I’ve got a copy of Renoise 1.8 from the COmputer Music mag, and it doesn’t seem to be able to actually save as XM format? Is this true? Does 1.9 have this functionality?
If not, can anyone please recommend a tracker that will save as XM format?
Well, as XM is limited compared to the possibilities XRNS offers, there’s no XM-Export available anyway. Even the import is some sort of “there’s one but it is not very useful” because XM and RNS are completely different.
If you want to have 100% FT2 compatibility you should check out http://www.milkytracker.net/ but keep in mind you won’t have VST, nifty effects and other advantages renoise has.
All that reminds me my (iirc) suggestion about building some xrns2bin and bin2xrns converter with external xml converting maps. To build the ultimate converter.
Modplug is the one I’m going to use. So why do I want to use XM as opposed to the other possibilities offered here? Well, I’m a computergame music composer and the Nintendo DS is incredibly limited. It either takes it’s native format, or…XM. So as much as I think renoise looks, feels and works brilliantly, it doesn’t do the job I need it to, alas.
Shame!
Thanks for all your input though ladies and gents.
if you guys are supporting XM internally (which is a closed binary format, at best hacked together) then you should suggest whoever did that look at Renoise.
The Renoise song format is XML. Someone could probably write a converter specific to your needs much easier than they managed to support XM.
029 is right… i remeber too that XMplay was quite accurate but not 100%, especially with pitch slides etc. I havent used XMplay in ages though (after i made a switch to renoise from impulse tracker) its quite possible that things are different now with XMplay.