How To Convert Mods From Atari's Digital Home Studio

General Discussion
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Hello everybody,

I used to make music on my Atari Falcon 030 with a soft called Digital Home Studio, by Softjee. Its format was the .DTM (not the .DTM of the former version, Digital Tracker , nor Digital Trakker, which is another soft)and I would like to recover my old tunes. Alas, it seems that there’s no soundtracker under Windows which supports this format. I tried to save them in .S3M but it appears that the files are corrupted. Can anybody help me or has already faced this problem ? :( (sorry for my english, I am french ^_^ )

Thanks in advance,

Giovanni B.

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I’m afraid that the Atari Falcon was not really a very popular scene tool.
Though some folks were very crafty on it.
A bit similar to the Archimedes back in the end 80’s which had a lot of potential (and a lot of nice games) but never got the marketshare that it deserved.

I doubt you can find a good solution for it. Coprrupted s3m’s after conversion probably means the converter either expected some other .dtm format or wasn’t that sophisticated in converting your type of mods.

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First of all, welcome to Renoise world Giovanni B! I’m sure you’ll not be disappointed!

I can only foresee one easy solution to your problem. You can load the files with the native program running on your Atari Falcon 030 and get a way to convert the data to audio format. This explanation is kinda lame so i hope it makes sense. That means that you can recover the song data to *.WAV format and then work the sampled sounds using renoise native sampler.

(E.G.: Using the Atari Falcon 030 as an instrument instead of a DAW)

You could research ATARI emulators (if any), load the program inside the emulated system and then try to open the files from there. It’s a shot in the dark though.

You could start by messaging this community: http://atari800.sourceforge.net/contact.html

I hope this information makes any use to your situation.

Take care! :)

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Thanks for your answers !

@Harakiri : I’m not such a rookie on Renoise : i’ve been using it since 2005 :) but it’s my first post on this forum. I thought about the emulator way and as you say, it’s a shot in the dark ! And thank your for the link !

@Kaneel : Hey homie ! Keep glitching Mr Baguette ! See ya on Moonove’s board !

@vV: Thank you for your answer ; as a matter of fact, that was my conclusion too…