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From: Anna <amarsh@bournemouth.ac.uk>
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Subject: Sound Probs.
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:51:47 +0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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I'm having a few problems getting any sound happenning.  I've converted
a single .wav (16 bit, uncompressed, mono) with aiff2vag, and then
(attempted) to make a vab file, seperated into vh & vb.  But when I
attempt to play this with SsUtKeyOn nothing happens, and -1 is returned
(so I guess SsUtKeyOn failed).  

Is it necessary to have a SEQ file, even though I only want to play one
sound effect at a time?  I've set the volume using SsSetMVol, but in the
sample pieces of code I've looked at, they've also used SsSetSeqVolume. 
I haven't used this as I have no SEQ file.  

I'm also confused about the use of the def file when making the .vab. is
there an easy way to make the def file? I ask this because I'm not sure
where you're supposed to get the values for the center and shift labels
in the ToneAtr.  I've just sampled a single sound effect from a CD so I
have no idea what note it's supposed to be.  Because of this I just
bunged in any old values, would this adversly affect things if I got it
wildly wrong?  

Cheers,  Anna.