SASoundStudio

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Author:		Bernhard Scholz (scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
Platforms:      NeXT, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Sparc
Prerequisites:  NEXTSTEP 3.3
Price:          free
Demo:           
To acquire:     ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Audio/apps/SASoundStudio.0.2.alpha.NIHS.b.tar.gz
Information:
Entry updated:  16 Feb 1996
Description:	

PRENOTES: 
* Opening a file will allow it to be overwritten on later recordings with SASoundStudio!
*The app drawer includes an command line utility for playback.

What is SASoundStudio:

A harddisk recording and playback utility. Features recording and playback of ATC sounds in realtime. Unlimited length of sounds supported.

Alpha release. Version 0.2 alpha.

Copyright:

This software is copyrighted by Bernhard Scholz (scholz@informatik.tu-muenchen.de/scholz@pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/scholz@ve1.rm.op.dlr.de) All rights reserved.

You may not alter the software in any way. Of course you are free to use the generated sounds as you like.

This software is free in the following form: you may distribute it as you like. If the software is distributed in any commercial form (e.g. disk-magazine, CD-ROM, disks, tapes, etc. ), we are requesting a copy of the material and a previous contact. This request gets invalid on 1.1.1998.

Currently you don't need any key to unlock the software. This might change in the future. The distribution form will not change.

Advantages:

This software offers you the following advantages, currently not availble through any other software on NEXTSTEP:

- unlimited harddisk recording
- unlimited data playback of any size
- realtime compression of any sampling rate and channel count
- realtime uncompression of compressed sounds.
- ATC compression for best results (no other methods supported)

To gWve you a short overview of data amount, we recorde 0.5min of sound. Here is the produced data size:

Freuquency	Channels		Size 		Compressed

8012		1			 462492		  128256
8012		2			 957852		  263294
11025		1			 644124		  181992
11025		2			1288092		  359798
22050		1			1288092		  387174
22050		2			2642076		  786742
44100		1			2576028		  743884
44100		2			5151900		 1521024

Bernhard Scholz, 23.01.1996


Eric M. Mrozek (mrozek@umich.edu), EECS-Systems, University of Michigan