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- 11/14/95
- Sounder 1.2.1
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- NOTE - I am re-releasing SOUNDR12 as SOUND121 only because
- of the inclusion of the registration file BMTMICRO.TXT. There
- is no change in the .exe. BMT Micro provides worldwide registration
- services for many shareware applications.
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- What's new
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- 1.0 7/31/95
- first release
- 1.2 10/21/95
- This version contains mostly bug fixes and the implementation
- of some additional effects. There is no new funtionality.
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- Introduction
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- Sounder is a digital music player for OS/2 PM and MMPM/2. More
- specically, it is designed to play MOD, MTM, and S3M music files.
- Sounder is shareware. That is, it may be freely distributed but
- I retain the copyright. In addition, satisfied users are encouraged
- to become registered users (details later).
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- Disclaimer
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- This program should work as intended and I can assume no
- responsibility should damage occur due to a program malfuntion.
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- General
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- This program should be simple enough to operate that nothing much
- need be said. If you have any questions at all or any suggestions,
- please contact me on CIS or the Internet. I already have some
- suggestions and will be looking at these in the near future.
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- The first question you are likely to have is: "what goes in the
- graphics window?" I actually do have some graphical, per channel,
- volume level indicaters working. However, they require some DLLs
- in the MMOS2 directory that IBM has not yet released. I expect to
- see them out fairly soon.
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- What about the XM music files? I finally located the XM file spec
- and will be looking at these as soon as Sounder release 1.2 is out.
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- Sounder is a cousin of PMPoze (my MOD composer for OS/2). I may
- merge these two programs in the future, so for now, if you register
- one, you register both. If you registered PMPoze, you are already
- registered for Sounder.
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- Music Files
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- A generic mod file is a song file containing recorded instruments
- (samples) and notes. They are self-contained and only a sound card
- is needed to play them. The brand MOD was the original digital music
- file and originated on the Amiga. Today, MODs come in 4, 6, and 8
- track (voice (channel)) versions. The number of voices is simply
- the number of instruments that can be played at once. There have been
- many spin offs from these early mods, and the two supported by Sounder
- are MTMs and S3Ms. MTM is basically a MOD with up to 32 channels,
- although most have 16 or fewer. S3Ms also have 16 (or fewer) channels
- but have more information in a note. Generally speaking, MTMs sound
- better than MODs and S3Ms sound better than MTMs. A good S3M will
- have almost "CD quality" when played all out at 44.1khz and 16-bits.
- By the way, my 486/33 is not quite fast enough to sustain 44.1khz
- on 16 channels.
-
- The Internet is by far the best source for MODs, MTMs, S3Ms, and many
- others. Check:
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- ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos/music/...
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- Also check the news group:
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- alt.binaries.sounds.mods
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- Quite a few mods are posted almost daily. The newsgroup is also good
- for discovering other sites, including WWW sites. Also, most good
- BBSs have MODs and there are a few on Compuserve (GO SSFORUM).
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- Registration
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- Please support my habit of eating. Send $25 to:
-
- Tom Stokes
- 27836 Finisterra
- Mission Viejo, CA 92692
-
- or register via CIS (push "About")
-
- Remember, $25 gets you both Sounder and PMPoze.
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