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
                                        petejwgibbs.CChem.Berkeley.EDU

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                24615   31872  77.2% -lh5- 775c Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Banjo
[generic]                 2877    3354  85.8% -lh5- 81e2 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/BassDrum
[generic]                 9896   13520  73.2% -lh5- 7759 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/BassGuitar
[generic]                19764   31874  62.0% -lh5- 14a8 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/BongoTom
[generic]                23789   31872  74.6% -lh5- c09c Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Clarinet
[generic]                 4993    7816  63.9% -lh5- 9ad7 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Claves
[generic]                23742   31624  75.1% -lh5- 4cbc Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Cymbal
[generic]                 6464    6824  94.7% -lh5- 1935 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Fiddle
[generic]                23502   26664  88.1% -lh5- 16b7 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Flute
[generic]                21137   23690  89.2% -lh5- c2b4 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/FuzzGuitar
[generic]                 5026    5338  94.2% -lh5- 54a8 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/GoodPipe
[generic]                21215   31874  66.6% -lh5- eea2 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/LowGuitar
[generic]                18924   24926  75.9% -lh5- 03ff Nov 18  1992 Instruments/PowerChord
[generic]                  720    1329  54.2% -lh5- 6eb2 Jun 26  1995 Instruments/README
[generic]                24981   29886  83.6% -lh5- 842e Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Sax
[generic]                28995   31872  91.0% -lh5- b10d Apr 30  1994 Instruments/Sitar
[generic]                15627   19472  80.3% -lh5- ea2f Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Snare
[generic]                28167   31872  88.4% -lh5- 384e Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Strings
[generic]                16419   22450  73.1% -lh5- cbd0 Oct 25  1993 Instruments/Trumpet
[generic]                12755   15008  85.0% -lh5- e7d5 Nov 18  1992 Instruments/Vibes
[generic]                17932   21954  81.7% -lh5- 2d8f Apr 30  1994 Instruments/Whistler
[generic]                24123   27160  88.8% -lh5- acf7 Apr 30  1994 Instruments/Zither
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 Total        22 files  375663  472251  79.5%            Jun 29  1995