Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: For all you frustrated SoundMaster folk... Keywords: SoundMaster Sound-playing cdev Soundz Message-ID: <10456@fluke.COM> Date: 17 Aug 89 22:02:56 GMT Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 33 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 INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>