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- Awave, ReadMe file Copyr. 1993,1996, FMJ-Software
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- Contents:
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- 1. Requirements
- 2. Installation
- 3. Registration
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- 4. Background
- 5. Features
- 6. Availablility
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- 7. Feedback and bugreports
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- 1.Requirements:
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- - Windows 95 (preferred), or,
- Windows NT 3.51, or
- Windows 3.1 with Win32s 1.3.
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- - Mouse or equivalent pointing device.
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- Optional:
- - MIDI-input device,
- - Advanced Gravis UltraSound (classic, MAX, ACE, PnP),
- - Turtle Beach Maui or Tropez, *
- - Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 32, **
- - Any digital audio capable sound card.
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- * May not work satisfactory on some W31 systems.
- ** Requires the latest, .SF2 compatible, drivers.
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- 2.Installation:
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- Throw the files into a directory of your choice. Run Awave.EXE.
- Go through the Help menu. Especially read the Step by Step section.
- If you ever want to unistall Awave, you can do that from within the
- program itself, go Options->Program->Uninstall. Under Windows 95,you can
- also use Windows 95 Control Panel's Install/Uninstall feature.
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- 3.Registration:
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- Registered users will obtain a personal registration keycode contained
- in a file named 'YOURNAME.KEY'. See 'REGISTER.TXT' on how to obtain one.
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- To enter the registration code:
- Start up Awave. Choose 'Options->Program...->Register...'and locate this
- file in order to register Awave and remove all imposed limitations.
- You only need to do this once. Do not store the 'YOURNAME.KEY' file on a
- publically accessible media less someone may steal it, i. e. after you
- have registered yourself, keep it on a floppy and delete it from your
- hard disk. It is your registration license and are to be treated as any
- other value 'paper'.
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- 4.Background and features
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- Awave was birthed some two years ago when I needed to extract some samples
- from an Amiga tracker module and save them as UltraSound .pat instruments.
- I hacked up a small program called MOD2PAT to fill my needs.
- As some programs tend to do, this one soon grew beyond bounds. More import
- formats were continually added (and still are). It was ported to Windows,
- it got a steadily improving user interface. The name was now something of
- an understatement so I changed into 2PAT. Now after three major rewrites,
- and supporting more than a hundred audio carrying file formats for import,
- as well as most popular formats for export, and sporting several editing
- and playback functions, the name has again been changed into Awave.
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- Awave reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different
- platforms, synthesizers and trackers.It presents the instruments contained
- in a file as a graphical tree with the bank item at the top, instruments
- as branches and waveforms as leaves.
- If you have one of the supported wavetable synthesis sound cards you can
- just click on an item, and directly 'audition' it using a midi keyboard or
- the computer keyboard. If you just have a basic soundcard capable of audio
- playback,you can use it as a crude (monophonic) synthesizer to get an idea
- of what it should sound like.
- Saving an item to any of the supported export formats, is as easy as
- double clicking on the item and selecting export type. MIDI SDS Dumps are
- also supported for down loading waveforms to professional synthesizers.
- There are visual editors for most instrument and waveform parameters like
- loop points and keymaps. Some audio processing and editing functions are
- also provided.
- There is also the 'AudioPlayer' feature, a nice audio playback control,
- sporting both realtime oscilloscope and frequency analyzer graphs. It is
- available from inside Awave as well as integrated into the Windows95 shell
- in order to easily let you play the sounds of any of the supported file
- formats! Thus it is also and ideal 'helper app' for your WWW-browser!
- If you are into any form of sampled audio on the Windows platform, you'll
- most likely find this program usefull!
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- 6.Availability
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- Awave is Shareware, see REGISTER.TXT for details on how to register.
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- Awave is available for download on the internet at:
- "http://www.nada.kth.se/~f93-maj/fmjsoft.html"
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- 7.Feedback and bugreports:
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- Send bug reports, suggestions, fan letters, spare money...
- to email: 'f93-maj@nada.kth.se'
- or mail: 'Markus J÷nsson, Svedjev. 7, 147 52 Tumba, Sweden'
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- For bug reports, state what program version it is, what OS you are using,
- as well as what soundcard(s) you have. In addition to stating the nature
- of the problem, give a detailed step-by-step account of what you did that
- led up to the bug and note all messages that you encounter on the way.
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- Have Fun!
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- (\/)arkus
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