I just played around with them a little, but what I know is: there's a lot of good mod's around, mod's have a very low footprint, and, yes, basically it's small fractions of WAVes, pitched or looped or echoed. All in all a very efficient way to make music. AFAIK there are competitions to make good music with files no larger than one megabyte.
Oh and btw, Unreal Tournament (and games that use the UT engine) uses MODs (though they have a different file extension).
A good starting point is here:
http://www.maz-sound.com
Dirk
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No reason -- I'm just not as familiar with it as I am with WAV.
I know how to acquire, edit, record/play, modify and generally muck about with wav files -- I just haven't done anything with MODs.
(Or MIDs for that matter, beyond working a little on the evil empire's Midi sequencer back in 1990 or so -- and doing this cool pitch-tracker thingy.)
Sounds like I should get familiar with them though.
m
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From: owner-pygame-users@seul.org [mailto:owner-pygame-users@seul.org]On Behalf Of DirkK
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:55 AM
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Is there a reason that you don't want to use some .MOD Format? This is exactly what it was made for.
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From: owner-pygame-users@seul.org [mailto:owner-pygame-users@seul.org]On
Behalf Of Pete Shinners
>for raw uncompressed audio, i think the standardish rate is about
>10MB per minute. so a 4 minute music track could swamp many peoples
>computers.
Of course, you are right - I wasn't considering real music tracks, as is
probably intended.
I'm using (what I've found so far) repeating musical "loops" that are rather
short.
(Usually about 10 seconds or so.)
I figure I'd write a music manager object that faded these in and out (with
possible simultaneous combinations) every so often, or depending on the
current game action.
m
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