( SAPPHIRE, SOFTWARE, An Acoustic Compiler M Sapphire version 1 port under OpenVMS November 1998 % ===================================== $ Sapphire is an acoustic compiler ... Binaries provided: ================= ! VAX VMS 6.1, built with DEC C 5.0 # Alpha VMS 6.2, built with DEC C 5.2 Rebuild: ======= $ set def [.SRC] $ @COMPILE_DECC $ @LINK_DECC Enjoy !! Patrick Moreau pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr * http://www2.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr/~pmoreau/ README file: 0 Sapphire - an acoustic compiler for Unix and DOS 9 Sapphire is an acoustic compiler: a program which takes a C representation of sound as a text file and generates the sound from F it, rather like a ray-tracing package takes a text representation of a& scene and generates a picture from it. B Sapphire has a large range of objects from which your sound can be? built, including envelope shapers, filters, oscillators, sample @ playback modules, and arithmetic operators. These can be 'wired'F together into sounds of arbitrary complexity. Complex sounds just take a bit longer to build. A All sounds created with sapphire can be used commercially without 9 royalty, provided you put a notice saying something like: * "Sapphire acoustic compiler by J. Finnis" A Sapphire itself is distributed under the terms of the GNU General ) Public License - see COPYING for details. " This Linux archive should contain: C guide.* : user's guide in nroff -me, postscript and ASCII src : source code + insts : some sample instruments 7 In the beta, these are pretty dire! & scales : some sample scalesA samples : some sample samples/waves - just sine and saw $ sapphire : Linux executable README : this file 2 COPYING : the GNU general public license, DOSNOTES : notes on the DOS version( DISTRIB : distribution historyJ sapphire-mode.el: a simple Lucid Emacs (Xemacs) 19.10 mode for sapphire," mainly for font-lock settingsP mid2sapp : a tclmidi script for converting MIDI files to sapphire scores
