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I've been playing around a bit with Sidplay, and i particularly enjoy its possibility to extract single channels of a tune to wav format. Great for remixing...
Since I'm not at all familiar with Amiga sound files (frankly speaking, i don't even know which file extension they have *lol*), I was wondering if there's a way to do this with Amiga sound files too? I'd even be happy if I found a way to get a full Amiga tune to .wav (using a better way than to record it to tape from my WinUAE emulator and then record it back into the computer ) , but getting single channels of it to wav would be perfect.
Any input on this topic would be highly appreciated.. thanks in advance!
I have converted my amiga tracks to pc and i can load them up in a tracker program and save each individial sample from there.
You can also see the notes there
I think you can extract music files from the adf file where the mod is in.
Don't have time right now to check, have to go to work
Most soundcards should now have a 'record what you hear' option in the volume control section for windows (at least that's what it's called on the Audigy).
To record a whole track it would be best to select 'record what you hear', set your sample editor (Cool edit etc) recording and then open up Win UAE and load the game/tune you want. The other option is to send the output right into the input of your sound card (instead of to your tape machine - just watch out for feedback)
For recording specific tracks, getting the tune you want in .mod format would be the best solution, as Trace has said. Plenty of players and tracker programs support the .mod format, so it would just be a question of muting the appropriate channels and rendering or recording the ones you need.
I've got some links to sites which host old Amiga .mod files at home - I will pm them to you this evening.
Thanks for your help. Correct, using the "what you hear" option of my cound card should do the trick... duh.. I feel stupid now for not having thought of this
Also, thanks for the information regarding the amiga sound file extension - finally I have some google fodder! *l*
trace> extracting the mods from adf files sounds great, as I have a lot of them... would you happen to know a good software I can do that with?
Tonka> I'm looking forward to this link list... I'll be looking for a good tracking program to extract single channels with as soon as i get home...
Again, thanks for all your help, this is highly appreciated!
After testing various products, I think mod4win is the best tool for my purposes... I'm very happy with the results so far... it enabled me to do what I originally had in mind (recording single mod channels to wav). The only problem that is left is how to rip mod files from adf files (trace> I tried the total commander thingy but somehow it doesn't work for me, after installing the plugin, some (not many, though) adf files can be opened and reveal their contents but i'm unable to find any mod files in there... i'll keep on trying, though, maybe i'll find something on back2roots.org)
Again, thank you all very much, you've been of great help!
The official RenderXM page (http://www.voxengo.com/renderxm *) appears to be down, but I got another link from the company, and its freeware. It supports sinc interpolation and should be able to channels into separate files; both command line and shell access and supports sinc interpolation for maxium sound quality.
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) , but getting single channels of it to wav would be perfect.
