Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!pnet02!mriley From: mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sonix and Samples Message-ID: <6059@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 30 Aug 88 05:40:28 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 26 >> Sampled sounds and Sonix Sonix supports both the IFF and RFF sampled sounds directly. In order to utilize an IFF sampled sound (of the 8SVX variety) in a Sonix score, just rename it with a suffix of ".instr" - you will then be able to use that instrument as you would any other Sonix instrument. As to the RFF format, it is particular to Sonix alone. It adds some features to sampled sound playback that IFF doesn't support (BTW, it also predates IFF.) Among these: vibrato and a dynamic envelope using a Yamaha style EG. Sonix is able to convert most IFF samples to the RFF format itself. One other feature of the RFF format is it's ability to create many different sounding instruments from the same sample. This is done by using different patches (vibrato and envelope) on the same waveform data. The patches are short (100 bytes), so it pays to use many of those since the waveform data can run anywhere from 8K to 40K or more. If you'd like to generate RFF sounds directly with your sampler, than I'd suggest you get a copy of AudioMaster from Aegis. The program is quite handy for manipulating samples of the IFF and RFF type and converting between the two. -Mark- UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!crash!gryphon!pnet02!mriley INET: mriley@pnet02.cts.com "Hey, I don't _use_ programs, I write them..." ;-)