Re: SynthLab

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

In article clay1@primenet.com (Clayburn Juniel) writes...

>nathan@visi.com          
>Really, really said this:
> 
>>In article <5pm48f$h52@news.asu.edu>,
>>RICHARD PIRONG <rpirong@aztec.asu.edu> wrote:
>>>  Hi Guys.  I've been looking at 'ground' for files to use with
>>>SynthLab, but it's just too big for me. Can anyone give me some
>>>pointers to some .SEQ, .BNK, .MID and .WAV files?
>>
>>   Well, only the first two file extensions are used by Synthlab.
> 
>WARNING!!  The following is a shameless plug.
> 
>Music Composer uses the first THREE file extensions.  You can't edit
>instruments with it like you can with synthLAB.  But it does far more in
>editing sequence files.

    Just to add to that, if you get Dave Tribby's two companion programs
for synthLAB, MIDISurgeon and waveLAB, you'll be able to convert and use
*.MID and *.WAV files with it. They basically add what synthLAB left out: 
importing of MIDI files and a resource for turning digitized waveforms 
into usable instruments patches.

    You can download waveLAB off any FTP site, but MIDISurgeon was a
product sold by EGO Systems which is now defunct. Might be nice if it 
were released as downloadable shareware or maybe Shareware Solutions 
could pick it up as was done with other EGO products.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca