( SAPPHIRE, SOFTWARE, An Acoustic Compiler  M Sapphire version 1 port under OpenVMS                           November 1998 % =====================================   $ Sapphire is an acoustic compiler ...   Binaries provided: =================   ! VAX VMS 6.1, built with DEC C 5.0 # Alpha VMS 6.2, built with DEC C 5.2    Rebuild: =======    $ set def [.SRC] $ @COMPILE_DECC  $ @LINK_DECC   Enjoy !!   Patrick Moreau pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr * http://www2.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr/~pmoreau/   README file:  0 Sapphire - an acoustic compiler for Unix and DOS  9 Sapphire is an acoustic compiler: a program which takes a C representation of sound as a text file and generates the sound from F it, rather like a ray-tracing package takes a text representation of a& scene and generates a picture from it.  B Sapphire has a large range of objects from which your sound can be? built, including envelope shapers, filters, oscillators, sample @ playback modules, and arithmetic operators. These can be 'wired'F together into sounds of arbitrary complexity. Complex sounds just take a bit longer to build.  A All sounds created with sapphire can be used commercially without 9 royalty, provided you put a notice saying something like:   * 	"Sapphire acoustic compiler by J. Finnis"  A Sapphire itself is distributed under the terms of the GNU General ) Public License - see COPYING for details.   " This Linux archive should contain:  C guide.*         :   user's guide in nroff -me, postscript and ASCII  src             :   source code + insts           :   some sample instruments 7                     In the beta, these are pretty dire! & scales          :   some sample scalesA samples         :   some sample samples/waves - just sine and saw $ sapphire        :   Linux executable README          :   this file 2 COPYING         :   the GNU general public license, DOSNOTES        :   notes on the DOS version( DISTRIB         :   distribution historyJ sapphire-mode.el:   a simple Lucid Emacs (Xemacs) 19.10 mode for sapphire," 					mainly for font-lock settingsP mid2sapp       :   a tclmidi script for converting MIDI files to sapphire scores  