Ive been dabbling with ft2clone a bit and realized instruments i make in there can be loaded in Renoise.
While Renoise is my main too, i still like to have fun in the older trackers once in a while.
I’m wondering if there is a way to create xi instruments in Renoise that can be opened in ft2.
It does not seem to be able to directly export xi files. im still new to format related things so maybe this is a dumb question. But if anyone has any conversion tricks I might be able to learn please let me know.
Haha. i am a beginner once again.
But @Achenar does this mean you know the answer? Is it basic knowledge? So far no one has been able to answer this before posting in here.
Im seeking a way to export and/or convert to xi from Renoise if it exists or if this would require a new tool. I imagine less people will see it now that its moved in here…unless this is taboo, and that was the point of the move
I don’t think there is a way, Renoise Instruments have a lot more features than the XI format so exporting could become a bit disappointing.
Of course, it could still be implemented via tools, the format itself is proprietary but there is a reverse-engineered specification on github, if anyone wants to attempt Samplicity/docs/xi_specs.txt at master · ckald/Samplicity · GitHub
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ok. yea i wouldn’t expect Renoise features. only the basics that xi does use. I was curious IF it were a thing, how ft2 would handle importing if the samples were not mono, etc. it would need to convert im sure.
Its not something Im going to push for or cry over if its not a thing. Would be cool, but probably not worth he effort in 2025. Thanks.
@unless thanks for the link. i’ve reached out to ft2-clone people to ask if there’s another spec out there - maybe there’s a way of combining these xi specs together and getting a better more full picture.
btw, yes, there’s gonna need to be super-many limitations (ft2 is mono, after all for samples), etc. but it’s interesting to see how many details of a fileformat from 1994 are available now, 31 years later.