' SOX-12_15, MISC, SOund Exchange utility   H SOX version 12.15 port under OpenVMS                       November 1998% ====================================    M This new version of SOund Exchange utility, a general purpose sound toolbox,  C brings a lot of new effects, this is the reason of the VMS version.    Binaries provided: =================   " VAX VMS 6.1, built with DEC C 5.0 # Alpha VMS 6.2, built with DEC C 5.2      Rebuid:  =======   L Don't use mms files, they are not up to date. Use instead COMPILE_AXP.COM orH COMPILE_DECC.COM files and LINK_AXP.COM or LINK_DECC.COM command files.   F You can install the help file SOX.HLP into one of your help libraries.   Enjoy !!   Patrick Moreau pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr * http://www2.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr/~pmoreau/     README file: ===========  		SOX: Sound Tools      J SOX (also known as Sound Tools) translates sound samples between different1 file formats, and performs various sound effects.    This release understands:   '   o Raw files in various binary formats    o Raw textual data   o Microsoft .WAV files     o MS ADPCM (Read only)     o IMA ADPCM (Read only)    o MAUD files   o Sound Blaster .VOC files   o IRCAM SoundFile files    o SUN .au files      o ADPCM (compressed)   o mutant DEC .au files   o Apple/SGI AIFF files   o CD-R (music CD format)   o Macintosh HCOM files   o Sounder files    o NeXT .snd files    o Soundtool (DOS) files    o Psion (palmtop) A-law files    The sound effects include:     o Channel Averaging    o Band-pass filter   o Chorus effect    o Cut out loop samples   o Add an echo    o Add a sequence of echos    o Apply a flanger effect   o Apply a high-pass filter   o Apply a low-pass filter %   o Display a list of loops in a file !   o Add masking noise to a signal    o Apply a phaser effect    o Convert from stereo to mono <   o Change sampling rates using several different algorthms.   o Apply a reverb effect A   o Reverse the sound samples (to search for Satanic messages ;-)    o Convert from mono to stereo +   o Display general stats on a sound sample 2   o Add the world-famous Fender Vibro-Champ effect  F Big news! Lots of new effects have been added.  This includes most theF popular "Guitar Effects" talked about in the same named FAQ available.  A The 'resample' and 'polyphase' effect does high-grade signal rate D changes using real signal theory.  Yes, it's very slow.  There seems> to be a small problem with alaising with 'resample' currently.  7 More big news!  Sample loops are now supported in a few @ file formats: SMP and AIFF.  WAV and VOC needs it.  I don't know= what other formats actually know about sampler notes & loops. < (To make a loop, you need a waveform editor that knows about them and has special features.)    History:  ; This is the 12th release, Patchlevel 15 of the Sound Tools. < Sox was originally writen and mantained by Lance Norskog but? unfortunetly he has stopped mantaining it since 1995.  I, Chris @ Bagwell (cbagwell@sprynet.com), have started mantaining it sinceH 1996 to the present.  Lance may take supporting it back up in the future@ but until that time I will keep pushing its development forward.   Caveats:0 SOX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound4 processing tools.  It doesn't do anything very well,+ but sooner or later it comes in very handy. , SOX is really only useable day-to-day if you3 hide the wacky options with one-line shell scripts.    Installing: > Use the DOS, Unix, Amiga, OS2, or OS9 Makefile as appropriate.< Please read the Makefile's for several options that may need  to be customized for your setup.  4 See the INSTALL file for more detailed instructions.  D Now, read TIPS, CHEAT.eft and CHEAT.  These give a background on how9 SOX deals with sound files and how to convert this format E to that format, and apply various effects with examples for the most   popular formats.  F SOX uses file suffices to determine the nature of a sound sample file.@ If it finds the suffix in its list, it uses the appropriate readE or write handler to deal with that file.  You may override the suffix F by giving a different type via the '-t type' argument.  See the manualE page for more information.  The 'tests.sh' script illustrates various  sox usages.   : SOX has an auto-detect feature that attempts to figure out< the nature of an unmarked sound sample.  It works very well. This is the 'auto' file format.   C I hope to inspire the creation of a common base of sound processing C tools for computer multimedia work, similar to the PBM toolkit for   image manipulation.   0 Sound Tools may be used for any purpose.  Source9 distributions must include the copyright notices.  Binary < distributions must include acknowledgements to the creators.0 Files are copyright by their respective authors.  8 If you have bugfixes/enhancements, please send it to me.9 I'd like to coordinate the releases and do a peer review. 9 Please document your changes.  I don't possess every kind ; of computer currently sold, and SOX is now beyond the phase ; where I can understand and test most of your contributions.   < The majority of SOX features and source code are contributed4 by you the user.  Thank you very much for making SOX
 a success!  	 	Creator: 6 		Lance Norskog		thinman@meer.net (inactive currently)   	Mantainer: % 		Chris Bagwell		cbagwell@sprynet.com    	Contributors:( 		Juergen Mueller		jmueller@uia.ua.ac.be3 			chorus, echo, echos, flanger, phaser, and reverb  			effects.  		Guido Van Rossum	guido@cwi.nl ! 			AU, AIFF, AUTO, HCOM, reverse,  			many bug fixes " 		Jef Poskanzer		jef@well.sf.ca.us) 			original code for u-law and delay line . 		Bill Neisius		bill%solaria@hac2arpa.hac.com - 			DOS port, 8SVX, Sounder, Soundtool formats & 			Apollo fixes, stat with auto-picker" 		Rick Richardson		rick@digibd.com$ 			WAV and SB driver handlers, fixes* 		David Champion		dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu 			Amiga port   		Pace Willisson		pace@blitz.com 			Fixes for ESIX . 		Leigh Smith		leigh@psychokiller.dialix.oz.au$ 			SMP and comment movement support. 			AIFF Loop/MIDI support $ 		David Sanderson		dws@ssec.wisc.edu 			AIX3.1 fixes 1 			(Note that to my knowledge AIX on RS/6000s has 1 			NO SUPPORT for playing any sort of sound file, . 			so please don't write to me any more to ask0 			"how do I play sound files on my AIX box".  I2 			ported sox to AIX solely to use it to translate 			between sound file formats.) & 		Glenn Lewis		glewis@pcocd2.intel.com 			AIFF chunking fixes( 		Brian Campbell		brianc@quantum.qnx.com 			QNX port and 16-bit fixes& 		Chris Adams		gt8741@prism.gatech.edu 			DOS port fixes % 		John Kohl		jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us " 			BSD386 port, VOC stereo support$ 		Ken Kubo		ken@hmcvax.claremont.edu 			VMS port, VOC stereo support * 		Frank Gadegast 		<phade@cs.tu-berlin.de>( 			Microsoft C 7.0 & C Borland 3.0 ports# 		David Elliot		<dce@scmc.sony.com>  			CD-R format support' 		David Sears		<dns@essnj3.essnjay.com>  			Linux support- 		Tom Littlejohn          <tlit@seq1.loc.gov>  			Raw textual data & 		Boisy G. Pitre 		boisy@microware.com 			OS9 port 2                 Sun Microsystems, Guido Van Rossum2 		        CCITT G.711, G.721, G.723 implementation) 		Graeme Gill		graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au $ 			A-LAW format, Good .WAV handling, 			avg channel expansion$ 		Allen Grider		grider@hfsi.hfsi.com% 			VOC stereo mode, WAV file handling - 		Michel Fingerhut 	Michel.Fingerhut@ircam.fr / 			Upgrade 'sf' format to current IRCAM format.  			Float file support. 		Chris Knight 			Achimedes Acorn support" 		Richard Caley 		R.Caley@ed.ac.uk 			Psion WVE handler! 		Lutz Vieweg		lkv@mania.RoBIN.de  			MAUD (Amiga) file handler 		Tim Gardner		timg@tpi.com  			Windows NT port for V7 - 		Jimen Ching 		jiching@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu  			Libst porting bugs $ 		Lauren Weinstein	lauren@vortex.com) 			DOS porting, scripts, professional use % 		Chris Bagwell		cbagwell@sprynet.com 0 			OSS and Sun players, bugfixes, ADPCM support," 			patch collection and maintance.  		(your name could be here, too)5 		(I've probably lost a few, and several people fixed  		 the same bugs.)    