What is a .UMX file?
UMX is an Unreal Engine music package - tracker-module music wrapped in the Unreal package format, used by the original Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
- Did you know
- A UMX is really a tracker module (often .it or .s3m) inside an Unreal package, so the game’s soundtrack was played back by the same engine that loaded its maps.
- Unreal and Unreal Tournament shipped their soundtracks as tracker modules in UMX packages, a tiny way to carry a lot of dynamic music in 1998.
- Because a UMX wraps a standard module, extracting it can recover the original .it or .s3m song that plays inside.
- 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 .UMX file
- Drag a .UMX 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.