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well, the ones from the tool will likely include this info, but in terms of instruments ripped from games, it's kindof guesswork at that point, so they'll probably be left out in that case. This actually isn't something I've addressed yet, so I'm glad you brought it up

adsr is a hardware thing, so it behaves how it behaves I'm currently working on a nice viewer for editing them, so it should feel pretty comfortable. Gain release will be supported.

As far as inverse/surround pannings, that's something I'll have to evaluate later. Again, not something I initially thought about

Also, do you have an example of that romancing saga3 stuff? never heard it myself

kungfu: Looks like you've been spending a lot of time pulling apart my rom's The tool is a pc tracker like famitracker for snes.. superfamitracker I guess . There's a replayer that's a native rom, but it's in a VERY early state atm. We'll plan to be able to mute channels and stuff on the fly; it'll be mainly for playing back tracks live.

the main reasons we opted for a pc tool are for comfort: you really want to be tracking without the ram limits on the actual system, and you want to be able to reimport/encode samples very quickly on the fly. Since processing samples externally is a huge part of the process, iteration time needs to be as fast as possible. You can import .wav's whenever and there's an indicator for when you've gone over ram limit etc. It's pretty shit to try and track with samples and stuff with 8 buttons and a d-pad too, I'd imagine XD . Sure, LSDj gets away with something simpler, but so's the medium .

Also, this really simplifies the data model while actually working on the song, so the tool is inherently much more simple/stable. It's just less code . All the spc-specific transforms (minus sample encoding really) are done on export - pattern data gets split up into per-track components and compressed, samples are chopped at the loop points.. those kinds of things. But I guess you saw that stuff already ;D

so no, not a command line tool, as it's a full tracker. And it'll very likely be open source. Actually, the spc emu core that the audio engine is built on already is: https://github.com/yupferris/SamuraiPizzaCats (not done yet, but pretty close to what will ship in the tool. Better resampling and postproc are really all that remains for that purpose).

perhaps we should split this out into our own thread at this point?

kungfu: yep, if hardware supports it, it's gonna be in the tool. It's already in the emulator - just needs tracker support.

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cool to see some interest ^^ I won't spill the beans too much about this stuff yet, but, I'll say it's going extremely well and I think it will be quite useful.

Also, Jansaw, a tool for straight xm->spc conversion does already exist, called XMSNES. I can't remember where I found the binary, but it wasn't that long ago, so a little patience might help you there Won't give you access to any of the more interesting snes-specific features, tho..