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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: For all you frustrated SoundMaster folk...
Keywords: SoundMaster Sound-playing cdev Soundz
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Date: 17 Aug 89 22:02:56 GMT
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Having (at last count) some 140 Megabytes of digitized sound on the Mac,
I've always loved SoundMaster, the cdev that plays sounds at various times
on your Mac; I sent in my shareware fee about 15 minutes after trying it
out.  Unfortunately, Bruce Tomlin seems to have stopped supporting it some
time ago, and it has some bugs under the Mac SEx and MultiFinder.

Good news: according to MacWeek, Preferred Publishers (the people who put
out the *excellent* Vantage DA and (from what I've seen) the impressive
DAtabase) will be releasing a collection of 6 cdevs in October called
Personality.  One of them, Soundz, sounds like it does just what SoundMaster
did, but a) supports all the Macs and b) doesn't cache the entire sound in
memory (though that makes me wonder how fast it can play the sound, if it
reads it from disk every time).  Nice!  They also have some nice display
customization cdevs (Kolors (an update to Kolor), Menuz, Kursor, Windowz,
and Controlz, the latter which makes your Mac interface look a good deal
like the NeXT "textured" interface).  I've been *very* impressed with
Vantage -- you outta see this manual -- and I've got some high hopes for
Personality, too.  Retail $89, which means I can buy it through mail order
for a decent price...

Just digitized BUCKAROO BANZAI last night; my Mac just wouldn't seem the
same without it saying "Laugh-A while you can, Monkey Boy!" when it shuts
down...  (Yah, I'll post that and "No matter where you go... there you
are." to comp.binaries.mac later this week...)

                           "Well, if it wasn't Buckaroo Banzai, I'd say
                            'commit the man.'"

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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