What is a .XM file?
XM is the module format of FastTracker 2, hugely popular in the demoscene.
- Did you know
- FastTracker 2 and its XM format dominated PC tracker music in the 1990s.
- XM stands for extended module and was created by the demogroup Triton for their tracker FastTracker 2.
- XM raised the channel count from the older MOD format’s four to as many as 32, and added 16-bit samples and volume envelopes.
- 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 .XM file
- Drag a .XM 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.