Yeah, Walt. I've just downloaded 4.0.3 and can't get much flexibility
out of it...at least intuitively. I need much greater range than 5k
max and much more detail on the y axis than seems to be easily
accessible although I've asked for some help with this today. We'll
see how they respond and I'll let you know.
Bernie
>Wild Sanctuary wrote:
>> Anyone know anything about this system? Download is free. Works in
>> all platforms (PC & Mac). Two folks in Holland put it together.
>>
>> Bernie Krause
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>I tried the mac version a while back when I was looking for sonogram
>programs. I don't know if they have upgraded it. I've still got it on my
>mac. (version 3.9)
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>It's a pretty awkward interface as I remember. Kind of like a command
>line program that's not very happy in a window and for the
>mathematically inclined. I could only get pretty simple displays out of
>it when I tried it. Things like the waveform display that Peak puts up
>when you open the file took bringing in the file and going through a
>bunch of dialogs. I did not seem to be getting to anything interesting,
>so shelved it and have not gotten back to it. It did not compete with
>Soundhack or Spark XL for general sonograms.
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>The big thing against it was it seemed to be trying to keep it all in
>memory, which really limits soundfile size. It would read a large file,
>but as soon as you asked it to display something about it you'd get out
>of memory messages looking for very large amounts of memory. By giving
>it 100 megs to play in I could get it to run fairly well if I did not
>feed it too long a file. At the recommended 22 megs not much would run
>of what I wanted.
>
>Most of it's functionality seems to be in voice analysis or voice
>synthesis. You can get a sonogram out of it that you can specify more
>completely mathematically. There are many more options than most
>sonogram systems.
>
>It's math routines seem relatively slow, not like the realtime sonogram
>I use. Unless it's been updated it's using fairly dated, old style
>programming and interface. And is for those familiar with the math
>formulas associated with sound analysis.
>
>Easiest way to find out is simply to download it and play. It's one I
>did not just toss and will play with some more. On my G4, OS 9.2.2 it
>seems to run fine.
>
>Walt
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