James' Music and MOD Page

Trackers and MODS

MOD music is generated by mixing different instrument sounds in realtime, following a sequenced song pattern. The instrument sounds are digitised waveforms, called samples, while the song is split up into pattern blocks, the same way sheet music is divided into bars.

MOD's originated on the good old Amiga, which had a sound chip ("Paula") capable of playing 4 channels of 8-bit digitised sound, independant of the CPU. The poor PC, however, has no such luxury - all the mixing of samples must be done by the CPU.

Recommended Trackers:

ModPlug Tracker

• Win95 GUI (if you like that sort of thing)
• Loads / Saves lots of formats
• Other stuff which you might just like

Some of my MOD's (mostly just experiments or background for videogames):

• Happy Flowers (45kb, .S3M, written early 1996)
• Frog Song (72kb, .S3M, written early 1996)
• Blue Sky (106kb, .XM, good quality, early 1997)
• Fantasia (26kb, .S3M, originally by JPE Bach)
• Heaven 1 (115kb, .IT, 1998, unpolished)
• Sega Thing (255kb, .IT, 1998)
• Tank 2 (112kb, .S3M, 1998)

Some of Kline's MOD's:

• Crumble (99 kb, .XM, 1997)
• Funk-Jazz Thing (77kb, .XM, 1997)
• Forest Remix (82kb, .XM, 1997)

Go to Kline the ModMeister's Page for more of his groovy music.

Links to Tracker and MOD sites:

• ModPlug Player (and Tracker) (Get this to play the above MOD's)
  
• Large Mouth Bass

MIDI Stuff

Some of my MIDI songs (best played thru GM or AWE32):

• Happy Flowers
• Summer
• Untitled Techno-ish Thing
• Untitled drum experiments
• Bach's T&F in Dm (or is that Gm ?)
• Polyester Underpants

Roland D-50 Stuff

• Roland Zone
• Utility to transfer patch banks to/from D-50 using MIDI comms.
• D-50 Patch Bank Site.
• How to load/save patch banks.
• My D-50 Patch Librarian (beta Version 1.2)

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