Short:        8SVX Sampled Instrument Collection
Uploader:     pete jwgibbs cchem berkeley edu
Type:         mods/smpl
Architecture: generic
Date:         1995.06.27



        8SVX-IFF Instrument Samples from the `Dealer Demo' Discs
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Once, in the Golden Dawn of the Amiga [that'd be late 1985 for you
young 'uns...] Commodore distributed a demo to dealers that showed
off the machine's capabilities; it included an `Instrument' that
used the computer keyboard as `piano' keys, and came with a fair set
of sampled voices.

These samples were in their own idiosyncratic format, but about a
year later Bobby Deen wrote a conversion program (available for example
on aminet) that turned them into 8SVX files.  However, the original
samples may now be a bit hard to come by, so this is a collection of
the 8SVX versions, plus a few converted from a later disc issued
by FAUG.  To the best of my knowledge they are all public domain.
I put it together for my own use with the MusicWeb [mus/midi/MusicWeb.lha]
but they should work with any program that will read 8SVX instruments.

     Banjo        BassDrum      BassGuitar    BongoTom
     Clarinet     Claves        Cymbal        Fiddle
     Flute        FuzzGuitar    GoodPipe      LowGuitar
     PowerChord   Sax           Sitar         Snare
     Strings      Trumpet       Vibes         Whistler
     Zither

All the files are five-octave, most -- except percussion -- have
repeat segments.  All the musical instruments play in the correct key.
(If you consider the Claves "musical", however, they don't seem to be
right...)

Have fun!
                                        Pete Goodeve
                                        pete@jwgibbs.CChem.Berkeley.EDU