Impulse Tracker and Resonant Filters Wanna know how to get resonant filters working in IT? Read on. Implementation -------------- So far, resonant filters have only been coded into the MMX drivers - so any soundcard which has an MMX driver for IT will support resonant filters. Of course, this means that your computer has to have MMX before you can run them. To hear resonant filtering, you'll first need to select "Filtered" mixing on Shift-F5. Do NOT write to me about non MMX resonant filtering. Resonant filters CANNOT be included with hardware GUS / Interwave drivers. The reason is because these chips do not support resonant filtering in their mixing algorithms. The AWE 32 driver has *approximate* support to IT's software resonant filtering. Songs written using resonant filters on the AWE32 will not sound exactly the same with other drivers. The diskwriter has all resonant filtering code, of course. (No MMX required) Note that the only external player to have resonant filtering implemented is MikIT. If you use any other player to play your songs that use resonant filtering (including earlier versions of IT), they will not be played correctly. First note ---------- If you do use filtering in your songs, you probably should embed your MIDI Output configuration into the .IT file. This makes the file slightly bigger, but it ensures that your song will be played correctly on any filter-capable driver on any computer. This is selected by turning the "Embed MIDI Data" on the MIDI screen (Shift-F1) to "on". Simple filters -------------- For most users, this is all that you will need to know. The default configuration for IT (copy ITMIDI.CFG to your IT directory) will recognise Z00->Z7F as set filter cutoff frequency and Z80->Z8F as set filter resonance. Z00 is the lowest filter cutoff, Z7F is the highest filter cutoff Z80 is the least resonance, Z8F is the highest resonance If you wish to reconfigure the resonant filters or perhaps create some extra shortcuts, then read below! How the drivers recognise filters --------------------------------- The drivers know what to filter by intercepting MIDI messages. This does NOT mean that filters will require any sort of MIDI equipment, just that the mechanism to instruct the driver to filter a particular note within IT itself is made via the MIDI interface. The instructions that the drivers understand so far are: F0 F0 00 - Set filter cutoff frequency to F0 F0 01 - Set Q factor (resonance) of filter to In each of these cases, is between 00 and 7Fh. Values above 7Fh are ignored. Note that if filter cutoff is set to 7F and Q is set to 0, then no filters are applied. How to tell the drivers these Instructions ------------------------------------------ OK.. so how can we tell the drivers these instructions? For a full explanation, check MIDI.TXT - a short explanation is provided here. First of all, go to the MIDI Output configuration screen in IT. Do this by pressing Shift-F1, then clicking on the "MIDI Output Configuration" button. You will see several MIDI configurations, then SF0->SFF then Z80-ZFF (that bottom window is scrollable). Using Z80 to ZFF ---------------- Z80->ZFF are the easiest to explain.. so I'll explain them first. If you type in "F0 F0 01 3F" next to Z80 (make sure that you have the letters in upper case), then whenever you use Z80 in a pattern, "F0 F0 01 3F" will be sent to the driver. If you refer back to what instructions the driver understands, you'll see that this means "Set filter resonance to 3F". A few more examples: Z81 = F0 F0 00 40 - set filter cutoff frequency to 40h Z82 = F0 F0 01 20 - set filter resonance to 20h Z83 = F0 F0 00 10 - set filter cutoff frequency to 10h Using SF0->SFF -------------- SF0->SFF are slightly more difficult to explain.. but hopefully a few examples will make their usage clear. When you use Z00 to Z7F in a pattern, they do not directly translate in the same way as the Z80->ZFF do. Instead, they set a variable internally called 'z' that gets substituted into one of the SFx commands. Example 1 - If you set SF0 = F0 F0 00 z (on the MIDI Output configuration) Then using Z01 will cause "F0 F0 00 01" to be sent. Z01 = F0 F0 00 01 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 1, as above. Z10 = F0 F0 00 10 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 10h Z30 = F0 F0 00 30 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 30h Z50 = F0 F0 00 50 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 50h Example 2 - If you define: SF0 = F0 F0 00 z SF1 = F0 F0 01 z Then: SF0 - Set Zxx to use SF0 Z30 = F0 F0 00 30 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 30h Z50 = F0 F0 00 50 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 50h SF1 - Set Zxx to use SF1 Z20 = F0 F0 01 20 - Set filter resonance to 20h Z3F = F0 F0 01 3F - Set filter resonance to 3Fh Z50 = F0 F0 01 50 - Set filter resonance to 50h SF0 - Set Zxx to use SF0 Z30 = F0 F0 00 30 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 30h Z10 = F0 F0 00 10 - Set filter cutoff frequency to 10h SF1 - Set Zxx to use SF1 Z20 = F0 F0 00 20 - Set filter resonance to 20h Z30 = F0 F0 00 30 - Set filter resonance to 30h Note that the default startup configuration for each channel is SF0, so the first SF0 in example 2 is unnecessary. Resetting the Filters --------------------- Since the filters are driver related (and IT.EXE really doesn't know about their existance), they are not reset automatically when you stop/play a song. If a MIDI Reset (FFh), MIDI Start (FAh) or MIDI Stop (FCh) message is received, then the driver will reset all of it's internal tables. The default configuration will send both MIDI Reset and MIDI Stop commands. Final Notes ----------- Umm.. Enjoy :) - Jeffrey Lim Contributors Additions - IT215 file format saving. Note that this is an alternative compression format and is often better, but not always. Public releases of IT214 Patch 1 and Patch 2 can read IT215 compressed files. There is also a version of MikIT that can read IT215 compression. - Sample sorting enabled. On the sample/instrument list screens, files will be priority sorted alphabetically if you don't move the cursor. If you do move the cursor, then you can force a resort once all the files have been loaded by pressing Alt-S. - Reordering of order list with Alt-R while on the order list screen (easier to try it out, than to try to explain it) - Extra instrument filter controls. IT214 Patch 3 - Merry XMas guys! - If anyone who has contributed has NOT received an EMail from me, please write to me! I've sent out EMails to every one of you.. but a few addresses have changed.. or I could have accidentally missed you (huge apologies if so) - Bug fix: IFF loader - Bug fix: XM modules with no patterns won't crash IT. (Apologies to the GroovyCompo Organisers - for those interested in online music tracking competitions, check http://www.groove.org) - Bug fix: CACHE files stored on CDROMs will now work, irrespective of their datestamp. Thanks to Humanoid/Prophecy for the Morbid Minds CD on which I could finally test these routines! - Bug fix: Obscure bug on instrument list under rare circumstances causing playing notes to do weird things. - Driver news: Updated driver format (incompatible with previous ITs) Resonant filters - check FILTERS.TXT for information. This stuff has been released basically so that contributors can distribute their songs that use filters.. - MMX drivers implemented. - WAV driver - time accuracy improved - can specify destination directory (on shift-F5) - handles resonant filters IT214 Patch 2 - Bug Fix: 16-bit samples of an exact multiple of 32768 bytes in size were getting corrupted on saving. - Bug fix: MIDI Macros (unparameterised) were somehow disabled somewhere after IT212.. now reenabled IT214 Patch 1 - Bug fix: EMM4.0 mode reenabled - Bug fix: Volume envelopes were skipping some ticks (sounded too fast) - Bug fix: Slight problems with the wav writer fixed - Bug fix: S3M saving bug fixed (was introduced in IT214 due to a 'bug report') - Other miscellaneous fixups IT214 - Version jump to make sure samples don't get screwed up by the prerelease (IT213) loader. This is the FINAL public release. Apart from bugfixes/new soundcard drivers, don't expect to see anything in the future... - Samples are now compressed on the fly when saved and loaded from disk. Note that this is NOT the same as using MMCMP. - Several unimportant (debug) procedures removed to make slightly more memory available. - Driver news: Diskwriter interpolation changed from quadratic spline to cubic spline. (Requires a FPU) IT213 Update - Modification: Sample panning reset to override instrument panning due to demand. - Update: .IFF loader updated. Should deal with almost any .IFF file now. - Update: EMS Stability improved - Update: Several miscellaneous changes - Update: If old effects is *ON*, then a looped volume envelope will NOT include the last node (for XM compat) - Update: More memory available (Help text was manually compressed) - Row hilight information is now stored within the .IT module.. - Automatic MIDI Pitch wheel handling. Vibrato, pitch slides, portamentos all handled. - MIDI Configuration can be embedded into .IT files. (Option is on Shift-F1) - Driver news: Terratec EWS64 XL Codec software mixing driver Terratec Maestro 32/96 Codec software mixing driver Terratec Maestro 16/96 Codec software mixing driver Ensoniq SoundscapeVIVO Codec software mixing driver Sound Track PCI Codec software mixing driver ES1688 Audiodrive Codec software mixing driver (for ViperMAX) MPU401 generic driver. Direct to Disk writer now uses logarithmic volume ramping and quadratic spline interpolation Read DRIVERS.TXT for information on all of these. IT212 Update - Special thanks go out to all those that did stability testing of the beta versions of IT212. - Bug fix: "Available Samples" in the instrument loading screen will be correct if you're loading an instrument from within a module. - Bug fix: Sample files will store default pan values. - Bug fix: Trying to show pattern data past the end of a pattern will not crash IT anymore. This could have occurred before if the number of rows in a pattern were reduced during playback, then switching to the info page. - Bug fix: Deleting samples/instruments "within" a module has been disabled (as it should be), so that the module itself cannot be deleted. - Bug fix: Default sample pan will override instrument pan whether "Old Effects" is on or off. - .669 Loader, since Snowman is collecting 'em :) This loader hasn't been extensively tested, maily because Composd.Exe will not run on my machine (64MB is "Not enough extended memory" ?!?! ). Most songs should play though.. Please don't bug me to update the loader any further - you won't get a reply. - *Much* better memory handling for patterns. EMM386 parameter H=255 should not be required in MOST cases now (you will only need it if you use a large number of samples (ie. > 50) ). You should also have more FreeMem to work with. Beta testers have noted that QEMM shows even more stability problems in this version than previous versions - please avoid QEMM as it DOES cause crashing for as yet unknown reasons. The old memory allocation routines can still be found if you have EMS problems by using /P2 on the command line. - Keyboard handling on instrument lists has been improved to handle multiple keypresses/releases. (but not on sample list due to usability) - Default volume display in *NORMAL* (5 channel) pattern editor if you press Ctrl-V. If you use a custom font, you will need to upgrade your font set with FONTUPGR to see this properly. Example: C-4 01 .. ... <-- what volume is this?? Press Ctrl-V: C-4 01 [32] ... <-- it'll show that the default volume of sample/instrument 1 is 32. Alt-K has been upgraded to 'pick up' these default values. (So that you can also slide from volume 0 to the sample's default without having to explicitly key in the value). - Automatic filename extension replacement on Ctrl-S, so that if you press Ctrl-S after loading a .MOD, .669, .MTM or .XM, the filename will be automatically modified to have a .IT extension. - CDRom check for CACHE.IT? files. If you burn a CDRom of samples or instruments, include the CACHE.ITI and CACHE.ITS files from IT211+ and they should accelerate loading of sample and instrument names on all future versions of IT. < Not tested, since I can't :( > - 64 channel miniview on the info page. (note: doesn't show all fields) - Note dots added on the info page. (You may have to update your info page settings by re-saving all prefs) - Changed the old Alt-C on the instrument list to Alt-W (wipe data) New Alt-C removes the instrument name and filename, but does NOT remove the instrument parameters (like the Alt-C on the sample list) - MIDI OUTPUT! Fully configurable output 16 parameterised macros 128 constant macros Check MIDI.TXT for details. (Big thanks to Ozone for writing this) - Soundcard Driver news þ Inserted a new algorithm into the direct-to-disk writer to remove clicks at the end of samples in cases of Note Cut commands, Note Cut NNA and instantaneous sample changes in sample mode. For those who have sent me money and would like to receive the upgrade, EMail me. þ ESS ES1868 AudioDrive driver. This will NOT support any other ESS chipsets than the ES1868. Do not write to me asking for support for other ESS chips unless you are willing to buy me a card (or send me the money to do so). This driver supports mixing rates up to 56.8kHz (16 bit, stereo) and it also supports MIDI In. þ AWE32 driver update: More accurate tempo control and less clicks under Win95 þ TB Tropez users: I received an EMail telling me that the GUSMAX drivers were working fully with the TB Tropez cards! See how it works... þ Sound drivers for the ST97 and EWS64 coming... as soon as I get them working.... Other news: It seems that some people really don't care how much work I've put into IT - Warez versions of the full ITWAV.DRV are being sought after. Let me make this clear: Distribution of the full version of ITWAV.DRV is NOT appreciated and if I ever find the full version anywhere, IT will no longer be publically released. IT211 Update - Not so much this time, as I have been working full time, so since IT has been sitting on my HDD without changes for a couple of weeks, I decided to release the update anyway. - Saving a song with Ctrl-S or from the menu will not prompt about 'overwriting' the file. - Compatibility Gxx volume fadeout fixed. - Matrox autodetection fixed to set mouse cursor properly also. - You can press 'L' or 'R' on the "load stereo sample" prompt to select left or right channels. - Increased file-header 'load-buffer' so that more Sound Forge .WAV files should be recognised. - Bug fix to: swap samples/instruments, insert/remove sample/instrument and update instrument *could* have caused the current editing pattern to skip being modified. - Bug fix: Pressing delete on a non-note column in template mode should work as expected. - Note: If you delete your old IT.CFG files and run IT afresh, you'll get an extra 'line' on the infopage to work with. - .KRZ sample-library loader. Note that this does NOT support multiple .KR* files (ie. .KR1, .KR2, .KR3). To use these files, you will have to run MERGEKRZ.EXE (supplied) to create a single .KRZ file. (BIG thanks to Markus Jonnson for the info!) - .PAT sample-library loader. - Creating a 'host instrument' after loading a sample will first attempt to use an instrument of the same number as the sample before finding the first empty instrument. - Holding down Caps Lock in the pattern editor will allow you to play notes without entering them into the patterns. Driver modifications - Bug fix for SB16 drivers which caused patterns not to 'play'. For those that still have troubles with the SB16 driver, read DRIVERS.TXT - For those of you who couldn't get the GUSMAX driver working, check out DRIVERS.TXT also :) - The ITWAV.DRV file now writes proper .WAV files instead of .RAW - ITAWE32.DRV uses floating point calculations to reduce memory usage. ITAWE32B.DRV (the old driver) still exists for people who don't have math coprocessors IT210 Update - some MAJOR fixes here. - Approximate song length on Ctrl-P. Note that *some* soundcards will require reinitialisation after this (almost all won't). The time given is the 'ideal' time for the playback of the song and should correspond *exactly* to GUS/AWE non-IRQ playback times. - A few more player bug fixes for XM compatibility - IT won't crash if you try to load instruments from an 'empty' drive (eg. disk not inserted or no files present) - In the pattern editor, Insert/Delete, Note Cut/Note Off/Note Delete are all 'template aware' - they will span more than 1 channel if you are editing in template mode and the template has height 1. Also, 'picking up' data with Enter will turn off Template mode's except for "Template-Notes Only" - Volume column effects Ex/Fx/Gx in combination with effect Jxx should operate as expected now. - Deleting a file on the instrument list will update the instrument cache file appropriately. - Sample/Instrument cache file time check fixed. - Slight modification to the handling of SBx commands to prevent infinite loops. - Simple crash recovery mechanism should you ever encounter a problem. (You shouldn't need it!) This is on Ctrl-Alt-Del in DOS or Ctrl-Alt-Ins in Windows. It is not guaranteed to work, but if it works once, then I guess that the amount of time I spent on it was worth it (~10 minutes). For the technically minded lot, what it does is it tries to 'kick start' the tracker again directly from the keyboard interrupt handler. - Loading a stereo WAV file will cause a pop-up menu to appear to select loading the left or right channels. - GUSMAX users interested in using software mixing, check out DRIVERS.TXT - Memory corruption error found and fixed which produced 3-sets of invalid values in the order list/instruments (main reason for this release!) IT209 Update ************************* FONT FILES REQUIRE UPDATING ********************* If you have your own custom font file, you will need to change character number 184 to 190. If you have used one of the 'standard' font sets, you will need to run ITF and grab an updated file. Failure to do so will just make the sample page look stuffed - You have been warned :) *************************************************************************** Many Many MANY miscellaneous fixes to the XM loader and playback routines -> XM support should be *MUCH* better now. Volume effects have been debugged... hopefully :) Some major errors fixed around (ie. dumping to DOS from the Instrument screen, Pattern's not updating in memory correctly (which went wrong in IT208) ) Added default sample pan to the sample list (default instrument pan WILL override this if present). Note that using default pan is the equivalent of using a 'set pan' effect on that row - the channel will be set to the default sample pan. You can change whether the info page displays sample names or instrument names by pressing 'i' IT208 Update So much so quickly? Well, I had exams. And when I have exams, I code, 'cos it's better than having to study :) ************************* FONT FILES REQUIRE UPDATING ********************* If you have your own custom font file, you will need to change character number 184 to. If you have used one of the 'standard' font sets, you will need to run ITF and grab an updated file. Failure to do so will just make the info page and 10-channel editor look stuffed - You have been warned :) *************************************************************************** - Bug fix: Keyboard configuration files could have cause MAJOR problems... fixed! - Bug fix: Some files with the .MOD ID "CH" which actually were NOT MODs were being identified as "Fast Tracker 2" modules. (You may have to delete your CACHE.ITS files to force IT to refresh it's data) - Bug fixes: MIDI input won't corrupt input on the order list MIDI input won't interfere with button presses MIDI input won't insert effect SDF into patterns when recording where inappropriate. - Old Left Ctrl+Shift-1 'removed', Left-Ctrl+Shift 1->4 still work - and have been updated. PROPER 10-channel editing mode available (complete with half sized cursors!) as well as some minor logic improvements. (Try Left-Ctrl+Shift 2) - ";" and "'" made to change the samples/instrument in the pattern editor as '<' and '>' do - just much easier to do so on American keyboards. - Dragging mouse nodes past boundaries is more accurate. - "Channel details" display (on the infopage) *can* show the 64th channel (oops in IT207) - Matrox bug autodetection (Many thanks to Csaba Pankaczy for working with me on this!) - Message system hooked to a timer (ie. all those messages that appear towards the top of the screen).. so that they will last a consistent amount of time (independent of machine). - Player Improvement: NNA mechanism will eliminate channels on two extra conditions now (no difference to playback, but should maximise channel usage) - Improvement: Persistence of cache files through different sessions of IT - ie. once the sample/instrument cache files are created, they are NOT recreated unless necessary. - Root "\" directory has replaced "." directory on all loading screens. - Several Template input related functions improved. Also, Block-Cut in template mode won't overwrite your clipboard if you're working with templates. - Template: "Notes only" added. This is different from the other templates in that it will NOT copy the template's instruments, volumes or effects. Instead, it will change it's instrument/volume/effect according to the last used instrument/volume/effect, and will insert whatever is speicfied by the edit mask. - Addition: Volume Column effects, Ax, Bx, Cx, Dx, Ex, Fx, Gx and Hx!!!! Ax = Fine volume slide up by x Bx = Fine volume slide down by x Cx = Volume slide up by x Dx = Volume slide down by x Ex = Pitch slide down by x Fx = Pitch slide up by x Gx = Portamento to note with speed x Hx = Vibrato with depth x Note that the pitch/portamento scale here is DIFFERENT from the standard effect slideup/down * Note that if you use these in your songs, IT < 2.08 will NOT play them * correctly... (in fact, it'll probably play it extremely painfully) - Alt Up/Down/Ins/Del added to the note translation table. - Minor modifications around the tracker - Windows Sound System Driver! (Operates at mixing rates up to 64kHz!) Impulse Tracker has the greatest soundcard support of any tracker by far! - Old Effects will 'unlink' the memory of Gxx from Exx/Fxx - XM LOADING!!!!!!!!!! Don't write to me complaining about incompatibilities - I am aware of lots of them and you probably won't get a reply. :) *MOST* songs should have a near perfect conversion tho... - Big safety feature!! Playback dying because of overload? Bad NNA selection? F8 *should* stop playback immediately now! (in DOS). In Windows '95, there may be a noticeable stall before playback stops (ie. several seconds), or it may not function at all... IT207 update - Some bug fixes to MIDI input. - Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn on the sample list will redraw the waveforms - Jxx memory should work fine (The memory didn't operate if the channel wasn't active before) - Template limits should be correctly applied. (ie. clipped within C-0 and B-9) - Going to a pattern from the Info Page ('G') will also go to the current order playing. - MIDI input can be enabled/disabled in the pattern editor with Alt-Scroll Lock - MOD in-module sample library loop points fixed. - Envelope drawing algorithm slightly more tolerant of corrupt information - Mouse envelope routines slightly improved for more accurate handling of nodes. - Added Message editor to main menu. - Added 10 channel view to the info page (you may need to reset your info- page settings and "save your preferences") - Squished up the info page view to get a couple of extra lines! :) - Ctrl-F7 on the order list will set the next pattern to play (at request of ChuckB) - for DJ use - Due to Win95's unstable disk-EMS routines, if you load a MMTSRed sample, instrument or module (sample library), playback *will* stop to prevent corruption of samples currently in memory. - Notes in templates of height 1 will be played back in the pattern editor (very useful for "multi sample" note entry) - Added effects T0x and T1x for Tempo slide down and tempo slide up. - Added .IT and .XM *INSTRUMENT* library support. Note that .ITs that aren't in instrument mode or have no instruments will NOT be shown on the instrument loader list. - Added Alt-Ins and Alt-Del on the sample and instrument lists to add in samples/instruments **** NOTE: /Sx command line parameters have been changed around just for neatness. CHECK SUMMARY.TXT FOR NEW /Sx VALUES OR RUN "IT /?" *** IT 2.06 - Update: Yet another update to the EMS routines.. for those of you who couldn't be bothered to read the FAQ. Also new command line switch: /Px - Set pattern memory allocation strategy. Check SUMMARY.TXT for info on this. - Minor update: The 10-stage undo buffer will now use EMS memory under most circumstances. - Minor update: S3M and IT loader routines slightly modified for more efficient memory usage. - Minor update: "Song modified" flag logic slightly modified. - Minor update: .WAV loader slightly improved. (should read any 8 or 16-bit format.) - Minor Addition: IT will now release time slices to multitasking OS/s if you specify /T2 on the command line. If you are using the MIDI input capabilities of IT, you SHOULD NOT enable this (timing gets effected badly) - Minor Addition: Set pattern length command on Ctrl-F2 (can set multiple patterns) - Minor Addition: Command line switch /T1 to disable "usage time" indication - Addition: TX Wave loader for .W?? samples (eg. from Kosmic's sample dirs) Note: These are actually 12-bit samples, which are converted to 16-bit at load time. - Addition: .MOD sample library loader. This "only" recognises the following MOD Identifications - "M.K.", "M!K!", "FLT4", "FLT8", "4CHN", "6CHN", "8CHN" And FT2's extended MOD identification, "xxCH" If you have an "Old Amiga-MOD format" MOD (which doesn't have an ID), then you'll have to save it as another format if you want to rip directly from it. So sample library support in total: .MOD, .669, .FAR, .MTM, .S3M, .PTM, .XM, .IT - Addition: Intelligent MIDI Input for SB16 and Interwave cards! MIDI options screen is on Shift-F1 (those of you who have IT.CFG from older versions of IT *WILL* need to visit this screen at least once if you want to use MIDI - "Save All Preferences" will save these settings) In the pattern editor, Ctrl-Z is "Change MIDI playback trigger." Normally, it is quite difficult to start at a row/pattern with MIDI - this options allow you to control whether a pattern or song should START playing when you play the first note. (IT will play either from the start of the current pattern or the song starting from the current row depending on your choice) Once this is done, the trigger is immediately unset, so you will have to setup this trigger again if you want to use it. Note that this *will* turn on pattern tracing. To disable it, use Scroll-Lock. ****** NOTE ****** SB16's MIDI input is somewhat 'iffy'. If you stop receiving MIDI input, you need to reinit the soundcard (Ctrl-I) (possibly several times). I don't know why it does this. Dont' write to me about it, 'cos I have spent MANY MANY hours on this little problem and I don't want to know about it. Also, in Win95, I found it necessary to change my SB16's configuration to EXCLUDE the MIDI port (and I used a Microsoft MPU401 driver instead), otherwise MIDI input was ignored. Sorry, no GUS MIDI at the moment, as I couldn't get it working. Please do NOT write to me about this, you will not get a reply. An updated GUS driver will be released if/when I get it working. To all of the following people listed, I offer my heartfelt thanks. Impulse Tracker would not be the same without them. --------------------------------- Demosongs for Impulse Tracker --------------------------------- IT1.00 - "Firestorm" - Chris Jarvis IT1.01 - "Pale Dreams" - Chris Jarvis IT1.03 - "Firepower" - Chris Jarvis IT1.05 - "Sidewalk" - Chris Jarvis IT1.06 - "Creation of Gaia" - Sherman Wu (ZaStaR) IT2.00 - "Fallen World" - Chris Jarvis IT2.01 - "A Hidden Fate" - Chris Jarvis IT2.04 - "Winter's Dream" - Andy Sega (Necros) IT2.08 - "Acid Dreams" - Liam Widdowson (Legend) IT2.14 - "Blue Flame" - Chris Jarvis ----------------------------------------- Additional Coding for Impulse Tracker ----------------------------------------- Impulse Tracker Font Customiser - Sherman Wu (ZaStaR) Impulse Tracker Text Importer - Sherman Wu (ZaStaR) Music Module Compression - Emmanual Giasson (Zirconia) Keyboard Configuration files - Stefan Kucharik (Eliot) ---------------------- Website Management ---------------------- USA Site - Shawn Mativetsky (Shawn202) http://www.citenet.net/noise/it UK Site - Andi Simpson (Perception) http://www.mixbbs.demon.co.uk European Site - Joost Baaij (CH:ilm) (no longer operational) Spanish Site - Javier Gutierrez http://www.redestb.es/personal/khz/it.htm http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4802/it.htm Music and Tracking Site - Matthias Ziegs (MAZ) http://www.maz-sound.com IT Resource Central - Matthew Gardner http://www.unidev.com/~logic/music/it ---------------------- Documentation Help ---------------------- ASCII Logos - Ze`ev Nissan (Cruel Creator) FILE_ID.DIZ - Ze`ev Nissan (Cruel Creator) MIDI Output documentation - Andre Pang (Ozone) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hardware Thanks (Sorted alphabetically by company name) --------------------------------------- Company: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Products: Interwave Received: LT2 Interwave Board Website: http://www.amd.com Notes: AMD has discontinued the production of the Interwave chips. Nonetheless, thank-you to Christopher Cox for his excellent service. --------------------------------------- Company: Creative Laboratories Products: Sound Blaster series, Video Blaster, etc. etc. Received: Sound Blaster AWE32 Website: http://www.creaf.com --------------------------------------- Company: Hanmesoft / Hoontech, Korea Products: Sound Track '42 Sound Track '42 PCI Sound Track '97 Gold Sound Track '97 Ruby Sound Track '97 PCI PCI Modems Received: Sound Track '97 Sound Track '97 PCI Website: http://www.hoontech.com Notes: The Sound Track '97 PCI is the worlds first fully SBPro and WSS compatible PCI card and has some of the best features ever seen on a soundcard! For bangs per buck, it's hard to beat one of these! Thanks go to Haejin Park and to Seungho Pak! --------------------------------------- Company: Synergy Advanced Technology (Taiwan) Product: ViperMAX Received: ViperMAX Website: http://www.synergy.ca/pctoybox Notes: For a fully compatible Gravis UltraSound card with perfect Sound Blaster compatibility, check out the ViperMAX cards - providing the best of two worlds without the troubles of PnP. Special thanks go to James Hsu, Synergy Advanced Technology. --------------------------------------- Company: TerraTec International Products: AudioSystem EWS64XL SoundSystem Maestro 32/96 SoundSystem Maestro 16/96 SoundSystem Gold 16/96 SoundSystem Base1 Received: AudioSystem EWS64XL SoundSystem Maestro 32/96 SoundSystem Maestro 16/96 SoundSystem Gold 16/96 SoundSystem Base1 Website: http://www.terratec.de Notes: Terratec produces extremely high quality soundcards to cover everyone's needs - check out their high end EWS64XL cards! Thanks go to the entire Terratec Team, especially Kay Bruns, Wim Roegels and Sascha Kamps - 3 of the team that I've had the pleasure to come in contact with! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributions ----------------- (sorted in alphabetical order, listing is Full Name / Alias / Country + notes) Name Alias Country Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KjWise Iceland Egor Abramov Russia Steven Anderson USA Big contribution, thanks! Nicolas Arrouet Onix4MAN France Brandon Bannerman Catspaw USA John Barger USA HUGE contribution, thanks!! Claus Bartels Germany Jonathan Bartlett Michael Baumann Germany Allen Bettilyon USA Bastiaan Bijl Thanatos Netherlands Mike Blaine Christian Bode Germany Fabian Boes Germany Nathan Bonfiglio Ash Please contact me! Eman Borg Malta Alexander Brandon Siren USA Yannis Brown Yannis Australia Michael Buchholtz Germany Big contribution, thanks! J”rg Burbach Germany Jim Cairns Canada Mike Cantelon Foolish Bird Canada Zach Cappelletti Shams Kitz USA Michael Carlsson Silverstance Sweden Hector Chang ZoneSeek Canada Big contribution, thanks! Eric Charlent Spher-X France Andy Chen USA Rick Christy GrymmJack USA Matt Cramer USA Jim Crawford Pfister USA Daniel Cunningham Ireland Ben Dany Barthelemy Defossez France Dire Portugal Benoit De Greift BS4 Belgium Luciano Di Lucrezia Big contribution, thanks! Asaf Dor Andrew Dun Brendan Ebel USA John Ehmann Canada Alexander Ewering Internal Germany Nick Feldman Reuben Firmin Rubz Scotland Big contribution, thanks! Matt Friedly Subliminal USA Sebastian Grillmaier Germany Moritz Grimm Maxx Germany John Goforth USA David Goodale Canada Sylvian Guiraud France Big contribution, thanks! Joe Hahn USA Peter Hajba Skaven Finland Tim Hamers Netherlands John Harris USA Joshua Hastey Ith USA Raymon Hoving Finland Shu Hung Canada Big contribution, thanks! Ryan Hunt Pinion USA David Hunter USA Shane Jackson MetaMan Canada Chris Jarvis Australia Jan Jirak Czechoslovakia Robert Johnson Xenopraxis Frank Kane USA Thomas Karolczak Mindflyer XS Keith Kelly Syrinx USA Mehran Khalili Screamager Luxembourg Martin Kleinman Brain Netherlands Martin Klossek Germany Alexander Koenig Germany Evan Korzon USA Peter Kunath Germany Rich La Bonte Flatrich USA Michael Ladanyi Canada Eliot Lee PrOtoCoL USA Big contribution, thanks! Rik Ling USA Sami M„kinen Finland Anthony Marin Verminator USA Norman Mark Nothing More Canada Mike Ma'rton Hungary Akos Matte Bat & Cyborg Hungary David Menkes Behemoth USA Pirnat Miklavz Mauro Molinari DjM Italy Lutz M”ller Germany Paul Munson Canada PLEASE WRITE TO ME! I CAN'T CONTACT YOU! Joachim Nentwich Germany Anthony Oetzmann AiRON Germany Jonathan Pak Australia Andre Pang Ozone Australia Jourden Parks AllenKray USA Jean-Luc Pedneault Canada Eddie Plaskur Mexican Beans Australia Harout Pogossian Eric Pomerleau O'Realitea Canada Pascal Q. Porcupine Spikey USA Big contribution, thanks! Alexander Rahm Germany HUGE contribution, thanks! Hazhir Ranjram Balk USA Alessandro Rascazzo Antitesi Italy Pasi Rastas Finland Justin Ray Zinc Canada Tobias Reckhard Jester Germany Jimmy Redfern Jimmy Ireland Owyn Richen Josh Rodman K8to USA MEGA HUGE contribution.. Thanks doesn't come close to saying enough.. Jens Roeben Germany Nick Rose Phantasm Canada Keijo Ruonamaa Gze Finland Please write to me! Mark Sanders USA Adi Sapir Doc Israel Gerben Schmidt Netherlands Wolfgang Schwarz Germany Big contribution, thanks! Kristian Sergiejew Poland Ryan Shaw USA Josh Silvey USA Michael Soutar MSoutar Australia Ian Stocker RabiteMan USA Big contribution, thanks! Mark Straver Moonchild Netherlands Jer Sypult USA Patrice Tarabbia Mercure France Thor Teague USA Jaymz Thompson Jason Tracer Electric Keet USA Nash Trajkowski Australia Eric Tremblay DeltaX Canada Michael Twarkowsky Germany Jani V„is„nen Finland David Van Dromme Belgium Marti Van Lin Erik Van Hengstum Netherlands Ernst Van Rossum Netherlands H.R. Scheper-Keuter Josuf Netherlands Filip Van Schoor Cantaloup Belgium Jan Van Stiphout Maarten Van Strien Crystal Score Netherlands Benjamin Vogt Australia Arno Vryman Netherlands Gerd Wagner Germany Tom Walter Subsonic Australia Timothy Weller Flukey USA Jemi White Australia Brian Wickman CD USA Liam Widdowson Legend Australia John Williams Jackal USA John Wilson USA Tobias Wilton Sweden Big contribution, thanks! David Zearing USA Matthias Ziegs MAZ Germany ... where's your name? :)