CompuServe Messages

Sounds like you've got a more direct route into ST3 than I do. I've had no luck going straight in. I'm on a GUS, and the order of loading samples in ST3 seems to be really critical, later samples sometimes corrupt older ones. Sometimes not. Really screwy. So I load the samples into another tracker that's got a decent import, GusTracker, save it out as a MOD, and load that into ST3. ST3 will also take signed 8 bit RAW files with the extension SND. My best advice for dealing with ST3, however, to drop it and move to FastTracker 2. FT2's just out, it's here in the lib, and it's great. Triton broke away from the format in some critical ways, for instance panning is stored in the instrument, not applied to the track, but they're all good ways. It's got a sampler and editor built in, very good import, handles 16 bit samples, has MIDI I/O with optional quantization so you can play on a real keyboard. It's much more like a real sequencer than any tracker I've ever seen. Best of all, it's not a dead program, like ST3.