From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Sun Sep 05 2004 - 12:13:52 PDT
> example) IT files to Mod files is that Impulse Tracker supports audio
> envelopes, a much greater array of effects such as retriggers, more
> <snip>
Why do all of these different formats exist? It seems like all of
them cold be rather easily converted into MIDI files (for the note
data, and some of the other stuff like pan data and "standardized" midi
effect commands), and then system-exclusive messages for all the other
effect types.
Of course, the files would probably be a little (or maybe a lot)
bigger, and somewhere would have to keep track of all the different
effect SYSEX codes.. Or is this just another example of "format
inertia"?
Jim
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