Anyone remember SoundRaider?

http://www.andyw.com/ow.asp?SoundRaider

I found it to be an AMAZING sound design tool.

The problem is, it worked great on Windows 95! Every other OS crashes it. Anyone know of anything close to it that would work on Win 2k or XP?

Alex

Sound Raider was one of those "secret weapon" type tools for me -- I used to keep an old laptop running 98SE for the ONLY reason that it could run it!!! I love that app so much!!

I have been so disappointed to never see a new "XP-compatible" version. But wow, I used to get so much cool stuff using that... Such crazy mangling and time and pitch shifting... Sure, it's nothing you couldn't do yourself if you took the time, but that's the point -- it did it FOR you!! Just crank it up and then sit back and wait for the cool noizes!!

Sure wish we could find a new version...



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So, now I know what I can do with that computer I found AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD! 98SE running Raider 24 / 7. Load that baby up with BBC Sound fx Librarys and anything else I can think of. Seems like one could make an updated version of it with a small effort. Secret weapon indeed!

You might be able to get it running in XP/2000 using Microsoft Virtual PC - free 45-day trial version here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=360cafd6-5098 -4c64-9ca7-a30f225859f6&DisplayLang=en

Not sure what the performance would be like though... if you try this, you should definitely investigate the settings that let you adjust VPCs CPU usage.

I've never heard of Sound Raider before. How does it handle large sound files (like mp3 songs) - it doesn't play the whole file, surely...?

that recent little toy that arguru posted is vaguely similar (and great fun in its own right and runs on XP) ...

... forum search technomaker (i think)

slainte rob

Well, I did load up that computer with win 98 (not SE) and there is still the same crash problem. You can see the ram 'loading' meter get close to it's limit (in this computers case 256) and then it shuts down. Only Raider is installed. Perhaps the problem is there are just to many large samples (BBC fx). I also recall in my deep research of Raider that one should not select ASIO drivers with the soundcard. Technomaker sounds interesting but not quite as bizarrely wacked out of this world as Raider.

I think it only selects 16 bit wav files. No mp3's. I'm also unsure if it plays a whole 2 minutes or so of longer files.

lexo wrote:

that would work on Win 2k or XP?

FYI it runs on my w2k system.

great tool, thx for mentioning it.

...and now it crashed

lexo wrote:

The problem is, it worked great on Windows 95! Every other OS crashes it. Anyone know of anything close to it that would work on Win 2k or XP?

Have you tried running it in 95 compatability mode?

Just right click on the exe file, and select Properties / Compatability.

Worth a shot.

dont think its an OS issue ... looks like a memory thing ...

... it ran and scanned for audio for a good 5 minutes here on XP pro then just quit

slainte rob

The thing is when I had it working on a 98 / 95 machine with 64 megs it worked like a champ. Now that I try it on 2k / XP with 1 gig of ram it crashes.

I will try the 95 compatablity right click thing. Thanks.