Re: Apple IIGS sounds -> Macintosh

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

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

>Gabriel Morales <Togega@concentric.net> wrote:
> 
>>Supertimer wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have always found it ironic that Wintel and Macintosh have such
>>> a hard time with "raw" sound files.  Unless the sound files are in
>>> certain well defined formats (.wav, .au, etc.) they choke on them.
>>> 
>>> It is never this way with the IIGS or the Amiga.  I've sent Amiga
>>> owners raw sound files from the GS...no problem.  I have yet
>>> to get a Wintel or Mac to read a raw sound file from a GS.
>>
>>Why do you keep comparing the MAc to a PC! They're not the same thing!
> 
>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.

    I'm not sure about the Macintosh since I don't own one. Another
neat thing if you have a PC, you can directly play Soundsmith music
(without any IIgs emulator involved) using Ian Schmidt's MTP, and it
actually sounds crisper than a real GS because there is no low pass
filter. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca