Short:    AHI sample-editor, AIFF, WAV, 8SVX, audio realtime effects
Uploader: koehlerthilo@gmx.de (Thilo Köhler)
Author:   koehlerthilo@gmx.de (Thilo Köhler)
Type:     mus/edit
Version:  0.9

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 Samplemanager
 1997-2001 by Thilo Köhler
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Please email bug reports or suggestions to koehlerthilo@gmx.de.

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INTRODUCTION:
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Samplemanager is a tool to convert and manipulate audio samples
in the Aegis Audiomaster style. It is RAM based, so
it is extremely fast but you need enough fast ram.
Special features are the Undo-History, many, fast and quality
realtime FX (100% assembler) like Compressor, Enhancer and
Autotune. It is meant to be a quick and easy editor with
some powerful but easy to understand features.
I stopped developing it because of some other more important
projects like the HD-Rec MIDI/audio sequencer.

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REQUIREMENTS:
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- any Amiga with OS 3.x and AHI 4+ installed.
- lots of RAM (min 64MB if you want to edit songs in CD quality)
- thinpaz/8 font
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FEATUES:
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- supports AIFF, WAV, MAUD, 8SVX, CDDA, RAW
- realtime effects like compressor, stereo spreader, equalizer, auto tune ...
- audio editing (cut, copy, paste, zero ...)

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INSTALLATION:
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Unarchive the LHA file and copy the drawer "Samplemanager" wherever 
you want, e.g. "Work:". Samplemanager needs no assigns and uses no files 
outside this directory, except the thinpaz/8 and Helvetica/13 font. If you
don`t have them in your FONTS: drawer then install these fonts (you find 
them also in this archive).

That`s all !

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USAGE:
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Sorry, no time for that. Find out by yourself. EMail me if you have some 
questions.

Last minute tipps:
- Have a look at the history window, it is very useful !
- The chorus is disabled for safety reasons, because it crashes, sorry
- If you want to save a sample in a different format like the one it was when 
you loaded it in, you have to go into prefs and change the "save format" options.
- The "autotune" effect is a bit difficult to handle:
   * set "phases" always to 8 or to 4 (difficult and fast material)
   * set "fuzzy zone" higher if the material is too confused (blubbering). 
     More than 100% can produce wrong notes !
   * set "filter" something between 5 and 30. Lower values are for more sharp 
     and difficult material.
- "Wrong action!" message is not dangerous, it only means that the function
   is not implemented. 
- Use the "Level" display in the main window to find a good yalue for threshold
   levels. Hold down the MB (liek when ranging) and watch the "Level" following
   your mouse vertically. Find a good level where you want the compressor
   to take effect.
   
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BUGS AND PROBLEMS:
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-Some of the realtime effects are quiet buggy and may crash,
especially the chorus.
-Recording is disabled.

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HISTORY:
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0.8 
- first public release

0.9
- fixed a bug in 8SVX saver/loader
- when the screen can not be opened on startup you will be asked for a new screenmode
- volume is now at maximum level, was only 1/4 before
- chorus is disabled for safety reasons (didn`t work anyway)
- small bugfix of the WAV loader (now checks if format is supported)
- big bugfix in AIFF loader/saver
- set the read/write buffer to 128kb (was 32kb) for speed improvement for disk I/O
- added a requester if you start Samplemanager for the very first time
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FUTURE:
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As I regard this project as finished nothing is planned except some bugfixes
if I have the time to do it.
If you have some audio files that Samplemanager can not load or save
correctly, I`m very interessted in fixing this problem because the
loader/saver routines are used in some other programs.