Re: Apple IIGS sounds -> Macintosh

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>
>>In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...
>>>I'm not saying they ARE the same thing, just that they are both amazingly
>>>finicky as far as sound files go.  If you know of a Mac program that can
>>>handle raw sound files from a GS or Amiga, I'd like to know.  ;-)
>>>
>>>Same goes for Wintel.
>>
>>    It is quite simple, I do it all the time. One example is CoolEdit 
>>Pro for Windows 95, it loads in raw digitized waveforms from the IIgs
>>and then you manually set the playback sample rate. There are several
>>programs which do the same from DOS, which I also occasionally use.
>>CoolEdit Pro is shareware in case your wondering.
> 
>Mitchell, how about emailing me this shareware?  Thank you!

    You should be able to download a demonstration version from
http://www.syntrillium.com (the home page for Cool Edit as well
as other products from the company -- Wind Chimes is another 
neat program from them, even if I use the GS to play the chimes 
using synthLAB's tubularbells instrument through MIDI-out :).

    I personally use Cool Edit Pro LE (demo version 1.0) though
a quick look at the above link shows there's a newer version of
it available.

>The low pass filter enhances the sound, not degrades it.  Henrik
>Gudat admitted as much after I emailed him the following.  ;-)

    How can it enhance it if it doesn't allow output any greater
than roughly 26 kHz to output the GS? Even comparing 8-bit sound
samples, there is a noticable difference between 26 and 44 kHz.

    Also, why is it synthLAB and Soundsmith sequences sound much
crisper and sharper when output through my PC (using XGS or MTP) 
compared with the same sequences played on a real Apple IIgs? 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca