What is a .AMS file?
AMS is the module format of Extreme Tracker and, in its later revision, Velvet Studio. Both were DOS-era trackers that added instrument envelopes on top of the Amiga model.
- Did you know
- Two quite different file layouts share the .ams extension - Extreme Tracker's and Velvet Studio's - so a player has to tell them apart from the header rather than the name.
- Analyser handles .AMS alongside related formats such as .MOD, .XM, .IT and more.
- In Analyser's format library, .AMS sits in the System & disk category.
- What Analyser shows you
- Play and analyse tracker modules - MOD, XM, IT, S3M and around sixty relatives from the demoscene and the Amiga and DOS eras. A module is not recorded audio: it is a bank of instrument samples plus a pattern score saying which sample to trigger, on which channel, at which row, so playing one means running a tracker engine. Analyser renders the song on your device with libopenmpt - the engine behind OpenMPT - and then treats the result like any other audio, so you get the full Sound section: waveform, spectrogram, transport, loudness, key and BPM. Above it sits the module itself - the tracker that wrote it, the channel, pattern and order counts, the song message, and the sample and instrument name lists, which is traditionally where authors left their greetings. The rendered song can be saved as a WAV.
- Open a .AMS file
- Drag a .AMS file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.