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FREEWARE: PMsndX 2.14 final release (sound file editor)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (WiSHware)
Thu Feb 29 11:59:19 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:09:48 GMT
From: wishware@cais2.cais.com (WiSHware)
Reply-To: wishware@cais2.cais.com (WiSHware)
Reply-To: wishware@cais2.cais.com (WiSHware)
Submitted by: WiSHware
Source: WiSHware
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PMsndX version 2.14 is now available. I have placed it in
/incoming/pmsx212.zip of ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and ftp.cdrom.com but it will move
to os2/mmedia after it has been processed.
This is probably the last release for a while. My heat pump on my house went
out and I had to get a second job to make ends meet. Consequently, my time is
very tight. I will still be giving out the free passwords, but I will just be
much slower to respond. I have added all of the requests made by users and all
of the goals that I have been thinking about. If bug reports come in, I will
still be fixing them when I have time but I will not be as responsive as
before.
This version finally includes the new routines to let you select ranges by
dragging the range with the mouse button. The fast routines are now optional
(set them from the options menu or from the properties dialog) but are
required to use the mouse drag capability. I also fixed the help so that it is
correctly accessed from the toolbox and the editor. Also, I finally fixed the
colors on the editor so that they match and are easier to view.
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.
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
Thanks for your time, Scott
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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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