Short: V0.11b - AHI sample-editor, realtime effects, MP3, AIFF, WAV, 8SVX Uploader: koehlerthilo@gmx.de (Thilo Köhler) Author: koehlerthilo@gmx.de (Thilo Köhler) Type: mus/edit Version: 0.11b =================== Samplemanager 1997-2002 by Thilo Köhler =================== Please email bug reports or suggestions to koehlerthilo@gmx.de. See also http://www.hd-rec.de under "other stuff" for updates. ___________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION: ___________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________ REQUIREMENTS: ___________________________________________________________ - any Amiga with OS 3.x and AHI 4+ installed. - 8MB of free RAM (min 64MB if you want to edit songs in CD quality) - topaz6/8 font - helvetica/13 font - guigfx.library and render.library - mpega.library for MP3 reading ___________________________________________________________ FEATUES: ___________________________________________________________ - reads/writes AIFF, WAV, MAUD, 8SVX, CDDA, RAW - now reads also MP1/2/3 - realtime effects like compressor, stereo spreader, equalizer, auto tune ... - audio editing (cut, copy, paste, zero ...) - complete undo history ___________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION: ___________________________________________________________ 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 topaz6/8 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 ! ___________________________________________________________ USAGE: ___________________________________________________________ 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 - Same happened to the AHI recording function. - 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. Otherwise it will be saved in the same format you have loaded it in. - The "autotune" effect is a bit difficult to handle: * set "phases" always to 8 (slow material) or to 4 (for difficult and fast material) * set "fuzzy zone" higher if the material is too confused (blubbering). More than 100% can produce wrong notes ! * set "filter" to something between 5 and 30. Te lower values are for more sharp and difficult material. - "Function is not implemented !" 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. - make sure that the temorary path is set to a partition with lots of free space and it is a good idea to use your fastest drive. - click on the "Show" button when there is no range will view the whole sample ___________________________________________________________ BUGS AND PROBLEMS: ___________________________________________________________ - recording & chorus is disabled - now opens only on WB - needs at least 640x400 screen ___________________________________________________________ HISTORY: ___________________________________________________________ 0.11b - fixed a serious bug in the colour remapping functions that could lead to crashes or wrong colours - added option to switch undo on/off, it is very fast if you use no undo - fixed bug in panorama and levelmeter, left & right channel were crossed - optimized memory allocations and saved about 3MB of RAM - fixed small bug in recognizing mpeg fileformat - placed requesters in the screen center - set gadtools sliders to new look style - added some memory security checking in autotune effect 0.11 - added MP3 loader via mpega.library - replaced old skin with 24bit skin "silver" - runns now on workbench screen - speedup for the background patterns - uses now guigfx.library and render.library - fixed bug in the "snap" function - moved system samples to ProgDir:SysSamples for safety reasons - added example sample - increased y size for horizontal slider 0.10a - fixed a (non-serious) bug in the 8svx loader which was introduced in 0.10 - added shortcuts for menu functions 0.10 - replaced thinpaz/8 font to topaz6/8 because it is more usual - fix a bug in the .wav saver for 8bit files - added some security checks and better error messages if something goes wrong with the disk I/O - now samplemanager lets about 1MB of fast memory free instead of 400kB 0.9b - replaced all file I/O functions to OS friendly calls in order to fix a very rare bug - speedup for graphical waveform refresh 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 0.8 - first public release ___________________________________________________________ FUTURE: ___________________________________________________________ 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.