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ReadMe for Sound Probe 1.74 (CU Amiga Demo) (10/11/97)
======================================================
In the CU Amiga demo version of SoundProbe16 the save option has
been removed. This means you are not able to save ANY work you do.
Also, the sampling and audio rates have been limited to 14KHz, and
real-time FX have been fixed at 8363Hz. The full version of SoundProbe
available from HiSoft has a maximum rate of 65KHz! (and of course the
save options work!). The demo version also contains a "tame" annoying
requester (I hate them, they always put me off looking at software),
but this one pops up rarely, and puts longer and longer spaces between
appearances. It's just there to remind you not to continue using the
SP demo as an application (it is only a DEMO!)
Please support SoundProbe, I'd like to make it into the BEST sound
editing system on ANY platform, I'm willing to stick with the Amiga
until one of us dies first!
Notice
======
Due to Sound Probes heavy use of the systems interrupts and high performance
requirements, it is important to ensure that your system is running at its
maximum speed. Ways to do this are as follows:
If your system has a small amount of fast RAM (e.g - less than 4 Mb), then it
is important that whilst running Sound Probe, you have as much free fast RAM
as possible. If possible, ensure Sound Probe is executed without many other
programs/utilities being loaded into RAM first.
It is also advisable to have the systems ExecBase, the System Stack and VBR
mapped to fast RAM. Programs such as "BlizzMagic", "FastExec", "MCP"
and other "system enhancers" will map these for you, this gives the system
improved performance and hence ensures Sound Probe runs at the maximum
performance for your system.
In the MISC page of the settings window is an option `Fast Stack'. This will
map the system stack into fast RAM. If this is disabled then it is already
in fast RAM. Basically it means that sampling/audio will perform at the best
possible speed for your system. Before enabling it, a warning appears. Don't
worry about trying it, just ensure you have nothing running, and all your
work saved etc. When SoundProbe quits, the original stack will be restored.
It is important to make sure you've read your User manual for full details
of how each part of Sound Probe works, and what you need to do. It isn't as
complex as it may seem at first sight.
A1200 Owners/Accelerator Owners
-------------------------------
If your A1200 has an accelerator board with MMU, it is important to ensure
that your kickstart ROM is mapped into fast RAM, this ensures Sound Probe
will function at full efficiency. Read your accelerators manual for details
on how this can be done.
!Important!
===========
When first using Sound Probe on your system, it is advised that you test how
high the sampling and audio rates can be set without causing your system to
become unusably slow, or to lock up. To ensure your system doesn't lock up,
ensure that the fail counts for audio/sampling/monitoring are low enough for
you not to have to wait too long before it stops (See the User Manual for
details). If your system is unable to have them very high, it is advised that
when sampling, you set the sampler options to use the monitoring rate whilst
it monitors, and ensure that this is set low enough. Switching off the system
enabled option in the sampling window will give maximum performance whilst
sampling and similar for the audio options (See the User Manual for details).
Installation
============
To install Sound Probe simply double-click on the `Installer' icon and
follow the instructions, this will install SoundProbe for you.
Settings File
=============
The Sound Probe settings file can easily be edited via the WB 'ed' command.
All the paths which Sound Probe uses can be set by changing the paths text.
The settings file is in the `Settings' drawer, it is called
`SPDefault.settings'
e.g - AUDIO_PATH=SP16:Audio/
could be changed to...
AUDIO_PATH=LIBS:Audio/
if you wish to keep the Sound Probe libraries in your LIBS: drawer.
If Sound Probe can not find a default settings file, it will assume that
all the files it needs are contained within the same drawer that the main
editor is located in, it will then create an assign called 'SP16:' to this
location when it is executed. If you wish, you can assign 'SP16:' yourself,
forcing Sound Probe to use this instead. If SoundProbe fails to find any
of its main libraries, it will not be able to run, these are the one
contained in the "Libs/" drawer.
Button Graphics
===============
The buttons which Sound Probe uses for the Tools window can be changed simply
using any IFF-ILBM graphics editor which allows you to save out a brush. The
size of the buttons is defined by the size of the brush, take a look at the
default buttons. You can create a drawer with your own button images, then
simply set the buttons path to where they are located and Sound Probe will
load the new images next time it is executed.
Sound Player
============
The Sound Player has been set up to operate from an assign to the drawer
where SoundProbe is, and an added assign to the sound probe `Libs' drawer.
If you have the files in a different place, edit the tooltypes of the
SoundPlayer icon.
Icons
=====
For people with the "Magic Workbench" there are several icons contained in
the icons drawer. Simply rename these and copy them over the original icon.
The installer will handle all this for you.
Known Bugs
==========
None known at this present time.
Changes
=======
07.07.97 - The Effects menu has had the echo effects moved into a sub
menu, two new echo effects have been added:
AreaEcho, SurroundEcho.
- Three new display libraries have been added:
3DFrequencyGraph, 2DFrequencyGraph, QuickGraph.
- Three new Sampling Monitors have been added:
3DSpectrumAnalyser, 2DSpectrumAnalyser, HIFISpeccyAnalyser
- Sampling monitor `SpectrumAnalyser' has been improved to show
64 frequency bands, and uses an improved 256 point FFT.
09.07.97 - Resample now has an extra option to resample just the
selected area, or if this is disabled, then it will resample
the whole sample.
10.07.97 - The pitch routines have been altered from using a rate to
using a scaling percentage. Change Pitch, Chorus, Modulate and
Pitch Bend now use a range of 1-400% instead of resample rates.
- Default Effects menus have been extended with a Settings menu.
This allows you to snapshot the current windows position and
size, or unsnapshot it so it always centres it.
11.07.97 - NoiseGate, Compressor and DeCrackle rewritten, much improved
performance and results.
13.07.97 - Resonance effect added, shows up in the FX List.
18.07.97 - AHI Audio library added. Allows you to use the AHI.device to
play through. Has only been tested with the Paula support.
AHI is available as PD.
19.07.97 - Added new monitor meter "LightOrgan" based on the lightorgan
in DeliTracker. Displays the input level based on a colour
change of a box.
- Meter update speeds have been improved, updating now uses the
sampling timer, and no longer waits for a frame update. This
could cause sync problems and sometimes some flicker, but
this could also happen with frame waits, so it makes little
difference, except now it updates every 50th of a second,
and not when the frame and sampling event happen in sync!
21.07.97 - Added menus to monitoring meters. Now supports the following
menu options:
Project -> About
-----
Quit
Settings -> Snapshot Window
Unsnapshow Window
Snapshot will now save the current window position and size
for your meter, so the next time you use it, it'll appear in
the same place and size. If you have meters open when you
save the default settings, the snapshot will be ignored and
the location and size at saving will be used, this means that
you can still leave the meters open at quit time, and they'll
reload as you left time.
23.07.97 - Amiga14Bit audio library added.
24.07.97 - Reverb has an extra option to turn off the flange, reducing
the number of calculations it makes. Also had some general
improvements. New decay slope type "Random" added. Diffusion
algorithm improved, but speed is now slower due to more
calculation.
25.07.97 - Three new effects added: LowPassBoost, HighPassBoost,
BandPassBoost. These can be accessed via the FxList as with
any further effects.
28.07.97 - Fixed small bug in layerhook, caused graphics errors on
KickStart3.1.
- Added new effect: "FastReverb" (access through FxList).
Uses less computation, and is only linear so sounds less
"natural". It's much better for Real-Time as the full Reverb
is pretty slow!
29.07.97 - Improved speed of "HIFISpeccyAnalyser", update now uses tables
for dB calculations and not floating point calcs.
- Fixed small bug in sampling monitoring, wasn't telling the
meter the sampling rate, causing probs with Frequency meters.
- Improved 2DFrequencyGraph/2DSpectrumAnalyser to use tables
for dB calculations, now slightly faster.
30.07.97 - Extended sampler library functions to give more flexible
sampling support.
31.07.97 - AHI sampler support added. Doesn't support Real-Time FX,
and stopping sampling early will only keep the last
saved block (see the Sampler Info). This is a test of
AHI support so shouldn't be taken too seriously. The
sampler/audio support is not full or perfect, and may
not fully work, or even work at all. If AHI developes
further I may add full (true) AHI support.
- Removed rate mapping, sampling rates are no longer mapped
onto the Amiga clock frequency, this allows expansion to
samplers which can support other frequencies, use the rate
requester "MapRate" to get the correct Amiga rate.
- Improved colour scheme of 2D/3D FFT displays, shows up
details much clearer, especially 2D graphs.
01.08.97 - Added extra palette functions: Copy,Swap,Mix,Spread.
- Added new monitor meter: Monoscope.
Based around the DeliTracker monoscope idea.
03.08.97 - Added two new monitor meters:
3DSurfaceFFT - Displays the frequencies as a 3D "Surface" map.
ColourMultiscope - Displays faded previous displays.
- Added new display graph: 3DFFTSurfaceGraph. Sames as the
monitor meter.
20.08.97 - Fixed bug in multi-file load, at startup.
- Fixed bug in 'cancel' load.
- Added Multi-File load requester, you can now select multiple
files. Load will load first into current project and then
create new projects for each extra file. Open will create
a new project and then start loading.
16.10.97 - Fixed small bug in 8SVX saver, could have caused crashing.
- Changed Resample window, now shows the time stretch options
more clearly as Amiga Format said they didn't exist!
18.10.97 - Fixed stereo<->mono for 8 bit interleaved file storage.
20.10.97 - Improved stereo->mono mix routine and general mix.
01.11.97 - Converted some code for CU Amiga Demo.
Finally
=======
To obtain SoundProbe contact HiSoft at:
North America Rest of world
Oregon Research HiSoft
16200 SW Pacific Highway The Old School
Suite 162 Greenfield
Tigard Bedford
OR 97223 MK45 5DE
U.S.A. U.K.
Phone: +1 503 620 4919 +44 (0)1525 718181
FAX: +1 503 624 2940 +44 (0)1525 713716
Email: orres@teleport.com hisoft@cix.compulink.co.uk