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- Short: Object oriented sound processor program
- Author: henning.thielemann@student.uni-halle.de
- Uploader: henning.thielemann@student.uni-halle.de
- Version: 00.99 banana version (ripens at customers)
- Type: mus/edit
- Kurz: objektorientiertes Soundbearbeitungsprogramm
- Requires: 3 MB Ram, OS 3.0, MUI 3.8, AHI 4.180
- Recommended: >= MC68030, 50MHz, 8MB, lots of HD space
- Recommended: datatypes.library V45 (util/libs/dtypes454upd.lha)
- Recommended: sound.datatype V41 (util/dtype/SoundDT.lha)
- Recommended: SearchGuide (text/hyper/SearchGuide.lha) or
- Recommended: LSAGS (text/hyper/LSAgSearch21.lha)
- Recommended: TableGroup.mcc (dev/mui/MCC_TableGroup, required but included)
- Recommended: TearOff*.mcc, CompactWindow.mcc (dev/mui/MCC_TearOff)
- Recommended: PopHotkey.mcc (home.pages.de/~kmel)
- Recommended: popupmenu.library (util/libs/pmuser.lha) with
- Recommended: MuiPopPatch (only with mui = 3.8, available at the magic menu site)
- Recommended: MEM: (disk/misc/MEM_Handler371.lha) for reading samples from memory
-
- You want a program which offers all common effects you heard in professional
- productions thousand times before? If this is the case, then try out some of the
- other sound programs. If you are familar with sound synthesis instead and you
- want a program that helps you realizing some crazy ideas then have a look at
- Assampler.
-
- Assampler let you analyse sounds, re-synthesize and modify them, create new
- synthetic instruments/music effects or apply effects to long signal streams.
-
- The bad things first: What the program lacks currently (= to do)
- - AutoDocs for synthesizer.library
- - sampling
- - composing music
- - external program modules (known as plugins)
- - ARexx
- - PowerPC support
-
- And here are the few and unspectacular features:
- - object oriented sounds and sound processes (which is rather the same)
- - combine anything with everything, with or without help of flowcharts
- - sounds with different sample rate or volume are automatically adjusted
- - sound groups allow hierarchical storage and operations on multiple sounds at once
- - no limit for multichannel sounds (known as stereo, surround, quadro, octa?)
- - hard disk editting of raw non-interleaved sample sounds with no functional limit
- - easy creation of control, modulation, waveform etc. curves
- - frequency spectrum can be used both for viewing and manipulating
- - long list of processes, summarized: basics, echo, distortion, filters, FFT
- - using strong CPUs everything can be run as realtime effect
- - mathematical expressions with complex numbers and SI units
- - multithreading, you don't need to wait for a calculation any longer
- - hand-made assembler routines for low-level calculations
- - an FPU is almost not necessary
- - usage of
- - MUI for GUI (intensive usage of drag&drop)
- - AHI for sound output
- - datatypes for import/export of custom sound formats
- - SearchGuide/LSAGS (amiga guide search tools) support within the help guide
- - PopHotkey.mcc for easy shortcut configuration
- - much more details, some of them will annoy you, some are invaluable
- - asynchronous reqtools file requester
- - multiple file/directory load
- - smooth sample/polynom/spectrum display scrolling + range marking
- - multiple displays for the same sound
- - zoomable proportional gadgets
- - big samples can also be load if memory is already fragmented
-
- This might not sound very interesting to you, because you don't know what's
- meant with all these terms. So you have no other choice than starting the
- program, trying some examples and hearing the surprising results.
-
- Assampler is compiled with Cluster (= Modula II deluxe), the most
- underestimated and fewest supported language ever wrote for the most
- underestimated and fewest supported computer system called Amiga (by the
- way both the computer and the language are the best all around, but I
- surely tell you nothing new).
-
- Support site:
- home.pages.de/~lemming/Assampler.html (german)
- home.pages.de/~lemming/AssamplerE.html (english)
- Download current versions here
-
- Mailing list:
- www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi?assampler
- Discuss how to turn your ideas into working sound algorithms, learn about
- useful tricks, share experiences with other Assampler users, listen to brand new
- news about Assampler and take part in votings about new features.
-
- Examples:
- mods/techno/SparDas.lha
- Listen to a piece that is completely made of sounds created with Assampler.
-