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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sound Digitizers
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Date: 15 Jan 90 17:15:09 GMT
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In article <562@galadriel.bt.co.uk>, steve@galadriel.british-telecom.co.uk
(Steve Paine) writes:
>     By the way, you dont know anything about the Sonix sample format do you?
>I have been trying to get a sample into Sonix for a long time with no success.

In article <36400034@silver>, colyer@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (James Colyer)
replies:
>...IFF samples.   All you need to do is read in the sample, and then save it
>back via Sonix.  After you save it, reload the new Sonix saved sample and
>you'll have control over it's envelope and filterings (I think...).
>
>  To load up IFF samples just leave your Sonix boot disk in df0: and put
>the disk with the IFF sample into df1:, and go from there.

To create samples to be used as 'instruments' in Sonix, you need to first make
sure you save the samples in IFF format (rather than DUMP or COMPRESSED).  In
addition, it wouldn't hurt to use your software to make the sample into an
instrument... I know Perfect Sound and Audio Master II are handy for this.  Now
when you want to read the sample into Sonix (as James describes above), make
sure that the file name ends in '.instr' (as in Rad_sample.instr, for example).
Otherwise, Sonix won't recognize the sample as an IFF instrument.  Ok, now you
load it in and Sonix displays it as an IFF waveform.  Save it from Sonix and
reload it and you will have a Sonix sampled-sound instrument.  Note that there
are two files related to the instrument now:  a '.ss' file that contains the
actual sample data and a new '.instr' file that contains the envelope, vibrato,
etc. settings.  Most of this info is in the Sonix 2.0 manual, but I know it may
be hard to make it all connect (it isn't the easiest process).

poof!

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