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Sound Editor:
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The Sound editor lets you determine the type of sound and sound attributes produced by your Amiga.
The Amiga can flash the screen and/or issue a beep to signal of an application prompt or error in processing.
You can choose Make Sound, Flash Display, or a combination of both.
Do not turn both functions off at the same time since that disables all signaling capability, which could cause you to miss a prompt.
Choosing Flash Display alone causes the Amiga to signal a prompt or error by flashing the screen.
If you choose Make Sound, you have the following options:

Sound Type
Select Beep or Sampled Sound. The Beep is a simple tone.
The Sample Sound Type is a standard IFF file sound sample that you can create yourself with a sound digitizer or load from a sample sound file, which can be a sound data type file.

Sound Volume
Set Volume between 1 for the quietest and 64 for the loudest.

Sound Pitch
Set Sound Pitch between 1 for the shortest and 3000 for the longest.
For a beep the sound pitch is the actual pitch (high or low sound); for sample sounds it is the play back speed (the number of samples played per second). Do not set the pitch too low, especially with sampled sounds, since the pitch level affects how long it takes to play the sound.

Beep Length
Set Beep Length between 1 for the shortest duration to 100 for the longest duration.

Select Sample
Use the Select Sample gadget with the file requester to select the file name of the sample. Sound accepts data type sound sample files. If you save this sample setting, it must be available each time you reboot, either on hard or floppy disk.

After you choose Beep (preloaded on your Amiga) or designate your sample sound, you can test the sound to be sure it has all the attributes that you want.
The Save, Use, and Cancel gadgets do not work while the sound is being tested.


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