A Word About Sound Bridge - Alesis QuadraSynth Plus Reference Manual

Setting Up: Chapter 1

A Word About Sound Bridge

Included with the QuadraSynth Plus is a 3-1/2" floppy disk containing a
software program called Sound Bridge. This software has been provided free of
charge in an effort to promote sound design for the QuadraSynth Plus.
Sound Bridge is a Macintosh™ sound development utility which compiles
custom samples from a variety of sources into the QuadraSynth Voice format,
and downloads the compiled data to an Alesis PCMCIA Sound Card via MIDI
Sysex to a QuadraSynth Plus or S4 Plus. Originally developed for in-house use
only, Alesis soon realized the need for individuals and sound developers to be
able to burn their own Sound Cards as well, using whatever samples they
wanted. Sound Bridge makes this possible without having a PCMCIA card
burner attached to your computer. All you need is a QuadraSynth Plus or S4
Plus.
Sound Bridge creates a QuadraSynth Voice (multi-sample) by loading Sample
Cell I or Sample Cell II format Instrument files. Using this format, Sound Bridge
is able to determine key group and velocity group split points, root notes, sample
playback rates, tunings, start points, loop points, and loop tunings. Sound Bridge
can also create QuadraSynth Voices without Sample Cell Instruments by loading
single AIFF, Sound Designer, or Sound Designer II files.
Sound Bridge does NOT require Sample Cell hardware. The Sample Cell
Instrument file, or sample file, may be loaded directly into Sound Bridge from
any disk (i.e. CD-ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.). For example, a user may
load data from a Sample Cell CD-ROM, and send this data to the QuadraSynth
PCMCIA Card, without ever using Sample Cell!
Sound Bridge can write to PCMCIA cards (or PC Cards) of up to 8MB in size.
These cards must be either Type I SRAM (150ns or faster) or Type I Flash RAM
cards (AMD C-series or D-series 5V Flash Memory Cards). If you are unsure
whether a card is compatible with the S4 Plus, contact Alesis Product Support for
more information.
The Sound Bridge disk contains the Sound Bridge application, and an electronic
manual which will give you all the information you need to know to run Sound
Bridge.
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