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- 8SVX-IFF Instrument Samples from the `Dealer Demo' Discs
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- Once, in the Golden Dawn of the Amiga [that'd be late 1985 for you
- young 'uns...] Commodore distributed a demo to dealers that showed
- off the machine's capabilities; it included an `Instrument' that
- used the computer keyboard as `piano' keys, and came with a fair set
- of sampled voices.
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- These samples were in their own idiosyncratic format, but about a
- year later Bobby Deen wrote a conversion program (available for example
- on aminet) that turned them into 8SVX files. However, the original
- samples may now be a bit hard to come by, so this is a collection of
- the 8SVX versions, plus a few converted from a later disc issued
- by FAUG. To the best of my knowledge they are all public domain.
- I put it together for my own use with the MusicWeb [mus/midi/MusicWeb.lha]
- but they should work with any program that will read 8SVX instruments.
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- All the files are five-octave, most -- except percussion -- have
- repeat segments. All the musical instruments play in the correct key.
- (If you consider the Claves "musical", however, they don't seem to be
- right...)
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- Have fun!
- Pete Goodeve
- pete@jwgibbs.CChem.Berkeley.EDU
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