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Sapphire - an acoustic compiler for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Dec 1 16:28:02 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:35:27 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Jim Finnis <jim@inphase.com>
Subject: Sapphire - an acoustic compiler for Linux
Organization: INPHASE Software Ltd.
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Sapphire - an acoustic compiler for Linux (beta version) (ver 15)
Sapphire is an acoustic compiler: a program which takes a
representation of sound as a text file and generates the sound from
it, rather like a ray-tracing package takes a text representation of a
scene and generates a picture from it.
Sapphire has a large range of objects from which your sound can be
built, including envelope shapers, filters, oscillators, sample
playback modules, and arithmetic operators. These can be 'wired'
together into sounds of arbitrary complexity. Complex sounds just take
a bit longer to build.
All sounds created with sapphire can be used commercially without
royalty, provided you put a notice saying something like:
"Sapphire acoustic compiler by J. Finnis"
Sapphire is currently sitting on yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au, in
/pub/sapphire/sapphire.tar.gz, and on sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/apps/sound.
A mailing list is available for support and discussion - send mail to
majordomo@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au with
subscribe sapphire-l
in the body of the message to join.
Sapphire itself is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License - see COPYING for details.
This Linux archive should contain:
guide.* : user's guide in nroff -me, postscript and ASCII
src : source code
insts : some sample instruments
In the beta, these are pretty dire!
scales : some sample scales
samples : some sample samples/waves - just sine and saw
sapphire : Linux executable
README : this file
COPYING : the GNU general public license
DOSNOTES : notes on the DOS version
DISTRIB : distribution history
sapphire-mode.el: a simple Lucid Emacs (Xemacs) 19.10 mode for
sapphire, mainly for font-lock settings
mid2sapp : a tclmidi script for converting MIDI files to
sapphire scores
Here's the LSM:
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Begin3
Title: Sapphire acoustic compiler
Version: 15 (Beta 1)
Entered-date: 16NOV95
Description: An acoustic compiler;a program which takes a source file
written in the sapphire programming language and generates
a sample. Sapphire can create sounds of arbitrary
complexity, although it may take several hours for it to
do so. Think of it as a ray-tracer for noises.
Keywords: sound,compiler,sample
Author: white@elf.dircon.co.uk (Jim Finnis)
Primary-site: yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au /pub/sapphire
sapphire.tar.gz 465k
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/sound
sapphire.tar.gz 465k
sapphire.lsm 1k
Copying-policy: GPL
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