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#106006 - yannis - Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:49 am

Groovy Audio

GroovyAudio is a well established audio provider for handhelds providing professional composition and sound-design.

Our portfolio is built on a solid foundation of titles covering platforms such as Nintendo DS, Nintendo GBA, N-Gage, PocketPC/Palm, Zodiac, Mobile Phone, Sony PSP, Xbox, PS2, PC & Web.

    18 years expertise in XM, S3M, MOD, IT, MIDI
    Nintendo-authorized provider for both GBA and NDS.

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#107413 - jester - Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:54 pm

can u turn formats into like .ogg into .mod audio?

And if so how much would it cost
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#107418 - kusma - Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:24 pm

yannis wrote:

18 years expertise in XM, S3M, MOD, IT, MIDI


excuse me if i'm being stupid here, but how can you have 18 years of experience with tracking XM files, when Fasttracker 2 is only 11 years old?

#107420 - keldon - Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:49 pm

kusma wrote:
yannis wrote:

18 years expertise in XM, S3M, MOD, IT, MIDI


excuse me if i'm being stupid here, but how can you have 18 years of experience with tracking XM files, when Fasttracker 2 is only 11 years old?


I would assume that the 18 years includes MIDI. And he is merely stating that he has 18 years of experience in creating music.

#107425 - tepples - Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:27 pm

jester wrote:
can u turn formats into like .ogg into .mod audio?

Turning .ogg into .mod or any other tracked format is called a cover version. For one thing, where did you get the .ogg file, and do you have its multitrack source code?
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#107429 - kusma - Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:45 pm

keldon wrote:
I would assume that the 18 years includes MIDI. And he is merely stating that he has 18 years of experience in creating music.


The sentence I quoted clearly stated 18 years of experience in a series of audio-formats. I find that quote to be inaccurate and most importantly misleading. I would suggest it to be rewritten.

#107435 - tepples - Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:28 pm

I saw 18 years in the series, not 18 years in an individual format.
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#107438 - jester - Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:44 pm

it seems like they are certified pros though
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#107443 - yannis - Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:10 pm

If I listed midi by itself then that would be 22 years in Midi composition.

The point of the post is to say I have way more than enough experience backed up by a solid portfolio. I am not a newbie, I do this stuff commercially for a living.

If you're inexperienced each format is different. To me XM or S3M or IT to me is the same thing, just slightly different effect commands. Really for me the extensions are meaningless. I've had enough experience writing in all formats to switch between them seeminglessly. I've written in excess of 300 tracked format songs, and probably in excess of 160 midi tracks and have tracked in all the listed formats since they've been out.


The only one which is slighly different is 4ch .MOD format. Commercially it's the worst format to use, and I don't know any developers using it any more. I would seriously recommend a developer use the native GBA or DS Nintendo audio drivers than use a 4ch .MOD engine.

"Porting" an .OGG into a MOD format is not magic. I have done it many many times. It is really time consuming process to make it sound similar. Not only do you need to create each instrument so they are similar sounding to the originals, but then having to convert by ear note by note, and manually keep track of channel restrictsions. It's not a cheap way to do things. The only customers I have had that want porting done are ones who do movie or TV based titles and need the original music and have adequate funding to cover the process.

Secondly you need to have licensing rights to use the original music.
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#107444 - jester - Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:13 pm

Yannis would we be able to send u a .mp3 and your company turn it into a .mod how much would that cost?
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#107461 - jester - Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:48 pm

thanks for the PM Yannis i will have to think about it
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#107463 - tepples - Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:10 pm

jester wrote:
Yannis would we be able to send u a .mp3 and your company turn it into a .mod how much would that cost?

Do you have the multitrack source for this .mp3? If not, then how was this .mp3 created? It might be cheaper for the OP to turn it into a mod/s3m/xm/it if you have the multitrack source.
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#107470 - jester - Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:42 pm

well i converted alot of my music from various formats
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