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SOUND FX v1.5.
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SHAREWARE STOS ACCESSORY
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BY
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RICHARD KING
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REVIEW BY KEEFY
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Sound fx is a stos accessory which
allows you to design your own sound
chip effects using the st's sound
chip. Although it is best used as
an accessory, it can be used as a
stos basic program, but if used in
this way a few of the options are
not selectable. It will only work
on a colour monitor in medium rez,
and needs a whopping 80k of memory
free once loaded, so it's quite a
hungry little beastie.
Anyway, onto the program itself,
well it's a complete sound
manipulation utility, allowing you
to load and save sound banks and
grab the sound banks from the
program that you're currently
working on and set the volume
frequency, tone, envelope speed and
type and even set the st's sound
chip registers.
It has all the expected options
which allow you play the sound being
edited, stop it, and also play any
of the sounds in the sound bank. It
also allows you to put sounds into
your banks, get sounds from banks,
delete them, create new banks and
also has a printer option wherby you
can send the sound name and settings
to your printer. It also contains a
randomize option which gets the
computer to create a random sound
effect (although most of the time i
found that the results of this were
not particularly good).
Some of the options are
shown on the main screen in
graphical format as well and can be
changed by using the mouse, far
quicker than using the drop down
menus which are used to select most
of the options.
For me, it's a bit complicated and
could definately have done with a
manual. The program is shareware so
i suppose that you have to register
in order to get it. You won't
be able to recreate Brahms symphony
or the latest rave record by the
prodigy. But if all you want are a
few little beeps, plunks, blips and
tweets, then this would probably fit
the bill nicely.
Not my cup of tea though, so i'd
probably have to give it 4 out of 10
KEEFY