Floppyshop Press Release

SOUNDS AND STUFF - THE ATARI MUSICIAN'S TOOLKIT Floppyshop are pleased to announce the release of their fifth CD-ROM title for Atari computers. Sounds and Stuff is a CD-ROM specifically compiled for the Atari musician, with literally hundreds of odd, exciting, useful, and fun Public Domain and Shareware music programs. These include sample convertors, players, editors, trackers, utilities, MOD players, MIDI tools, sequencers, generic and synthesizer-specific librarian editors, and MID file players. Some useful non-musical utilities are also featured (including mono emulators, virtual screen drivers and other weird configuration tools), as is over 20Mb of Falcon-specific stuff (direct-to-disk recorders, and other audio bits and bobs), a small selection of games that run on mono monitors, a helping of interesting text files on audio and MIDI programming matters (with lots of source code to try out) and even a fully working version of Sound Chip Synth v2.32. From the outset we decided that a high standard had to be maintained throughout this compilation. With this in mind, we enlisted the help of Electronic Cow's Danny McAleer to take charge of the project. Now Danny's a bit of a perfectionist and wasn't content with just putting the music content of our PDL onto the CD. He started off by wading through all our stuff and ended up discarding at least 40% of it! He then checked out the best music sites on the Net and added software from there. Finally, he included Electronic Cow's entire sample library as well as a number of Electronic Cow releases. Needless to say, we would like to thank Danny for the enormous amount of work he has put into compiling this CD. Here's a quick rundown of the contents of the CD-ROM... * Nearly a thousand high quality 16-bit AVR samples covering a vast range of instruments. There's bass sounds (acoustic and synthesized, including the TB303!), synthesizer sounds from analogue and digital synths (instruments such as the Korg T3, Roland SH101, Juno 106, JX3P and Yamaha DX7), percussion loops and single hits (from the Linn drum, TR808, 606 and 909 amongst others), orchestral instrumentation and vocal samples. * Hundreds of music files in MOD, Pro 24 SNG, Quartet and standard MIDI file formats, covering classical, jazz, pop, drum programming and other genres. * Librarians and sound editors for most modern popular MIDI synthesizers including Korg, Roland, Kawai, Akai, Yamaha, Ensoniq and Casio. SOUNDS AND STUFF - THE ATARI MUSICIAN'S TOOLKIT, is available now for only 25 pounds + P&P (UK 2 pounds, Europe 3 pounds, ROW 4 pounds). Further information:- Snail Mail: Floppyshop, PO Box 273, Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. AB15 8GJ Email: floppyshop@cyberstrider.org WWW: http://www.floppyshop.cyberstrider.org Credit Card Orderline (Phone & Fax): 01224 312756 Intl. +44 1224 312756