SCI Sound Tools Pack

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SCI Sound Tools Pack

Description

Adlib INSMaker

AdLib Programmer's Manual

Included are the following utilities:

• AddWav.exe - Amends a digital WAV file to a sound resource. This will enable you to have digital sounds in your game. This is possible because we know that SQ3 as well as a couple other games had digital audio sounds. You'll need to use either the SNDBLAST.DRV or MTBLAST.DRV drivers for digital sounds to work. Some limitations: the WAV file must be 8-bit mono and the resulting sound resource must be no bigger than 65536 bytes. See included doc for usage. SCI0 only.
  
  

• Bnk2Pat - by NewRisingSun. Converts the Adlib Instrument Maker INS file format to Sierra's SCI0 patch file format for use in SCI0 games. BNK files must be saved in "Melodic Mode" or it won't sound right in-game. The converter will warn you if the file is not in the right format. You're also limited to 96 total instruments (an SCI0 limitation). Works with SCI0 - SCI1.1. See included doc for usage. See also SBank 1.06 below.
  
  

• MIDI2Snd - MIDI to SCI Sound Converter by Ravi Iyengar. See included doc for usage.
  
  

• Pat2Bnk - by NewRisingSun. Converts Sierra's SCI0 Adlib instrument patch resources into Adlib Instrument Maker's BNK file format. Allows you to reuse Adlib instruments from other Sierra games (SCI0 - SCI1.1). See included doc for usage.
  
  

• Snd2MIDI - SCI Sound to MIDI Converter by Ravi Iyengar. See included doc for usage. SCI0 only.
  
  

• SndPrf - SCI Sound Resource Profiler by Ravi Iyengar. See included doc for usage.
  
  

• Syx2Pat - by NewRisingSun. Converts an MT-32 custom instrument SysEx file into Sierra's MT-32 instrument patch resource format for use in SCI games. It will also create (with the use of a text file) the 3 text messages that you can have show on your MT-32's LCD display just like Sierra's games did. Works with SCI0 - SCI1.1.
  
  

• SBANK 1.06 - By Jamie O'Connell. Manages SoundBlaster and Adlib instrument files and sound banks. It will translate between .INS, .SBI, InsMaker's .BNK, and Sound Blaster's .IBK files. It will also report instrument names stored in bank files and display musical parameters contained in the instrument definitions. See included doc for usage.

Download

Download from here:

• SCI Sound Tools Pack (ZIP file) [101 KB]

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