MONOTONE

File Format
Name	MONOTONE
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music MONOTONE
Extension(s)	.mon, .pit, .frq

Description

MONOTONE is a multi-voice tracker for the PC speaker that is designed to work on any machine, even the 128KB PC

.mon is a V1.0 MONOTONE file

.pit is PIT timer value output (using Diskwriter, saves the values one must write to the registers controlling the PC speaker to reproduce the music), also available in a compressed (RLE) format

.frq is frequency output (using Diskwriter)

Polytone is a modern cross-platform re-implementation of the MONOTONE tracker with many enhancements

Links

• MONOTONE home page
• github
• SoLoud audio library
• Port to AVR ATTiny45 by Sprite_TM
• MTPlayer - MONOTONE-compatible player library written in C
• PTPlayer - supersedes MTPlayer
• Polytone - can import MONOTONE files
• My method of transcribing Monotone tracker file in OpenMPT (video)