The Wave Utilities 2.2 ---------------------- 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. This archive should contain these files: README.TXT - What you're currently reading LOOPER.EXE - Looper Windows Application LOOPER.HLP - Online Help File for Looper PLAYER.EXE - Player Windows Application PLAYER.HLP - Online Help File for Player REGISTER.FRM - Registration form for The Wave Utilities 2.2 WHATSNEW.TXT - An overview of the new features in The Wave Utilities BWCC.DLL - Borland's Windows Custom Control Library 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 What do the Wave Utilities consist of? -------------------------------------- The Wave Utilities 2.2 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 larger 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 sound player for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, which can handle all the types and formats of Wave files that your sound card is capable playing of. There are no limitations to the length of the Wave file to be played. You are now able to play Wave files by simply doubleclicking 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 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. Doubleclicking their icons will then play them. By installing a Wave file in your Autostart Group you are now able to play a sound of unlimited length when Windows starts up. When you use Norton Desktop For Windows 2.0 or later as your Windows Shell, you can make easy use of Player's feature to play back several Wave files after another. 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). It is also required that you put the file BWCC.DLL which comes with The Wave Utilities 2.2 in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. If you should already have a copy of it you should keep the one with the latest date. How do I install them on my system? ----------------------------------- The installation is quite easy. Simply copy BWCC.DLL into your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and the Wave files into the directory where you store your other Wave files. The remaining files can be copied to any directory of your choice, e.g. C:\WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL. For more details look at the LOOPER.HLP and PLAYER.HLP files. If Windows is already running, start the Windows Help and open one of the above Help files. You can also start the Windows Help from the DOS prompt. Assuming that LOOPER.HLP and PLAYER.HLP are both located in the WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL directory on drive c, enter one of the following commands at the DOS prompt: WINHELP C:\WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL\LOOPER.HLP to view Looper's Help File or WINHELP C:\WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL\PLAYER.HLP to view Player's Help File Are The Wave Utilities Freeware or Shareware or what? ----------------------------------------------------- The Wave Utilities are released as Shareware. This means that you can use them for two 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. 175 32052 Herford 33611 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. If you're already a registered user of The Wave Utilities, you can get Version 2.2 for only $5 (U.S. funds). If we can send you the files via uuencoded E-Mail the update fee is only $3 (U.S. funds). To update, print out the file REGISTER.FRM, fill it out, put it together with the money into an envelope and send it back to us. Your comments, troubles, bug reports, etc.: ------------------------------------------- We would really like to hear your comments on 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 owners of a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 or compatible: ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you have a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 or compatible 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.HLP and PLAYER.HLP for more detailed information.