================================================ Sound Files and Programs for the Atari Falcon030 ================================================ Remember to quote the disk REFerence when ordering disks from the PDL. Ref: 011 This disk contains the superb program CRAZY SOUNDS which does a job very similar to SAM (Systems Audio Manager) but I think its better. There are 51 samples provided (in HSN format), a convertor program, the Crazysound program and a mini accessory version. You should have endless fun with this one assigning things like Bart Simpson saying 'Hi Man' when you boot-up! DIGITAPE is a fully working demo of this top flight direct-to-disk recording package from Trade-It. It's big, its detailed, there are lots of options, you are restricted to 20 seconds maximum recording time (plenty!) and there are other things missing like the mixer saving and track copying. A VGA monitor is highly recommended but it will run on an RGB in interlace mode. Also on this disk is FADER which comes from Normen Kowalewski, a TOS developer from Atari Germany. It seems to achieve the same job as Audio Fun Machine does with various options for playback quality, etc. Whats more is that the complete C source code is included. FORTUNE is a program to play and create sound cites on your Atari Falcon like on big UNIX computers (taken straight from the doc file). Ok this is a similar sort of program to SAM and Crazy Sounds but its public domain, uses the Unix system (which means many cites are already available). A sample CITE (a cite is a collection of samples and text data) is included called FLAVOR and I have seen other PDL's offering cites for purchase so if you find this useful you may like to check them out, I think Star Trek are the most popular ones though! This program is recommended for VGA monitors but will work with RGB in interlace. There are two soundtracker modules players on this disk and they are the PROPLAY.ACC from Cylab of TPN which lets you listen to Protracker Amiga modules while doing other things. There is also the ProTracker v2.1a replayer by Griff of Electronic Images which plays the modules at 50khz with 32 bit interpolation which gives a much different kind of sound to the music, it also decrunches Powerpacked modules from the Amiga! Finally there are two pieces of assembler source code for replaying modules. The last program on this very packed disk is XBAR. Now all the docs are in German and I must confess to being unable to understand a word of them, but when you boot up Xbar is presents you with a screen that lets you have DAC, DSP, DMA and EXT down the side and ADC, DSP, DMA and EXT along the top and at a guess I think you can vary the source of the sound and the way in which you want to replay it. Its all very confussing but the full C source code is here along with some DSP effect modules and an ACC version. Ref: 033 This disk includes files to be found in the UTILS section of this PD catalogue, but it also has the following sound and music related packages. AUDIO CD PLAYER will do just that! Take a music source from your CD-ROM and play it through your speakers so you can listen to your favourite compact discs through your Falcon. AUDIO 12 appears to be a _very_ basic sampling program written by Martin Sieper. You can sample direct to memory or disk in either 8 bit mono, 8 bit stereo or 16 bit stereo at one of 8 different frequencies (from 8195 Hz to 49170 Hz). You can also control the volume of the input and output. Nice but basic. DMA-SOUND is a sound sample player devloped for the STE, TT and Falcon computers. Bascially it allows you to play samples using the in-build hardware of the Falcon, it seems to work well but doesn't have many frequencies so you may find it limited. Finally music related on this disk is HARDCHOR, no its not the unfinished Jeff Minter game, but another direct to disk recording package for the Falcon. It seems to have come from TOS Magazin, well whatever its all very German but nothing you shouldn't be able to understand. Three sample rates, three formats, set the size of the sample, record to disk, playback from disk and 5 DSP effects including Delay, Equalizer, Harmoniser, Flanger and Karaoke. Infact this seems to be a very early version of Compos Musicom, still its PD, its free and it works. This disk also contains Connect, Colour Icons, CS and Chagall demo. Ref: 055 Not essentially a sound related disk it does contain some interesting programs (see the UTILS section for more details). DIGITAL TRACKER 1.03 was the first tracker (and indeed still the only as far as I know) to play more than the standard 4 channel Amiga modules. Digital can handle up to 8 channels in this version. An ACCessory version and two modules are provided. DOC files are far and few between so its a case of trial and error, and if you have never used a module maker before, probably error. TCB TRACKER is that age old ST module maker converted to run on the Falcon, I don't know why you could want to use it but should you have some old TCB modules (they never did use the conventional format) then I guess this might be useful to rip sounds from. SPEKTRUM is a graphical spectrum analyser on-screen, thats all it does! Ref: 071 WAVEFORM FILES DISK 1. Hit the beach, the surfs up as these cool WAVe's roll into the short. If you do not know what a WAVe file is let me explain.. they originate from the PC Windows environment and are basically sampled sounds much like the AVR or SAM ones we are more used to hearing on the Atari. You can use the WAV player like the one that comes with Crazy Sounds (Ref: 011) or the 5-2-5 convertor program. Whatever a player is not provided (no room) so you will have to seek one out from somewhere. The WAV's on this disk include a lot of classic Blackadder quotes, the files are: BARKER, CANIHELP, CHERRI, CORKIT, CRACKER, CRAP, DUCK, FATGIT, HUMBUG, JAMN, OHDEAR, OMNIBUS, OOPS, PIGGY, PUDDINGS, RHINO, SPLAN, SQUEEK, TANGRNE, THINGIT, TIDDLER and VISITN. They are extremely funny! Ref: 072 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 2. Yet more, this time the theme is very American TV humour (ie, not very funny!). Files are: ANMALDRV, BAMBI, BEATIFUL, DNGWOMAN, ERRECT, HIHOTIM, LESSTHAN, MACHO, NEEDMAN, NOBEER, NOCONTRL, NOTCLOSE, SAUSAGE, SHAKBEER, VAVAVOOM and VISURGE. Ref: 073 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 3. Not many samples here because they are big files and are mainly Japanese singing and music! Hey, I am sure you can find a use for theses somewhere!!! Files are: 106MILES, 94DOLLAR, AHANHGAI, BESTPAL, GHOST, MISSION and WORST. (Actually GHOST is a really nice tune I wish I could have heard more). Ref: 074 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 4. 25 samples on here from the Simpsons to women talking to computery clicks and noises. Files are: ASKDOCTR, BART, BUM, COW, DEAD_OR, FORGET, HAPPYJOY, HAVEYOU, ICANHARD, IDONTLIK, ITSBEEN, JOY, LOCTUS, LOG, LOGTUNE, MEGAMIX1, MEMORIES, NOSIR, NUKEUM, ONLYADRE, ROBOCOP, TALKING, TELLME, WELCOME and YOUWORM. (Megamix1 is a complete compilation of most the samples on this disk into one brain blasting 343K sample that sounds really very good!). Ref: 075 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 5. Lots of little samples on here, 34 in total. Plenty of effects, voices and snippets to enhance that desktop! Files are: ENERGIZE, FAILED, FALLBONK, FASCINAT, FEELGOOD, FIRE!, FOLLOWME, FROG, FSIGH, FUNK, GOODMORN, HARP, HASSAN, HOWYA, ILLBEBACK, JOINME, KANSAS, NIGHT, NOFILE, NOHELP, OUT, PHONE, PHONE2, PHOTON, POP, R2BEEP, ROBBY, ROBOCOP, SORT, STTNG, WHOP, WOWO, YERDEAD and YES_MAST. (This disk is ideal for SAM or CITE files). Ref: 076 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 6. Another alsortment of wierd and wonderful WAV's. 27 samples mainly sound effects this time. Files are: CLAPPING, DIVEHORN, DOORBELL, DRUM1, HORN1, MPYTHON, MUSIC, MUSICA, OLDCLOCK, PENAL, PERMIS, PHONE2, PHONRING, PITFOR, POWERL, PROTOPLM, PROVERB, PURPOS, SHIPHORN, SHORT, SPAM, SPEED, SW1USEF, WHALES, WHISTLE, YIPE and ZIP. Ref: 077 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 7. I am not sure about the legalities of these samples as they are mainly taken from Street Fighter 2 and other SNES games, still until someone complains they can't do much harm I hope. Files are: BLANKA, END, HADOKEN, HORYUKEN, KNIFE, LIGHT, MF-THINK, MIND, MYMYDY, NOPROB, OH, OHJOY, SONICBM, STARFOX, START, TGRUPCUT, YADA, YOGAFIRE and YOGAFLM. (If you are thinking of making a beat em up game then this is a disk to get!). Ref: 078 WAVEFORMS FILES DISK 8. My last disk of WAV's for now and I leave you with no less than 49 samples on this disk. Everything from Star Trek to sound effects to cartoon snippets. A great collection. The files are: 10000MAR, 1CARTOON, 20SECOND, AHHHHH, ALIENLF, BOING, BRIDGE4, BRIDGE5, BRIDGE6, BRIDGE7, BUMMER, BUMTOO, CHICKEN, CHILL1, CHILL2, CHIMES, CHORD, CLARIC, CORRECT1, CORRECT2, DICKWAD, DING, DROOPY, DRUM, ERROR, FLAGUP, GDDY2DIE, GOODMO, GOODMO1, GRAVIT, HAND, HARDER, HIHAL, HIMAN, HITME, ISWEAR, JUMP, KLAXON1, KLAXON2, LOOPME01, LOOPME02, MEEPMEEP, NOWHERES, NYUKNYUK, PLAYME01, POP, THANKYOU, VAULT and WELCOME. (A great collection if ever there was one!). Ref: 085 As well as an EKO demo, Graph Prg and a picture this disk also contains: DIGITAL 2.02 this is the newest version of the 4,6 and 8 channel soundtracker player and composer. It is getting better all the time and you really should register this version if you intend using it for making your own tunes. It will play the PC formats and is expanding all the time. Ref: 101 Along with the new version of the hit-game Lasers and Men this disk contains the TriMod creator which will allow you to make chip music on your Falcon for playback on the ST or Falcon (run in ST LOW). I have also included the superb MegaTizer Music Collection and the ZAK player so you can listen to all those wonderful old ST chip tunes all over again, and some of them really are quite good even today. Could be useful for someone wanting some music but for a small size program. Ref: 127 OCTALYSER 0.90 is a new Falcon enhanced 8 channel soundtracker module maker and player. It works fine under NVDI on RGB or VGA and with 1 meg or more. You can load, play, save and edit your own modules but to be able to load in AVR samples you'll need to register with the authours. This is a very nice program to use and the 8 channels are fun to play with. Although only an 8-bit tracker at heart its still a very good and easy to use program. Full doc files and a tutorial and sample modules are provided in the package. Ref: 128 MJUZAKK is a sample sequencer that will let you string together DVS or AVR samples and make wonderful music over four channels. I guess you are only limited by the memory you have in your system. This is a German program but most of you should be able to figure this one out within a few minutes. There is a (large) example file provided which does a good job of showing what can be achieved, the shareware message pops up all over the place so if you are thinking of using this program a lot then you know what to do. Mjuzakk is a ZIP file and the complete ST ZIP 2.4 (Falcon Fixed version) is supplied on the disk. It takes up about 1.7 meg of your hard drive and is fine with RGB or VGA but needs Interlace mode, 16 colour.