SNDPlayer

Description: .SND YM2149 music player.
Version: 1.51
Resolutions: Low / Medium / High
Format: PRG
Language: English
Link: https://sndh.atari.org/

File:snd151.zip SND Player v1.51 with a few example songs. 110 kB
File:snd14src.zip Simple .ttp player for SNDH files. With included sourcecode for SNDH header parsing and IRQ setup
File:ssdsnd11.zip Conversion utility for creating SND files from Sid Sound Designer TRI/TVS.
File:sndhconv.zip A set of conversion utilities to convert Sid Sound Designer, Musicmon 2, Triplex, Trisound and xlr8 (including sidvoice!) into SNDH. Made by gwEm.
File:sndpass.zip SoundPass CPX. Utility to redirect Falcon soundsystem. Good if you want to add DSP effects.
File:iphigeny.zip A powerful Falcon soundsystem setup utility. Manages all of the "Soundpass" features plus alot more.
File:sndh110.zip A full featured SNDH-header editor. Implements the SNDH v2 tags.

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About SND Player.

SND Player v1.x is a specialized musicplayer for the 16/32bit Atari computers. SND Player can, as the name suggests, play ".snd" files. These are songs using the YM2149 synthesizer which is fitted to all 16/32 bit Ataris and most Atari clones.

The .snd fileformat is short for "SNDH" which is a unified header and calling method for all types of YM-chipmusic. It means that one single player can replay most synth tunes without having a dozen of different players and calling methods.

So what is this "YM2149 synth" ? Well it is that lovely little chip which is producing the "blipp" and "blopp" sounds in the Ataris. However, the Atari chipmusicans have always tried to push the chip further, beyond it's possibilities. Today, twenty years after the ST was released, new techniques to make nicer sounds from the ST are still arriving, much thanks to the effors of Frank Seemann (Tao/Cream), Frank Lautenbach (Dark Angel/Aura), gwEm and Damo.