
 WAVmaker 1.0 - Evaluation Package
 
 
 WAVmaker is a complete Music & Digital Audio system featuring CD quality 
 MID -> WAV rendering, tons of Digital Signal Processing functions (mix, 
 maximize, fade, gate, compress/enhance, low/high/band/notch filter, ring 
 modulation, vocoder, reverse, echo, reverb, flange, chorus, extend, cut/
 gated cut) and MIDI analysis/manipulation. Several audio file format 
 converters are also included. Creative Labs Sound Blasters are fully
 supported; other sound cards can easily be added to the customizable User
 Interface. All engines may be run from the User Interface or from DOS
 (including shell programs and BAT files). Full on-line, hypertextual 
 documentation is included.
 
 WAVmaker is shareware. What you have received is the WAVmaker Evaluation 
 Package, which comes with a subset of the full General MIDI patch/sample 
 library delivered upon registration. An awesome sound data packer/
 unpacker (included) allows sound file distribution on ordinary 3.5" HD 
 disks. You won't believe your ears!
 
 The Evaluation Package may be distributed freely for evaluation purposes. 
 Full distribution and registration information is in the on-line docs.
 
 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 286+ (386+ recommended). FPU recommended. 4+ MB RAM
                      (8+ MB RAM recommended). XMS (e.g. HIMEM.SYS). 5+ MB 
                      free hard disk space (10+ MB recommended). Disk cache 
                      (e.g. SMARTDRV.SYS) recommended. EGA+ (SVGA for nice 
                      title screen :-). Color monitor. MS compatible mouse
                      (with driver). DOS 3.3+ (DOS 5.0+ recommended). High 
                      quality sound card (16 bits/44.1 kHz/stereo) strongly
                      recommended.

 WAVmaker is a DOS program. It will not run reliably under Windows.
 
 If at all possible, use a good amplifier/speaker system (not pitiful PC 
 gamer's speakers) to fully enjoy WAVmaker's CD quality output.
 
 INSTALLATION:        Run INSTALL.EXE. 

 Note:  WAVmaker is packaged using Info-ZIP's compression utility. The
        installation program uses UnZip to decompress the distribution 
        files. Info-ZIP's software (Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is 
        free and can be obtained as source code or executables from many
        anonymous-FTP sites, including ftp.uu.net:/pub/archiving/zip/*.

 If DOS reports insufficient environment space at WAVmaker startup, you 
 should increase the environment size reserved with the SHELL directive in 
 CONFIG.SYS. See your DOS manual for details. Note that some shell programs 
 do not use the COMSPEC variable in order to locate the command processor. 
 Such programs will not be affected by the SHELL directive. If you are using 
 such a program and are experiencing environment size problems, you'll have 
 to shut it down before starting up WAVmaker. This will allow DOS to use the 
 environment size specified in the SHELL directive.

 WARNING: Do NOT run the subprogram WM DFT2WAV with an unresolved environment 
          size problem if you have a DPMI server installed on your system and/
          or if you do not have a hardware FPU!

 If you have questions about WAVmaker or if you experience difficulties with
 it, do not hesitate to contact me via one of the following channels:

 SNAIL MAIL:        Tommy Anderberg
                    Almvagen 4
                    195 44 Marsta
                    SWEDEN

 E-MAIL:            Tommy.Anderberg@abc.se

 FAX:               +46 8 591 162 23

 

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I am grateful to all those who offered to be Beta testers 
                   for WAVmaker 1.0. Special thanks go to

                   David Eriksson in Norrkping, Sweden
                   Jran Jilg (Joran.Jilg@abc.se) in Kungsngen, Sweden
                   Marc Young in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
                   Mark Williston in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
                   Ulf Hrnhammar (Ulf.Harnhammar@abc.se) in rsta, Sweden

 All bugs still present in WAVmaker 1.0 after these gentlemen were done with
 it are of course mine and mine alone!
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