Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

How do I create a 128 sample mono 16-bit wave file? I mean, like are 
there any free utilities out there that I can use to create this wave 
file? Any and ALL help would be appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. Please be kind...

dmn

> How do I create a 128 sample mono 16-bit wave file? I mean, like 
are 
> there any free utilities out there that I can use to create this 
wave 
> file? 

Any sound editor should work, a decent free one is Audacity 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net, at which point it's just a matter of 
finding good source material.  Open your file and zoom in until you 
start seeing tiny boxes.  Each box denotes 1 sample.  Find a section 
you like, and cut out a 128 sample section of it (this is a very 
short period of time, and will sound like a click unless you enable 
looping of the section)

> How do I create a 128 sample mono 16-bit wave file? I mean, like 
are 
> there any free utilities out there that I can use to create this 
wave 
> file? Any and ALL help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> P.S. Please be kind...
> 
> dmn

well I take an existing 128 sample file, open it in Audacity and 
then  just mangle it and then save it to a new name....I also loaded 
several pre-existing files and then exported the whole pile out to a 
mono WAV and then you get the sum of the parts when you reload that 
file back...it seems to work OK but I've only done this a dozen times 
or so ......as another newbie here,  can I ask that some other more 
experienced member of this group care to address the plusses and 
minuses of these 128 sample sources for making the Evolver sound 
better (well at least different, it sounds pretty good as is) .. i.e. 
what type of shapes works best (or at least create interesting 
sound?), what's better, specific shapes or random wiggles, symmetry 
or non symmetry or what? just curious.... of course I can dork with 
it for a while to find out slowly , but if 90% of the time its a dead 
end, a little suggestion or a few tips from someone would be very 
appreciated ....in the meantime I've got my hands full just working 
through just what came out of the box .....thanks to all

Be sure not to miss the files section of this forum there is a 
utility there called 


Evolver user waveforms dist.zip 

punch numbers in a spreadsheet  and get a sysex file with an evolver 
user wave ready to be sent its  25 KB posted by zinoff 03/15/2003 

you have to have MS Excel to make it work, but you can design just 
about any 128 sample wave form imaginable from scratch.....I just 
found it....fun stuff

now if there were only a reverse of this that allowed you to pull out 
and view a wav form from in the eveolver that you liked so you could 
see what was making it a successful wav....

thanks