If you are into sampling various sounds or creating some of those marvelous sound creations made from various WAV and other sound files, then this little product is for you. Created by Reimold & Schumann Internet Service, based in Germany, Awave v4.8.1 is a small sound sampling utility with a lot of heart.
How it Works
Data is internally represented in a superset of the format defined by the DownLoadable Sounds architecture level 1 standard. It can be viewed in an 'Explorer like' view with two panes. The left pane handles the wavetable synth architecture using a tree with the 'collection' as the stem, instruments, layers, and regions as branches, and finally, waveforms as leaves (the basic sound producing units). The right pane is a 'pool' of all loaded waveforms. If you have one of the supported wavetable synthesis sound cards you can simply click on an item, and directly 'audition' it using either a midi keyboard or the computer keyboard. If you don't have such a card, you are still in luck since there is a crude software synthesizer that runs on any sound card!
Saving to any of the supported export formats is just a button away! Sending and receiving MIDI SDS dumps is also supported for transferring waveforms to professional synthesizers. There are visual editors for all parameters like waveform loop points and layer keymaps. Basic audio processing and editing functions are also provided, including a PROCESS ALL dialog, from which you can apply selected operations to all items. The AudioPlayer feature is a nice audio playback control, sporting both real-time oscilloscope and frequency analyzer graphs. It is available from inside Awave as well as integrated into the Windows 95 shell in order to easily let you play the sounds of any of the supported file formats!
Summary
Not everyone is into making and sampling audio, but if you are into any form of sampled audio on the Windows platform, you'll most likely find this program very useful!
