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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝

actually if you're mentioning him i might as well ask just in case he knows: what's the 7th byte in the DMU instrument structure intended for, right after the pitch table index and before the delay? it's the one thing that i haven't been able to figure out yet in there

24/4/26, 5:09 am0 reposts5 likes

@seven.eurosky.social

24 Apr

If you send me a DM, I'll get you in touch with our coder, who might be able to answer your questions, although he coded the editor ± 37 years ago. 😅😅

@reiniervanvliet.eurosky.social

25 Apr

@reiniervanvliet.eurosky.social just noticed that you have an account here now, i'm still kinda curious about this (as well as the purpose of the first 2 bytes after the magic text)

Reinier van Vliet

I'm a bluesky n00b so can't see to what magic bytes you are referring too. 😅 Is it about some waveform/instrument effect? btw some instruments would be hard to emulate as Mugician had some 'waveform manipulation stuff' that I don't know if it has ever been used in other trackers.

@reiniervanvliet.eurosky.social

oh! by "magic bytes" i mean the text at the beginning of the file header, in this case " MUGICIAN/SOFTEYES 1990 "; the 16-bit value immediately after that is set to 1 in nearly every file i can find

Reinier van Vliet

Okay if I recall, that was to see if a mod was supposed to be played with the 7 channel player. That player was one big hack. Piece de resistance of getting the last ounce of performance out of the mixer, mixing the 4 tracks from song2 into 1 channel in song 1.