Transferring mods from Amiga to PC for editing...

graybags · Newcomer Joined: 03 Jul 2012 Posts: 3

Hi!

Back in the late 80's I used to write music on my A500 using Soundtracker and the like. Anyway, I still have my A500 and the disks, and wouldn't mind getting back into it.

I've read that I can connect up the Amiga to my PC via a null modem cable (which I have somewhere) and copy over the files onto my PC using Amiga Explorer.

So my question is this: If I copy the files from my A500 (or the A600 a friend has leant me) onto my PC, can I open them up into some tracking app on a PC and edit/play them?

Cheers,

Graybags

Acid · Amiga Junkie Joined: 02 Nov 2010 Age: 36 Posts: 419

Winamp can play and convert them to wav etc. To edit them in tracker format you will need something compatible, check this list out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_trackers

graybags · Newcomer Joined: 03 Jul 2012 Posts: 3

cerium88 · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

i dont see why it shouldnt be that easy, i had a brief interest in doing stuff like this and once the amiga mods were on the pc you could open them up with your tracker and listen/edit no problems.

graybags · Newcomer Joined: 03 Jul 2012 Posts: 3

Acid · Amiga Junkie Joined: 02 Nov 2010 Age: 36 Posts: 419

you could even use winuae and edit them with real amiga software like protracker if you wanted too

Thrashie · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:20 pm Post subject:

might want to give renoise a try
as a former noisetracker/protracker/octamed user i felt quickly at home Cool

even with all its modern and advanced options you can easily use it as a basic sample tracker with the advanced menus closed

the demo version is only mildly limited

just noticed that there even is a tool for it to convert songs back to amiga protracker compatibility
altho the basic amiga memory size will probably be a limiting factor Smile