wavesurgeon revision details
The origins of WaveSurgeon
WaveSurgeon was started in the February of 1997 by its author Neil Crane, encouraged by Square Circle's associate Chris Tranter, author of the best Internet call timer on the planet, and assisted by John Cross (designer extraordinaire). It was not originally intended to be sold. However, Square Circle was formed to sell the program as shareware, and version 1 was released. Although this was received well, there were many ideas for an update, and a month later, version 1.1 was released, including SoundFont support. This feature made AWE owners very happy! Version 1.1 was vastly improved, although not perfect, and so for another month work progressed until 1.2 arrived. Although not greatly different from 1.1, features such as a resizable window and clipboard support were in place. Two weeks later came the best versions yet; 1.27 and 1.28, followed by 1.3 and then version 2, which is available from the download page. Square Circle has many plans for new features in WaveSurgeon, but relies on people to register its software!
Neil is always happy to hear your suggestions; mail him at webmaster@wavesurgeon.com.
Revision Information
Version 2.72
Advanced update only. Improves DirectX plugin stability, and includes new installer program.
Version 2.7
Support for the Akai S2000 range, GigaSampler support, DirectX plugins, batch sending, and general optimizations.
Version 2.56
Support for the ESI range, and a number of minor improvements.
Version 2.5
Sampler profile manager, support for DLS bank files,Yamaha EX series mapping support, batch send for easy transmission of multiple files to samplers, improved dialogs.
Version 2.2
CD Track extraction tool, support for .aif files, bug fixes with A3000 support, optimisation of existing features, increased resolution in midi template files.
Version 2.1
SMIDI support for fast transfer to samplers, direct support for the Yamaha A3000 sampler, support for multiple SCSI buses, creates Pinnacle PBF files for the Turtle Beach Soundcard, file operations now multitask, bug fixes and improvements, support for the Intellimouse wheel under Windows 95 and 98, new 'Randomise' feature for pseudo wave-sequencing and other effects, can now save and restore point settings;
Version 2.0c
Fixed the midi input bug.
Version 2
Stereo, sample dumping, bug fixes, new Windows 98 user interface, processing tools, more efficient use of memory, more compatible loop code, and much more (see the main page for full details).
Version 1.3a
Some minor tweaks to the 1.3 code...
Version 1.3
Bigger icons on toolbar, minor fixes, more toolbar buttons, improvements to saving SoundFonts and midi files, renamed samples to segments, allowed auditioning of sample point when editing, bars and beats now edited by mouse, addition of crop function, saving and restoration of window position, right mouse menu on toolbar, new about box.
Version 1.28
Minor update to undo function, that prevented undo of Edit Menu paste operations, fix for annoying white line bug that appeared 1 in 15 times, and fix of odd lock/disable selection cursor (or lack of).
Version 1.27
Support for all 16bit formats, sensitivity scaling, bug fixes, optimisation, and new features - see download page for info.
Version 1.2
Resizable window, bug fixes, improved algorithm, clipboard support,and more.
Version 1.1
SoundFont 2.0 support added; bug fixes, editing tools, new user interface + icons.
Version 1
First release. Anyone who finds this on a site should tell the site owner to get the new copy from here...
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