___ ___ __ / | \ ___________ ____ _____/ |_ / ~ \/ _ \_ __ \/ \_/ __ \ __\ \ Y ( <_> ) | \/ | \ ___/| | \___|_ / \____/|__| |___| /\___ >__| \/ \/ \/ ______ _____________/\ /\_______ / \/ \____ \/ ______/ / \ / \ \ / | \______ \ / Y \ / / | \ / \ \____|___ /_____\_____ /________/ \/ \_____/ Archive Size : 5.7Gb Hornet MODS Volume 2 - 10 Sep 1997 DemoNews Subscribers : 2602 >------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents -- General Information Articles Audio Track Listings for Disc 2 ............... Snowman Foreword ...................................... Vincent Voois Closing >------------------------------------------------------- General Information -- :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org Welcome to the exciting world of the PC music scene! Thousands of musicians from around the world harness the power of their PC to create new tunes every day. _____So What's A Music Module? A music module is a song. It is a song created on a computer and saved as a file. Music modules come in many different formats. Just like graphics are usually found with .GIF or .JPG extensions, music modules have their own unique set of types: .IT, .S3M, .XM, .MOD, .669, .FAR, etc. _____What Makes Music Modules? The programs that create these songs are called "trackers". Each tracker makes a unique format of song: Impulse Tracker makes .IT songs, Scream Tracker 3 makes .S3M songs, Fast Tracker 2 makes .XM songs, etc. The most popular tracker today is Impulse Tracker. Also very popular is Fast Tracker 2. Why would someone use one tracker instead of another one? Often it has more to do with the person making the song than the tracker itself. There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of tracker. But this isn't a "Toolkit For Making MODS" so I'll stop there. :) _____How Do I Play Modules? Although these "trackers" are very useful for creating songs, they aren't always the easiest or quickest way to play them. This is where "players" come in handy. One player can handle several different types of songs. There are many good players out there, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. _____What Players Are Available? This CDROM is built to run under DOS, Windows 95/NT, Linux, FreeBSD. We have tried to include players for as many different formats as possible. The most widely used player in the "scene" today is Cubic Player. It can handle the most types of formats. It isn't the most accurate player sometimes, but it has an excellent interface and is very friendly. However, in keeping with the music scene, it is a DOS-based utility. Cubic Player is the default player used with our DOS "view.exe" program. For Win95/NT users, there are several good players available, two of which are included on this CDROM: Midas 95 (which will play .MOD, .S3M, and .XM files), and Mikit (which plays .IT). Midas 95 and Mikit are the default players used with our Windows "w32view.exe" program. For FreeBSD/Linux users, there are versions of both "mikit" (for .IT's) and "mikmod" (for .MOD/.S3M/.XM). There are both precompiled binaries and source for mikmod, and precompiled binaries for mikit (can't have .IT source code running around now can we?) :) Mikit: Author : Jean-Paul Mikkers (MikMak) Email : mikmak@via.nl WWW : http://www.stack.nl/~mikmak Plays : .IT OS : Windows 95/NT, FreeBSD, Linux MikMod: Author : Jean-Paul Mikkers (MikMak) Email : mikmak@via.nl WWW : http://www.stack.nl/~mikmak Plays : .MOD, .MTM, .S3M, .STM, .ULT, .XM OS : Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, DEC Alpha, HP 9000, AIX, SGI Midas 95: Author : Bernhard Wodok (Bartman / Abyss) Email : bw005ns@munich.netsurf.de WWW : http://abyss.home.ml.org Plays : .MOD, .S3M, .XM OS : Windows 95/NT Cubic Player: Author : Niklas Beisert (Pascal) Email : nbeisert@physik.tu-muenchen.de WWW : http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~nbeisert Plays : .669, .DMF, .IT, .MDL, .MOD, .MTM, .S3M, .ULT, .XM OS : DOS (Win95/NT sometimes) _____Where Do I Find Modules? On this CDROM of course! :) Our archive (from which these files were gathered) is called the Hornet Archive. It is a place on the internet where people can download the latest songs and even upload their own. Information about The Hornet Archive is located below under "Closing". >------------------------------------------------------------------ Articles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> :: "Audio Track Listings for Disc 2" :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org The second CDROM included in this set is a standard audio CD. You can play it in any audio CD player (no computer needed!). :) Every year, our group hosts a competition called "Music Contest". Most of the tracks on the audio CD are the winners from Music Contest 5. We have also included a couple other random tunes for your listening pleasure. Author Title Description -- ----------------------------- ---------------------- --------------------- 01 DJ Toneball HMU MC5 Anonymous Entry 02 Jeroen Godfried Tel (WAVE) Nine One One MC5 Veteran 1st 03 Andrew G. Sega (Necros) Martian Lovesong MC5 Veteran 2nd 04 Ulf Liedberg (Loonie) Words Of No Difference MC5 Veteran 3rd 05 Jakob Svanholm (Radix) Emelie MC5 Veteran 4th 06 Dan Grandpre (Basehead) and Digital Ritual MC5 Veteran 5th Hans Van Vliet (Hunz) 07 Kochun Hu (Human) Symphony In Infrared MC5 Veteran 6th 08 Jaakko Manninen (Mellow-D) Flow Moon MC5 Veteran 7th 09 Ingemar Henriksson (Marwin) Let It Loose MC5 Veteran 8th 10 Ian G. Lyman (Scirocco) Protonic Reversal MC5 Veteran 9th 11 Andy Wise (Nemesis) Twilight Groove MC5 Veteran 10th 12 Andreas Reuterberg (Silke) The Elephant Stomp MC5 Intermediate 1st 13 Maria Dahl (April) Funky Religion MC5 Rookie 1st 14 Jeroen Godfried Tel (WAVE) Pools Of Poison MC4 Veteran 1st 15 Andrew G. Sega (Necros) Tangerine Fascination MC4 Veteran 2nd 16 Alex Brandon (Siren) Universe Electric MC4 Veteran 3rd 17 Andy Voss (Phoenix) Invasion LGM Theme 18 Andrew G. Sega (Necros) Babylon Spiritual 19 Christopher G. Mann (Snowman) MC5 Intro Theme Final Results Tune ----------------------------------------------------------------------------> :: "Foreword" :: Vincent Voois - vv@musician.org Hi and welcome to the second volume of the Hornet Mods CD. Now I have the honour to write some words to introduce you to Hornet's background of this compilation's existance. I start by introducing myself first, continuing on the keys here is Vincent Voois also shortened to Vv. I'm just one of the many contributors who upload their work to The Hornet Archives from which all the work on this compilation is coming from. I've been into digital music since 1985, that was the time I started with C64 music on it's MOS 6581 (mostly known as SID-chip). From 1990/1991 an Amiga came into my life and the first four-channel mod became a new dimension to expand my capabilities. In 1994 I finally bought my first PC to start in multi-track (up to 16 or 32 voices) editors like Scream-tracker. During these years of the "good and the bad" periods I experienced various good musicians from most European (Scandinavian) demo-groups were making very impressive stuff as all those people involved did a great job in graphics and coding. The way I was collecting my mods on Amiga from various demo's, games and music disk were archieved with help of various rippers which were capable of seeking these modules. If not seek able then I ripped the samples and reconstructed the song on my own. I always hated it when musicians were using NoisePacker which made it impossible to rip samples OR modules. Today you don't need to rip modules anymore, people just open up their work to the public for private entertaining and now, with this volume you can even let friends listen to various styles and show the possibilities created on affordable material, by their very own standard cd-player! All these trackers (male and female) who created this music have released their work to share their knowledge, interests, capabilities, feelings and emotions but above all, joy with the rest of the world. Every tracker has her/his own style and environment and yet boundaries are still expanding every day a new musician starts. It is the unknown side of this world which makes it more attractive to me to download stuff from The Hornet Archives then go to a CD-store and buy a CD from which I have heard some songs on the Radio. You can always listen to a CD before buying it, you not always are able to listen to a module before downloading it :) I would like to encourage you to become a digital artist and start to expose your feelings and emotions to your way of creating your art (whether it would be graphics, coding or music). It is a tremendous experience and a great relief to be able to track away your anger, your joy, your grief or whatever mood you have. For me it is a form of self therapy which became an addiction. Vincent Voois 02 September 1997 >------------------------------------------------------------------- Closing -- _____The Hornet Archive (mirror sites) Current mirror information: http://www.hornet.org/ha/pages/mirrors.html USA (master site) http://www.hornet.org ftp://ftp.hornet.org/pub/demos Australia http://www.livewire.com.au/pub/demos ftp://www.livewire.com.au/pub/demos Germany ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pc-demos Poland http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/demos ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/demos Portugal http://mirrors.telepac.pt/pub/demos ftp://mirrors.telepac.pt/pub/demos Portugal http://hornet.esoterica.pt ftp://hornet.esoterica.pt Sweden ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/msdos/demos USA (/code only) http://www.co.iup.edu/code ftp://ftp.co.iup.edu/code _____Where To Get DemoNews / TraxWeekly New issues - http://www.hornet.org/incoming/info Old issues - http://www.hornet.org/info _____How To Subscribe To DemoNews / TraxWeekly Mail: listserver@unseen.aztec.co.za subscribe demuan-list YOUR_NAME subscribe trax-weekly YOUR_NAME _____How To Unsubscribe From DemoNews / TraxWeekly Mail: listserver@unseen.aztec.co.za unsubscribe demuan-list unsubscribe trax-weekly _____Where To Send Questions/Comments questions@hornet.org >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EOHM2