Export Text (ala Famitracker)

[Vectrex28]

Hello!
I'm currently working on a sound engine for the PC Engine and I was a bit sad to see there is no export text function like in Famitracker (File > Export text on most Famitracker forks, tested on DN Famitracker).
This function is quite handy for homebrew development as it exports human-readable text files with the song's instruments, envelope, and a text representation of the song as it appears in the tracker, and I would like to use these to create a script that can read them and easily convert tracker data to sound engine commands.

Cheers!

[freq-mod]

There is already an "export command stream (text)" and "export command stream (binary)" options. These are meant to be used in hardware playback routines.

[Vectrex28]

Ah yes I've looked into this feature but it seems to be lacking instrument data.

Also, is it equivalent to what's displayed in the tracker or is it sending extra commands that are implicit in the tracker? (For instance, a note from an instrument with a specific arpeggio envelope assigned to it would only produce one command, instead of x commands based on the each of the instrument's arpeggio steps)

A link to documentation, if you may have it, would also be appreciated. Thank you for your answer :)

[freq-mod]

All these wouuld have to be answered by @tildearrow. Furnace documentation is notoriously bare: https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/blob/88654e26fc3471876fabb1cae1b6c68efc9429ea/papers/export-tech.md

[tildearrow]

Command stream export is not FamiTracker text export. It's a different thing.

[Epictyphlosion]

I second this

[tildearrow]

0.6.1 will have text export.