It's pretty awesome that so many of us grew up using MOD trackers as our first (or early) computer music environments. If I were a strict empiricist with no knowledge of logical proof, I'd boldly say that MOD tracker => Pd. But, alas, so many of my heyday tracking crew haven't yet taken the plunge, no matter how often I try to market for Pd.
~Kyle
On 9/12/06, Claude Heiland-Allen claudiusmaximus@goto10.org wrote:
B. Bogart wrote:
OctaMED on an Amiga! I don't know what year that was...
.b.
Me too, from about 1994 to 2002.
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
If I start again, I might switch to Trakka, or anything else Pd-based; but I'd want something fairly compatible with .MOD, .S3M and .IT formats.
I wrote an OctaMED .med to GridFlow+Pd converter once, in Java (I hadn't learned enough C at that point). It worked, but the Pd player skipped horribly when switching patterns, because they were displayed in a huge number of floatatoms...
I will rewrite that converter in C (or maybe I'll learn enough Ruby to be able to write a GridFlow Pd object to load .med directly) once Trakka is stable (in terms of functionality/API/etc, it hasn't crashed yet..).
Here's a current screenshot:
http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org/image.php?image=gallery/coding/pd-patches/...
Claude