If you're new to the audio thing, perhaps I can help you get going in the

right direction.  Basically, you've got two separate things, "soundfiles",

and music.  The soundfiles can be anything from a beep or a buzz sound, to

thunder & rain, to a car crashing in stereo.  They're played with a soundfile

player, "Sound.lha" being one of the best, but there are a bunch of them.


  You'll hear the term "IFF" associated with soundfiles, and that's just a

type of format a soundfile has been saved in.  The soundfile players, like

Sound, play either IFF or non-IFF ("RAW") soundfiles, but if you're going to

use soundfiles in a program, like DeluxeVideoIII, they'll have to be IFF.

To convert a RAW soundfile to IFF, you use a sound editor, either commercial

or PD.  The commercial ones do a few more tricks, like saving in stereo, but

for just saving a beep sound, a PD editor will work fine.


  Music files fall roughly into two categories, self-playing and MODs.  Any

song in the Music section of this board is self-playing, just type the name

to run.  The MOD's need a MOD music player, and I guess you should try out

EaglePlayer and PowerPlayer, those seem to be the best around these days.

"Best" means that they can play the latest stuff, an endless source of

frustration in the MOD world.  


  As far as making your own music, forget all about Sonix, DMCS, and Music
Studio...they've had their day.  DMCS is trying to revive things with DMCS
II, but it's a lost cause.  Stick with one of the "trackers", like Noise-
Tracker or MED.

  Well, that should get ya started.  Lemme know if ya got any questions.


%Z