any sample created by this protracker has a blank byte at the beginning

[ruby-R53]

title says it all, i wanna make simple waveform samples but no matter what i do, when i hit the save button and load it again, there's a blank byte at the beginning, which makes a straight line on my sample and partially messes it up. also, when i try adding a loop, protracker also can't save the loop, so if i load the sample again i have to manually fix the waveform and enable the loop again.

[8bitbubsy]

That's because non-looped samples require the first two bytes of the sample to be blank, or else it will emit an infinite beep after the sample has been played. Just set the save type to WAV, and it will attach the loop points in the WAV on save (and also acquire them on load).

[ruby-R53]

oh, that infinite beep thing already happened to me before and i thought something else triggered it. so these first 2 bytes are necessary on the raw samples in order to fix this beeping. what about on .iff files? is it the same thing? i have little knowledge on .iff file types, so i apologize if that's a stupid question lol

[8bitbubsy]

The beep has nothing to do with the sample format after saving, it's a behavior internally in ProTracker itself. You can save as IFF too if you want, it will also store the loop information in it.

[ruby-R53]

nice, thanks for the explanation!