Some stuff I'd like to check out
- all artwork demo mods (smt)
- all faculty demo mods (snotty)
- all tricktrax mods
- newest mods from Jason
- newest mods from Vinnie
- and so on
There are probably also some gems among trackmos. I remember one but forget the name, it had superb music.
Anyway I tried AMP recently but it seemed the downloads were disabled (again: alternatives are good!) but I'll try again now...
Unified mod format: create format for as many mod formats as possible and convert all mods to it; then instead of having a heck of a lot of plugins we could do with one and all information from mods would be preserved.An archive application like zipfolders could make it possible to browse each modfile like a folder: samples, instruments, patterns, names, info, etc.
One could also generate a database of information extracted from mods in this format so users could easily inspect thousands of modules. Their patterns could be compared, samples could be compared and possibly shared. In a database form songs would take up much less space because samples could be shared. One could even automatically search for similarities between songs and detect inspirations between composers.
Its a good thing Exotica has format descriptions. I've been thinking: perhaps its possible to create a machine readable description of each format, specify a mapping into a target format and then simply automatically generate conversion modules to recast most modules into the new format. Depends on how sophisticated each mod format is.
And and and...
l8r
