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Doc.english - Documentation of SOUNDEffect
(c) 1992-1994 Sven Bühling
V 2.20 - Mai 1994
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Contents
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1. Preface
2. Copyright
3. Plans
4. Getting started / Screenmode
5. User Interface
6. The Panels
6.1. The Menu
6.2. Sample Display
6.3. The Disk I/O Panel
6.4. The Play Panel
6.5. The Range Panel
6.6. The Edit Panel
6.7. The Preferences Panel
6.8. The Buffers Panel
6.9. The Modulation Panel
6.10. The Echo Panel
6.11. The Chorus Panel
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
1. Preface
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SOUNDEffect is a program offering many facilities to edit samples. It is
very useful for musicians with some experience in working with samples.
Here are some special features:
1) User interface with gadgets for all functions. The gadgets are arrenged
into panels. (It's of course impossible to get all gadgets on one
screen.)
2) Full stereo support in all functions
3) Frequency, amplitude and panorama modulation with an envelop waveform wich
you can paint with the mouse.
4) Normal echo and a special reverb effect.
5) Free hand editing of the sample is possible.
6) Mixing of upto 8 samples in one time (mixer)
7) Chorus effect.
8) High and low pass filter with adjustable cut off frequency.
9) Expander, compresser, limiter.
10) Noise generator.
11) There are 8 temporary buffers for samples. You can choose to which path
these buffer are saved.
12) All usualy function like copy, paste, cut, insert, delete, loop, swap,
reverse, change of pitch and volume and much more.
Thanks to:
- all registered Users
- Matt Dillon for DICE
- Claudio Zani for TDS
- Teijo Kinnunen for OctaMED
- Martin W:Scott for icalc and YAK
- Stefan Becker for ToolManager
- Anders Bjerin for the C-Manual
2. Copyright
------------
SOUNDEffect and the Docs are copyrighted by Sven Bühling.
SOUNDEffect is SHAREWARE. You are only allowed to distribute it
if:
- all doc-file of one language are copied together with the program
- program and doc-files remain unchanged
- the disk must not cost more than $ 5 (DM 5)
If you get any damages using my program, I an not responsible.
If you like this program you should pay the share. For 20 US$ or 30 DM you will
become a registered user. That includes mailing of the most recent release
together with a so called keyfile wich enables protected functions in the
FD-release. You can pay the share in cash, via Euro-Scheck or International
Money Order.
Kontonr.: 46047295 BLZ: 830 544 82 (Kreissp. Stadtroda)
Address: Sven Bühling
Mühlenstr. 57
07745 Jena
GERMANY
Internet: osb@hpux.rz.uni-jena.de IRC: Gobel
Without a valid keyfile there are following restrictions:
- Samples wich are longer than 10000 bytes are displayed only three times
- the preferences can not be saved
- only one sample can be saved each session
3. Plans
--------
In some day or weeks I am going to release a 2.21 versio offering following
additional features:
- SampleClip support
After that I hope to find time to include features like:
- user interface with movable windows
- Fourier transformation
- optional Audio Device output
- MIDI-Sample-Dump
- better reverb effect
- ARexx port
- support for several samplers
If you are registered you do not depend on me in getting your updates. You can
download them for instance from aminet or from Fish disks. If you want to order
updates directly by the author one update costs 5$ including disk and mailing.
4. Getting started / Screenmode
-------------------------------
SOUNDEffect should work on every AMIGA with Kickstart >= 1.3 and at least 1
MByte RAM. Under 1.3 all requesters of SE look quite ugly. Under 2.0 SE
uses the more comfortable system requesters.
The 030 version needs 030 processor, mathieeesingbas.library and possibly a
882 coprecessor, too (not tested without).
Supported parameters / tooltypes:
INTERLACE - TRUE - opens an interlaced screen
FALSE - default
XPOS - x-Position
YPOS - y-Position
(To center the screen if your Workbench uses overscan)
EXTRAMENU - TRUE - if you open an interlace screen you can choosse to
display the menu panel every time.
FALSE - default
Beisp.: Start from CLI for NTSC-Amigas:
SOUNDEffect INTERLACE TRUE EXTRAMENU TRUE YPOS 30
Start from WB:
INTERLACE=TRUE
EXTRAMENU=TRUE
YPOS=30
(Enter these values to the tooltypes field)
5. User Interface
-----------------
There are three general areas on display. On the top of the screen you can see
the logo and some important informations. There are project name, size of the
sample and the status line. You should always have a look to this status line.
In the middle there is the area for sample display or for the big panels. You
can get back from a big panel to the sample display by pressing the right mouse
button in this range.
Below that you can find by default the menu panel where you can select wich
panel is to be displayed. But there are some small panels too wich cover the menu.
You can get back again by pressing the right mouse button.
Most of the big panels have three very important gadgets on the right side.
They are |LEFT|, |BOTH| and |RIGHT|. With these three gadgets you can select
whether the current function should affect the left, rigth or both channels of
the sample.
6. The Panels
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6.1. The Menu
"""""""""""""
The menu is displayed at the bottom of the screen. If not, use the right mouse
button in this range to switch back. You can reach all panels via this menu or
by the function keys (described later).
The left gadgets are for the small panels - the right ones for the big panels
in the middle of the screen.
6.2. Sample Display
"""""""""""""""""""
Click the right mouse button in the middle of the screen to get the Sample
display.
The first important thing you should know is that you can choose whether one or
two "windows" shell be displayed, This can be done with the both gadgets on the
left side in the middle.
On the left side of each window there are some gadgets to select what you want
to display in it.
|L| left channel
|R| right channel
|1|..|5| wave buffer 1..5
On the right side there are the zoom gadgets.
|(pocket lens)| zoom in
|(crossed)| zoom out
|RANGE| show the selected range
|ALL| show all
You can select a range in the sample or wave buffer by dragging with the right
mouse button over this area you want to select. Via LeftShift-RMB you can also
set the range begin - RightShift-RMB sets the end of the range.
In the wave buffer you can "draw" directly by dragging with the LMB. The sample
is a little bit protected against this. To edit the sample by freehand drawing
you have to hold a shift key while dragging with LMB.
A double click with th right mouse button in the sample removes the range.
If you double click with the left mousebutton it is zoomed in.
6.3. The Disk I/O Panel
"""""""""""""""""""""""
The panel is used to load or save samples and WAVE-buffers.
It is similar to other file requestors. You can change text and contents of
the four directory buttons. This is explained in the paragraph about
preferences-panel.
Here and in all other panels the affect gadgets at the right side can be
used to selected whether the left, the right or both channels of the sample
should be affected of the current operation.
File format:
You can load samples in one of the following formats: IFF-8SVX, AIFF,
AIFF-C, Future-Sound (obsolete), RAW-8 or RAW-16. If the IFF-format is
corrupt (Action Replay!) you can choose if you want to load it RAW. Then
you should not forget to cut the beginning of the sample because there is
the corrupt IFF-Header and that does usually not sounde very well.
You can save your samples in AIFF-C, RAW-8, RAW-16 or IFF-8SVX.
In RAW-format you loose all additional information like loop, rate or project
name. It is not possible to save stereo s