Re: How to convert sounds to sound resource files?

[irsman@iastate.edu (That Ian Guy)]

In article <PPBsTB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> a3khan@student.business.uwo.ca (Alimudin Khan) writes:
>The title says it all.  Is there a utility or sound program that will 
>take raw sound data, AE (Sonic Blaster) sound files, or the like, and 
>convert them so that they can be used by system 6's sound CDEV?
>
>I've just got ahold of AudioZap 1.2s and this will read sound resource 
>files, but won't write them.

There are 3 options that I know of:

1) If you have HyperCard IIgs you can purchase an excellent system called
SoundConvert from Triad Venture (sold thru Quality, BRCC, and the usual 
suspects for ~$30).  This package includes a stack which converts to and from
many IIgs sound formats, including rSound and synthLAB .WAV.

2) If you have a shell and are a hacker-type you can check out the Unknown
User's rSounder shell EXE for Orca/APW/GNO.  The user interface is nonexistant
but it gets the job done.

3) Paul Benson (I think) wrote a nice shareware desktop program called rSounder
which has a pretty nice user interface, and of course has great support since
he's here on c.s.a2.

Note that I wrote portions of and recieve royalty checks from sales of 
SoundConvert so I'm not unbiased :)   

FYI: AudioZap 2.0 will =only= be made avalible to paid owners of earlier
versions and there will be a serial number scheme to enforce this (it worked
quite well for the DreamWorld and Procyon folks, so I'm gonna do it too :)



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