xi2bmk2

by Jeremy on October 18th, 2011

Wow, I sure was wrong in my last post.

It’s cold outside now, and no snow yet… So, I have no excuses. Here’s a little tool that I cooked up to share with old-school fast tracker 2 heads that play with beatmaker 2.

xi2bmk2 will rip through your dusty old .xi instrument collection, and convert it to a shiny new .bmk2 and .wav collection.

Some notes:

• xi2bmk2 will operate recursively on an input directory that you specify. The first folders that it encounters will become the category names in the .bmk2 file.
• You can use the .wavs for whatever you like, but the tuning information, key maps, and loop points are all stored in the .bmk2 xml.
• Since fast tracker‘s envelopes were so radical, they are not converted to the standard ADSR that beatmaker 2 uses.
• Stereo pair instruments (identified by two files, *L.xi and *R.xi, in the same folder, with matching keymaps and samples) will be magically welded back together into a single stereo instrument.

You can download it here.
Enjoy!

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1. Jeremy Evers releases xi2bmk2 converter tool said,
   
   

   on October 18th, 2011 at 5:21 am

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2. Jeremy said,
   
   

   on October 18th, 2011 at 6:19 pm

   I found a bunch of .xis in the renoise forum:

   http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?/topic/25513-fasttrackerxi-instruments/

3. Legsmechanical said,
   
   

   on October 19th, 2011 at 12:39 pm

   LOVE IT. THANKS!!

4. ben said,
   
   

   on October 22nd, 2011 at 5:27 am

   For Mac’s?

5. ben said,
   
   

   on October 22nd, 2011 at 6:49 am

   how do you use this to convert the xi file? Command line tool? Im on a mac and never used Command Line?

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