The Wave Utilities 1.1 ---------------------- Copyright (C) 1993 by TASsoft Written by Tim Tschirner and Christoph Sundergeld Thank you for downloading and trying the Wave Utilities! Feel free to pass a copy to all your friends and upload them to a BBS near you. The archive WAVUTL11.ZIP should contain: LOOPER.EXE - Looper Windows Application LOOPER.WRI - Documentation for Looper in Windows Write format PLAYER.EXE - Player Windows Application PLAYER.WRI - Documentation for Player in Windows Write format REGISTER.FRM - Registration formular for The Wave Utilities 1.1 README.TXT - What you're currently reading LOOPME01.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Looper LOOPME02.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Looper PLAYME01.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Player PLAYME02.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Player (All samples can be played back by a standard Sound Blaster card) What do the Wave Utilities consist of? -------------------------------------- The Wave Utilities 1.1 consist of Looper and Player, two Windows sound applications. Looper is a Windows application that plays digitized audio files in wave format (files with the .wav extension) continuously in the back- ground. It can handle all the types and formats of Wave files that your sound card is capable playing of. The size of the Wave file to be looped must not be greater than half of your installed physical memory (not the virtual memory Windows provides). You can stop and restart the looping process. With Looper, you can have a lot of fun. It can almost turn your computer into a Sampler, a Beat Box or a drum machine. Player is a simple sound player for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher. It can handle all the types and formats of Wave files that your sound card is capable playing of. There are no limitations to the lentgth of the Wave file to be played. You are now able to play Wave files by simply double-clicking on them in the File Manager. Normally, this isn't the case - launching a Wave file calls up the Sound Recorder with the Wave file loaded in memory. If you have a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card, you can use it's feature to play back two Wave files simultaneously together with Looper and Player. Player can also play Wave files while you're playing .mod files and much more. Once you installed Player, launching a .WAV document from the File Manager will simply play the sound. This allows greater flexibility for organizing and playing sounds. For example, you can now install all of your sounds in a Program Manager group. Double-clicking their icons will then play them. What software and hardware requirements do they have ? ------------------------------------------------------ You must have either Windows with Multimedia Extensions or Windows 3.1 or above installed on your system. You will also need at least 1 Mega- byte of RAM and a sound card that is capable of playing back digitized sounds (such as a Sound Blaster card). Are they Freeware or Shareware or what? --------------------------------------- The Wave Utilities are released as Shareware. This means that you can use them for 2 weeks without any restrictions, but after that period you must either register or delete them. When you register, you will receive the latest versions of the software that do not contain the registration reminders plus you will get a lot of Waveformat audio files to use with Looper and Player for free. The registration fee is $10 (U.S funds). To register, print out the file REGISTER.FRM, fill it out, put it together with the $10 into an envelope and send it back to us. You can send it to one of these addresses: 1) TASsoft 2) TASsoft c/o c/o Tim Tschirner Christoph Sundergeld Clarenstr. 19 Beckhausstr. W-4900 Herford W-4800 Bielefeld Germany Germany As soon as your order reaches us, we will mail you your individual registered versions of Looper and Player. We will fill up the remaining space on the diskette with Wave files. Make sure that you specify the diskette type on which you want to receive the files and the specifi- cations the Wave files shall have. If you have an E-Mail address, we can also send you your registered version to that address via uuen- coded E-Mail. Your comments, troubles, bug reports, etc.: ------------------------------------------- We would really like to hear your comments about Looper and Player! If you find some bugs or have any comments, questions or problems, you can contact us at the following Internet E-Mail addresses: 1) Tim Tschirner ittschir@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de 2) Christoph Sundergeld icsunder@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de A special note for Pro AudioSpectrum 16 owners: ----------------------------------------------- If you have a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card installed in your system, you can use it's special feature of playing back two Wave files at the same time together with the Wave Utilites. Please consult LOOPER.WRI and PLAYER.WRI for more information on that topic. Windows and Windows With Multimedia Extensions are registered trade- marks of the Microsoft Corporation. Sound Blaster is a registered trademark of Creative Labs. Pro Audio Spectrum 16 is a registered trademark of Media Vision.