Soundtracker 2.6 / Ice Tracker file format Soundtracker 2.6 written by MnemoTroN/Spreadpoint, 05-Nov-1990 IceTracker by Icepic, v1.1 10-Jan-1993 Format description by Claudio Matsuoka , 24-Jan-2000 Both trackers available in Exotica (and probably Aminet). Soundtracker 2.6 module format, also used by Ice Tracker, is closely related to the standard (Protracker) module format and has each 64-row track stored independently. The format is, of course, big-endian. From the Ice Tracker documentation: This [sub-patterns] idea was initialy implemented by MnemoTroN/Spreadpoint in his SoundTracker v2.6 (...). Basically now a pattern instead of being made up of 4 joined tracks (ie: Channels 1,2,3 and 4 were previously classed as one pattern) are now individual sub-patterns in themselves, that is that now it is possible to independantly call up a single sub-pattern to repeat on a certain track (ie: the main beat, for example) without constantly copying it into every 4-track pattern as was previously required. Play around with it and you'll get the idea. That's what you want? That's what you get. Follow me: Offset Size Description ------ -------- ---------------------------------------------------- 0000 20 Title 0020 31*30 Instruments 0000 22 Instrument name 0022 2 Sample length in 16-bit words 0024 1 Unused (finetune not available in ST2.6) 0025 1 Volume (0 - 63) 0026 2 Sample loop start in 16-bit words 0028 2 Sample loop size in 16-bit words 0950 1 Size of the pattern list 0951 1 Number of stored tracks 0952 128*4 Track indices for each pattern 0000 1 Channel 1 0001 1 Channel 2 0002 1 Channel 3 0003 1 Channel 4 1464 4 Magic ID 'MNT\0' for Soundtracker 2.6 'IT10' for IceTracker 1.0/1.1 1468 ? Track data (stored like Protracker) ???? ? Sample data (stored like Protracker) ------ -------- ---------------------------------------------------- Event format: ,---- Instrument ----. /\ /\ / \ / \ 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 \ / \ / \ / \ / \/ \ / Note Period effect effect parameter Note periods: C-3 to B-3 : 214, 202, 190, 180, 170, 160, 151, 143, 135, 127, 120, 113 C-2 to B-2 : 428, 404, 381, 360, 339, 320, 302, 285, 269, 254, 240, 226 C-1 to B-1 : 856, 808, 762, 720, 678, 640, 604, 570, 538, 508, 480, 453 Effects (ST26): 0 : arpeggio 1 : portamento up 2 : portamento down 3 : tone portamento 4 : vibrato a : slide volume b : position jump c : set volume d : break pattern e : set filter f : set speed Example: Header: 0 [0000] 54 69 6e 79 5f 54 75 6e 65 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 Tiny_Tunes...... 16 [0010] 00 00 00 00 42 79 20 4a 6f 67 65 69 72 20 4c 69 ....By Jogeir Li 32 [0020] 6c 6a 65 64 61 68 6c 00 00 00 0b c7 00 29 00 00 ljedahl......).. 48 [0030] 00 01 28 63 29 20 31 39 39 32 20 4e 6f 69 73 65 ..(c) 1992 Noise 64 [0040] 6c 65 73 73 00 00 00 00 0b c5 00 29 00 00 00 01 less.......).... 80 [0050] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 96 [0060] 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b e8 00 29 00 00 00 01 4d 4f .........)....MO 112 [0070] 44 2e 45 6e 64 6c 65 73 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 D.Endless....... 128 [0080] 00 00 00 00 0b dc 00 29 00 00 00 01 65 78 74 65 .......)....exte Patterns: 944 [03b0] 00 00 00 00 00 01 54 b0 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 ......T......... 960 [03c0] 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 ................ 976 [03d0] 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 11 12 13 14 15 16 13 17 15 16 ................ 992 [03e0] 13 14 15 16 13 17 15 16 18 17 22 23 1b 1c 1d 1e .........."#.... 1008 [03f0] 18 17 19 1a 1b 1f 20 21 24 14 25 26 18 27 28 29 ...... !$.%&.'() 1024 [0400] 24 14 25 26 18 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 30 31 $.%&.'()*+,-./01 1040 [0410] 2a 32 33 34 2e 2f 35 36 37 38 39 3a 37 38 3b 3c *234./56789:78;< 1056 [0420] 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 11 12 ................ 1072 [0430] 3d 3e 3f 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b 4c =>?@ABCDEFGHIJKL 1088 [0440] 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 ................ Soundtracker signature: 1456 [05b0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 54 4e 00 00 00 00 00 ........MTN..... 1472 [05c0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1488 [05d0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1504 [05e0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1520 [05f0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1536 [0600] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1552 [0610] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ Ice Tracker module: 0 [0000] 6f 72 64 65 72 20 6f 66 20 64 65 61 74 68 20 69 order of death i 16 [0010] 69 00 00 00 31 2d 46 72 65 65 42 72 65 61 6b 00 i...1-FreeBreak. 32 [0020] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1e 7b 00 40 04 30 ...........{.@.0 48 [0030] 09 bc 31 2d 46 72 65 65 44 72 75 6d 00 00 00 00 ..1-FreeDrum.... 64 [0040] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 ad 00 40 00 00 00 01 ...........@.... 80 [0050] 31 2d 46 72 65 65 44 72 75 6d 2b 00 00 00 00 00 1-FreeDrum+..... 96 [0060] 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 ad 00 40 00 00 00 01 31 2d .........@....1- 112 [0070] 46 72 65 65 53 6e 61 72 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FreeSnare....... 128 [0080] 00 00 00 00 03 f5 00 40 00 00 00 01 32 2d 46 72 .......@....2-Fr Ice Tracker signature: 1456 [05b0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 49 54 31 30 00 00 00 00 ........IT10.... 1472 [05c0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1488 [05d0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1504 [05e0] 11 7d c0 00 11 7d c0 00 00 00 00 00 11 ac c0 00 .}...}.......... 1520 [05f0] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1536 [0600] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 1552 [0610] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ --eof--