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SOFTWARE: PMsndX 2.12 available (sound file editing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Tue Feb 20 03:47:55 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Feb 1996 07:50:45 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: wishware@cais2.cais.com
Reply-To: wishware@cais2.cais.com
Submitted by: WISHware
Source: WISHware
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PMsndX version 2.12 is now available. I have placed it in
ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/incoming/pmsx212.zip and
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/incoming/pmsx212.zip but it will move
to os2/mmedia after it has been processed.
This version contains all the fixes from the 2.11 beta and has exception
management. The exception management is the reason that it was bumped to 2.12
from 2.11. Read the full history.txt file for a list of the total corrections.
This version also marks the point where I have decided to abandon the use of
the MMINSTALL.EXE program for my installation. I have written a complete
installation program that provides complete control by the user.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to pass them on to me at
wishware@cais.com. I am always striving to make this program better, so I
welcome any feedback that I get.
-- Scott
The FREE password for this year (note the expiration date) is:
PMsndX Name: Expires Dec 1996
Through version: 2.99
Expiration date: 12/1996
PMsndX Password: S0aWGJU04W2W1e1b
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What does PMsndX do? Well, it does a whole lot. Just about anything I could
think of for digital audio is in the program. It is actually two programs
which are aimed at different users.
The first is EdSndX.EXE and is the primary tool for editing audio files of
many different formats including Sun, WAV, VOC, MAC, IRCAM, and all the raw
formats. It has a full suite of DSP tools for adding special effects or
modifying the data to meet certain needs like resampling or normalizing. The
editor is the center of the tool and it provides a MDI interface so that you
can cut and paste data either to the clipboard or between multiple files that
are open. The editor also can play back samples through an integrated MMPM/2
interface. The display and manipulation of the data is fully tailorable to
your desires and I had a beta team of about 20 users helping me discover the
needs of a broad range of users.
The second tool is PlSndX.EXE and is the primary tool for playing sound files.
This program is unique in that it can load any of the formats that EdSndX can
edit, but it also has special features to make it easy to play sounds directly
from the command line. It can play and then exit or play, and then wait for
the user to kill it. It also has the capability to pipe between multiple
instances such that there is no contention for the hardware. In this mode of
operation, when you open a copy of PlSndX, any other copies just pipe the
file name to the first one and then exit. This saves resources and allows for
queuing of sounds. It then builds upon this feature by providing the ability
to double buffer sounds so that while it is playing one sound, it can be
loading and converting another sound. Have you ever downloaded a .au file and
found that it will not play with wepm or ab.exe? This is normally because the
file is sampled at 8kHz which the normal players have problems with. PlSndX
solves this problem by automatically adjusting the rate to a multiple of 11025
which makes most sound cards very happy. This adjustment is done with the DSP
tools and is very accurate in its interpolation during the resampling process.
All of these tools are integrated into the WPS environment and support
Drag/Drop as well as integrated online help.
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