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From: bill@oracle.SCG.HAC.COM (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for sound/snd/voc editor
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Date: 30 Apr 91 00:56:17 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.211032.12498@nntp-server.caltech.edu> nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
>I just got me a sound blaster board, now all i need is a decent sound
>editor - I dloaded play400.zip from simtel, and it seemed almost adequate..
>Except the mouse interface is extremely flaky (it worked well on a 386-20,
>but it stalls on my 386-25) and only plays through the pc speaker, and samples
>with random other homemade hardware the docs make references to, but they
>don't include plans for them. Also, it only supports straight snd (8-bit) data
>and not compression, .voc headers, etc.
>
>Ideally, something like the Mac SoundEdit would be nice (lots of features,
>decadent GUI, etc.) - Windows 3 stuff would be fine too.
>
>Has anyone seen anything out there? I do believe Creative Labs has a REALLY
>cheezy editor available for the mere price of 90 bucks (egghead?), but
>doesn't exactly seem to be worth the money.
>
>I've pretty much checked everywhere, rogue, cica, ucs, grape, wustle, etc.,
>and no luck.
>
>Thanks.
>nye

By far the best SoundBlaster editor is DigiPlay, usually called
DP25-3.ZIP on my local BBoards.  It reads raw SND/SOU data,
SoundBlaster VOC, and Amiga IFF formats.  Features include:
cut/paste edit, high/low pass filtering, mixing, zoom, digital scope
and more. Playback on SoundBlaster, PC internal speaker, or parallel port. 
Program is 'public domain' from Sami Tammilehto, Silicon Dragon.  
Don't know of any FTP sites carrying it...

In the Windows environment, the best is Sound Tool (SNDTOOL.ZIP).
Although it doesn't support the SoundBlaster format directly, it does
support SND, SOU, Sun, NeXT, and ANSI. It can be used to edit the 
raw sound data in Windows, with playback on the PC speaker (DSOUND2.ZIP).  
Program is 'beggarware', $10 registration. It's available from
Compuserve, and somewhere on the net (I saw it around here somewhere...).

Both programs output raw sound files; use VOC-HDR.EXE to add the SB headers.


Bill Neisius
bill@solaria.hac.com