Music format
A music format is a file format that describes the structure of a piece of music . In contrast to the audio format , no complete audio signal is stored, but only individual notes and possibly information about the structure of sounds.
This also includes so-called chip files , which in principle consist of instructions for a sound chip . The chiptunes used in video games or from the demo scene are examples of chip files.
Music formats
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Tracker modules (compressed or uncompressed)
- Amiga octalyzer module (.oct)
- Composer 669 module (.669)
- Digital sound and music interface module (.amf)
- Farandole Composer module (.far)
- FastTracker -2 module (.xm / .mdz, .xmz)
- Impulse tracker module (.it / .itz)
- MadTracker -2 module (.mt2)
- MultiTracker module (.mtm)
- OctaMED module (.med)
- PlayStation Music Emulation (.psf)
- PlayStation 2 music emulation (.psf2)
- Polytracker module (.ptm)
- ProTracker module ( .mod )
- Scream-Tracker -2 module (.stm / .stz)
- Scream-Tracker -3 module (.s3m / .s3z)
- SoundTracker module ( .mod )
- UltraTracker module (.ult)
- Chip files:
- AY, Chipsound files of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum hardware extension
- CPC, music files of the AY-3-8910 chip of the Schneider or Amstrad CPC
- GBS, GameBoy Sound
- GSF, Game Boy Advance Sound Format (.minigsf, .gsf)
- GSR, Gens Sound Record, format for Sega Genesis \ Mega-Drive music
- GYM, music files of the Genesis YM2612 chip
- HES, Hudson Entertainment System, PC Engine / TurboGrafx game music
- NSF , NES Sound Format, used in the Nintendo Entertainment System
- PCE, music files from the PC Engine game console from NEC Corporation
- QSF, Capcom Q-Sound Format, similar to the PlayStation Sound Format
- SAP, Atari POKEY chip
- SID , sound interface device, chipsound files of the Commodore 64
- SPC , Sony's SPC700 chip from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- USF, Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format for Nintendo 64 sound data
- VGM, Video Game Music
- YM, format of the Atari ST / Amstrad CPC YM2149 sound chip
- Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid, .midi, .rmi, .kar, .hmp, .hmi, .xmi, .mss, .mus, .cmf, .gmd, .mids, .miz, .hmz)
- Direct Music (.sgt, .sty)
- Square-Enix (.bgm)
- KSS (.kss)
- GBR (.gbr)