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Hello.

MOD format with 8 channels was rather a brief phenomenon. S3M and XM came soon.
However there are some editors capable of it.
Akord was one of them. But -

any other editors can save 8-channels MOD files? FastTracker II? Others?

Thx in advance.

Not strictly .MOD, but from that generation; Oktalyzer and OctaMED could do 8 channel tunes.

Startrekker. Ammmiiiigggaa \o/

Radiantx:
Hi.
If You mean the Octalyzer for Atari STe, then that's actually the problem - it makes 8-channels MODs - but I suspect not everybody can get used to its features (it's pretty strange) so we wanted to let the people make multichannel music in any other editor capable of saving 8channels MODs, to get more works for the compo (if it takes a place, which depends on results of this thread by the way ;-) ).

So the final thing is - we need a concrete format: 8-channels MOD.

Startrekker is all you need. Ammmiiiigggaa World Domination 2010 powered by Wurst! \o/

Uh yeah, Startrekker 8chn MODs are pretty weird, because the first 4 channels are stored in the even 4-channel patterns and the last 4 channels are stored in the the odd 4-channel patterns. Weird. :P
Other than that, Fasttracker 1 introduced 8-channel MODs on the PC, I think.

TakeTracker can also save multichannel MODs.

There was converter for standard 4-ch mods->8-ch ones, made by XTD. Its nam (AFAIR) was Multer (check on Aminet).

ProTracker v3.5 (Cryptoburners version) has the ability to run in 8 channel mode. Means you can load a 4 channel mod and make it 8 channel.

Best Amiga music program ever written was Music Line editor, 8 channels, filters, realtime synthesis!! AWESOME!

modplug tracker supports .mod with any number of channels, up to 16 I guess but maybe 32, I didn't tried.

Octalyser for Atari STe and FlexTrax for the Falcon are two programs that edit and save 4, 6 and 8-channel .mod-files,

I really wanted to learn how to use Musicline, but the interface was counter-intuitive and superconfusing to the max, and there was no documentation for it. I guess that's why so few people ever used it. Still, it looked like it would have been awesome.

32, which is the limit Fasttracker 2 introduced.

Octalyser was out on the 'miggy too, remember having it.

FastTracker -- the first one, not FT2. That was the pioneer of the format, I thought, with 6CHN and 8CHN as the signatures inside the file.

...on PC, anyway. Yes, IIRC Startrekker was probably the actual pioneer.

Audio Sculpture, on Amiga, could do 8 channels... (it was a commercial product though)

DIGI Booster as well, but it was released far afterwards

as mentioned before: Music Line Editor is a really awesome program.

Bonjour Hardfire btw! Do ya check ICQ from time to time? :)

I dunno which program it was used to track on, but dope.mod had 28 channels in 1994. TWENTY-EIGHT! yeah baby...

Art of Noise (by Twice/LEGO), and StoneTracker are interesting trackers on Amiga as well able to make 8 channels tracks.

@gentleman: ICQ... I connect very rarely on it to be honest!

I presume most 8 channel trackers for plain 68000 Amigas just used 7bit samples so that the mixing stage was just an add?

7-voice TFMX/HippelCOSO did real mixing on one channel iirc. so you had 3 channels with full accuracy and 4 additional ones with limited fidelity for use with background instruments (nice idea btw.)

jeenio: FT/FT2, I think. I'm actually not sure if DOPE.XM or DOPE.MOD is the original file.

Oktalyzer was on Amiga too, but if I remember right, samplerate and volume was halved on 8 channels.

Spike, wow nice. About week ago I listened to Turrican2 Theme (7ch TFMX) and started pondering how they made it, came to samekind of conclusion. Very nice idea! Delay/Reverb/FX does not need to be fullrate.