First of all, thank you for your interest in PlayerPRO! You were more than 5000 to download PlayerPRO on www.quadmation.com in less than 24h when I posted version 5.0 !
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.
PlayerPRO is now distributed in 2 different formats:
- A Freeware version for internet, BBS, magazines, CD-Rom archives and free use. This version is equivalent to the previous unregistered version, but has no possibilty to become a full complete version. You can freely copy this one everywhere you want...
- A commercial version, distributed ONLY on PlayerPRO CD-Rom. See 'Order form' files for more informations.
Why this?
PlayerPRO is actually quite popular and there were more and more illegal copies. We invested a lot of time in this product and we cannot distribute it freely. We reduced the price to 69 US$ to allow everyone to buy the commercial version of PlayerPRO.
Why buy the commercial version for 69 US$?
- All functions available: save your musics; export your musics in AIFF; import and export musics from MIDI, XM, IT, MED, 669, MTM, OKTA, S3M; export your musics in auto-executable format APPL; preview your music with the “WAVE Preview”; edit them with the “Box Editor”
- 4000 musics for examples, with all instruments and samples available for creating your musics
- Instruments and samples to include in your musics
- All C/C++ toolkits to create your software with PlayerPRO musics
- Free upgrades for 1 year, available on http://www.quadmation.com
1) Why did you wait so long before this new release? Because I was finishing my medical school and I had to pass exams. I'm now FREE again, and I will continue PlayerPRO for Mac !!
2) Don't use ANYMORE my old email address (rosset@dial.eunet.ch), but the new one : rossetantoine@bluewin.ch ! I DONT read emails on the old one.
3) Please email bugs to me!
4) PlayerPRO requires now MacOS 8.0 or higher. You really should upgrade to 8.5, it's great!
5) Quicktime PlayerPRO CODEC will be available in January (for MacOS & Wintel)
5) Apple is back! And me too! Apple for ever!
6) I'm receiving a lot of email for a Win98/NT version: there is and there will be no PlayerPRO version for Win98/NT, I support only the driver in C/C++. If you have a Win98/NT computer, simply go to <http://store.apple.com/> and buy a nice Apple computer! You will not be disappointed by your new computer!
If you are a PlayerPRO user and want to have your musics distributed freely on the PlayerPRO 5.0 CD-Rom: send your musics to rossetantoine@bluewin.ch with a readme file about you.
