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- Amadeus II v3.01
-
- January 24, 2001
-
- Amadeus II is a powerful tool that allows you to process, generate and analyze sounds.
- Unlike other programs of the same type, Amadeus II is fast (even when handling large files
- direct-to-disk), it supports Mp3 encoding, and it offers several file repairing functions.
- Finally, Amadeus II provides the experienced user with a lot of analyzing functions,
- real-time or not.
-
- To install Amadeus II, simply copy the content of the folder "Amadeus II v3.0" onto
- your hard drive and double-click on the "Amadeus II" file in the "Amadeus Application"
- folder.
-
- Amadeus II is not a freeware. If you decide to keep it and want to be able to save your
- files, please pay the shareware fee of 25$. Thank you very much! You will find detailed
- information about registering in the "Register" folder. The easiest way of registering is
- online at <http://order.kagi.com/?L85>.
-
- This version works on any Power Macintosh with MacOS 8.1 or later and 10MB free RAM.
- It is a PowerMac binary, so it will not work on 68k machines. MacOS 8.6 and QuickTime 4.1
- are required in order to access to all functions.
-
- If you want to contact the author, please send an E-Mail to:
-
- Martin.Hairer@math.unige.ch
-
- You can also write to:
-
- Martin Hairer
- 19, ch. des Cyprès
- CH-1226 Thônex
- Switzerland
-
- or visit my homepage at
-
- http://www.unige.ch/math/folks/hairer/martin
-
- A french version of Amadeus II is also available on that page. If you find any bugs or
- have suggestions to improve this program, I'll also be happy if you'd contact me.
-
- Here is a short history of the major improvements made to the different versions:
-
- Amadeus II v3.01
- - Bug fixes of version 3.0 and some small aesthetic changes.
-
- Amadeus II v3.0
- - Exporting of sonograms as JPEG/TIFF/BMP etc
- - Windowing functions (Blackman, Kaiser, Hamming,...)
- - High-resolution sonograms
- - Unified treatment of file formats
- - Support of QDesign Music 2 format
- - Raw data importing and exporting
- - Multiband RTA
- - Waterfall display
- - Average spectra
- - Waveform statistics
- - Smooth transitions between sounds
- - Marker generation
- - Dumping of real-time analysis
- - Many settings are saved in the Preferences file.
-
- Amadeus II v2.4
- - Mp3 exporting functions (using LAME) are included.
- - A "join files" function completes the file splitting functions.
- - "Record into new file" function.
- - The crack searching/repairing function is much more performant.
- - Sounds can be displayed as continuous waves.
- Release 2
- - Bug fixes of v2.4
- - Exporting/Importing functions can be aborted
- - Echo settings can be saved
- Release 3
- - Some more bug fixes.
- - More shortcuts.
- - Zoom in/out functions.
-
- Amadeus II v2.36
- - Bugs of version 2.35 are fixed.
- - The users interface undergoes a slight lifting.
-
- Amadeus II v2.35
- - Improved speed for basic editing functions on large files by fragmenting sounds on the disk.
- - QuickTime import and QuickTime export functions added for improved
- compatibility with various sound formats.
- - Normalize and Sample Filter effects added.
-
- Amadeus II v2.3
- - An "Animated spectrum'' window is added.
- - 3D Spectra can be drawn.
- - Enhanced frequency/amplitude scales.
- - Logarithmic amplitude scales for sonograms.
- - Printing functions for spectra, animated spectra, sonograms and 3d spectra.
- - Loop playback and better time synchronisation of the playback sound.
- - Playback between two marks.
- - The location of temporary files can be chosen.
- - The "Interpolate..." effect is called "Repair" and allows to search for cracks.
- Release 2
- - Correction of incompatibility problems of version 2.3 with some extensions.
- - Sounds can be exported as QDesign Music 2 files.
- Release 3
- - Minor changes to the user interface: some shortcuts added.
- - Overall stability improved
-
- Amadeus II v2.2
- - A few cosmetic details of the interface are changed.
- - A "Fading" external filter is present.
- - The FFT routine is speed improved, so filtering and background noise supressing are faster.
- - The sounds can be marked, in order to simplify navigation in a big sound document.
- - A new "Selection" menu appears, which provides a lot of new functions. It allows among
- other things to control the extent of the selection in a very precise way, to save the selection
- into a file, to interact between the markers and the selection, and so on.
- - The playback pitch of a sound can be modified.
- - The Amadeus Toolbox is released, so you can program some external files by yourself.
- Release 2
- - Correction of incompatibility problems of version 2.2 with some extensions.
- Release 3
- - A new example is added to Amadeus Toolbox.
- - A few minor bugs are fixed.
- - Precision of scrolling is improved.
- Release 4
- - Improved "Selection" dialog box.
- - The CTextPart::ReadData() and CWindowBase::ReadItem() methods work.
- - The "external" project is updated for CodeWarrior 5.3
-
- Amadeus II v2.12
- A bug concerning the support of MacOS 8.5 is fixed. Sonograms can be exported as PICT files.
- Moreover, they also show a time scale. Spectra can be exported as text files. The internal scrap
- is shareable with other applications.
-
- Amadeus II v2.11
- A small bug concerning uncompressed AIFF files is fixed. They are now really recognised as such.
- Navigation services are used if they are installed. A users reference guide accompanies the program.
-
- Amadeus II v2.1
- - Sounds can be saved as System 7/8 files. All common compression formats are recognised.
- - 24Bit sound is fully supported.
- - A "Paste special" command allows easy sound mixing
- - When one tries to copy/paste sounds of different qualities, they are automatically resampled to fit together.
- - A "peak" button in the recording dialog shows if the recorded sound is saturated.
- - A time scale is shown below the sound wave.
- - The "Jump to selection" and "Jump to play position" command allows to navigate easily inside a sound.
- - When the sound caracteristics change, the sound is resampled.
- - A bug concerning the opening of big files is fixed.
- Thank you very much to several Amadeus users for their clever suggestions and for focusing my attention on several bugs.
-
- Amadeus II v2.01
- Sonograms are implemented. Compared to the ones of version 1.4x, the color management is much
- more efficient (128 colors instead of 23). The "selection" floating palette is here again. A major bug
- concerning the saving of AIFF files is corrected, as well as a few other minor bugs. The real-time
- spectrum has a preemphasis function and can show amplitudes in logarithmic scale.
-
- Amadeus II v2.0
- This is a major update. The code has been entirely rewritten and is now totally object-oriented. The
- interface has also been improved. The major new functions are:
- - Direkt-to-disk abilities
- - Multiple undoing
- - Multiple scraps
- - Possibility to abort calculations
- - Powerful programming kit for designing external filters that fit axctly
- into the interface of Amadeus.
- No 68k support anymore.
-
- Amadeus 1.44
- A few minor bugs were fixed. Payments are now processed via Kagi.
-
- Amadeus 1.43
- A few cosmetic details have been set. Bugs concerning the handling of
- sound resources and AIFF files are fixed.
-
- Amadeus 1.42
- The noise reduction function is now parametrizable.
-
- Amadeus 1.41
- A few major bugs of the 68k version have been corrected.
-
- Amadeus 1.4
- Cracks can now be found and erased automatically by the function
- interpolation->automatic… If you type command-space, the currently
- playing sound is stopped and a little part is selected at the current position.
- It is possible then to "jump" to this selection by typing command-J.
-
- Amadeus 1.35
- Sonograms are now resizeable. Moreover, if you change the color palette,
- the effects are immediatly active, there's no need to recalculate the
- sonogram.
-
- Amadeus 1.34
- Correction of different bugs (mostly bad memory allocation). This is the first
- publicly released version.
-
-