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From: "Mr. Dave Krampitz" <krampitz@dfwmm.net>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: Need Sound Advice
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 22:53:50 -0500
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Hello, I have a series of questions that are elementary perhaps to most,
but I am trying to understand how the playstation handles sound data.

So, if anyone could give me a hand, I would appreciate it.

Lets say I have a .wav file which is a sound effect.

Lets also say I convert it into a vag and then create a vab.

1. Please Define program in relation to this vab
2. Please define tone in relation to this vab
3. When using SsUtKeyOn with this sound effect, does the pitch attribute
alter the pitch of the wave (vag in VAB) file?
4. Is there a 'template' that can be used with minor modifications for
the definition file required by mkvab?


Also, I created a .mid file using cakewalk and used smf2seq to create
the .seq file.  When I used sndplay, the instruments came out wrong on
the playstation.

1. How does one map the instruments to a seq file through the use of
vabs?
2. How do I get the instruments to be 'translated' correctly?

THANKS much for any and all help.  I appreciate your time and am eager
to get this thing going.

Please reply here or to krampitz@dfwmm.net

Dave