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                        * Paul's Sound Designer 2.2 *
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Paul's Sound Designer is a very powerful synthesizer (sample builder).

Main features are:
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 - INSTRUMENTS MADE BY THIS PROGRAM SOUNDS LIKE PROFESIONAL KEYBOARDS - you'll never need a sampler to get good sounds, now you can make them yourself
 - user friendly interface (I mean VERY FRIENDLY.)
 - sounds are made from up to 32 NON-FM and FM voices, each voice has up to 64 sine and non-sine harmonics(saw,triangle,square,...), you can modify each harmonic intensity and phase of all signals.
 - each voice has, also,independent shape, harmonics+phases, frequency, volume, glissando, vibratto, envelope (attack+decay+...),termolo, time varying filter(low pass,high pass, band pass...), time varying "linear transform"(=morphing) or Frequency Modulation
 - freehand drawing (you can draw the signal with mouse)
 - powerfull preview engine (you can hear the sound while you modify parameters-you need a soundcard and to setup it (in "Setup window"))
 - it can take a sample (one period only) from a .PCM(.WAV) file
 - sample rate up to 64KHz,16 bit waves
 - global settings (glissando, vibratto, termollo (including fast modulation for brass sounds),...)
 - multisample instruments
 - effects (multi tap flange,multi tap chorus, resonance(usefull for multisample instruments),time varying smoothing/low pass filter,time varying band width effect(nearnes betwen center frequency and voice frequency)
 - batch mode sound maker (run NEWSOUND.EXE /? for help or see DEMO.BAT)
 - you can make with this program stereo instruments by making the left channel in a .WAV file and after that the right channel and in the final you have to combine 2 waves with something else
 - antialiasing filter
 - it is recomanded to tracker users (FT2,IT,ModPlug..) and to RAM WAVETABLE users
 - THIS PROGRAM IS VERY FAST
 - IT IS FREEWARE  :)
 - and many more features...................

This archive contains over 130 instruments. Just run the file DEMO.BAT to build them at the default sample rate which is 44.1 KHz(you'll need over 70 MB free space on HDD).
The program requires a FPU computer, mouse and it is preferrable to have a Sound Blaster compatible card.

New Features/Updates (since 2.2) 
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v 2.2 - BUG FIXED: The program will not crash on a Pentium (P2 or P3)
      - Better response on high frequencies for nonsine harmonics
      - The "High Quality" mode uses a Chebyshev type I low pass filter => better quality
      - Maximum sample rate is 96 KHz
      - added more instruments in the archive   
Known Bugs:
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 - I am not sure that the preview is working on all SB compatible cards.
 - Preview is only 8 bit
 - This program uses the base memory, so you have to remove unneeded TSR.
 The program will make a backup file ($RECOVER.BAK) always when it will build the .WAV file because (when the free base memory is low) it may exit with runtime error. If it happens, free more base memory and then load the backup file as a instrument parameters file("NEWSOUND.EXE $RECOVER.BAK") and try again.
 The file $RECOVER.B$$ is the backup of the file $RECOVER.BAK.

You have to know that the program will overwrite the .WAV files, without any questions.

About the author
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 My name is Nasca Octavian Paul, I live in Trgu Mures which is in the central part of Romania.
 I enjoy programming (especialy sound processing), music, math and many other things.
 I am studying at university, there I have access (not very often) to Internet.
 My favourite Internet sites (who I recomand to you to visit) are:
  1. www.theophilos.com  or www.theophilos.sk   -  It is a christian site, there you can download for free the Bible in many languages.
  2. www.harmony-central.com, www.maz-sound.com, www.cdrom.com, www.mp3.com - contains almost all about music
  3. www.dspguide.com - Digital Signal Processin theory (FFT, FIR+IIR Filters)
  4. www.nr.com - Numerical Recipes Book

 You can e-mail me at paulnasca@yahoo.com or paulnasca@hotmail.com.
 Please contact me if you know more good sites, to tell me your opinion about this program, or if you made good instruments with this program sent them (pkzipped .SD2 files) to me.
 Also if you made a melody with intruments made by this program and if you upload it, please tell me where I can download.
 If you are a webmaster and if you want to put my program to your site, send me an email who contains the url where you put it.

 I am not responsable for any damage done by using this program. Use it at your own risk.
 I am sorry for my english and for some little undocumented features.

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        * I HOPE THAT YOU LIKE MY PROGRAM AND YOU'LL FIND IT USEFULL.*
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