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- S A M R I P
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- Installation
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- SamRip consists of only one file - SAMRIP.EXE. You can run SamRip either
- from a Win95 DOS window, or by double clicking on the SamRip icon located
- by using the Win95 Windows Explorer. Consult your Win95 documentation for
- creating a shortcut to use the program.
-
- Basic Usage
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- After starting SamRip, the first thing you will want to do is tell SamRip
- which modules you wish to rip samples from. In the "Source" group, click on
- the "Directory.." button. This will bring up a dialog box which you can use
- to tell SamRip which drive and directory the modules you wish to rip are
- within. Select the required drive and directory and then press "Okay".
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- SamRip will now display a list of files which are located in your chosen
- source directory. Select each of the module files for which you would like
- to rip.
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- Now press the "Directory.." button within the "Destination" group and
- choose the drive and directory for where you would like your ripped sample
- files to appear.
-
- At this stage, if you press the "SamRip!" button, SamRip will rip all of
- the samples from each of the selected modules into your chosen destination
- directory. The samples will be written out with the same name as the chosen
- module, but with a numeric prefix.
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- NOTE: At this stage, the samples are written out as 8-bit raw data files.
- WAV file support has not yet been implemented.
-
- Advanced Usage
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-
- The first problem with the above method is that on selecting several module
- files, you will end up with lots of samples being saved into the one
- directory. This can be desirable, but a pain for tidy folk. Before pressing
- the "SamRip!" button, you can check the "Dir Per Mod" checkbox to have
- SamRip create a new directory to place the samples for each of the selected
- modules. Surprise, surprise, the name of the created directory will be the
- same as that of the module being ripped.
-
- Another useful feature has been provided which will aid in the selection of
- lots of modules. Within the "Pattern Matching" group are two buttons -
- "Select" and "Deselect". Using the "Select" button as an example; this
- button will select modules in the module listbox that are matched by the
- pattern given in the pattern matching text field. By default, this is "*.*"
- which will select all files. However, you can use various patterns such as
- "a*.med" to match all MED files beginning with "a".. or "*.mod" to match
- all ST/NT/PT mod files. The pattern matching is case insensitive by
- default, but if you want to be picky between files beginning with "A" or
- "a", then check the "Match Case" checkbox. The "Deselect" button works in a
- similar way.
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-
- Notes/History
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-
- SamRip is not intended to be a bullet-proof program (boo! boo!). I wrote
- the very first version of SamRip as an AmigaDOS command line utility which
- did it's job as far as I was concerned. I wanted a bundle of samples to use
- in my tunes but couldn't be bothered to load every tune with good samples
- and save them separately. I then wrote SamRip which did that job and
- nothing else.
-
- After selling my Amiga, I decided to write a PC version. I managed to get
- SamRip ripping samples from OctaMED & Protracker tunes and pretty much
- abandoned the program at that stage. I will confess that I began working on
- the ripping of samples from XM/Fasttracker format modules but couldn't be
- bothered to finish this off in the time I had available. Rather than keep
- putting it off, I've decided to allow the free use of this program as it is
- at present -I'm sure it will save a lot of time for many people.
-
- For those of you who would like to make any remarks, my current email
- address may be found in the 'About' box within the program itself.
-
- Paul Spark --- "Sparky"