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- ST: Sound Tools
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- ST translates sound samples between different file formats,
- and performs various sound effects.
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- This release understands "raw" files in various binary formats,
- Sound Blaster .VOC files, IRCAM SoundFile files, SUN Sparcstation
- .au files, mutant DEC .au files, Amiga/SGI AIFF files,
- Macintosh HCOM files, Sounder files, and Soundtool (DOS) files.
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- The sound effects include changing the sample rate, adding echo
- delay lines, applying low- and band-pass filtering, and the
- infamous Fender Vibro effect.
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- History:
- This is the fourth release of the Sound Tools.
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- The first release was posted last summer as the "AUX" package.
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- The second release, SoundKit, came out this past fall. NeXT
- objected to the name SoundKit and so it's now Sound Tools.
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- The third release, Sound Tools, only went out in beta and
- Bill Neisius contributed several fixes and formats so I
- felt ST had graduated to another release.
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- Installing:
- The Makefile needs one option set: -DSYSV if you're on a
- System V machine, or -DBSD if you're on a BSD-ish machine.
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- After compiling, run 'tests'. It should print nothing. This
- indicates that the programs mostly work. By reading the tests
- you may see how to make a sound sample file which you can play.
- 'monkey.au' and 'monkey.voc' are a short lo-fi monkey screech
- in two supported file formats, to help you ensure Sound Tools works.
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- SOX uses file suffices to determine the nature of a sound sample file.
- If it finds the suffix in its list, it uses the appropriate read
- or write handler to deal with that file. You may override the suffix
- by giving a different type via the '-t type' argument. See the manual
- page for more information.
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- I hope to inspire the creation of a common base of sound processing
- tools for computer multimedia work, similar to the PBM toolkit for
- image manipulation.
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- The files I wrote are copyright Lance Norskog, and may be used for
- any purpose. The U-Law translation and echo delay line code
- come from Jef Poskanzer's SST package. The .AU, .AIFF,
- .HCOM formats, and numerous bug fixes were contributed by
- Guido Van Rossum. The 8SVX, Sounder, Soundtool (another name
- clash!) and many DOS fixes were contributed by Bill Neisius.
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- Sound Tools may be used for any purpose. Source
- distributions must include the copyright notices. Binary
- distributions must include acknowledgements to the creators.
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- Enjoy!
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- Creator & Maintainer:
- Lance Norskog thinman@netcom.com
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- Contributors:
- Guido Van Rossum guido@cwi.nl
- Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us
- Bill Neisius bill%solaria@hac2arpa.hac.com
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- (your name could be here, too)
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