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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Sound Techniques
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Date: 8 Mar 88 15:39:21 GMT
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Beyond Dark Castle does something very neat with sound. I used a public
domain program called Sound Leech to grab the sounds out of the file
BDC Data A. SOUN ID 94 is the music from the title page. It is at 5.5kHz.
The problem is, it sounds very tinny and mechanical. BDC does some manipulation
to all its sounds when it plays them.

Hypothesis:

BDC does some sort of fancy overlay of the same sound on itself, so that it
sounds fuller, simulating a better sampling rate.

BDC does some sort of smooth on the waveform.

BDC has some sound data information that I missed.

Sound Leech does a bad job of grabbing sound data.

Of all those, I can't figure out what is happening. All this investigation
makes me wonder why SBS does pruce a sound product, since they no longer do
games.

Any ideas as to what is happening? Anybody at Apple Sound Engineering have
an idea? (They always know whats happening with sound.)



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