Gilderfluke&Co 8 Bit Digital Audio Systems - Manual (Page 71)

- SNDCMP8.EXE -
- Eight Bit Digital Audio Compressor -
for use with
AB-100 Digital Audio Repeaters
and
DR-50 or AB-50
Mini Audio Repeaters
The Eight Bit Digital Audio Compressor is a small utility program which is
used to convert standard sixteen bit 44.1 KHz mono .WAV 3 and .AIFF 4 files
so that they can be burnt into Eproms to be used with any of Gilderfluke &
CompanyÕs eight bit Digital Audio Repeaters. Any PC or Macintosh that has
a sound input can be used to record the sounds and save them as a .WAV
or .AIFF file
5 . Once the sounds are converted and stored on the hard disk,
they then need to be burnt into Eproms using any commercially available
Eprom Programmer
6 . These Eproms are then installed into the repeaters.
This manual assumes at least a working knowledge of the care and feed-
ing of IBM compatible computers. We assume when we tell you to install a
copy of the software on your hard disk, you know how to do this. Refer to the
instructions that come with your Eprom Programmer to learn how to burn
Eproms.
Double clicking on the SNDCMP8 program or its icon brings up the fol-
lowing menu:
Taking up most of the space on the menu is a list of samples that have
been previously selected using the ADD button. These sounds will be pro-
grammed into a single set of Eprom files when the BUILD button is pressed.
The size of the files that will be generated is set using the Eprom Size popup.
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3 .WAV files are the standard format used for sound files generated on Windows com-
puters.
4 .AIFF files are the standard format used for sound files generated on Apple Macintosh
computers.
5 The sound quality of may low cost PC sound cards is not very good. You may want to
use a higher quality card for doing your sampling.
6 The ones we use cost about $220.