PRS PRESENTS:
============

Name:	Audio Compositor v4.1 with 0516 Manufacturer's Bugfix
Date:	05/17/00
Type:	Util
Disks:	01

Info:
====

NOTE: This is not the same as Audio Compositor v4.1 released a few days ago. According
      to the manufacturer's website, there has been a bug in the original version
      which they have fixed as of May 16, 2000. The following quote is taken
      directly from the website (http://home.att.net/~audiocompositor/acdload.htm):

      "Copies of AC 4.1 dated before May 16 (check the date on ac.exe) may crash
      with certain non-default settings on the renderer's "Advanced" tab. If you
      downloaded AC 4.1 before May 16 please get a fresh copy here to correct this bug."

Audio Compositor is:

A MIDI-to-WAV file renderer suitable for professional applications. 
A multitimbral realtime software wavetable synth. 
A sophisticated patch editor which understands SoundFonts, DLS and Kurzweil files,
and Audio Compositor's own powerful instrument bank format. 
A file converter for all of the types listed (Kurzweil is readonly). 
A librarian for your sample collection in .WAV format. 
Audio Compositor is a MIDI file renderer and software wavetable synthesizer, integrated
with a rich graphical environment for editing instrument samples and patches. Audio
Compositor deals easily with very dense scores and extraordinarily large sample
collections, enabling musicians to create, in software, digital recordings that
would otherwise require a very large investment in traditional hardware samplers.

While many Audio Compositor users have created custom sample libraries occupying
hundreds or thousands of megabytes, Audio Compositor also reads ready-made instrument
banks in several popular formats. Download your favorite General MIDI SoundFont from
the Internet, and Audio Compositor instantly becomes a simple player/renderer for
ordinary GM MIDI files. Instrument banks in SoundFont, DLS, Kurzweil, and Audio
Compositor's WAV-based format can be combined and customized using a simple
drag-and-drop interface, then saved again in any of several formats.


Audio Compositor runs on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT.


New in version 4.1
------------------

Audio Compositor 4.1 is nearly identical to version 4.0, but upgrades AC's sonic quality
in two ways. For the technically inclined, the details are: 

A 16-bit bottleneck has been removed from the signal path in the realtime synth. This
provides cleaner output when multiple voices are sounding. The renderer's .wav file
output is not affected (because it didn't suffer from this limitation in the first place).

In both the realtime synth and the .wav file renderer, the internal bus is now dithered
at the final step down to 16-bit output. This can be switched off in the renderer if
you expect to apply further processing to the output. This setting has no effect on
24- or 32-bit output files. 


Setup:
=====
Unpack and run the setup. Run the program, and input the following registration info:
(note: case sensitive)

Name: The Heartbreak Kid
Code: EcUvHCcz

Enjoy.