Awave, ReadMe file                           Copyr. 1993,1996, FMJ-Software
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Contents:

  1. Requirements
  2. Installation
  3. Registration

  4. Background
  5. Features
  6. Availablility

  7. Feedback and bugreports


1.Requirements:

  - Windows 95 (preferred), or,
    Windows NT 3.51, or
    Windows 3.1 with Win32s 1.3.

  - Mouse or equivalent pointing device.

  Optional:
  - MIDI-input device,
  - Advanced Gravis UltraSound (classic, MAX, ACE, PnP),
  - Turtle Beach Maui or Tropez, *
  - Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 32, **
  - Any digital audio capable sound card.

    *  May not work satisfactory on some W31 systems.
    ** Requires the latest, .SF2 compatible, drivers.


2.Installation:

  Throw the files into a directory of your choice. Run Awave.EXE. 
  Go through the Help menu. Especially read the Step by Step section.
  If you ever  want to  unistall Awave, you can  do that  from within  the
  program itself, go Options->Program->Uninstall. Under Windows 95,you can 
  also use Windows 95 Control Panel's Install/Uninstall feature.


3.Registration:

  Registered users will  obtain a personal  registration keycode contained
  in a file named 'YOURNAME.KEY'. See 'REGISTER.TXT' on how to obtain one.

  To enter the registration code:
  Start up Awave. Choose 'Options->Program...->Register...'and locate this
  file in order to register Awave and remove all imposed limitations.
  You only need to do this once. Do not store the 'YOURNAME.KEY' file on a
  publically  accessible media less someone may steal it,  i. e. after you
  have registered yourself, keep it on  a floppy  and  delete it from your
  hard disk.  It is your registration license and are to be treated as any
  other value 'paper'.


4.Background and features

  Awave was birthed some two years ago when I needed to extract some samples
  from an Amiga tracker module and save them as UltraSound .pat instruments.
  I hacked up a small program called MOD2PAT to fill my needs.
  As some programs tend to do, this one soon grew beyond bounds. More import
  formats were continually added (and still are).  It was ported to Windows,
  it got a steadily improving user interface.  The name was now something of
  an understatement so I changed into 2PAT.  Now after three major rewrites,
  and supporting more than a hundred audio carrying file formats for import,  
  as well as most popular formats for export,  and sporting  several editing 
  and playback functions, the name has again been changed into Awave.

  Awave reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different 
  platforms, synthesizers and trackers.It presents the instruments contained 
  in  a file  as a graphical tree with the bank item at the top, instruments 
  as branches and waveforms as leaves.
  If you have one of the  supported wavetable synthesis sound cards  you can
  just click on an item, and directly 'audition' it using a midi keyboard or 
  the computer keyboard. If you just have a basic soundcard capable of audio
  playback,you can use it as a crude (monophonic) synthesizer to get an idea 
  of what it should sound like.
  Saving  an item  to any  of the  supported  export formats,  is as easy as
  double clicking on the item and selecting export type. MIDI SDS Dumps  are
  also supported for down loading waveforms to professional synthesizers.
  There are  visual editors for most instrument and waveform parameters like
  loop points and keymaps.  Some audio processing  and editing functions are
  also provided.
  There is also the 'AudioPlayer' feature,  a nice audio  playback  control, 
  sporting both  realtime oscilloscope and frequency analyzer graphs.  It is 
  available from inside Awave as well as integrated into the Windows95 shell 
  in order to easily let  you play the sounds  of any of the supported  file 
  formats! Thus it is also and ideal 'helper app' for your WWW-browser!
  If you are into any form of sampled audio on the Windows platform,  you'll
  most likely find this program usefull!


6.Availability

  Awave is Shareware, see REGISTER.TXT for details on how to register.

  Awave is available for download on the internet at:
    "http://www.nada.kth.se/~f93-maj/fmjsoft.html"


7.Feedback and bugreports:

  Send bug reports, suggestions, fan letters, spare money...
  to email: 'f93-maj@nada.kth.se'
  or  mail: 'Markus Jnsson, Svedjev. 7,  147 52 Tumba,  Sweden'

  For bug reports, state what program version it is, what OS you are using, 
  as well as what soundcard(s) you have.  In addition to stating the nature 
  of the problem, give a detailed step-by-step account of what you did that 
  led up to the bug and note all messages that you encounter on the way.

  Have Fun!

     (\/)arkus

