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Recent updates to !DSEdit:
v1.03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
22 June '91
Fixed a teensy bug that sometimes introduced distortion when using MaxAmp
(OK, I admit it, I got the formula back-to-front, so it was always wrong!)
Convert ⇨ Sun now selects the correct playback speed (8kHz) automagically
v1.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
18 May '91
Added "Convert ⇨ Sun" menu option
Altered polling so that if DSEdit run by double-clicking a sound file, the
DSEdit icon appears BEFORE the sound is loaded. This is much nicer,
especially if you have to wait for a big sound to load from floppy
Somehow it's much better like this. I wish all app.s would do it!
Added 'Filetype' option to auto-filetype loaded files. ALWAYS defaults to
'Off', as it's dangerous but useful.
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Finally got around to writing code for Adjust-drags: Now they alter one
end of the selected area rather than starting new drag as Select does.
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Noticed that after about 9 months I have started hacking at DSEdit again,
despite looming work and assignment deadlines!
v1.01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Added:
Max Amplify
Auto Centre
(This includes a new bit of machine-code: 'popcount', which returns the
max,min byte values used by the sample)
v1.00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Squeeze, Move Centre, and Limit Up/Down options connected to the
interface!
Minor bug fixes
DSEdit now reads screen mode information correctly. It should now function
fine in overscan and weird screen modes. (Definitely works with all
standard modes, CC's !NewModes, and several outboard-scrolling modes I
have)
Changed Delete so that it selects the entire sound after a deletion. It
used to leave a single byte selected where the deleted area was (for
user's information), but it annoyed me so much I had to change it!
Re-linked in the conversion routines by Edouard Poor that were in DSEdit
v0.60, which mysteriously disappeared before version 0.96!!!
Planned improvements: ======================================================
DSEdit may soon have a decent sound-driver!
This means several improvements are likely:
- Save sample as stand-alone RM for use in other programs
- Change play speed as you play sound
- Save speed/pitch info in sample file
- Set correct playback pitch upon load
- 'Cursor' moves across sound as it is played to show which bit being
played
and much much more
However, any such release of DSEdit will be SHAREWARE. I will want something
like NZ$15 (approx. equivalent to £5 english pounds), which is very cheap
anyway. Some of this money will go to the author of the shareware sound
driver software I will be using.
v1.03?
Support for more sample filetypes:
ARMadaeus format
Data Vox format
later...
Support for sampling boards. (Anyone got any sampling boards they want to
donate to a good cause?!?)
much later...(i.e. "fat chance")
Partial load off disc if not enough free memory to load entire sound
Notes to hackers (Yes, YOU!) ===============================================
The code for DSEdit was written in '87 for Arthur, re-written for Arthur,
re-written for RISC OS, re-written again for RISC OS, and then re-written in
'89 to multitask. It was my first mtasking application (i.e. EVERYTHING in
it was an experiment to see how the WIMP works). As such, the program is a
mess, and frankly, I don't know how it functions as well as it does!! So
don't criticise it! (If you don't like it, write one of your own, or shell
out megabucks for a commercial product that I won't name that doesn't even
let you load more than one file at at time, and puts all available memory in
the RMA just in case it will need it (yeugh!) and winge whine snortle...)
"If that scrolled by too fast for you to read, then too effing bad."