How to learn that instrument contains 8bit samples, without using OpenMPT?

[Alex TEHb]

There is a big library instruments in the ITI format (more than 1000).
I want to remove from it all 8bits instruments.
Whether there is an opportunity (program/script) to define how many bits in samples used in instuments, without loading everyone separately into Sample Editor OMPT???

I mean batch operation.
Maybe in structure of instruments there is some tag by which it is possible to recognize how many bits, having opened the file in hex-editor or the usual text editor???

[Saga Musix]

I'm not aware of any such tool but it could certainly be done based on the IT sample specifications (see bit 1 in the "Flg" value).

[Alex TEHb]

I.e. it is necessary to find the beginning of sample (IMPS) and to check byte No. 19.
If bit No. 1 is equal 0, it means 8 bits of sample.
Did I get it right?

The bit Flg system confuses (I already rather forgot such subtleties). But I will try to write a script...
Thank you!!!
I think, it is better to write a script, than to look through more than 2500 instruments...

[Saga Musix]

That sounds correct, yes. Note that in a regular ITS file the IMPS magic is always at the first byte - only within an regular IT file it can be at an arbitrary place inside the file. So you will always be looking at byte #19 in the file.

[Alex TEHb]

I and understood.
Wanted to specify: The FLAC compression does not change structure of the heading IMPS?

[Saga Musix]

There is FLAC compression in ITS files; Impulse Tracker has its own sample compression algorithm if that's what you mean. Whether samples are compressed that way does not change bit 1 of the "Flg" value, but compressed samples have bit 3 set.

[Alex TEHb]

Thank you!
Now I will be engaged in search of a programming language in which it is simpler to write it...
I programmed the last time for ZX Spectrum, in the Alasm assembler.

I hope, on PC I will find some Basic or Macros-language with which it will be simple to deal... ))

[Alex TEHb]

Somewhere I made a mistake.

Opened couple of instruments in hex-editor.
For example, this:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/2SVs/2cadcBKtB

To address 00000248(HEX) (value of byte No. 19): 00001011
And when loading in OMPT is defined how 16bit.

With other instrument situation similar.

[Saga Musix]

Yes, that seems correct. "00001011" has to be read back to front, i.e. the second-to-last digit in that string is the one you are looking for - and it's 1, indicating a 16-bit sample.