Problem with MMF's module playback.

[Golds]

Nifflas, what'd you end up doing to get an acceptable volume for the tracker music in Knytt/Knytt Stories?

[Nifflas]

I used the .ogg format. These days I use the sequencer to compose.

[Mantis]

Um, could you tell me what's really so bad about MMF2's IT playback? A program I'm developing should be playing back IT files (over frames possibly too) and I'd like to know.

[Nifflas]

It's explained in this topic.

Problems:

• Sometimes you create a song that you can't increase the volume of any further (all samples are normalized, some instruments has the maximum global volume), except making it louder by channel doubling (which consumes extra CPU). In those cases, you often need to play the song louder than MMF2's "100%".
• You can't configure what interpolation algorithm to use, and chip music (as well as most songs I compose actually) sounds best with zero-order interpolation despite that it's often considered "low quality".
• It does not follow "pattern jump" commands. You can not create a song with an intro that only plays once, and is skipped when the song loops.

Solutions:

• Make sure the song is loud enough (compressing the samples do help)
• Create music which is supposed to use high-quality interpolation
• Do not use "pattern jump" commands.

[Mantis]

It can't do pattern jumps!? I really need that. The whole reason I want to use the IT format is for loopable music.

[Nifflas]

Well, loopable is possible, as long as it's the entire song that should loop.

[Mantis]

Nope, sadly. For most modules I want to use, it will have an 'intro' part, and then at the end it will jump to just after the intro.

[Nifflas]

Too bad Well, I guess there's a chance that I could have forgot if the ordinary "play sample" (instead of "play and loop sample") will make it follow pattern jumps. I'm quite sure it doesn't though.

[neat_Kliker2]

use ModFusion then, it allows pattern jumping! But as some people said, it doesnt work on every PC

[DavidN]

ModFusion also seems to be rather unstable, especially when playing music over frames.