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film pitch: Fred Savage is teleported back to 1989 to buy a Gameboy after the chipscene has modded the last existing one with prosound.

(0xLSDJ/0xDMG)

"Blow ya nose" by Julius

yeah.  on pre-sample drivers we used to use the noise channel for hats and the tail of the snare, stick the timbre of the snare in one of the pulse channels. (probably on 50% duty) and then drop the bass drum into the tri channel bass instruments.

eg:

       PULSE1     |    PULSE2   |   TRI  |  NOISE
00        --              --         bd      hcl
01        --              --         --      --
02        --              --         --      hop
03        --              --         bd      hcl
04        sn              --         --      sn
05        --              --         --      --
06        --              --         --      hcl
07        --              --         bd      hcl

it's what the Konami / Follin bros used to do before people were adding samples.  It might look wasteful but the pulse snare only needs to be a few ticks long (the tail is covered by the noise channel) so you don't need to leave a beat free after it.

I'm not sure how the bassdrum/bass combination will sound in LSDJ seeing as IT CAN'T HAVE FIXED PITCH INSTRUMENTS LIKE EVERY OTHER DRIVER MADE SINCE 1986.  But there you go.

on the subject there was an agamemnon track on battle of the bits recently.

that's fantastic, cheers.  I was thinking of doing some kind of ahx > 2SID converter at one point so this might be a fun diversion.

You can automatically separate by instrument in XMPlay. (under Output in the Options menu tick 'Separate MOD instruments' when using the disk writer)  It's not per channel though, so if you spread a chord across 3 channels with the same instrument you'll get the whole chord in the exported track.   You could export once with interpolation and then without and mix and match the two sets together.

Personally I'd say only use XMPlay or FastTracker2 to export XMs, everything else still has a few quirks.  On the Options/MOD page try experiementing with the pan separation, I have mine a bit tighter than the default. 

For .MODs the oldsk00l plug-in for Winamp is good and you can use that with XMPlay as well. (coded by Slammer/Anarchy, remember him?)  XMPlay's default still trips up on a couple of things there, even on the PT setting. I can't remember if the free version of Deliplayer2 can write to disk but that was accurate as well.