T.O.Y.S. are having a preference for Damo's & Tat's TTrak YM-tracker. Now, Peylow/T.O.Y.S. released a command line tool for optimization of the file format for different use cases.
The TPMTool command line parameters
The tool can merge several TPM-files into on TPN or SNDH file, while e.g. appyling the same set of instruments on all tracks There is also the very handy feature to strip all unused instrument and pattern data, so we end up with a remakable smaller filesize (see below).
From the official readme file:
"A tool for working with TTrak Module (TPM), TTrak Multi Module (TPN), and SNDH files with embedded TPM/TPN file and player.
TTrak is a YM2149 Chip Tracker for the Atari ST family of computers, available at https://ttrak2149.com.
TPM Tool can show information about TPM, TPN, and SNDH files.
TPM Tool can merge one or more TPM, TPN, and SNDH files into a single TPN or SNDH file with shared instruments and one or more sub-songs.
Using TPM Tool to convert TPM, or SNDH with embedded TPM to TPN or SNDH with embedded TPN has size benefits even for a single song. This is because TPN strips unused instrument, pattern, and digi sound data.
File size examples for converting the TTrak 1.04 sample modules, this is also memory savings when using music composed with TTrak in your productions:
DOOMER.TPM (36Kb) -> DOOMER.TPN ( 7Kb)
LYNDON.TPM (36Kb) -> LYNDON.TPN ( 4Kb)
TOMCHI.TPM (67Kb) -> TOMCHI.TPN (17Kb)
WOBBLA.TPM (37Kb) -> WOBBLA.TPN ( 6Kb)"
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