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From: Elliott Lee <tenchi@shell.jps.net>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: Re: 2 vb and vh files?
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:43:17 -0700
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No.  The WAV2VAG.EXE works best with 16-bit, mono, 22KHz samples.
Same goes for AIFF2VAG.  Sure you can have any sampling rate you
want, but you'll have to compensate when you key on the instrument.

Rate considerations:

  For bass instruments, long strings or warm synth sounds, use
  lower sampling rates (8Khz - 16Khz).

  For leads, pianos, guitars, and most synth sounds, use higher
  rates (16Khz - 32Khz).  This includes digitized voice samples.

  For very crisp, clear samples (cymbals, hi-hats, snares,
  complex synths) spend the extra memory and splurge (28Khz-44Khz).

If you stick to something basic like this, you'll be able to recreate
music faithfully without having to spend unnecessary memory.

- e!

Doglife wrote:
> 
> Argh.. thanks for the help, I think I am stuck...
> 
> Huh? u mean u can change the sampling rate? I thought the converter
> (wav2vag.exe) can only take in 44KHz Mono wave file?
> 
> Doglife
> 
> Elliott Lee wrote in message <3626BA47.36234426@shell.jps.net>...
> >OH.  The limit is 512kb.  You can't load more than that into memory.
> >(Besides that's a killer long time to transfer 512kb from the PC to
> >the Yaroze over the serial cable!)  Try to size down your VAB files.
> >Reduce sample quality, use things with long, constant tones to
> >increase compression ratio, use shorter instruments/sfx that can be
> >looped.
> >
> >- e!
> >

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