------------------------------- Symphonie Pro DEMO - Quickstart ------------------------------- Symphonie Pro is a 100% 16 Bit program. Symphonie Pro performs on standard Amigas rates upto max 240 kHz (much more than CD !) Symphonie Pro performs on standard Amigas 14Bit Sound (84dB) (a tiny bit under CD) Users with slow cpu's may not be able to do realtime rendering at 250kHz, but you can still RENDER to hd at 250kHz (even with a 68EC020) Symphonie Pro can already understand lots of 16 Bit formats, and there are more to come. Symphonie is 100% non destructive (samples) Symphonie runs on A1200/A4000 and on Amigas with turboboard + OS3.0/3.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU HAVE SYMPHONIE PRO, THERE IS NO NEED TO BUY ANY SOUNDCARD UNLESS YOU ARE A CD PRODUCTION CENTER OR ANYTHING SIMILAR. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Symphonie is very complex and may be too new to be understood by everyone so, here follow some hints: Symphonie is too slow ? ----------------------- If you want the same high quality sound, there is NO WAY in doing it faster. Its simply impossible to do it faster without reducing quality. Symphonie has been designed from the beginning to be very adjustable in manners of speed, quality, and cpu power use. BEST IS: If you buy a faster cpu you DO get higher audio quality TOO !!!! How can I get maximum quality ? ------------------------------- (0. reset your machine to clean up memory fragmentation) 1. Make sure you select a 30Khz screen mode (e.g. Euro72Hz, Multiscan ...) or you will NEVER EVER be able to play higher rates than 28Khz 2. Select Audio Mode 14 Bit, (Oversampling 14 Bit for low power users) 3. Load your desired module 4. NOW set the System buffers to MAXIMUM(255), symphonie will verify and reduce the buffer number to the maximum possible for a certain bpm. (always remember: If there are no large fastmem chunks symphonie may take chipmem instead -> symphonie gets slower ) There is a strange delay while playing over the keyboard -------------------------------------------------------- For realtime performance you should reduce the MENU:Prefs/System/System Buffer to 8. But for playing songs you ought to put System Buffers as high as possible !!! There is disturbance because the sound is too loud -------------------------------------------------- Decrease MENU:Prefs/s. Preprocessor/Sampleboost by 10 and RELOAD(!) the module If a certain song does use DSP then the sound may be louder than a song not using the DSP (general rule) The Mousepointer does freeze while playing ! -------------------------------------------- Press both Mousebuttons and Symphonie will STOP immediately (keep them pressed for some secs) This is only the case, if you let your cpu run a the limits of its power. If you want fast multitasking you are to reduce the mix quality (FREQ) If you want best quality you must heighten mix quality. 14 BIT = 16 BIT ? ----------------- The Render quality with a soundcard is of course much better than over Amiga's paula chip. Moreover Soundcards may also have multiple postoversampling reducing noise even more. A lot of DSP FX sounding noisy on 14 Bit may sound very clear with a 16 Bit soundcard Modules ? --------- If you want some more modules ask Marco Ege. He is musician. If you like the Demo modules don't tell me, tell Marco Ege instead ! If you'd like sound rendered in 16 Bit ask Marco Ege for demo tapes. (requests for CDs may be interesting too, as CDs get cheaper every day) See the guide for more details... -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: IF YOU ADJUST THE MONITOR FREQS YOUR MONITOR MAY BLOW UP.!!! IF YOU DONT BE CAREFULL WITH THE DSP SECTION YOUR SPEAKERS/MONITORS MAY BLOW UP WITH EASE. YOUR AMPLIFIER MAY BE DESTROYED TOO !!! IF SYMPHONIE IS ACTIVE THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS IN A SPECIAL UNEXPECTED STATE, DUE TO HEAVY CPU LOAD/ HEAVY INTERRUPTING - SO BE VERY CAREFUL WITH MULTITASKING OR YOUR SYSTEM MAY CRASH. IF YOU PLAY SOUNDS AT HIGHER RATES THAN 28KHZ YOU DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK, AS THIS DMA MODE IS NOT OFFICIALLY ALLOWED. -------------------------------------------------------------- to run Symphonie Demo you MUST have 1. OS3.0 or higher 2. CPU 68EC020-060 (no FPU needed, no MMU needed) 3. reqtools.library -------------------------------------------------------------- Symphonie Jr DEMO (C) by Patrick Meng 1995 Symphonie Pro DEMO (C) by Patrick Meng 1995 Symphonie Jr (C) by Patrick Meng 1995 Symphonie Pro (C) by Patrick Meng 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Symphonie Jr DEMO is FREEWARE. Everyone may have it for free. Symphonie Pro DEMO is SHAREWARE. If you like it (and often use it as I hope) you may register for 20 US$. -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Symphonie Junior : 80 US$ (Release Datum: out now !) -------------------------------------------------------------- - 8...256 Soundchannels - 16 Bit Sample Preprocessor - 16 Bit Mixer - Audio OUT : 9 Bit Stereo, 3kHz - ca 72kHz -------------------------------------------------------------- Symphonie Pro : (Release Datum: 1Q95) -------------------------------------------------------------- - 8...256 Soundchannels - 16 Bit Sample Preprocessor - 16 Bit Mixer - max 256x Oversampling - Audio OUT : 9Bit Stereo Amiga 14Bit Stereo Amiga 16Bit Stereo Soundcard 16Bit Digital Link (Rendering) - Arexx interface - Audio Rendering (for HDR, CD Production, DAT, Postmixing, Easy Syncronisation ...) Modes : 8/16 Bit Mono/Stereo/L/R Normal/Intel Format Antialias On/Off Format : Maestro (Samplitude) MAUD (16 Bit iff) 8SVX (8 Bit iff) Wave (PC) Raw - Antialias algorithm for Audio Renderer - Splitter algorithm for Audio Renderer (to calc multiple files instead of a single file) -------------------------------------------------------------- Master Symphonie : () -------------------------------------------------------------- - Midi - Studio Quality - Hall Designer - Audio Rendering - ... -------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Patrick Meng, Rosenfeldweg 4, CH-6048 Horw Switzerland email goes to: hmeng@ibm.net -------------------------------------------------------------- If you also think that Symphonie is a breakthrough in Amiga soundquality think about this: Symphonie would also run on a A1000 of 1986 if I didn't use the expanded 020 assembler instructions, because the paula chip producing the sound has never changed since then. (But protracker led into the wrong direction, until today...) Symphonie is not guaranteed to do anything in any case on any machine. But whatever is does it does it better. --------------------------------------------------------------