═══ 1. Five to Five General Information ═══ Five To Five Version 2.12 for OS/2 2.x Copyright 1995 by Harald SchФnfeld and Bernd Spellenberg. September 1995 Five To Five is a program to convert various sound file types as used on different computer systems. You can also convert the sample rate and use a low pass filter. The program Five To Five is shareware. For more information see Registration. For detailed help see using Five To Five. Exemption From Liability The programmers can not be held responsible for any errors which may occur while using this software. We do not claim this software is useful for all applications. Distribution Five To Five may and shall be copied and spread under the condition that all program- and text- files of this archive are included without any modification. Commercial use (distribution, selling the program for money, spreading via PD disk series or CDs) is not allowed. But the authors may grant the permission for such use. ═══ 2. Using Five To Five ═══ There are four basic steps to convert a sound file from one file type to another: 1. Select the import file. 2. Select the type of the output file. 3. Select the format of the output file. 4. Export the file. Additionally, you can modify the volume of the sound data, use a low pass filter and change the sample rate. ═══ 2.1. Import ═══ To select an import file, press this button or drag a file icon onto the dialog window. The file will be opened and Five To Five tries to get all necessary information from the file header. The file name is then displayed in the entry-field next to the button. A brief information about the file will be shown underneath. If Five To Five couldn't find a file header, a 'Format Definition' dialog appears, where the format of the sample data has to be defined manually. ═══ 2.1.1. Manual Format Definition ═══ If Five To Five couldn't find a header in the import file, this dialog appears and the format and the frequency of the sample data have to be defined manually. If you are trying to import a sample type not (yet) supported by Five To Five as raw data and you know the length of the header, you can type it in. It will then be skipped. ═══ 2.1.2. Manual Frequency Definition ═══ To define the frequency of the raw sample to be imported, simply click onto the drop down list to select a predefined frequency, or type any other frequency into the edit field. The drop down list provides additional information about typical frequencies of different computer systems. ═══ 2.2. Import Sample Information ═══ This dialog shows a detailed information about the import file. If the file was not yet analysed, the whole file will be scanned now and the progress indicator appears. The following information is displayed:  Length  File type  File format  Peak level Note: The reported length is the length of the sample data (in bytes) without any header. ═══ 2.3. Export ═══ To write the new file select the 'Export' button. At first a file dialog appears to select the export file name. Then a visual progress indicator tells you about the current status of the export operation. If the export file already exists, a check back dialog appears. If the export file name is the same as the import file name, a temporary file will be created. ═══ 2.3.1. Modifying The Volume ═══ Normalizing If the peak level of the import sample is rather low, it is useful to use 'Maximize volume'. Using this option, the file will be written with maximal possible volume (and a peak level of about 98% to 100%). In this case the file will be scanned once completely. If the fading option is active, too, the file has to be scanned twice. Fading 'Fade In/Out' allows you to fade in and out the volume of the sample at the beginning and end. This is very useful, as there are often some distortions at this part of the sample. The duration of this effect can be typed in both for the start and the end of the sample if the option is selected. You can type in 1 to 9999 ms. If 0 is used, the option has no effect. ═══ 2.3.2. Frequency Conversion ═══ By selecting the button 'Convert Frequency' it is possible to convert the sample data from the given sample frequency to any other frequency. You can select this frequency by choosing any from a PopUp with predefined standard values or by typing it in. Converting a sample to a higher frequency increases the length of the file while the sound quality surely will not get better. Converting to a lower frequency leads to a shorter file, while the higher frequencies in the sample data are lost. If frequency conversion is selected, the low pass filter is automatically activated. This is necessary to avoid harmonic distorsions when converting to a higer sample rate and to avoid aliasing when converting to a lower sample rate. The correct edge frequency is automatically selected. Unfortunately the filtering process takes some additional time. So if you want to hear the result faster and if you don't care about some distorsions, you can disable the filter manually. ═══ 2.3.3. Low Pass Filtering ═══ By default, the 'Low pass filet' option is selected, when the frequency conversion button is activated. It can also be selected independently of the frequency conversion, for example to filter out noise. Just type in the edge frequency you want. Note: The highest possible frequency in a sample with the sample rate f (e.g. 8000Hz) is f/2 (4000Hz). So the highest possible edge frequency is the half of the sample rate. ═══ 2.4. Progress Indicator ═══ During longer lasting file operations (e.g. export), a progress indicator appears. To abort the operation, press the cancel button. ═══ Help About Product Information ═══ The OK button closes the Product information dialog. ═══ 3. Supported Types and Formats ═══ File Types Five To Five currently supports the following file types: DVSM For WinRec, WinCut, Fortune (ATARI) CIT For Fortune (ATARI) AVR Many ATARI St/Falcon programs HSN CrazySounds (ATARI) SND Sun, NeXT, Mac WAV PC AIFF Mac, SGI, ATARI, Cubase Raw data Raw data for many different programs To select the export file type, click onto the 'File Type' drop down list menu. Note: The supported AIFF file type is different from the type supported by MMPM/2, version 3 (we haven't seen a little endian AIFF file so far - but OS/2 seems to want them). File Formats To select the format of the export file or the raw file to be imported, click onto the 'Format' drop down list. For every file type the possible file formats will appear in the list. An actual format consists of several basic formats: Stereo / Mono Two or one channels Signed / Unsigned With or without sign Motorola / Intel For Motorola (big endian) or Intel (little endian) CPUs 16 / 8 Bit / ц-Law / Deltapack 16 or 8 Bit are uncompressed, ц-Law and Deltapack are compressed. Deltapack needs as much memory as ц-Law, but sounds much better. Selecting 'Keep' in the list ensures that the input format is used as export format if this is possible (which depends on the different file types). If it is not possible Five To Five chooses a format that does not use more memory than the import format. Note: Please notice that it is almost useless to convert a worse format to a better one. It only requires more memory but sounds the same. But it is possible that other programms support only some formats. Converting ц-Law to deltapack can result in a slightly worse sound quality, although deltapack is the better format. Note: For further information on file types and formats you might want to take a look at the article series 'Sound Sample Formate' in the German magazine 'ST Computer' (2/94-6/94). ═══ 4. Release History ═══ 12.04.93 Version 0.9 - Very first release for the ATARI computer 12.04.94 Version 0.91 - Greatly improved version was finally released ;-) - Correction in DVSM import 05.05.94 Version 1.0 - Published by Maxon for the ATARI computer - AES 4.02 3D support - Copyright Maxon 27.11.94 Version 2.0 - Complete re write of the program. - New file types: CIT (Fortune), HSN (CrazySounds) - Fade in/out time seperately adjustable - Correct volume maximation in connection with fading - Visual progress indicator - Drag&Drop 01.02.95 Version 2.01 - For the ATARI. - New file type: AIFF - MultiTOS Bug with iconizing fixed 19.01.95 Version 2.01 Beta - For OS/2! Although this is the first version for OS/2 it has the same features as the ATARI version. Thus the same verison number 05.03.95 Version 2.01 for OS/2. 12.03.95 Version 2.02 for ATARI. - Shareware registration dialog - Icon for desktop resource file included 17.04.95 Version 2.1 for ATARI. - Frequency conversion - Adjustable low pass filter - User break during conversion by pressing ESC or UNDO - The program can now be hidden using MagiC - Corrcet file delete of the export file during 'disk full' on MTOS/MagiC 18.07.95 Version 2.11 for ATARI. - Check back if export file already exists. - Bugfix in dialog memory management - Problems with export status bar fixed - Bug in registration dialog fixed - Bug in DVS-Import/Export with frequency conversion fixed 18.07.95 Version 2.11 for OS/2. - Functionally equivalent to the ATARI version 2.11 - First German release 03.09.95 Version 2.12 for ATARI. 09.09.95 Version 2.12 for OS/2. - Option for header skip in raw import - Files without extension now importable ═══ 5. Future Plans ═══ We will continue to support Five To Five in the future. Our current plans are:  More file types and formats - AIFF-C - WAVE 4 bit - ADPCM - Yamaha  Additional Platforms - Apple Macintosh - DEC Alpha under (OSF/1 - Digital Unix) If you have any additional suggestions, please let us know. ═══ 6. Registration ═══ Call For Registration If you use Five To Five regularely you have to pay the shareware fee of DM 20 ($ 15, Ь 10). Payment can be done via EuroCheque (or other international money orders if you pay the fee!), remittance order or cash. A single registration is vaild for all past and future versions of Five To Five on all supported platforms. Please write your name in the comment field of the remittance order and send us your name, address, email address and a remark to 525 V2.11 for OS/2 seperately (via mail or email). You will then recieve a personal key from us that allows you to register yourself in all future versions of the program for all supported platforms. Register After recieving your own key from us, you can then enter this key into the Registration dialog: First, select the Product Information dialog in the system menu. Then press the Register button to open the Registration dialog. Here you can enter the obtained key and press the OK button to register. If the registration was successfull, the key can be saved in the OS2.INI file to make it permanent. After the registration the annoying about box at each program start and end will not appear anymore. ═══ 7. Contact Addresses ═══ Send suggestions, criticism, comments, bug reports and cheques to: Harald SchФnfeld Lerchenstraсe 2 90587 Veitsbronn Germany Email: Harald.Schoenfeld@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de Bernd Spellenberg FБrther Straсe 11 90617 Puschendorf Germany Email: Bernd.Spellenberg@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de Remittance orders can be drawn to one of the following banking accounts: Harald SchФnfeld Kto. 5117726, Vereinigte Sparkasse im Landkreis FБrth, BLZ 76250110 or Bernd Spellenberg Kto. 122343, Raiffeisenbank FБrth eG, BLZ 76260451 ═══ 8. Acknowledgements ═══ We wish to thank: our 1st generation beta testers Peter Sergedahl and Thomas 'Gryf' Binder. our other ATARI beta testers Wolfgang Simon und Adam 'Riker' Kulinski.