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From: grayson@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Grayson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac ][ First Impressions...
Message-ID: <1157@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 11:52:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: cartan.1157
Posted: Tue Jun 23 11:52:05 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 01:59:54 EDT
References: <10396@decwrl.DEC.COM> <3355@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: grayson@cartan.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Matthew Grayson)
Organization: Math Dept. UCB
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Keywords: Beep Sounds

In article <3355@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
>
>I sure wish someone had an alternate sound to supplement the std.
>four: beep, boing, monkey, kling-klang.  Most of those are not
>suitable for a standard alert error: I WANT A GONG (as in the
>Chinese variety.)
>-- 

The sounds you want are stored in resources of type 'snd ' in the 
System. Each resource, except for the simple beep, consists of a 42
byte header followed by a standard SoundCap digitized sound file.
An application called SoundWave, a successor to SoundCap, can store
SoundFiles as resources. Unfortunately, you have to go in by hand
with FEdit to change the resource type and add the header.
Luckily, SoundWave is extensible. I wrote a code resource which
saves the current sound as a SysBeep 'snd '. You add the 'snd ' to your
system, and POOF! it appears in the control panel. Anyway, if you don't
have SoundWave, and you can change data to resources comfortably, then
use the following header
0001 0001 0005 0000
0000 0001 8051 0000
0000 0014 0000 0000
XXXX XXXX 2b77 45d2
0000 0000 0000 0000
003c 

The XXXX XXXX is the length of the Post-header part of the resource.
Usually, the first 2 bytes are zeros. For a better look, examine
the 'snd ' resources with ResEdit. You'll see what's happening.

The two sounds which I have added as SysBeeps are HAL's "I'm sorry, Dave..",
and Don Giovanni's final scream as he's dragged off to hell (Fischer-Dieskau).

Have Fun,

Matt