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Question How to create a MOD tracker file for in-game music?

Discussion in 'Audio & Video' started by dpoly, Oct 17, 2021.

  1. dpoly

    dpoly

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    MOD audio tracker files look like an attractive option for games music: supported by Unity, small size, music-like (no performance artefacts), etc.

    Only problem is: how do you go about creating them? Start from a MIDI, but what software to use to create a MOD? Where do the sound samples come from?
     
  2. Lurking-Ninja

    Lurking-Ninja

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    With tracker program, of course!

    Here are the two best ones:
    https://openmpt.org/
    https://milkytracker.org/
     
  3. dpoly

    dpoly

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    Thanks, yes, I found OpenMPT and MilkyTracker is similar: part of the whole early computing thing: chiptunes, Amiga, strange hardware, weird effects, oddball UIs, etc. I'm impressed that people still want to do this stuff but that's not me.

    I just want to use MOD as a convenient publishing format for music I already have in MIDI so that Unity can play it, without going to the size of MP3 or OGG. Any suggestions?
     
  4. Lurking-Ninja

    Lurking-Ninja

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    This is the exact same reason why people still use these sometimes.
    I have no idea, I haven't used mod files since 2000-ish.

    But I googled for you: https://www.un4seen.com/ obviously I have zero experience with it, so please, do your research.