Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga Message-ID: <4303@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 7 Oct 89 03:49:33 GMT References: <688@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> <125829@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4283@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 27 In article <125829@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: > A short audio sample form (not 8SVX because it isn't an instrument) would be > useful, anyone care to propose one? In article <4283@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >8SVX isn't an instrument. That's FORM INST. FORM 8SVX is just fine for this. You're both right -- and wrong. It's an instrument. It's a one-shot sample. It also makes a great breath mint. Yes, IFF 8SVX files can be simple recorded sounds that play back at a single specified rate, or they can be multioctave (one or more octaves) instruments consisting of one sample per octave. Actually, one or two samples per octave, in that there can be a one-shot header portion and/or a loop portion for the sound. A good Amiga multimedia program would have to be able to play SMUS songs, and ought to be able to play MIDI file format (MFF) type 0, 1 and 2 files, because MIDI files can have pitchwheel and modwheel bends and such, which SMUS cannot. Plus MFF is easier to record stuff in realtime and with velocity sensitivity, and lots of sequencer programs (including PC and Mac ones) can write them. I have these two pieces of the puzzle, by the way. There's an ANIM player on Fish 86 or so, and ILBM readers abound. Hmm... -- -- uunet!sugar!karl "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that -- flags do not wave in a vacuum." -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018