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FamiTracker
For export to mod to work, Famitracker would have to sample all the instruments it uses into binary each for triangle and square wave use respectively. Since Famitracker uses square and triangles, the information is stored mathematically. I doubt you will see an export to MOD feature. You're free to code it
The closest to Famitracker is Fast Tracker II, ModPlug.
Well, famitracker samples the waves already when it plays back the music. If you haven't noticed, you can listen to the music as you make it. When exporting to mod, you'd only need one single period for each type of wave (for 4 types of square and a triangle this will still amount to incredibly small amounts of data), except the dpcm samples, which would have to be stored in their entirety (but if you keep the bitrate the same the samples should stay very small) and the white noise (which would need a little longer a sample to sound any good). You do not, however, need to make a sample for each instrument since mod files can do ADSR stuff. Some instruments, however, won't really sound good...
"Well, famitracker samples the waves already when it plays back the music"
not to my knowledge / not in the way you mean. it's all synth aside from the DPCM.
exporting to mod would be pretty complicated, especially as you create more dynamic instruments, such as stuff with pulsewidth variation - any instruments like that would have to be sampled in their entirety, and then you get problems due to sample data being played at different rates at different pitches. unless you fancy recording all the tones separately and retracking them manually in whatever...which sounds very inefficient. mod format can do vibrato, pitch, ADSR, arpeggiation etc. but pulsewidth is one thing it can't do other than within the samples themselves (of course)
Uh ok, I meant, when famitracker plays music, it creates sound from these mathematical formulas that make up the waveforms. If you create a waveform for each of the pulsewidths (one period is enough), you'll still end up with extremely small amounts of data. Agreed, it would be complicated to convert an instrument that rapidly switches pulsewidth into mod, especially when you take pitching into consideration, but aside from that, you could get very close to an nsf. Naturally, some features of Famitracker would have to go with mod exporting. I also don't expect this feature to ever be included, I just hate every other tracker I've ever used... I guess what I really want is for jsr to make a mod tracker that works just like famitracker does.
