Its diverse range of methods is intended to give the Processing community a very granular relationship with tracked audio data, which can either be found amongst the gigabytes of free modules available online or created with trackers such as ProTracker (Amiga), FastTracker (MS-DOS), ScreamTracker (MS-DOS), or the modern-day and very cross-platform MilkyTracker - Notes (2019) PortaMod builds quite heavily on IBXM in the control features it offers, while retaining IBXM's efficiency and reliable handling of these formats and their idiosyncrasies. Though oldschool 4-channel chiptunes can be as small as 3 kilobytes, complex and high-quality music can be arranged in an XM of up to 32 channels, often matching mp3 quality but with a reduced filesize. syncing a screen-flash to a particular note, by a particular instrument, at a particular time and volume) and the possibility for extensive live interaction with the music itself.Ĭompared to MIDI, tracked formats use instruments based on samples which sound the same on any replayer system, rather than being dependent on varying MIDI-synths. Based on the IBXM replayer by Martin Cameron.įundamentally, PortaMod is a Processing wrapper for IBXM so that the Processing community can benefit from the advantages that oldschool 'tracker' formats offer.Ĭompared to WAV/MP3/OGG, these advantages include small file-sizes, the ability to synchronise visuals and other triggered events to events in the music (e.g.
A MOD/XM/S3M tracker module replayer and manipulation library for Processing by Brendan Ratliff (aka Syphus^UpRough).
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