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I just got Instant Music today (7/25/86). I was reading amazing computing and
saw that AMICUS DISK 10 has sampled instrument sounds. Can these be used with
Instant Music (iff formatted?). If so where can I get a hold of this disk?
Better yet, I think it would behoove a lot of us if we could get some of
these sampled instruments over the network. I know AMICUS is on peoplelink
but I didn't find this disk. I think John Foust could help us on this note.
John, are you out there? help?! I want to jam with some new instruments!
The AMICUS #10 disk contains a collection of the sampled sounds from the
Instruments dealer demo. These are not IFF compatible, but Stan Kalisher of
this Forum said you can change them to IFF using CHOP and Instant Music. Take
an IFF sampled sound file from IM, CHOP it to 64 bytes. This short file is the
IFF header. Use the AmigaDOS JOIN command to glue this little file to the
sampled sound file from the Instruments demo, and then load this file back into
IM, and save it out again. I haven't tested this, but several people said it
works.
Hey John…. (guess who)… remember DJJ? He wrote a nice little utility
for me that does what you described. Takes one of the dealer demo sampled
sound instruments (effects) and converts it to an instant music-readable
instrument. Then you just stuff it into a correctly named subdir on DF1:,
load up IM, tell it to get instruments from the SubDir (instructions are in
the docs) and thar she be!
I spent the better part of last saturday converting sound effects to
instruments, testing them all, and then built two arc files (about 120K
each) and uploading them onto that peoplelink place. This gives instant
music owners/users the ability to play instruments that sound like pigs
oinking, horses whinnying, alarm clocks ringing, resonant chimes, a GREAT
minor organ chord that sounds like Phantom of the Opera, and about 6
others.
Anyway, I did the dirty work, thanks to DJJ's efforts, so the file(s) are
there for whoever wants them. NO OTHER converting, or fooling around
needed once they're un-arc'd.
BTW, I just spent an hour (read that $hour$) online here dumping 3 days
worth of postings to peruse…. lotsa interesting stuff to be read. Did
you read the bit about CBM capturing 3% of the business market? Wonder
what the overall market pie slices would look like, afterall, 5 million
C64's out there and they're still selling! Well, see ya 'round! HRL
Hey John…. (guess who)… remember DJJ? He wrote a nice little utility
for me that does what you described. Takes one of the dealer demo sampled
sound instruments (effects) and converts it to an instant music-readable
instrument. Then you just stuff it into a correctly named subdir on DF1:,
load up IM, tell it to get instruments from the SubDir (instructions are in
the docs) and thar she be!
I spent the better part of last saturday converting sound effects to
instruments, testing them all, and then built two arc files (about 120K
each) and uploading them onto that peoplelink place. This gives instant
music owners/users the ability to play instruments that sound like pigs
oinking, horses whinnying, alarm clocks ringing, resonant chimes, a GREAT
minor organ chord that sounds like Phantom of the Opera, and about 6
others.
Anyway, I did the dirty work, thanks to DJJ's efforts, so the file(s) are
there for whoever wants them. NO OTHER converting, or fooling around
needed once they're un-arc'd.
BTW, I just spent an hour (read that $hour$) online here dumping 3 days
worth of postings to peruse…. lotsa interesting stuff to be read. Did
you read the bit about CBM capturing 3% of the business market? Wonder
what the overall market pie slices would look like, afterall, 5 million
C64's out there and they're still selling! Well, see ya 'round! HRL
The AMICUS #10 disk contains a collection of the sampled sounds from the
Instruments dealer demo. These are not IFF compatible, but Stan Kalisher of
this Forum said you can change them to IFF using CHOP and Instant Music. Take
an IFF sampled sound file from IM, CHOP it to 64 bytes. This short file is the
IFF header. Use the AmigaDOS JOIN command to glue this little file to the
sampled sound file from the Instruments demo, and then load this file back into
IM, and save it out again. I haven't tested this, but several people said it
works.