an automated process to save power on using vsti synths?
Well, if it was as easy as you make it sound, it would have been done already. There used to be a tool called VDumper, its Website has disappeard but you might still be able to track it down somewhere. If not, I might have it on a Computer Music Special DVD somewhere... This tool basically does what you want.
thanks, i did find it online, though the link for download does not seem to be working..
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/vdumper_by_cctmaybe its only momentarily.
why is the instrument limit only 255?
Because an 8-bit number can only hold as much as 256 different value. And the instrument column (like all other columns) is 8-bit. This might be improved with future revisions of the MPTM format, but I cannot promise anything regarding when and how, and it certainly will never be possible to use more instruments in XM and IT.
well, i do not have any nostalgia for the xm and it, onward to the future i say.

and how about a automated process to create multisample instruments out of instruments that have long fx chains? (again to save power, pretty much sucks only being able to use about 70 vsts at once (lot less if big ones.)
I have to say that if you are using 70 plugins at once, you certainly must be doing something wrong. That's way too much stuff going on there. Let me tell you that as a rough rule of thumb, the more plugins you use, the worse your sound will get, not better.
well..
i cant sample to wav and then use the stems like in other daws. but id say that is a matter of taste, but generally i tend to use a few fx per instrument.
maybe some distortion, reverb, some compression or whatnot.
i add on fx, till i get the sound i like.
though id say, that generally you are right, took me awhile to "master" this, but i like the sound and i can only write to my tastes.

and, though i sometimes fx the samples and save them as wavs and then use, i find i like the sound better othervise in most cases.
its a bit of a juggle, but only in my largest songs.
btw, did i come off as if i were complaining?
i really like writing on trackers over any other daw´s and modplug tracker is the best tracker ive found.
im more wondering if some things are to be added or if not, why not.
wondering now, if working with stems would be incorporated in modplug, ive always found the sideways keyboard editor in other daws, rather ridiculous and cumbersome.
thanks alot, btw, to anyone part of programming modplug tracker.

and im not demanding anything btw lol, that would be rather ridiculous. im really pleased with the effort that has been put into this, made many of my days much more pleasurable than they would have been othervise
oh hey? why are sidechain compressors so hard to use with modplug tracker? i found some instructions on this site, but couldnt get it to work. (im not a very technical guy though.

(im ok, just not a programmer.)).
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