can we revive the MOD format? (please!!)

[Mr_Capehill]

But editin MP3 may be painful when compared to MOD I would use Ogg Vorbis btw. Too bad not as many hw players support OGG Vorbis.

AHX is cool...reminds me of some work todo..

[whabang]

We need to make a difference between modules and mod-files. MOD-files are nice for retro stuff, but for modern music, we need something nice, like XM or IT.
Problem is that there hasn't been any new, serious attempts for trackers during the last few years. FT2 and IT are both ages old, and though a nice try, ModPlug doesn't really make it all the way.
There are some nice new tracker projects on the way, though, and hopefully people will start using them.

[Mr_Capehill]

Sure, we need something not as limited as 4ch MODs.

Have you tried Skale Tracker?

There is also ProTracker 5 in development.

[harima_kun]

Have any of you tried ReNoise, I use this on Mac OS X and it is the closest I have gotten to writing music in an octamed style, the software is great and maybe somebody could convert it to the amiga?

[_ThEcRoW]

I use UltraMp3 on my nokia n-gage, and it allow me to listen to .mod .s3m .xm etc... and of course mp3.
Works like a charm.
By the way it's a series60 program so any nokia smartphone with symbian 6.0 or up should work.

[SamuraiCrow]

@Harima_Kun

Med Soundstudio version 2 is going to be coming out soon for PC and possibly Mac.  That should be closer to Octamed style.  BTW they're even working on an AmigaOS 4 version (with fewer features though).

[detz]

Well i still use octamedss albiet via an emulated amiga, although i use it solely to sequence MIDI data to control harware samplers and synths. I had a brief look at the PC version but it wasn't the same, surely there would be slight timing differences too.

[Legerdemain]

Problem is that there hasn't been any new, serious attempts for trackers during the last few years. FT2 and IT are both ages old, and though a nice try, ModPlug doesn't really make it all the way.

Uhm... you have obviously missed out on SkaleTracker.

http://www.skale.org/

However, it has been a while now since the last major update, albeit not ages (but it is rather regulary updated with bugfixes and such).