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- Short: V0.11 - AHI sample-editor, realtime effects, MP3, AIFF, WAV, 8SVX
- Uploader: koehlerthilo@gmx.de (Thilo Köhler)
- Author: koehlerthilo@gmx.de (Thilo Köhler)
- Type: mus/edit
- Version: 0.11
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- Samplemanager
- 1997-2002 by Thilo Köhler
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- Please email bug reports or suggestions to koehlerthilo@gmx.de.
- See also http://www.hd-rec.de under "other stuff" for updates.
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-
- INTRODUCTION:
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- Samplemanager is a tool to convert and manipulate audio samples
- in the Aegis Audiomaster style. It is RAM based, so
- it is extremely fast but you need enough fast ram.
- Special features are the Undo-History, many, fast and quality
- realtime FX (100% assembler) like Compressor, Enhancer and
- Autotune. It is meant to be a quick and easy editor with
- some powerful but easy to understand features.
- I stopped developing it because of some other more important
- projects like the HD-Rec MIDI/audio sequencer.
-
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- REQUIREMENTS:
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- - any Amiga with OS 3.x and AHI 4+ installed.
- - lots of RAM (min 64MB if you want to edit songs in CD quality)
- - topaz6/8 font
- - helvetica/13 font
- - guigfx.library and render.library
- - mpega.library for MP3 reading
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- FEATUES:
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- - reads/writes AIFF, WAV, MAUD, 8SVX, CDDA, RAW
- - now reads also MP1/2/3
- - realtime effects like compressor, stereo spreader, equalizer, auto tune ...
- - audio editing (cut, copy, paste, zero ...)
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- INSTALLATION:
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- Unarchive the LHA file and copy the drawer "Samplemanager" wherever
- you want, e.g. "Work:". Samplemanager needs no assigns and uses no files
- outside this directory, except the topaz6/8 and helvetica/13 font. If you
- don`t have them in your FONTS: drawer then install these fonts (you find
- them also in this archive).
-
- That`s all !
-
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- USAGE:
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- Sorry, no time for that. Find out by yourself. EMail me if you have some
- questions.
-
- Last minute tipps:
- - Have a look at the history window, it is very useful !
- - The chorus is disabled for safety reasons, because it crashes, sorry
- - Same happened to the AHI recording function.
- - If you want to save a sample in a different format like the one it was when
- you loaded it in, you have to go into prefs and change the "save format" options.
- Otherwise it will be saved in the same format you have loaded it in.
- - The "autotune" effect is a bit difficult to handle:
- * set "phases" always to 8 (slow material) or to 4 (for difficult and fast material)
- * set "fuzzy zone" higher if the material is too confused (blubbering).
- More than 100% can produce wrong notes !
- * set "filter" to something between 5 and 30. Te lower values are for more sharp
- and difficult material.
- - "Function is not implemented !" message is not dangerous, it only means that the function
- is not implemented ;-)
- - Use the "Level" display in the main window to find a good yalue for threshold
- levels. Hold down the MB (liek when ranging) and watch the "Level" following
- your mouse vertically. Find a good level where you want the compressor
- to take effect.
- - make sure that the temorary path is set to a partition with lots of free space
- and it is a good idea to use your fastest drive.
- - click on the "Show" button when there is no range will view the whole sample
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- BUGS AND PROBLEMS:
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- - Recording & Chorus is disabled
- - now opens only on WB
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- HISTORY:
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- 0.11
- - added MP3 loader via mpega.library
- - replaced old skin with 24bit skin "silver"
- - runns now on workbench screen
- - speedup for the background patterns
- - uses now guigfx.library and render.library
- - fixed bug in the "snap" function
- - moved system samplkes to ProgDir:SysSamples for safety reasons
- - added example sample
- - increased y size for horizontal slider
-
- 0.10a
- - fixed a (non-serious) bug in the 8svx loader which was introduced in 0.10
- - added shortcuts for menu functions
-
- 0.10
- - replaced thinpaz/8 font to topaz6/8 because it is more usual
- - fix a bug in the .wav saver for 8bit files
- - added some security checks and better error messages if something goes wrong with the disk I/O
- - now samplemanager lets about 1MB of fast memory free instead of 400kB
-
- 0.9b
- - replaced all file I/O functions to OS friendly calls in order to fix a very rare bug
- - speedup for graphical waveform refresh
-
- 0.9
- - fixed a bug in 8SVX saver/loader
- - when the screen can not be opened on startup you will be asked for a new screenmode
- - volume is now at maximum level, was only 1/4 before
- - chorus is disabled for safety reasons (didn`t work anyway)
- - small bugfix of the WAV loader (now checks if format is supported)
- - big bugfix in AIFF loader/saver
- - set the read/write buffer to 128kb (was 32kb) for speed improvement for disk I/O
- - added a requester if you start Samplemanager for the very first time
-
- 0.8
- - first public release
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- FUTURE:
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- As I regard this project as finished nothing is planned except some bugfixes
- if I have the time to do it.
- If you have some audio files that Samplemanager can not load or save
- correctly, I`m very interessted in fixing this problem because the
- loader/saver routines are used in some other programs.