Wii homebrew – Schism Tracker v20100202

Homebrew coder Storlek has released a new version of Schism Tracker, a wiibrew app based on Impulse Tracker, “a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique finger feel that is difficult to replicate in-part.” Full changelog after the break.

Download: Schism Tracker v20100202

Homebrew coder Storlek has released a new version of Schism Tracker, a wiibrew app based on Impulse Tracker, “a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique finger feel that is difficult to replicate in-part.”

Developer’s note:

If you have a USB keyboard and mouse attached, they should work identically to the standard PC version. The Wiimote works like a mouse and also provides basic playback functionality.

Changelog:

File loading/saving:

• MMCMP decompression fixed for big-endian systems
• Fixed a crash bug and some problems with XM and AIFF on 64-bit
• Replaced loaders: FAR, MDL, ULT, OKT
• New loader: MUS (Doom music)
• Some fixes to XM and IMF envelope behavior; XM envelopes should now load just like IT
• XM loader was leaking a ton of memory by allocating space for each sample twice, whoops
• Added title scanner for MoonFish files, because why not 🙂
• Relative paths on the command line (e.g. schismtracker ./file.it) are changed to absolute paths. This fixes a long-standing bug with the file
• browsers getting “stuck” inside the current directory.
• Font path defined in the config file can be an absolute path residing
• outside of ~/.schism/fonts now, so it’s possible, for example, to share the same font.cfg between Schism Tracker and Impulse Tracker.
• Path normalizing code rewritten, and now actually works correctly
• Module browser remembers cursor position (this got broken when filename pattern matching was added)
• Changed the formatting for printing information when loading songs: less “cramped”, more IT-like

Pattern editor:

• More template changes to better match IT behavior
• Enter key turns template mode off (except with Notes Only templates)
• Multi-cursor only shows when shift is not being held down (for block selections)
• Note cut/off/fade and clear now correctly wipe all masked fields in all affected channels
• Some behavior was erroneously dependent on the specific template mode
• PgUp from the last row of a pattern will place the cursor on the previous major highlight, even if the highlight doesn’t line up with the pattern size.
• Multichannel dialog layout and cursor alignment changed to match Impulse Tracker
• Block swap (Alt-Y) wasn’t recording the pattern state for undo.

Sample list:

• New feature: press Alt-Shift-Z on the sample list to select from 128 built-in Adlib MIDI patches!
• Host instrument dialog defaults to No when an instrument containing the sample already exists (not QUITE the same as Impulse Tracker, but maybe this is better?)
• When creating a host instrument, the number of the instrument used is displayed in the status line
• Anything that “generates” a sample (Alt-P, Alt-Y, Alt-Z, Alt-Shift-Z) will prompt for a host instrument if instrument mode is enabled.
• Sample modification keys (reverse, sign flip, amplify, etc.) are disabled with Adlib samples.
• Quality convert fixed to show the confirmation dialog with stereo samples, although changing quality without converting the data is unimplemented (and probably would not be very useful, for that matter)
• Sample-loading page fixed to always show the current sample number/name at the top of the screen (was showing the current instrument if instrument mode was enabled)
• I was wrong: in Impulse Tracker, F8 never clears the dots that show what samples have been played; *starting* playback does that. Fixed.
• Fixed some edge-case bugs with Alt-Ins/Del on the sample list

Player:

• Modplug’s extensions to S9x removed (they were mostly broken anyway, and no one seemed to notice)
• Fixed a player bug with the handling of S6x and SDx effects on the same row
• Envelope carry behavior changed to reset the envelope regardless of carry if a new note is played after a note-off
• Adlib mixing volume amplified due to request from Manwe. (Sorry this took so long… it was *really* easy after I found the right place to do it, haha)
• Changed internal handling of arpeggio slightly

Miscellaneous:

• Copyright text moved off of the log page to a new help screen, accessible by pressing F1 at the startup dialog (or on Ctrl-F11)
• Several previously undocumented keys added to help
• Some other internal changes with help text; should be easier to keep it up-to-date in the future
• Alt-P and Alt-N keys on instrument list note translation table fixed
• Upper value limit fixed for entering sample numbers on note translation table
• Dialog changes: ‘c’ and ‘o’ keys to select OK/Cancel
• Global keys that open dialogs (Ctrl-N, Ctrl-P, etc.) show the dialog on key-down, instead of key-up
• In classic mode, Schism Tracker will make the clicking sound that IT produced when initializing the sound card.
• Audio device setup code rewritten
• New config file parameter: [Audio] driver=alsa:hw:2 (format is driver:device)
• Mouse behavior is (hopefully) more consistent and expected

Download: Schism Tracker v20100202

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