FastTracker v2.08 Manual (Urban Jonsson, 1996) summaryAn extension of fasttracker-2 's built-in help "with examples included for all the functions", written by Urban Jonsson between June 1995 and February 1996 (published by Triton Productions and Under World Digital …
- 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.
- TW #16 — Interview with Populus (Psibelius) summarypsibelius 's farewell interview with populus , one of traxweekly 's founders, on why he is leaving the newsletter and on the "dumb techno" he sees flooding the scene in mid-1995. The issue prints a disclaimer before and …
- TW #22 — Interview with Jase (Clef) summaryclef of epinicion interviews jase , the Australian winner of Music Contest 3 — "after NetSplits, capture problems, and time limits".