PlayerPRO is a complete music editor software (SoundTracker). You can use it with any Macs without any specific hardware. PlayerPRO can load and play following formats: MOD, S3M, Midi, MTM, MADx, OKTA, System 7 sound, MINS, WAV, XI, AIFF, AIFC, MED, 669, IT, ULT and XM.
What is a SoundTracker?
Still uncommon on Macintosh, these music utilities originated on the Amiga platform, and have then been developed on the Atari ST, IBM PC, and finally on Macintosh. These soundtrackers are based on a single file system: the MOD format and its derivatives. The MOD format was intended to be a compact way of storing music inside games and demos, especially background music. The files consist of "patterns" of musical notes inside "partitions" (pattern lists) which can be played in different order, and more than once. (The number of tracks simulates the number of musicians a conductor would have in his orchestra; in the case of a 4 track file, the conductor has only the possibility of having 4 instruments playing simultaneously, even when the players can change their instruments).
PlayerPRO offers you a whole range of functions to exploit these music files:
Sound reading: several methods of reading are offered, many sound drivers.
Display of analyses tools: Fourier's analysis, oscilloscope, tubes, piano, digital partition, classical partition, simplified partition, animations, etc.
Music edition: music editing can be accomplished by writing at the level of classical partition, digital partition, or simply by piano recording or by Midi instruments.
Technical Details:
- Any Mac from 68020 to PowerMac (FAT version)
- Requires NO special hardware (all other musics softwares require MIDI Hardware)
- Play up to 32 simultaneous channels WITHOUT special hardware.
- Sound quality from 11Khz 8bits to 44Khz 16bits.
- Support all Mac sound chips (ASC, AWAC, AWAC2, DSP)
- A special ASC driver for 68k Macintosh available
- Native PowerMac version
- Compiled with CW11
- Online Help for beginners.
- Quicktime 2.x support: instruments loading and editing
- Complete graphic interface (more than 15 tools windows)
- Support MIDI Hardware: MIDI IN/OUT. GM compatibility via Quicktime 2.1
- Fast oscilloscope and Fourier analysis. (60 im/sec) Realtime.
- Complete editor interface to create your music.
- Instruments edition: AIFF, Snd.
- Support sound input from Microphone, CD, etc.
- Support Volume Envelope
- Support multiple samples for instruments (high quality instruments)
- Support volume command
- Music List : you can store up to 2000 musics
- Free sample rate: from 1 Hz to 50 Khz
- Free base note for samples
- Sound filters for samples edition
- Edition filters for partition edition
- Plug-Ins support for future updates: IMPORT/EXPORT/FILTER
- AIFF music export: rate, amplitude, compression, channel
- Supports 8 octaves
- Realtime interface to "see" your playing music
- Up to 64 instruments for 1 music
- Complete Drag&Drop interface (System 7.5 savvy)
- Panning interface
- Complete developper toolkit to use musics in your own project (THINK, CodeWarrior)
- XMCD in safe FAT to use musics in HyperCard, MacroMind, etc.
- API to create Plugs
NEW FEATURES IN ACTUAL VERSION (4.5.8):
• Bug in registration system corrected
• Slow GUI Bug on 601 corrected
• Some new GUI features
• Internal structure now ready for new MADI format (PlayerPRO 5.0)
