Audio and Music

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[[Electronic_File_Formats|Electronic Formats]] concerned with Audio Data.  See [[Music]] for formats encoding sequences of notes, chords, or musical-instrument controls.
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[[Electronic_File_Formats|Electronic Formats]] concerned with audio and musical data, including sound recording, instrument control, musical notation, etc.
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== Audio recording and sound waves ==
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== Musical instrument control ==
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== Trackers ==
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== Musical notation ==
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== Metaformats ==
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== Unclassified (need to move to other categories) ==
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* [[AMOS Music Bank]]
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* [[CUBASE]] (Steinberg)
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** [[ALL]] - A Steinberg [[CUBASE]] VST file for saving songs (pre 2002).
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** [[ARR]] - A Steinberg [[CUBASE]] VST file for saving arrangements (pre 2002).
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** [[CPR]] - A Steinberg [[CUBASE]] SX file for saving projects (2002 - ).
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** [[NPR]] - A Steinberg [[NUENDO]] file for saving arrangements (2002 - ).
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* [[ELECTONE]] - For Yamaha Electone Range Electronic Organs
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** [[BOO]] - Part of the [[ELECTONE]] format.
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** [[EVT]] - Part of the [[ELECTONE]] format.
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* [[Guitar tablatures]]
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* [[MIDI]] (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
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* [[MDZ]] - strictly not itself a music format, but a metadata file for other music files used by Open Cubic Player. See http://www.cubic.org/player/doc/node72.htm
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* Propellerhead Reason
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** [[REX]] - Propellerhead Reason ReCycle Loop File
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** [[RFL]] - Propellerhead Reason ReFill Sound Bank
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** [[RNS]] - Propellerhead Reason Reason Song File
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** [[RSN]] - Propellerhead Reason Reason Project File
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** [[RX2]] - Propellerhead Reason REX2 Audio File
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** [[SX2]] - Propellerhead Reason NN-XT Patch File
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* [[Reality AdLib Tracker]]
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* [[XM]]
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* A bunch of 'demo' formats such as [[MOD]] - see the Open Cubic Player homepage for a longer list http://www.cubic.org/player/features.html (some of these are audio formats rather than music formats)
  
 
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* [[YM]] (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)
 
* [[YM]] (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)
 
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See also [[Piano Rolls]] (which is under the [[Physical File Formats]]).
  
 
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Revision as of 06:58, 16 November 2012

File Formats > Electronic File Formats > Audio

Electronic Formats concerned with audio and musical data, including sound recording, instrument control, musical notation, etc.

Audio recording and sound waves

Musical instrument control

Trackers

Musical notation

Metaformats

Unclassified (need to move to other categories)

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A

  • A2B (Adlib Tracker II bank)
  • A2F (Adlib Tracker II instrument with fm-register macro)
  • A2I (Adlib Tracker II instrument)
  • A2M (Adlib Tracker II song format)
  • A2P (Adlib Tracker II pattern)
  • A2T (Adlib Tracker II tiny module)
  • A2W (Adlib Tracker II bank with macros)
  • AA (Audible Audiobook)
  • AA3 (Advanced Transform Acoustic Coding)
  • AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
  • AAM (Art & Magic)
  • AAAP (AAAP Audio File)
  • AAX (Audible Audiobook)
  • AFC (Nintendo Gamecube)
  • AMOS Music Bank (.abk)
  • AC1D (AC1D-DC1A Packer)
  • AC3 (Dolby Digital AC-3)
  • ACM (Audio Compression Manager)
  • ADL (Westwood Studios)
  • ADM (ADM Audio File)
  • ADP (Nintendo Gamecube)
  • ADS (PSX Audio)
  • ADX (CRI Middleware)
  • AFC (AFX Audio File)
  • AGI (Sierra AGI)
  • AGSC (AGSC Audio File)
  • AHX (Abyss Highest eXperience)
  • AIFC (AIFF Compressed)
  • AIF / AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
  • AIX (AIX Audio File)
  • ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
  • ALM (Aley Keptr)
  • AMC (AM Composer)
  • AMD (Amusic)
  • AMF (ASYLUM Music Format / Advanced Music Format)
  • AMS (Velvet Studio AMS 1.x modules.)
  • AMTS (AMTS Audio File)
  • AON (Art of Noise)
  • APE (Monkey's Audio)
  • Arkos Tracker (.aks)
  • AS4 (AS4 Audio File)
  • ASC (ASC Sound Master)
  • ASD (ASD Audio File)
  • ASF (Advanced System)
  • ASN (Nintendo Gamecube)
  • ASR (Nintendo Wii)
  • ASS (Sony Playstation)
  • AST (Actionamics Sound Tool)
  • AST (Nintendo Wii sound format)
  • AT3 (Advanced Transform Acoustic Coding)
  • AU (Sun Microsystems audio format)
  • AUD (INRS-Telecom)
  • AUD (Westwood Studios)
  • AUP (Audacity)
  • AY (Amstrad CPC / ZX Spectrum)

B

C

  • CAF
  • CADSP
  • CBA (Chuck Biscuits+Black Artist)
  • CBD2
  • CCC (Sony Playstation)
  • CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio)
  • CFF (BoomTracker v4.0 song format)
  • CFN (DSP File)
  • CHAN (Channel Players)
  • CIF (BoomTracker 4.0 instrument)
  • CIN (Cinemaware)
  • CM (CustomMade)
  • CM3 (CMC "3/4")
  • CMC (Chaos Music Composer)
  • CMF (Creative Music Format)
  • CMR (CMC "Rzog")
  • CMS (Stereo Double CMC)
  • CNK
  • COP (SAM Coupe)
  • CORE (Core Design)
  • CPC (ZXAYEMUL Sound)
  • CPR (Steinberg Cubase)
  • CPS
  • CRB (Heatseeker v1.0)
  • CT (CyberTracker)
  • CT2 (craptracker ii)
  • CUS (Custom Amiga Module)
  • CUST (DeliTracker Custom)
  • CUSTOM (Custom Amiga Module)
  • CWP (Cakewalk Project)

D

  • D (SPPACK)
  • D00 (Packed EdLib Module)
  • DAT (Paul Robotham)
  • DBM (DigiBooster modules)
  • DCS
  • DCT (Format designed for dictation by NCH Software)
  • DDSP
  • DE2
  • DFM (Digital-FM)
  • DH (David Hanney)
  • DI (Digital Illusions)
  • DIGI (DIGI Booster)
  • DL (Dave Lowe)
  • DLN (Dave Lowe New)
  • DLS (Downloadable Sounds Banks)
  • DLT (Delta Music Composer)
  • DM2 (Delta Music 2.0)
  • DMC (Double ChaosMusicComposer)
  • DMF (Delusion Digital Music Format)
  • X-Tracker (X-Tracker)
  • DMO (Twin TrackPlayer)
  • DMSG
  • DNS (Dynamic Synthesizer)
  • DRO (DOSBox Raw OPL)
  • DSC (Digital Sonix & Chrome)
  • DMC (DoublePlay CMC)
  • DNF (id Software)
  • DSF (Dreamcast PSF)
  • DSFLIB (DSF Library)
  • DSM (DSIK Internal)
  • DSP (Donkey Konga 2)
  • DSR (Desire)
  • DSP
  • DSPW
  • DSS (Digital Speech Standard)
  • DSYM (Digital Symphony)
  • DTK
  • DTM (DeFy Adlib Tracker)
  • DTM (DigiTrekker)
  • DTM (Digital Tracker)
  • DTS
  • DTT (Desktop Tracker)
  • DVF (Sony Digital Audio recorders)
  • DVI
  • DW (David Whittaker)
  • DXH (Sony Playstation)
  • DZ (Darius Zendeh)

E

  • EAM (EA-XA)
  • EMFF
  • EMOD (Quadra Composer)
  • EMS (Editeur Musical Sequentiel)
  • EPSGMOD (Mod2PSG)
  • EU (Eureka Packer)
  • EX (Fashion Tracker)

F

  • F2R (Farandole Form 2.0)
  • FAG (Sony Playstation)
  • FAR (Farandole Composer)
  • FastTracker (.ft)
  • FC (Future Composer v1.x)
  • FC13 (Future Composer v1.3)
  • FC14 (Future Composer v1.4)
  • FC3 (Future Composer v1.3)
  • FC4 (Future Composer v1.4)
  • FCHS (Fuchs Tracker)
  • FCM (FC-M Packer)
  • FFW
  • FIB (FM-Kingtracker bank)
  • FILP
  • FIN (FM-Kingtracker instrument)
  • FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
  • FLP (FruityLoops / FL Studio project files)
  • FLS (Flash Tracker)
  • FLT (Startrekker / Audio Sculpturer)
  • FLX (Flex Tracker)
  • FMK (FM-Kingtracker song format)
  • FMX (Fuxoft AY Language)
  • FNK (FunkTracker)
  • FP (Future Player)
  • FPT (Farandole Composer pattern)
  • FRED (Fred Editor)
  • FSB (Sony Playstation)
  • FSM (Farandole Composer Sample / Instrument)
  • FTC (Fast Tracker)
  • FTM (FamiTracker)
  • FUZZ (Fuzzac Packer)
  • FW (FWMP)

G

  • GBR (Game Boy Sound)
  • GBS (Game Boy Sound)
  • GBTS
  • GCA (Nintendo Wii)
  • GCM (DSP File)
  • GCUB
  • GCW
  • GDM (General Digital Music)
  • GENH (artificial header for RAW files)
  • GMC (Game Music Creator)
  • GMD (MIDI clone)
  • GMS (Sony Playstation)
  • GOT (God of Thunder)
  • GRAY (Fred Gray)
  • GSB
  • GSF (Game Boy Advance PSF)
  • GSFLIB (GSF Library)
  • GSM (Raw GSM 6.10 Audio Stream)
  • GSP (DSP File)
  • GSR (Gens Sound Record)
  • GT2 (Groumpf Tracker)
  • GTK (Groumpf Tracker)
  • GTR (Global Tracker v1.x)
  • GYM (Genesis YM2612)

H

  • HAN (Digital Sound Creations)
  • HD (Howie Davies)
  • HES (Hudson Entertainment System)
  • HGC1
  • HIP (Jochen Hippel / TFMX)
  • HIPC (Hippel-COSO)
  • HIS
  • HIW (Jochen Hippel / TFM2)
  • HLWAV
  • HMI (MIDI clone)
  • HMP (MIDI clone)
  • HMZ (Compressed MIDI)
  • HPS (DSP File)
  • HSC (HSC AdLib Composer / HSC-Tracker)
  • HSP (HSC AdLib Composer / HSC-Tracker packed)
  • HVL (Hively Tracker)
  • HWAS

I

J

  • J2B (XMP Game Module)
  • JAM (JAMCracker Pro)
  • JBL (JBM Adlib Music)
  • JC (JCalG1 DataPacker)
  • JCB (Jason Brooke)
  • JD (Special FX)
  • JPO (Steve Turner)
  • JMF (Janko Mrsic-Flogel)
  • JO (Jesper Olsen)
  • JOE
  • JPN (Jason Page)
  • JSTM
  • JT (Jeroen Tel)

K

  • KAR (MIDI Audio)
  • KCES (Sony Playstation)
  • KCEY
  • KDM (Ken's Digital Music)
  • KH (Kris Hatlelid)
  • KHV
  • KHV (Sony Playstation)
  • KI (klystrack Instrument)
  • KLM (Whacky Wheels)
  • KOVS
  • KPL (Kazaa Playlist Format)
  • KRAW (Nintendo Wii)
  • KRIS (ChipTracker)
  • KSM (Ken's Adlib Music)
  • KSS (MSX)
  • KSSX (Possible expansion of KSS)
  • KT (klystrack Song)

L

  • LAA (LucasArts Adlib Audio)
  • LDS (LOUDNESS Sound System)
  • LEG (Sony Playstation)
  • LIQ (Liquid Tracker)
  • LME (Leggless Music Editor)
  • LOGIC (Logic)
  • LOGG
  • LPCM (Linear Pulse Code Modulated Audio)
  • LPS
  • LWAV

M

N

  • NED (NerdTracker II)
  • NEST (NesTracker)
  • NP2 (NoisePacker v2.x)
  • NP3 (NoisePacker v3.x)
  • NSD (???)
  • NSF (NES Sound Format)
  • NSFE (Extended NSF)
  • NSP (Computerized Speech Lab)
  • NST (NoiseTracker)
  • NTK (Noisetrekker)
  • NTK (Renoise Song)
  • NTP (NovoTrade Packer)

O

  • OGG (Vorbis, CELT or Opus audio compression format)
  • OKT (Oktalyzer module)
  • OKTA (Oktalyzer module)
  • OMA (Advanced Transform Acoustic Coding)
  • ORC (TRS-80 Orchestra-90)
  • OSP (Synth Pack)

P

  • P4X (The Player v4.x)
  • P6X (The Player v6.x)
  • PAP (Pierre Adane Packer)
  • PAT (UltraSound GF1 Patches)
  • PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
  • PHA (Pha Packer)
  • PIXI (Pixilang)
  • PLM (DisorderTracker II)
  • PLS (Multimedia Playlists)
  • POI (Musetracker / Pornotracker instrument)
  • POM (Musetracker / Pornotracker song)
  • PP21 (ProPacker 2.1)
  • PP30 (ProPacker 3.0)
  • PR1 (Promizer)
  • PRU2 (Prorunner 2.0)
  • PRUN (Prorunner 1.0)
  • PS (Paul Shields)
  • PSA (Professional Sound Artists)
  • PSC (Pro Sound Creator v1.xx)
  • PSF (Portable Sound Format)
  • PSF (Soundfactory)
  • PSF1 (Playstation PSF)
  • PSF2 (Playstation 2 PSF)
  • PSM (Epic Megagames MASI)
  • PSM (Pro Sound Maker)
  • PT1 (Pro Tracker v1.xx)
  • PT2 (Pro Tracker v2.xx)
  • PT3 (Pro Tracker v3.xx))
  • PTK (Renoise Song)
  • PTM (PolyTracker)
  • PTS (Pro Tools 7-9)
  • PTX (Pro Tools 10)
  • PUMA (PumaTracker)
  • PVP (Peter Verswyvelen Packer)

Q

R

  • RA (RealAudio)
  • Reality AdLib Tracker (.rad)
  • RAW (AdLib Sound Card)
  • RAW (RAW sample data)
  • RH (Rob Hubbard)
  • RHO (Rob Hubbard Old)
  • RJP (Richard Joseph)
  • RK (Ron Klaren)
  • RM (RealMedia)
  • RMT (Raster Music Tracker)
  • RNS (Renoise Song)
  • ROL (AdLib Visual Composer)

S

  • S31 (ScreamTracker 3 / DigiTracker Samples)
  • S3M (Scream Tracker 3 module)
  • S98 (NEC PC-98)
  • SA (Sonic Arranger)
  • SAM (MOD Edit sample)
  • SAP (Atari POKEY)
  • SAT (Surprise! AdLib Tracker v1, 5, 6)
  • SB (Steve Barrett)
  • SBI (Sound Blaster Instrument)
  • SBStudio II (.pac, .son, .sou)
  • SCI (Used in Sierra PC games)
  • SCN (Sean Connolly)
  • SCR (Sean Conran)
  • SCT (Soundcontrol)
  • SCUMM (SCUMM)
  • SD (ESPS sampled data file)
  • SDR (Synth Dream)
  • SES (Cool Edit / Audition) (Cool Edit / Audition Multi Track Session file)
  • SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/Carl Sound Format)
  • SF2 (SoundFont 2.0 Sound Banks)
  • SFX (SoundFX)
  • SFZ (Cakewalk Sample Definition File)
  • SGC (Sega Master System / Game Gear / Colecovision)
  • SGI (Sound Generator 3.0 instrument)
  • SHI (ShroomTool Instrument)
  • SHO (Mario Paint)
  • SID (Commodore)
  • SID (Sidmon) (Sidmon)
  • SID2 (Sidmon II)
  • SJS (SoundPlayer)
  • SKS (Starkos Tracker)
  • SM (Sound Master)
  • SMP (ScreamTracker 3 / DigiTracker Samples)
  • SMPL (TFMX sample data)
  • SMUS (Sonix Music Driver)
  • SND (Atari ST)
  • SNDH (Atari ST)
  • SNG (GoatTracker)
  • SNG (SCC Musixx)
  • SNG (Soundtrakker v1.x)
  • SNG (Soundtrakker 128)
  • SNK (Paul Summers)
  • SPB (Yamaha ADPCM)
  • SPC (Super Nintendo SPC700)
  • SPL (Sound Programming Language)
  • SPU (Sony Playstation)
  • SPX (Speex)
  • SQT (SQ-Tracker)
  • SS (Speedy System)
  • SSF (Sega Saturn PSF)
  • SSFLIB (SSF Library)
  • ST26 (SoundTracker 2.6)
  • STC (Sound Tracker / Super Sonic)
  • STM (Scream Tracker module)
  • STP (Sound Tracker Pro)
  • SunVox
  • Surprise! Adlib Tracker v2.0 (.sa2)

T

  • TAK (Tom's Lossless Audio Kompressor)
  • TF (Follin Player II)
  • TFMX (TFMX)
  • THM (Thomas Hermann)
  • TM2 (Theta Music Composer v2.x)
  • TM8 (8-channel stero TMC)
  • TMC (Theta Music Composer v1.x)
  • TME (The Musical Enlightenment)
  • TP3 (Trackerpacker 3)
  • TPU (Dirk Bialluch)
  • TTA (True Audio)
  • TW (Sound Images)

U

V

W

  • WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)
  • WB (Wally Beben)
  • WLF (id Software)
  • WMA (Windows Media Audio)
  • WOW (Grave Composer)
  • WRK (Cakewalk Project)
  • WSR (Bandai WonderSwan / WonderSwan Color)

X

  • XI (FastTracker instrument)
  • XM (FastTracker 2 module)
  • XMF (Extensible Music Format)
  • XMS (XMS-Tracker)
  • XRNS (Renoise Song)

Y

  • YM (Amstrad CPC / Spectrum ZX / Atari ST)

Z

See also Piano Rolls (which is under the Physical File Formats).

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