SoundWAV from New Eden MultiMedia SoundWAV is a program to select and randomly change Windows 3.1 System Sounds. It is designed for use with a sound card, but will also work with the PC Speaker driver. SoundWAV operates very simply - using Windows system calls, it changes the sound file names assigned in your WIN.INI file. You have the option of setting each of the seven System Sounds to: None No sound file assigned. Fixed The assigned file will be used, and not changed. Random Swap sounds randomly each time Windows is started. Alphabetic Swap sounds sequentially each time Windows is started. SoundWAV comes with TEN MEGABYTES of FREE DIGITIZED SOUNDS! Everything from HAL's infamous "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that." to Fred Flintstone's "Yabba Dabba Doo." We've got it all! Over 10 MB of sounds free to registered users! See the FREE WAV FILES section near the end of this document for more information, examples, and ordering instructions. SOUNDWAV.EXE SOUNDWAV.EXE allows you to assign files to sounds, set the directory for WAV files, and test play the sounds, much as the Windows 3.1 Control Panel does. Going beyond the Control Panel though, SoundWAV also lets you set a directory for each individual system sound and set whether sounds files are to be selected randomly or sequentially (in ascending alphabetic order). AUTOWAV.EXE AutoWAV simply swaps the WIN.INI System Sound file names for those sounds you have set up (with SOUNDWAV.EXE) as type Random or type Alphabetic. AUTOWAV.EXE is the module that you will use most frequently, and once set up it will be completely transparent to you. To change your system sounds each time you start Windows, just place AutoWAV in the Windows STARTUP program group. If you spend considerable time in Windows without restarting and don't want to wait that long to have your sounds swapped for new ones (Chewbacca roaring at every errant keystroke can try your patience after several hours), you can launch AutoWAV at any time just by double clicking on its icon. No Overhead!!! AutoWAV is not any form of "TSR," nor is it a constantly running Windows background task. It loads, looks up information in your WIN.INI file and its own SOUNDWAV.INI file, then writes new file names for the system sounds back to WIN.INI. Immediately after updating your WIN.INI to the new sounds it quits. You will never see AutoWAV execute. No time is spent on screen displays or anything else that could slow down Windows startup. It runs, rapidly and invisibly, then terminates. Installation From Program Manager pull down the File Menu, select Run, and type: a:install or use the correct drive letter for the drive you are installing from. By default, the installation program will install SoundWAV in C:\WINDOWS\SOUNDWAV, but a dialog box will appear and allow you to change this to any other drive or directory. Free WAV files Registered owners of SoundWAV receive over 10 MB of high quality WAV files at no extra cost. All freshly recorded sound clips! Not a single converted file in our inventory!!! It'd take you all day (or longer!) to download a sound collection the size of this, even if you could find all these great ones. With access fees and/or long distance charges you'd pay many times the cost of our program. Plus, many digitized sounds found online are of inferior quality. Our files are all High Quality That's why we provide registered owners with free sound clips. We want to ensure that all registered owners have a wide variety of quality sound files in order to better appreciate SoundWAV. We're talking 10 high density disks here! We're not cheapskates when it comes to disk costs - our samples are stored uncompressed in well organized librariesstored for easier management by you. High Quality Most WAV files you find on a BBS are translated from older file types and often from other computer platforms. The quality is usually poor, if not totally unacceptable. Many sound files have been sampled at very slow rates and/or were specially processed (reduced from a higher sampling rate) to save disk space -- which drastically affects quality. If it was originally done on a Sound Blaster it usually means it was recorded with a microphone (yuck!), because until very recently there were no "Line Input" connections on the Sound Blaster. Even if it's a recent recording, that doesn't mean that the person who recorded it knew what they were doing. That voice of HAL you get from a BBS might have been recorded by a teenager holding a cheap mike in front of a tiny little TV speaker. Worse, he was probably munching on a bag of Doritos while he recorded -- not to mention his dog barking, the toilet flushing upstairs, and the freeway nearby. Our WAV files are high quality recordings. They were all recorded in Windows 3.1 using a Sound Blaster Pro. No microphones!!! Only line input direct from a Mitsubishi Hi-Fi HQ VCR, Technics CD, or Technics Cassette Deck. The only background noises you hear in our samples are sounds that existed in the original media. And, no need to worry about compatibility problems with our WAV files, since they were all recorded directly in WAV format. Stored Uncompressed For Easy Management. WAV files are very compact by nature, and our tests have shown that there is little advantage to compressing these files -- we'd save one disk. We think that any digitized sound collection eats so much disk space that it is best to store WAV files on floppy disks (or have a big hard drive). Then, once a week (or whenever you choose) delete the WAV files from your hard drive and copy new WAV files from your floppy disk collection. We could have been tightwads, and compressed all the WAV files so we could save a buck on disk costs, but then you would have to unzip or expand the files. We put you first, spent the money for an extra disk, and left the files uncompressed so that you can easily manage your sound collection. Wide Variety Includes sound clips from the following categories: Science Fiction Hollywood Sound Effects News Cartoons Examples Here are just a few of the great Windows 3.1 sound clips you'll get. Use them with SoundWAV, or with your own applications. HAL: I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. HAL: Well, I don't think there can be any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi Wan. C3P0: It wasn't my fault, sir! Please don't deactivate me! Dirty Harry Go ahead, make my day. George Jetson: This is George Jetson, signing off for the ENTIRE day. Richard Nixon I am not a crook. Bill Murray: Don't shut it off -- I'm warning ya'!!! Dorothy: Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. Dorothy clone: Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore. Doc Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 mph you're gonna see some serious shit. Robocop: Your move, creep. The Joker: Tell me something, my friend. (loud click of pistol cocking) Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Neil Armstrong That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Number 5: Malfunction! Need input!!! Sound Effects: gunshot, ray gun, bomb, thunder, UFO, police siren, toilet flush, applause, tires screeching, train, car horn, airplane, car crash, more. Get all these sounds and many, many more! Ordering Instructions Order now! Only $45. No hidden charges, no tax (we pay it), no shipping and handling charges (we pay it), no extra cost whatsoever. Order SoundWAV and we'll include your free 10 MB collection of the best sound clips available. Available only on high density disks. Please specify 5.25" or 3.5". Call or write for more information, or send $45 check or money order (sorry, we're just a small company and we can't accept credit cards yet). If you're in a hurry (or just suspicious), call or write and we'll ship COD (for an additional $5). New Eden MultiMedia 7652 Hampshire Ave Minneapolis, MN 55428-1457 (612)561-2557 Compuserve 71020,2230 Prodigy DJPN35A SoundWAV and it's component files and documentation are copyright 1992, New Eden MultiMedia Sound files are included solely for demonstration purposes. We make no claim of ownership or copyright of the sample sound files.