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$VER: Genies.doc V2.01 (17.04.1994) Copyright 1994 by Delirium Softdesign (Peter Kunath and Frank Riffel) In this document file are all genies listed that are offically released or supported by Delirium Softdesign. A description of the standard menus of the GUI is ommited. Only genie specific GUI elements are described herein. 1. NOTEPLAYER GENIES Noteplayers that use MEMF_PUBLIC or MEMF_ANY require only a small chipmem buffer for playing the samples. This enables you to load modules that are even bigger than your actual chipmem. On the other hand this will cost you some extra cpu cycles. Name Description ========================== =========================================== AudioDev-NotePlayer Up to 4 Voices. Uses MEMF_CHIP to hold the samples. Uses the audio.device. GUI: Selection of the allocation presedence of the channels. Note: Some programs incorrectly using the audio.device will have problems. Term 3.4 is one of them. You can avoid the problems if you select 127 as allocation precedence. But then one of the advantages of this Noteplayer is gone away. 4Voices-NotePlayer Up to 4 Voices. Uses MEMF_ANY to hold the samples. Only a 1KB chipmembuffer is used. GUI: Each channel can be enabled/disabled. 8Voices-NotePlayer Up to 8 Voices. Uses MEMF_ANY to hold the samples. Thanks to Jörg Schmidt. The mixing routine is © 1991 by Maxon Computer GmbH. GUI: Each channel can be enabled/disabled. 32Voices-NotePlayer Up to 32 Voices. Uses MEMF_ANY to hold the samples. Uses DeliMix. GUI: Left and Right stereo channel can be enabled or disabled. The Mixfrequency can be set between 4 kHz and 60 kHz. 32Voices-NotePlayerPlus Up to 32 Voices. Uses MEMF_ANY to hold the samples. Uses DeliMix. GUI: Left and Right stereo channel can be enabled or disabled. Additionaly there is a volume boost slider. There are some trade off's with this NotePlayer: It requires quite a lot of cpu power and the 8-Bit volume scaling introduces some noise. The Mixfrequency can be set between 4 kHz and 60 kHz. 14Bit-NotePlayer Up to 8 Voices. Uses MEMF_ANY to hold the samples. Uses DeliMix. The mixing result will be output with 14Bit quality. GUI: Left and Right stereo channel can be enabled or disabled. The Mixfrequency can be set between 4 kHz and 60 kHz. ModSave-NotePlayer Up to 16 Voices. Uses MEMF_ANY to hold the samples. Uses DeliMix. With this noteplayer you can transform your favorite modules into samples :-) GUI: Left and Right stereo channel can be enabled or disabled. The Mixfrequency can be set between 4 kHz and 60 kHz. If the 'Save Sample' gadget is checked an IFF-8SVX sample will be written to the file you have specified in the 'Filename' gadget. If no filename is given, a filerequester will pop up and ask you. With the 'Mode' Cyclegadget you can select whether a Mono or a Stereo sample should be created. In Mono mode up to four channels are saved. In Stereo Mode, up to sixteen channels are saved. 2.DECRUNCH GENIES Name Description ========================== =========================================== Decruncher This genie can decrunch 'imploded' files and LhA archives. Only the first file from an LhA-archive will be decrunched. 3.CONVERT GENIES Name Description ========================== =========================================== Deli-Wizard Copyright 1994 by Franck Nicolas. Reconverts the most Protracker 'Packers' back to ProTracker. Currently these formats are recognized and converted: KRIS NoisePacker_2.0 NoisePacker_3.0 DigitalIllusions Pha-Packer Unic Laxity WantonPacker NoiseRunner Eureka P50A/P60A ProRunner_1.0 ProRunner_2.0 ProPacker_1.0 ProPacker_2.1/3.0 Promizer_1.x Promizer_2.0 Promizer_4.0 FC-M GUI: Enable/Disable conversions routines. Modules can be saved with the 'Save Module' button. This will bring up a filerequester. Note: A version that can convert even more formats (39!) will be available soon to registrated users of Pro-Wizard. To become a registrated Pro-Wizard user send $US 15 to: Nicolas FRANCK 157, Rue de Strasbourg 77350 Le Mée sur Seine France You can send bugreports and suggestions concerning Deli-Wizard or Pro-Wizard to this address as well. 4.OTHER GENIES Name Description ========================== =========================================== ModuleInfo This genie will show some information about the Module. For PT/NT/ST modules only. This includes pattern count, real module name, estimated playtime, the file size, the sample names and length. GUI: 'Settings'-Menu: Playtime will enable the calculation of the estimated playtime. MonoScope This genie displays current waveform in a neat new way. This genie works with up to 8 Voices. Each pixel represents a point in time. The x and y co-ordinates of it are corelated to the sample. In 'Single Mode' the x position is taken from the amplitude of the left channel. The y position is taken from the amplitude of the right channel. This is how the left channel corelates to the right. The x co-ordinate of an point in 'Double Mode' is taken from the amplitude of the signal. The y co-ordinate is taken from the amplitude a fixed short time interval later. This mode shows how the signal corelates to itself. GUI: Settings : Nasty Blit This is to fix some problems with (EGS) GfX cards. These arise from blit operations done by the cpu. If enabled Forbid()/Permit() is used to to protect those operations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Single Mode A-I Select single mode Double Mode A-O Select double mode StereoScope This genie displays current waveform as stereo signal. If you would connect an oscilloscope at the audio jacks and select a frequency range of about 2 kHz you should see the same signals. This genie works with up to 8 Voices. GUI: Settings : Nasty Blit This is to fix some problems with (EGS) GfX cards. These arise from blit operations done by the cpu. If enabled Forbid()/Permit() is used to to protect those operations. QuadrasScope This genie displays current waveform of up to 4 channels - not sizeable, moderate cpu load. GUI: Settings : Nasty Blit This is to fix some problems with (EGS) GfX cards. These arise from blit operations done by the cpu. If enabled Forbid()/Permit() is used to to protect those operations. QuadrascopePlus Copyright 1994 by Florian Vorberger. This genie displays the waveforms of up to 4 channels. QuadraScope+ updates 50 times a second. This means it needs quite a lot of CPU cycles. The CPU power increase is aprox. linear to the windows size. If you experience a slow display you might need to shrink your window. If you use a 'Solid' display the required CPU power depends more on the window height. GUI: Settings : Nasty Blit This is to fix some problems with (EGS) GfX cards. These arise from blit operations done by the cpu. If enabled Forbid()/Permit() is used to to protect those operations. ~~~~~~~~~~ Half A-A Displays the absolute level from zero to top. Threat samples unsigned. Mirror A-M Same as half exept the zero line is centered and the level is also drawn in the negative range. Note: If 'Half' and 'Mirror' are off the sample is threated as signed. This is the default mode. ~~~~~~~~~~ Dot A-D Draw only sample values Line A-L Connect sample values with lines. Solid A-O Filled display QuadraScope+ written by Florian Vorberger. It may only be distributed along with the DeliTracker_II packgage! You are alowed to use QuadraScope+ only for NON-Comercial purposes. If you find any bugs, have any ideas for improving 'Quadrascope+' or want a special commercial-usage agreement please contact: Florian.Vorberger@informatik.tu-muenchen.de or Delirium Softdesign (we will forward any wishes). LightOrgan_Color This genie displays the summed volume level (amplitude) of up to 8 channels. The sum of the left channels control the blue level and the right channels control the red level. This genie allocates one pen and therefore requires at least V39. Note: If you want to run this genie on your Workbench Screen you must choose a screen mode with at least 16 colors! 5. DELIMIX DeliMix is © 1994 by Delirium Softdesign. DeliMix is realtime sample mixing technology. It is the base of many Noteplayers that have virtual channels. With this mixing technology it is possible to mix samples with different samplerates into one output sample. The output sample is generated at a given mixfrequency (rate). Choosing a higer output rate will yield better results at the expense of more cpu power. DeliMix takes advance of an exisiting 020 or higher. An optimized routine will be used in this case. This routine is about 20% faster. There is a critical point at ~30 kHz mixing frequency. Selecting a higher mixing frequency will make only sense if you run productivity. This is because in the current amiga hardware, the audio DMA is coupled with the scan rate. The hardware can output two samples per scanline. In standard video mode, this results in a maximum output rate of ~30 kHz. Because in productivity the scanrate doubles an output rate of ~60 kHz is possible.