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new compressed format, several tracks
of sampled music could be stored on a
single floppy disk.
Audio Engineer allows you to assign
up to 999 of these loops. A fade point
can also be assigned so that once a
certain point in a sequence has been
reached, the sample will then be faded
out to silence.
To make the process of finding the
perfect loop that bit easier. Audio
Engineer will do the job for you with
its unique Seek Loop option. Seek
Loop attempts to find glitch-free loop
points by searching for a zero
crossover for both the start and end
points of the loop. If the loop that it
creates is not satisfactory. click on the
gadget again and Audio Engineer
looks for another set of loop points.
Very useful.
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Audio M Engineer allows you to save in
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or L five octaves. These extended files
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product, Audio Engineer will also
save samples suitable for Aegis' Sonix
package.
As an added bonus when saving
samples. Audio Engineer employs a
new DT compression technique that
allows an increased number of
samples to be saved onto a single disk.
As they stand, these samples can only
be loaded into Audio Engineer, but
RamScan do include both CLI and
Workbench sample player programs.
Audio Engineer's Workbench-based
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sample player is a rather nifty little
program called CD Player Simulator,
The program uses the same control
system employed by an average home
CD player, making it instantly
accessible to most. Both regular and
multi-loop samples can he loaded into
one of the CD Player's tracks and
played back.
Wow! Audio Engineer is simply
breathtaking. Whether you're using it
with a CD player, a tape recorder or
even a humble microphone, Audio
Engineer can produce sonic of the
sharpest samples you're ever likely to
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hear from an Amiga. Even if you're
intending using Audio Engineer with
a low cost sampler, you'll be amazed
by the increase in sound quality.
The only thing that worries me is
the price. Why do it have to be so
damned expensive? Surely G-Soft's
sampling cartridge cannot be that
expensive to produce? Oh well, the
best things in life always cost and arm
and a leg (who ever said they were
free?). If you can afford if, Audio
Engineer is quite simply the best
sampling system yet produced for the
Amiga.
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