1.29b
Custom file filters (WAV, VOC, PCM, and AIFF currently). See File Filters API to build your own!
1.29a
Selectable wave devices (handles multiple sound cards).
1.29
Edit Left/Edit Right for cutting, pasting, and copying only one channel of a stereo wave.
Adjust sample rate added.
1.28c
Equalizer changed to Quick Filter, since FFT Filter does true, precise filtering.
Graphs have more flexibility with points.
Cue ranges can be associated with keyboard keys, so waves can be played from the keyboard.
1.28a
Spectral View and FFT filtering added.
1.28
File -> Close added.
Customizable presets added to a variety of wave functions.
1.27
Double-clicking on slider bar allows entry of starting and ending samples.
Pre-compute trig tables added to Settings.
Undo function added.
Versions 1.03 to 1.26
Cool Edit is sizeable. You can make your window big or little or whatever.
Wave files may be Dropped into the editor from the File Manager, or other applications supporting Drag and Drop.
New Instance added to File Menu
Added automatic conversion of 16-bit audio to 8-bit while playing for boards that do not support 16-bit audio.
Fixed a major bug having to do with the progress meter. You can now go on to do other things while Cool works in the background on
long operations.
Fixed an annoying bug when working with large files that caused the green slider to work inappropriately.
When opening multiple instances of the same wave, different names are given to each instance.
New and Improved Pink noise source. (Ideal for use with the Wave function).
Cue list and Play list supported for looping and custom play order.
New Setting for viewing mode of Dots (original) or Lines (dots of sample are connected by lines).
Digital Delay transformation added to easily spatially locate sounds to the left or right, or for special effects.
New settings option for Save/Save As interpretation of the diskette icon.
Are You Sure? Dialog box added to Silence button.
New waves can be made at any valid sampling rate, by use of the new Custom option.
DC Bias Filter added to Amplify to adjust waves skewed by a voltage.
CD Player has been added to play CD's for recording. Song titles may also be entered and restored automatically on future playbacks.
Brainwave frequency (Wave) function has adjustable graph for easier input of multiple frequencies over time.
Sound Blaster VOC file compatibility was added. Not FULL capability yet, because it does not support loops (it only loads the loop
once), and ASCII text. It does however support Sound Blaster Pro formats for 44.1 KHz-mono and 22 KHz-stereo. It will also load
non-standard sample rates if the VOC file was recorded at one.
Echo Equalizer added to Echo function to have each successive echo equalized for truer echo effects, or just snazzy special effects.
The Listen option was added to the music dialog so that the notes could be played through your MIDI setup as a preview. You can
record from the music played as well (if your board supports recording from the on-board synth.)
Envelope option was added to have more control over amplifying waves by using an amplification envelope.
A few new tone flavors have been added for making more natural sounding instrument sounds, which can be used with the Music option.
New options in settings dialog for play/record buffer size, and highlighting after pasting.
Color DIBs can be added to the .WAV file format.
Equalizer settings changed to decibels instead of percentages, making it easier to equalize, since the logarithmic scale is more natural.
Monitor Source meter is in much better real time since it now does not depend on the selected buffer size.
Versions 0.5 to 1.02
New algorithm implemented for raising/lowering pitches, and speeding up/slowing down waves.
Preset buttons added to Stretch dialog.
Highlighting is faster for slower video cards.
You can use the Shift+Mouse Button to extend the highlighted selection.
Music option was added to put your favorite samples to music (as if you were playing them on a keyboard) using a very easy to use
music editor. Only short riffs are supported right now.
Stretching is cleaner sounding.
The Transpose function has been added to the Stretch option to musically raise or lower pitches of selected samples.
A linked list approach has been taken for working with the temporary disk file when editing. Now Inserts and Deletes are almost
instantaneous when working with very large files.(Fixed cut/paste bug from 1.01)
The RAW file format was added for saving only the wave data without any headers.
Edit keys Delete (Delete Wave Selection), Ctrl+Insert (Insert), Shift+Insert (Copy) and Shift+Delete (Paste) were added.
Toolbar was added for quicker access to functions.
The previous Save menu item was changed to Save As, and a new Save was added to save the wave currently being worked on without
being asked for the file name.
The Silence option was added to the Transform menu to quickly silence the selection portion.
Extra RIFF information embedded in the .WAV file is now remembered between saves, and can be edited using the Info dialog.
MS ADPCM Compression is supported for loading and saving compressed files now.
A slight bug in overlapping was fixed. Overlap pasting past the end of a wave that used to be longer would revive data past the end of
file.
The Stretch transformation was added to allow stretching and compressing of waves, adjusting pitches, or adjusting tempos.
Viewing mode of the Beginning and Ending samples, as well as the time window (which displays how long the viewed portion of the
sample is, or how long the selection is) can be changed between samples and time by double clicking on the display.
Generating silence in 8-bit mode works properly now, centering the silence line at value 128.
You may now associate the COOL.EXE program with .WAV files in the file manager.
Command line loading works. File will automatically play once loaded if another file is not already playing.
Little Yellow Arrows work on files larger than 30,000,000 samples.
Gliding waves from one frequency to another "overshot" before. For example, gliding from 12Hz down to 7Hz would actually glide down
twice the frequency, (instead of -5Hz, -10Hz) resulting in a glide from 12Hz down to 2Hz instead. It's fixed now.
Multiple COOL's can be opened at once (which reduced the executable as well) for working with multiple waves at once. It's very easy
to copy and paste between waves, even of different formats.
Also, waveform display is instantaneous once loaded in (for example, restoring a minimized long waveform displays instantly instead of
recalculating). This allows such effects as the sound level meter running while zooming in and out of a waveform.
Displaying long waveforms now "multitasks" with Windows, so other things can be done while it is loading.
The progress meter was fixed slightly to allow multitasking with other applications without crashing Windows.
When saving a file, the extension .WAV is assumed if no extension is typed.
8-bit stereo pasting (with Overlap) works properly now (slight bug caused screeching problems). Also, overlap pasting past end of file
works properly too.
A "Musical Source" checkbox was added to the brainwave transformation to eliminate clicks heard when waving musical files.
A Recording level meter was added. Source input can be monitored through the Options menu for setting recording levels.
Lifting up on button after dragging a selection (and leaving the main window) will now act properly, and disengage the selection process
Recording to Sound Blaster Pro works properly. It no longer gives errors and chops up recording. In fact, using COOL to record does a
much nicer job than the recorder program provided with most sound cards, and there are no "clicks" or other distractions to contend
with.
Using "Large Fonts" on some monitors correctly displays main console, as well as progress meter now.
Thanks go out to:
Bob Ellison, Staffan Berger, Curtis Palmer, Dan Black, Darrell Plank, David Norris, Duane Young, Geoffrey Tilga, Gordon Currie, Harry
C. Koons, James Blackwell, Jarrod Beckman, Mike Rozak, Neil St. Laurent, Randy Omel, Richard Pepin, Ron McCabe, Ronald
Mendoza, Stan Eker, Ted Tatman, Todd Frye and Will Urban.
Other Cool Fans who made suggestions and found bugs here and there.
Other Acknowledgments
Cool Edit uses Microsoft Corporation's CTL3D.DLL dialog library, which Microsoft has agreed is a publicly available library and can be
used without restrictions. Please note that Microsoft does not support this program in any way, and are not liable for anything that may
happen.
All format types have been reproduced from publicly available documentation. Syntrillium Software makes no claims that they are in
any way correct, so they may not be compatible with other interpretations of the same format. It is up to you to first test to make sure
that when saving audio files in a particular format, the file generated is compatible with other systems that read the same format.
What Does the Future Hold?
We plan to keep on upgrading Cool Edit, making it more easy to use and useful to more people. We have definite plans for the next
version and we are sure you'll like it! As always, suggestions are welcome.
