See section 2 for MOD type abbreviations.
- AWE
- Used to describe the group of 'wavetable' soundcards produced by Creative Labs.
- BPM
- Beats per minute. When used in mods, this usually refers to how many groups of four rows are played per minute at default tempo (i.e. ticks per row) settings. This default tempo is 6 in MOD and S3M. Setting the tempo to 3 means that as many groups of eight rows are played per minute as set by the BPM set command.
- CxSpd
- Sampling rate at which a sample is reproduced by a tracker/player when it encounters the note C in octave x.
- DAC
- Digital to Analogue Converter. Digital sound output medium used with the parallel port of a computer.
- DMA
- Direct Memory Access (method of transferring data quickly across the computer's bus, DMA channel is a sound card parameter)
- DSP
- Digital Signal Processors. Used when decribing software that changes or effects the original sound.
- EWS
- Terratec sound card
- FM
- Frequency Modulation sound synthesis (used by Adlib and SB in FM mode)
- FT1
- Mr.H/Triton's FastTracker 1.xx, MS-DOS MOD tracker
- FT2
- Triton's FastTracker II, MS-DOS MOD tracker
- GUS
- Gravis Ultrasound (sound card)
- Hz
- Hertz, metric unit. 1 Hz = 1/sec. Used to express frequencies.
- IRQ
- Interrupt (not only, but also a sound card setup parameter)
- M4W
- MOD4WIN mod player for Windows 3.11
- MPP
- MODPlug Player mod player for Windows 95/NT
- MPT
- MODPlug Tracker, tracker for Windows 95/NT
- MT
- Mad Tracker
- MT2
- Mad Tracker 2
- PAS
- Pro Audio Spectrum (sound card)
- PT
- ProTracker (Amiga tracker)
- SB
- Creative Labs SoundBlaster (sound card)
- ST3
- PSI/Future Crew's Scream Tracker 3.2
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