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Sample formats:
IFF-8SVX : The most normal format in the amiga world. It supports
8 bit quality, mono/stereo and fibonacci packing.
Fibonacci packing will halve the size of the sample
with nearly no quality loss :)
In the configuration you can specify the internal name
of the sample and the author name, and whether you want
the sample packed with fibonacci or not.
If the sample is in stereo you have the possibility to
save it as either a mono or a stereo sampling. If you
choose mono, the channels are mixed in 16 bit quality
and then saved as an 8 bit mono sampling.
IFF-AIFF : This format originates from the Macintosh. It is mostly
used on the Macintosh, but it's also used by other
platforms.
This converter supports conversion of 8 and 16 bit AIFF
samples, mono or stereo. To see which conversions
between stereo and mono that are possible see above in
the IFF-8SVX description.
16 bit samples can be saved in 8 or 16 bit. 8 bit
samples can only be converted in 8 bit.
Like in the IFF-8SVX you can also specify an internal
name and author for the sample.
RAW : This is all files not covered by the above sample
formats. It can be anything from an executeable to a
device handler. This is useful if you have some files
which you KNOW are samples but they haven't got any
header. In the config you can tell APlayer exactly how
the sample is, and with this informations APlayer will
create a header for the file.
The things that you have to tell APlayer is:
Quality : 8 or 16 bit
Endian : Big (highbyte first),Little (lowbyte first)
This is pretty technical, only change it if
nothing else works.
Type : Signed or unsigned
Channels : Mono or stereo
Frequency : The samplerate (5000 - 28000).
RIFF-WAVE : This format originates from the PC Windows (Yuk!)
This converter supports conversion of 8 and 16 bit WAVE
samples, mono or stereo. To see which conversions
between stereo and mono that are possible see above in
the IFF-8SVX description.
16 bit samples can be saved in 8 or 16 bit. 8 bit
samples can only be converted in 8 bit.
Worms : This is our hopefully future famous ...
Tada dada da daaaa! PC-Worms sample bank converter!
Amiga Worms uses separate samples for all the sounds in
the game, like "Fatality", "BlowTorch" and so on ..
PC Worms uses a special form of Sample banks in which
all sounds are stored in one file.
This multi-sample-saver-module can convert those sample
banks to the amiga format.
Instruction:
1. Open the Configuration/Agents/Multi-SampleSaver
window.
2. Choose the Worms loader, and the IFF-8SVX saver.
3. Press the "Convert" button.
4. From the filerequester you can now choose the PC
sample bank you want to convert.
5. If it is a real PC sample bank, a window should
appear stating that the format is Worms.
6. click ok.
7. Then the IFF-8SVX saver pops up. Simple do not
touch anything here. Just close the window.
8. Then you are asked for a place to save the converted
sounds, choose that ..
9. After the sounds has been converted you have to
manually take a few IMPORTANT steps more.
10. If you want all the new samples to be used, copy
them into your TWENGLISH directory in the worms
directory. It is very adviseable to rename the
original directory first!
11. Because the PC-Worms sample banks sometimes lacks
some sounds, you have to copy the missing sounds/
files from your original TWENGLISH directory.
If some files are missing, Worms will most
likely crash!
12. That should be it - "happy, happy - joy, joy" :)
- quote from Richard Richard in "Bottom".