Sound Designer - Revision history

Aderack at 18:44, 27 January 2016

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 '''Release type:''' [[Retail]] ([[Game-Maker]] suite)<br />
 '''Release date:''' 1991 (original release)<br />
-'''Author:''' [[Recreational Software Designs]]<br />
+'''Author:''' [[Oliver Stone]]<br />
 '''Related tools:''' [[Integrator]], [[Xferplay]], [[Blaster Master]], [[WinDat]], [[Goldwave]], [[AdLib Visual Composer]]
 }}One of a few support tools programmed by Oliver Stone, Sound Designer is used to generate and edit .SND format files -- which traditionally employed the PC speaker, though in modern emulation the sound tends to output through the computer's normal sound driver.
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 [[Category: Formats and Tools]]
 [[Category: First-party tools]]
 [[Category: Recreational Software Designs]]

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 == Tips ==
 * Try rapidly contrasting high and low pitches to create a dirty, organic tone.
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 * Alternatively: if you type text into the .VOC sample window and there is no corresponding sample, then instead of the given PC speaker sound the game will just play silence.
 * Any new .VOC samples you record, remember to save them in mono 8000kHz. And make them short.
 * As above, you can write your own music in [[AdLib Visual Composer]] and then convert it to CMF with a command-line utility called ROL2CMF. Often the instrument patches and the volume levels will sound different in Game-Maker than in other players. That instrument that sounds so great in Visual Composer might sound like a dying raccoon in Game-Maker. Get used to twiddling and compromising.
 * '''Remember to reformat any new .CMF music in Sound Designer''', or else you'll probably only hear silence.

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 * In actual play, any sound block that you set to zero will play as a medium tone. If you want to set a block to silent, your best option is to set it to the lowest possible pitch rather than to absolute zero.
 * Alternatively: if you type text into the .VOC sample window and there is no corresponding sample, then instead of the given PC speaker sound the game will just play silence.
-* Any new .VOC samples you record, remember to save them in mono 8000khz. And make them short.
+* Any new .VOC samples you record, remember to save them in mono 8000kHz. And make them short.
 * As above, you can write your own music in [[AdLib Visual Composer]] and then convert it to CMF with a command-line utility called ROL2CMF. Often the instrument patches and the volume levels will sound different in Game-Maker than in other players. That instrument that sounds so great in Visual Composer might sound like a dying raccoon in Game-Maker. Get used to twiddling and compromising.
 * '''Remember to reformat any new .CMF music in Sound Designer''', or else you'll probably only hear silence.
 == Links ==

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 * In actual play, any sound block that you set to zero will play as a medium tone. If you want to set a block to silent, your best option is to set it to the lowest possible pitch rather than to absolute zero.
 * Alternatively: if you type text into the .VOC sample window and there is no corresponding sample, then instead of the given PC speaker sound the game will just play silence.
 * As above, you can write your own music in [[AdLib Visual Composer]] and then convert it to CMF with a command-line utility called ROL2CMF. Often the instrument patches and the volume levels will sound different in Game-Maker than in other players. That instrument that sounds so great in Visual Composer might sound like a dying raccoon in Game-Maker. Get used to twiddling and compromising.
 * '''Remember to reformat any new .CMF music in Sound Designer''', or else you'll probably only hear silence.

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 * Alternatively: if you type text into the .VOC sample window and there is no corresponding sample, then instead of the given PC speaker sound the game will just play silence.
 * As above, you can write your own music in [[AdLib Visual Composer]] and then convert it to CMF with a command-line utility called ROL2CMF. Often the instrument patches and the volume levels will sound different in Game-Maker than in other players. That instrument that sounds so great in Visual Composer might sound like a dying raccoon in Game-Maker. Get used to twiddling and compromising.
-* Remember to reformat any new .CMF music in Sound Designer, or else you'll probably only hear silence.
+* '''Remember to reformat any new .CMF music in Sound Designer''', or else you'll probably only hear silence.
 == Links ==

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 }}One of a few support tools programmed by Oliver Stone, Sound Designer is used to generate and edit .SND format files -- which traditionally employed the PC speaker, though in modern emulation the sound tends to output through the computer's normal sound driver.
-With Game-Maker 1.05 (November 1992), support for FM music was added. Although Game-Maker lacks a native utility for composing or editing .CMF music files -- indeed, no such utility exists -- [[AdLib Visual Composer]] is the official tool for writing .ROL files, from which all .CMF files are derived. So, throw in a command-line utility to convert the .ROL files to .CMF, and Visual Composer may safely be considered an extended part of the Game-Maker development suite.
+With Game-Maker 1.05 (November 1992), support for FM music was added. Although Game-Maker lacks a native utility for composing or editing .CMF music files -- indeed, no such utility seems to exist -- [[AdLib Visual Composer]] is the official tool for writing .ROL files, from which all .CMF files are derived. So, throw in a command-line utility to convert the .ROL files to .CMF, and Visual Composer may safely be considered an extended part of the Game-Maker development suite.
 Sound Designer does come into play here, though. Much as [[Graphics Image Reader]] is used to format .GIF files, Sound Designer is also used to tweak the clock speed of Creative Music Files (.CMF) for use with Game-Maker.

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 '''Author:''' [[Recreational Software Designs]]<br />
 '''Related tools:''' [[Integrator]], [[Xferplay]], [[Blaster Master]], [[WinDat]], [[Goldwave]], [[AdLib Visual Composer]]
-}}Produces and edits .SND format files. Also incorporates .VOC, though you need to produce those on your own. It also lacks a utility for composing or editing .CMF music files, though as with [[Graphics Image Reader]] the tool can process pre-existing .CMF files for use with Game-Maker.
+}}One of a few support tools programmed by Oliver Stone, Sound Designer is used to generate and edit .SND format files -- which traditionally employed the PC speaker, though in modern emulation the sound tends to output through the computer's normal sound driver.
-Programmed by Oliver Stone.
+With Game-Maker 1.05 (November 1992), support for FM music was added. Although Game-Maker lacks a native utility for composing or editing .CMF music files -- indeed, no such utility exists -- AdLib's [[Visual Composer]] is the official tool for writing .ROL files, from which all .CMF files are derived. So, throw in a command-line utility to convert the .ROL files to .CMF, and Visual Composer may safely be considered an extended part of the Game-Maker development suite.
 == Version history ==