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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.