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- Awave, Read Me file Copyr. 1993,1996, FMJ-Software
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- Contents:
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- 1. Requirements
- 2. Installation
- 3. Registration
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- 4. Background
- 5. Features
- 6. Availablility
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- 7. Feedback and bugreports
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- 1.Requirements:
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- - Windows 95, or,
- Windows NT 3.51, or
- Windows 3.1 with Win32s 1.3.
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- - Mouse or equivalent pointing device.
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- - (optional) MIDI-input device,
- (optional) Advanced Gravis UltraSound (classic, MAX, ACE, PnP),
- (optional) Turtle Beach Maui or Tropez, *
- (optional) Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 32. **
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- * May not work satisfactorily on some Win3.1 systems.
- ** Requires the latest, .SF2 compatible, drivers.
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- 2.Installation:
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- Throw the files into a directory of your choice. Run Awave.EXE.
- Go through the Help menu. Especially read the Step by Step section.
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- 3.Registration:
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- Registered users will obtain a personal registration keycode contained
- in a file named 'WHATEVER.KEY'. See 'REGISTER.TXT' on how to obtain one.
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- To enter the registration code:
- Start up Awave. Choose 'Options->Program...->Register...'and locate this
- file in order to register Awave and remove all imposed limitations.
- You only need to do this once. Do not store the 'WHATEVER.KEY' file on a
- publically accessible media less someone may steal it, i. e. after you
- have registered yourself, keep it on a floppy and delete it from your
- hard disk. It is your registration license and are to be treated as any
- other value 'paper'.
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- 4.Background and features
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- Awave was birthed some two years ago when I needed to extract some samples
- from an Amiga tracker module and save them as Ultrasound .pat instruments.
- I hacked up a small program called MOD2PAT to fill my needs.
- As some programs tend to do, this one sone grew beyond bounds. More import
- formats were continually added (and still are). It was ported to Windows,
- it got a steadily improving user interface. The name was now something of
- an understatement so I changed into 2PAT. Now after three major rewrites,
- and supporting almost 90 audio carrying file formats for import,as well as
- most popular formats for export, and sporting several editing and playback
- functions, the name was again changed into Awave.
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- Awave reads a host of audio carrying file formats from different platforms
- synthesizers and trackers. It presents the instruments contained in a file
- as a graphical hierarchy with the 'bank' item at the top,the 'instruments'
- as branches and finally 'waveforms' as leaves.
- If you have one of the supported wavetable synthesis sound cards you can
- just click on an item, and directly play it on a midi keyboard (or you can
- use the computer keyboard). If you just have a basic soundcard capable of
- digital audio playback, you can still play any item by using the built in
- 'Audio Player' feature. Standard MIDI SDS Dumps is also supported for down
- loading waveforms to professional synthesizers.
- Saving an item to any of the supported export formats, is as easy as
- double clicking on the item, selecting export type, and clicking OK.
- There are visual editors for most Instrument and waveform parameters like
- loop points and keymaps.
- There's also a simple commandline interface which enables you to use the
- 'AudioPlayer' to play the sounds in any of the supported file formats;
- thus it is also ideal for use as a 'helper' for your WWW-browser!
- If you are into any form of sampled audio on the Windows platform, you'll
- most likely find this program usefull!
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- 6.Availability
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- Awave is Shareware. The distributed version has full functionality, except
- for a few slightly annoying things. See the REGISTER.TXT file for details.
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- Awave is available for download on the internet @:
- "http://www.nada.kth.se/~f93-maj/fmjsoft.html"
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- 7.Feedback and bugreports:
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- Send bug reports, suggestions, fan letters, spare money...
- to email: 'f93-maj@nada.kth.se'
- or mail: 'Markus J÷nsson, Svedjev. 7, 147 52 Tumba, Sweden'
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- For bug reports, be sure to state what program version it is, what OS you
- are using, as well as what soundcard(s) you have. In addition to stating
- the nature of the problem, give a detailed step-by-step account of what
- you did that led up to the bug and note all messages that you may have
- encountered on the way. Thank you!
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- Have Fun!
- / (\/)arkus _|
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