SoundSmith shareware fee

[Allan_Crout@mindlink.bc.ca (Allan Crout)]

 In Msg-ID: <1993Sep2.205642.23588@seq.uncwil.edu>
Posted: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 20:56:42

Org.  : Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington

Craig writes:

--> I've had SoundSmith for a while and I've recently unpacked it and
--> read the docs and stuff.  It looks like a pretty neat program.
-->
--> My question (mainly) is this...I think I want to start using SoundSmith
--> so I need to pay the ShareWare fee to the aurthors...Here comes the
question.
--> If I sent my money and disk to the address mentioned in SoundSmith
--> will it ever get there? I would like to have the tool to use
--> soundsmith songs in my programs..(it mentions this in the docs or
--> somewhere).  Would I get them?  Are its authors still around?
-->
--> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-->          Any life is better than having my mind destroyed!!!
--> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
--> Craig.
--> caroon@seq.cms.uncwil.edu        or        caroonc@vxc.ocis.uncwil.edu


        Craig, some one answered your question, replying that SoundSmith
author, Mr. Aalbers, will not be providing any more upgrades for SoundSmith,
and suggested that rather than going to the expense of sending in sw fee for
two disks, you save your money for programs considered to be current.

        I see the point the writer was making, but disagree.

        At it's present version, SoundSmith v 1.0x is an excellent way for GS
owners to create their own musical compositions. It could use upgrading, but
Mr. Aalbers has decided to go on to develop SoundSmith for the Mac.

        Mr. Aalbers says that when you send in your shareware fee, he will
send you two disks, one of which will be the latest version of SoundSmith,
and the other, your choice: either a disk of music or a disk containing
source code for the program and examples of using SoundSmith from BASIC
(using the "SLOAD" routine developed by Olivier Goguel). To me, that hardly
seems a waste of money.

        Here's the big "but": As you see in the private msg I sent you,
Gareth Jones and I co-authored a book about using SoundSmith. Gareth sent in
his shareware fee last December and was recently informed by his bank that
the money order had not been cashed. On the other hand, I sent my sw fee when
version 0.94 was released and I received the disks but only after a 3 month
wait. So Gareth's money order  has possibly gone astray or Mr. Aalbers is not
taking any more $$ for SoundSmith (unlikely, I think).

        I've put the question to this discussion group before; no one seems
to know what Aalbers is doing with SS GS. Maybe you're the guy to try to find
out.

        -- al
(ALLAN_CROUT@mindlink.bc.ca)