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Re: Macintosh sounds... bloop, quack, boing, etc...



On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Andrew Du wrote:
> Good day!
>     I copied several sound effects from a Macintosh Quatra system.  Is 
> there a way to convert them to a pc compatible format?

	The sound is in the %-fork.  It's in .sou format (or at least 
that's what the sound editor I last used on them, Wired for Sound, called 
them)--generally, "raw data."  There will be a "click" at the beginning 
of the sound--and maybe at the end--due to all of the headers, 
non-resource stuff, etc.  Edit those out, or cut-and-paste the good part 
into a new file, save as a more common format (like .wav) and enjoy.
	You will probably have to adjust the speed of playback.  I've
noticed that Mac sounds are often slightly off-speed on a PC. Don't
remember the numbers, but I seem to remember that 11k/sec sounds are
really 11050/sec on the PC, but something else on the Mac, or something
like that.  I'm sure someone out here knows more about this. 

Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu


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