Re: Composing pingus' songs

[Joe Cooper]

Björn Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to try myself being a composer. It's just that I've never 
> made any music with my computer (only an "analog violin" :-). Is there 
> (hopefully free) software to write songs or sample sounds and put 
> samples together? How did you do that with the existing pingus sounds?

I had nothing to do with the existing Pingus music, but I'll comment, 
since I know what the answer is.

The existing pingus music was written using a 'tracker' (the .it file 
suffix hints at Impulse Tracker...there is also an s3m or two in there, 
hinting at Scream Tracker).

There are two trackers for Linux that are free: SoundTracker and Cheese 
Tracker.  Both work well and similarly to each other and the 
Impulse/Scream/etc. trackers on the Win/DOS side, and all are directly 
related to their ancesters on the Amiga (the original SoundTracker, MED, 
Noise Tracker, Pro Tracker, etc. etc.).

Sound Tracker is the easiest to get working, in my experience, and you 
can get it here:

http://www.soundtracker.org

Since Pingus uses the libmikmod library for tunes (doesn't it?), I 
suspect you can use any format supported by mikmod for Pingus tunes. 
SoundTracker format tunes are supported by mikmod.
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