CONVERT v1.3B, (c) 1994, Jesus Villena : jvillena@dsic.upv.es
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**Forth Revision  : 3 New formats added and others enhaced.
		    SBK filter supports Vienna and adds many new possibilities.
		    SBK files now can contain stereo files.
	  	    New and great loop conversion (bidi to forward).
		    New switch added to reduce some clicks at the end of PAT.
		    Now you can Save in Ensoniq (INS) and Yamaha TX16W (TXW).

***Third Revision : 13 New formats added, including SBK (SoundBlaster AWE32)!!
                    Some formats improved (S3M,ULT,MOD,IFF)
                    New Switches added to force mono and 8 bits conversion

***Second Revision: New formats added (Ensoniq keyboards, including ASR-10)
                    Kurzweil K2000 file format added.
                    Some useful utilities have been incorporated.
   
Convert is a tool which traslate samples among varios instrument, musical
and sample file formats, including the Ultrasound PAT format and the new
EMU SoundFont Bank used in the SoundBlaster AWE32 card.

It is easy to use and very powerful. It serves as
an universal utility for interchanging samples between different applications
and computers (support for varios Amiga, Apple, Next and Sun formats), and
for extracting high quality instrument waveforms from some of best professional
samplers (Ensoniq, Yamaha, Roland, Kurzweil).

The formats which Convert works in this version are the following:

        669         669 Tracker Module
        AIFF        Audio Interchange Format File (AIFF)
        AU          Sun/Next Audio File
        DMF         Delusion Digital Music File
        DSF         Delusion Digital Sound File
        DSM         Digital Sound Module
        FAR         Farandole Composer Module
        FSM         Farandole Composer WaveSample
        F2R         Farandole Linear Module
        F3R         Farandole Blocked Linear Module
        GKH, ED?    Ensoniq Disk Image (VFX, SD, EPS, ASR, TS)
        IFF         Interchange Format File (IFF)
        INS, EF?    Ensoniq Instrument File
        KRZ         Kurzweil K2000 File
        MED         MED/OctaMED Module
        MOD         Protracker/Fastracker/Startrekker Module
        MTM         MultiTracker Module
        OKT         Oktalizer Module
        PAC         SBStudio II Package or Song
        PAT         Gravis Ultrasound Patch
        PSM         Protracker Studio Module
        RAW         PCM Signed Raw Sound File
        SBK         Emu SoundFont Bank (AWE32 Bank)
        SDK         Roland S-550/S-50/W-30 Disk Image
        SDS         MIDI Sample DUMP Standard File
        SDX         Sample DUMP Exchange File
        SF          IRCAM Sound File"
        SMP         Samplevision File
        SND         PCM Unsigned Raw Sound File
        SOU         SBStudio II Sound File
        STM         Scream Tracker 1 & 2
        S3I, SMP    Digiplayer/ST3 Sample File
        S3M         Scream Tracker v3 Module
        TXW         Yamaha TX-16W Wave File
        ULT         UltraTracker Module
        UNI         UNIMOD Module
        UWF         UltraTracker WaveSample
        VOC         Creative Lab's Sound File
        WAV         Microsoft Windows RIFF WAVE

More formats will be supported by future versions. Please, contribute and
send me descriptions or files of some format you have.

New e-mail address: usufi4@finf.upv.es
