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From: bkirby@cs.umr.edu (Bill Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: REMAC: how to improve the sound quality even more!
Keywords: REMAC, sound, Frank Zappa
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Date: 26 May 90 00:25:15 GMT
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Please excuse if this has been discussed, as the disk on our news server
crashed recently and we have lost the last couple of days news.

First, let me say that REMAC is incredible!  The quality of sound it produces
on a 16MHz Model 80 is unreal.  There is also a program called REPLAY, written
by the same person, available at wuarchive.wustl.edu in the 
/mirrors/msdos/voice directory.  There are macintosh sound files available 
at the same site, in /mirrors/info-mac/sound[s?]

In a recent post to this group someone mentioned three utility programs for
converting hqx files to binary files suitable for downloading to PC.  These
programs work great. Let me refresh your memory:

   you download an .hqx file containing some annoying sound you wish
   to torment your office mates with.  :)

   run mcvert and you then have: annoying-sound.sit.bin

   after running unsit you get: annoying-sound.info 
                                annoying-sound.data and
                                annoying-sound.rsrc

   typing "macbin annoying-sound" combines the three files into
   a single "annoying-sound.bin" file.

now back to the post:

If you skip the macbin step you can improve the sound quality!
This is because REMAC plays the ENTIRE file, not just the sound data. 
REPLAY doesn't interpret the header of the file to determine where the
data starts.  This means that the "info" and "rsrc" information get 
"played" as well, which results in an annoying "glitch" at the beginning 
and end of each sound.  To get rid of these glitches, simply download 
the "annoying-sound.data" file to DOS before running macbin (you must 
still download it in binary mode).  Then play this file.


Enjoy!


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