Subject: D-SoundPRO 2.5 availability

From: Stefano Daino <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:28:06 -0500

Hi John,

the new version of D-SoundPRO, the shareware sound editor for Macintosh and
PowerMac computers, is available on the web. It includes a lot of new
features, including the write to Roland disk function and full MIDI I/O
to/from S-50, S-330, S-550 support.

Please, may you update the readme file about D-SoundPRO you have in your
archive with the abstract here below?

Thank you very much for your support to the shareware distribution. Your
archive is the main reference for people using Roland samplers.

Best Regards

Stefano Daino
the Author of D-SoundPRO

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D-SoundPRO 2.5
COPYRIGHT © 1997 - Stefano Daino
All rights reserved

D-SoundPRO is a professional sound editor. It is capable of managing AIFF
sound files and MIDI Sample I/O, and it permits very sophisticated sound
manipulations. Its features are:

- Load/Save AIFF mono/stereo 8/16 bits sound files up to 48 kHz
- Import/Export sounds from 3 1/2 Roland® Samplers Disks (S50, S550, S330)
- Import/Export sounds in RAW format
- MIDI SAMPLE DUMP STANDARD and S50, S550, S330 MIDI Input/Output
- Yamaha® SY sample headers support
- Akai® SCSI sample dump support
- Sophisticated and undoable sample edit & clipboard management
- Floating palettes for edit tools, loops monitoring, sample info, and
Virtual Keyboard.
- X-Fade looping algorithm with programmable window length & X-fade
coefficient
- Time Stretching and Frequency Shifting parametric algorithms by a
Spectral Resynthesizer
- Rythm loop for fast auto looping of musical audio files
- Oscillator function to generate new synthesized sound waves
- Resample using interpolation
- Pitch conversion
- Normalization
- Complex sample extraction functions
- Zooms and visual tools
- Full OMS 1.2 (or better) support (optionally)
- First release of the Virtual Synthesizer module, to play samples from
MIDI
- It is a FAT application - it runs native on PowerMac
- Japanese and Italian versions available
- User Manual included
  
System requirements:    System 7.1, SoundManager 3.1 and a 68020 MAC
supporting 16 bit audio (68030 mac recommended for MIDI). 68000 and 68k+FPU
versions also available.
Optional: MIDI interface and synth supporting MIDI Sample Dump Standard, a
MAC with sound inputs, OMS 1.2 (or better).

D-SoundPRO is a program which is distributed as SHAREWARE. This version is
fully operating.  You are permitted to use it on a trial basis for up to 15
days. If you wish to continue using this product beyond that period, you
are expected to pay a registration fee of $30.

You will always find the last version of D-SoundPRO at:

http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Mac
http://www.synthzone.com/dsound.htm
http://www.shareware.com
into Compuserve database, (MIDI Forum)
or into Info-mac database

Please support the shareware concept and register your copy. You will help
me to develop the next version of this program, which will include:

- more sampler protocols support
- DSP functions for digital effects
- spectral analysis and resynthesis
- a Synthesizer Module with ENVs
- Splits and patches memories
... and more

You will receive a registration code which you may enter to eliminate
registration screens. Thank you for your help to this shareware product.

You can distribute D-SoundPRO 2.5 on commercial CD-ROM if you include also
all files in archive. You are kindly request to send me a free copy of your
CD-ROM. 

For the Italian, 68000 and 68k+FPU versions please write to me.

This is my E-Mail for informations, help and bugs report:

Stefano Daino
[email-masked]

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What is NEW in Version 2.5
(06-02-97)
- The Time Stretching and Frequency Shifting parametric algorithms
- S50, S550, S330 MIDI sample transfer support
- Export function on S50, S550, S330 3" 1/5 disks
- Akai® SCSI sample dump and sample directory support
- Rythm loop for fast auto looping of musical audio files
- Import/Export sounds in RAW format
- Oscillator function to generate new synthesized sound waves
- many bugs fixed
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What was NEW in Version 2.4.1
(18-09-96)
- FAT code, runs native on PowerMac
- The virtual synthesizer is faster playing from MIDI
- new Volume control to play more voices without distorsion
- Better MIDI management, now works fine on slower Macs (tested on LCII)
- Less Registration Dialogs for unregistered Users
- Now opt+. cancels MIDI I/O  
- minor bugs fixed