SAPPHIRE, SOFTWARE, An Acoustic Compiler Sapphire version 1 port under OpenVMS November 1998 ===================================== Sapphire is an acoustic compiler ... Binaries provided: ================= VAX VMS 6.1, built with DEC C 5.0 Alpha VMS 6.2, built with DEC C 5.2 Rebuild: ======= $ set def [.SRC] $ @COMPILE_DECC $ @LINK_DECC Enjoy !! Patrick Moreau pmoreau@cena.dgac.fr moreau_p@decus.fr http://www2.cenaath.cena.dgac.fr/~pmoreau/ README file: Sapphire - an acoustic compiler for Unix and DOS Sapphire is an acoustic compiler: a program which takes a representation of sound as a text file and generates the sound from it, rather like a ray-tracing package takes a text representation of a scene and generates a picture from it. Sapphire has a large range of objects from which your sound can be built, including envelope shapers, filters, oscillators, sample playback modules, and arithmetic operators. These can be 'wired' together into sounds of arbitrary complexity. Complex sounds just take a bit longer to build. All sounds created with sapphire can be used commercially without royalty, provided you put a notice saying something like: "Sapphire acoustic compiler by J. Finnis" Sapphire itself is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License - see COPYING for details. This Linux archive should contain: guide.* : user's guide in nroff -me, postscript and ASCII src : source code insts : some sample instruments In the beta, these are pretty dire! scales : some sample scales samples : some sample samples/waves - just sine and saw sapphire : Linux executable README : this file COPYING : the GNU general public license DOSNOTES : notes on the DOS version DISTRIB : distribution history sapphire-mode.el: a simple Lucid Emacs (Xemacs) 19.10 mode for sapphire, mainly for font-lock settings mid2sapp : a tclmidi script for converting MIDI files to sapphire scores