xm4smps

It supports distortion-like effects from the XM files or something?

 

Bugreportx0rz

I found out that when you don't assign a channel, the program crashes after the error message.

How ironic. Below is an anigif showing what happens.

 

I get his when I run make:

Ubuntu 8.10 x86-64, Qt4

 

Are you able to change panning in the middle of the song?

If so, what are the thresholds?

 

I figured that much, but do you have to mark every note with the effect, and what levels does it have to reach before it considers it left or right side? are we talking a range like 00-20 and C0-FF, or JUST 00/FF, and maybe 80/unmarked for center?

Further, I noticed the 3XX commands failed in my conversion. Are there any other methods to get a decently controlable pitchbend?

 

SMPS can only pan channels to the left, right, and centre. It doesn't do it incrementally, from what I thought.
As for pitch bends... no. xm4smps doesn't convert XM format pitch bends. The only way to do proper pitch bends is to figure out the modulation commands yourself, or use the smpsNoAttack/g15 thing to make fake-ish ones.

 

That didn't seem to work, though. After experimenting, I found it's the volume column again, and unless you have the same pXX in the column on the release, it will go to the center.

In fact, I'm thinking that's where any effects have to be applied.

And on another note, I'm having touble getting an XM with Speed 3, Tempo 160 to match up to a SMPS setting. 0204 is too fast, and 0203 is too slow. 03XX is WAY too slow, even at 030F (higher values for the second byte seem to be ignored).

What do the SMPS values match up to? So far, it seems like 0203 is like a 3/150.

While you're at it, may as well document as much as possible and collect it into a possibly upgraded readme, 'cause I can't find ANY of this anywhere on the boards or in the wiki.

 

This is actually bad. But you're planning on adding this support?

 

Welcome to my world, I spent the last year saying people that this isn't possible. I'm glad you obsoleted xm3smps, now people have someone else to bug :p

 

The Mac OS X version's link appears to be broken... When I click on it I'm sent to a page which doesn't load fully for about half a minute, then Safari says it "Failed to open the page." When I control-click on it (the Mac equivalent of a right-click) and select "Download Linked File As...", it starts to download, but makes no progress, and after a minute or so the download times out.

If you could somehow fix this then that'd be great. If not, I won't mind so badly; I've got a PC, so even though I'd prefer trying xm4smps for the Mac I guess I can try it out for Windows instead. Thank you for your time, patience, understanding and consideration.

 

Thanks! =D

EDIT: Wait, the link there doesn't work either?

Where the link sends me

 

Weird, the wiki is going nuts. I get a "currently no text in this page" error too if I follow that link, yet the file is there, as I could retrieve it via FTP.

Oh well, mirror'd.