if i wanted to, say turn the startup music in EV into an MP3, or make the blast of a torpedo my empty trash sound, how could i take the sounds out of EV sounds data file and turn them into aiff or mp3 files?
and then the same with putting sounds into a plug, if i try to open a sound, that i have recorded as an aiff, in res edit, it shows as a blank file with no resources...
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Alrighty...
EXPORTING
There are several pieces of software out there that can do this for you. Due to the fact that my Mac broke about a year ago, I'm only familiar with relatively old apps. I know SoundApp can at least play the sounds -- and I believe it can export them somehow as well.
What I've used in the past is Sound Editor (an old, freeware sound program, not to be confused w/SoundEdit 16). This can actually open the EV Sounds file and let you open the resources up, and you can just save it as a new file.
IMPORTING
AIFF files don't work in EV. You need something in something called System 7 Sound format, which is the kind that'll play if you double-click it in Finder. A program like SoundApp will convert it for you. Make sure it's at 11.127 Khz, convert it, and then you can open it in ResEdit and it'll help.
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Hope that helps. Maybe I should put this up on the web as some sort of guide or something; it seems to be a frequent topic.
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Mike Lee (Firebird)
simple solution: duplicate a sound file, open it and ev sounds in resedit. copy the snd resource of your choice into the sound file and renumber it to the number of the snd resource already in the file (you'll have to delete the existing one to do this)
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Originally posted by nighthawk:
**simple solution: duplicate a sound file, open it and ev sounds in resedit. copy the snd resource of your choice into the sound file and renumber it to the number of the snd resource already in the file (you'll have to delete the existing one to do this)
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Yah, really. Makes third time in a month this topic has gone past.
get hands on sound file. In later OS can drag it from system folder if it is there. Can use a cute little ap called "Sound Extractor" to pull sounds from anything that has a resource fork. Can record into mic as last resort. Anyhow...
convert to System 7 sound, will have .snd suffix. Must be 8-bit, 11 khtz, mono, no compression allowed. Sole exception to this rule is the title music and loop; they are allowed 22 khtz. Can convert with about a dozen shareware aps, but the fastest method is to use the power inherent in QuickTime and convert via one of the varied QuickTime players.
use ResEdit to drag and drop the snd resource from the new System 7 sound to the snd resources in the plug. You may have to create that catagory first, of course. Make sure they get the right resource numbers.
if you are adding five minutes of title music and stuff, run up the memory of the EVO application. It can and will cause crashes and lock-ups if those files are larger than what Matt originally used.
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Ok, about extracting sounds from EV:
That SoundExtractor thing that Commander Arashi was talking about can be found here: (url="http://"http://www.riccisoft.com/soundextractor/")http://www.riccisoft...soundextractor/(/url)
You can use this on the EV sounds file (or a plugin, or anything else) and extract the sounds from that in system 7 sound (snd) format. You can then use these as system alerts or whatever.
If you want to convert something like the title music to mp3, extract it from the EV music file with SoundExtractor and then convert the snd file to an AIFF using SoundApp (which can be found here: (url="http://"http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/")http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/(/url) ) or something similar. You can then use iTunes or another mp3 encoder to convert the AIFF into an mp3.
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(This message has been edited by Sephyr (edited 03-13-2002).)
I found a great little not-shareware-anymore program that's perfect for sound editing called Felt Tip Sound Studio - I think you might still be able to get a fully functional demo at (url="http://"http://www.download.com")www.download.com(/url) You can import from almost anything (mic, aux line in, CD player, MP3 file...), edit, and then export at any sampling rate in mono or stereo, as AIFF system 7 sound, the works.
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