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WAVmaker 1.0 - Evaluation Package
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WAVmaker is a complete Music & Digital Audio system featuring CD quality
MID -> WAV rendering, tons of Digital Signal Processing functions (mix,
maximize, fade, gate, compress/enhance, low/high/band/notch filter, ring
modulation, vocoder, reverse, echo, reverb, flange, chorus, extend, cut/
gated cut) and MIDI analysis/manipulation. Several audio file format
converters are also included. Creative Labs Sound Blasters are fully
supported; other sound cards can easily be added to the customizable User
Interface. All engines may be run from the User Interface or from DOS
(including shell programs and BAT files). Full on-line, hypertextual
documentation is included.
WAVmaker is shareware. What you have received is the WAVmaker Evaluation
Package, which comes with a subset of the full General MIDI patch/sample
library delivered upon registration. An awesome sound data packer/
unpacker (included) allows sound file distribution on ordinary 3.5" HD
disks. You won't believe your ears!
The Evaluation Package may be distributed freely for evaluation purposes.
Full distribution and registration information is in the on-line docs.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 286+ (386+ recommended). FPU recommended. 4+ MB RAM
(8+ MB RAM recommended). XMS (e.g. HIMEM.SYS). 5+ MB
free hard disk space (10+ MB recommended). Disk cache
(e.g. SMARTDRV.SYS) recommended. EGA+ (SVGA for nice
title screen :-). Color monitor. MS compatible mouse
(with driver). DOS 3.3+ (DOS 5.0+ recommended). High
quality sound card (16 bits/44.1 kHz/stereo) strongly
recommended.
WAVmaker is a DOS program. It will not run reliably under Windows.
If at all possible, use a good amplifier/speaker system (not pitiful PC
gamer's speakers) to fully enjoy WAVmaker's CD quality output.
INSTALLATION: Run INSTALL.EXE.
Note: WAVmaker is packaged using Info-ZIP's compression utility. The
installation program uses UnZip to decompress the distribution
files. Info-ZIP's software (Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is
free and can be obtained as source code or executables from many
anonymous-FTP sites, including ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.
If DOS reports insufficient environment space at WAVmaker startup, you
should increase the environment size reserved with the SHELL directive in
CONFIG.SYS. See your DOS manual for details. Note that some shell programs
do not use the COMSPEC variable in order to locate the command processor.
Such programs will not be affected by the SHELL directive. If you are using
such a program and are experiencing environment size problems, you'll have
to shut it down before starting up WAVmaker. This will allow DOS to use the
environment size specified in the SHELL directive.
WARNING: Do NOT run the subprogram WM DFT2WAV with an unresolved environment
size problem if you have a DPMI server installed on your system and/
or if you do not have a hardware FPU!
If you have questions about WAVmaker or if you experience difficulties with
it, do not hesitate to contact me via one of the following channels:
SNAIL MAIL: Tommy Anderberg
Almvagen 4
195 44 Marsta
SWEDEN
E-MAIL: Tommy.Anderberg@abc.se
FAX: +46 8 591 162 23
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I am grateful to all those who offered to be Beta testers
for WAVmaker 1.0. Special thanks go to
David Eriksson in Norrköping, Sweden
Jöran Jilg (Joran.Jilg@abc.se) in Kungsängen, Sweden
Marc Young in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Mark Williston in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ulf Härnhammar (Ulf.Harnhammar@abc.se) in Årsta, Sweden
All bugs still present in WAVmaker 1.0 after these gentlemen were done with
it are of course mine and mine alone!