![]() Later, variants of the MOD format that appeared on the Personal Computer extended the number of channels, added panning commands (the Amiga’s four hardware channels had a pre-defined stereo setup) and expanded the Amiga’s frequency limit, allowing for more octaves of notes to be supported. Ultimate SoundTracker was soon superseded by NoiseTracker and Protracker, which allowed for more tracker commands (effects) and instruments. It was designed to use 4 channels and fifteen samples. A very basic version of this format (with only very few pattern commands and short samples supported) was introduced by Karsten Obarski’s Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 for the Amiga. The MOD format (.MOD) The MOD format was the first file format for tracked music. Popular formats Įach module file format builds on concepts introduced in its predecessors. However, tracker music has the advantage of requiring very little CPU overhead for playback, and is executed in real-time. This is mostly due to effects that can be applied to the samples in the module file and how the authors of different players choose to implement them. And the song is built of a pattern list, that tells in what order these patterns shall be played in the song.Ī disadvantage of module files is that there is no real standard specification in how the modules should be played back properly, which may result in modules sounding different in different players, sometimes quite significantly so. The number of notes that can be played simultaneously depends on how many "tracks" there are per pattern. These patterns contain note numbers, instrument numbers, and controller messages. Module files store digitally recorded samples and several "patterns" or "pages" of music data in a form similar to that of a spreadsheet. Nowadays, most module files, including ones in compressed form, are supported by most popular media players such as VLC, Foobar2000, Exaile and many others (mainly due to inclusion of common playback libraries such as libmodplug for gstreamer). Many websites host large numbers of these files, the most comprehensive of them being the Mod Archive. ![]() ![]() The mass interchange of "MOD music" or "tracker music" (music stored in module files created with trackers) evolved from early FIDO networks. Those who produce these files (using the software called music trackers) and listen to them form the worldwide MOD scene, a part of the demoscene subculture. ![]() Module file ( MOD music, tracker music) is a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s. ![]()
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