SoundFX V4.2
Changes since the previous version


- Stable as never before.
- Extensively tested also on emulated systems: WinUAE, AmigaXL and Amithlon.


NEW FEATURES

- Significant internal changes made in order to allow advanced features (like
  realtime processing) in the future.

- The ARexx port has been completely rewritten. It is now almost 100% faster.

- New operator: a 3-band parametric equalizer.

- Apart from whole samples, sample ranges can now be saved as well.

- All sample-windows have two new gadgets in the title bar. One hides the window,
  the other displays the Sample Options local menu (useful for people who do not
  have a 3-button mouse). These features require Massimo Tantignone's titlebar.image.

- Now there are altogether three ways to hide the sample-window: the 'Box' button
  in the toolbar, the Hide gadget in the window title bar, and the local menu.

- SoundFX can display "Tips of the Day" at startup. OS3.5+ (or an older system
  with ClassAct installed) is recommended for this feature.

- You can get to SoundFX's homepage at www.sonicpulse.de and e-mail the author
  directly from within the program: see the Help menu. This feature requires
  openurl.library installed and configured properly.

- New About-window gives extensive information about the program and the system.
  This feature requires Richard Koerber's identify.library.

- The quality of the Hall operator has been improved.

- New Utility menu with functions for manipulation with sample data (sign and
  byte-order switching, channel interleaving and deinterleaving).

- New functions for preference handling (see Prefs menu).

- When calculating the maximum sample volume (Amplify operator) a progress-bar
  is now used, as this operation can take a long time with large samples
  (like CD tracks).



BUG FIXES

- Switching the loop on/off in the Sample Options window did not update the Loop
  item in the local menu.

- Pressing Start in the CDDA loader caused a GURU if there were no CD tracks found.
  The button is now deactivated in such a case.

- The saver preference window allowed saving even when no samples were loaded,
  which of course caused a hang-up.

- SoundFX now displays a message if no plugins are found at startup.

- Going to AHI preferences would cause a GURU if the ahi.device was not installed.

- SoundFX would freeze if you started it from CLI with one- or two-character
  arguments (like 'SoundFX ?' for example). This rather mysterious bug was caused
  by a compiler option.

- Switching the sample storage from RAM to virtual memory and back to RAM would
  corrupt the sample data.

- Zooming has been optimized.

- Many long-standing bugs in the virtual memory engine have been removed.

- Cleared a lot of deadwood in the code. Many functions have been rewritten.

- Corrected a number of English misspellings here and there.



SUPPORT

- There is a new bugtracker suite at http://www.sonicpulse.de/phpbt/ for reporting
  bugs and submitting feature requests.

- The HTML documentation has been extended and updated.

- Documentation now available also in PDF and PostScript formats.