Welcome to Sound Studio version 0.2.6.

This is a graphical sound sample editor, with recording and playback
facilities and a built-in graphical mixer, for Linux.  Studio's home
page is:

http://www.elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk/staff/een6njb/Software/Studio/screens.html

It makes extensive use of sox, the sound exchange program, by Lance
Norskog. See

			http://www.spies.com/Sox/

for details.  There is a version of sox supplied with this
package for Linux elf platforms, but you are encouraged to use and
maintain your own version, regarding this one as a fallback in case of
problems.

This is the second version, adopted for Tk4.0. To run this version a
version of TCL 7.4 and Tk4.0 is required on your machine.

There is a version for TCL 7.3 and Tk 3.6 available. This version has
no added features to that version, other than those due to the better
facilities of Tk4.0 and the command line loading explained below.

Written by Paul D. Sharpe 1994-1995, Leeds, UK.

Maintained by Nick Bailey, nick@polonius.demon.co.uk, via the
studio-bug mail list.  To join, send an email to majordomo@leeds.ac.uk
with the body:
			subscribe studio-bug

To leave, send "unsubscribe studio-bug" to the same address.  Send
messages for the list to studio-bug@leeds.ac.uk

To decompress use:
			tar xvzf studio.tgz
This contains 
	1. executable TCL/tk script
	2. source C code for studio components
	3. icons for use in studio.
	4. the on-line help text
	5. the studio post-script manual (zipped).
	6. a compiled version of Sox (Linux patch) and manual page.
	7. the zipped-archive of the sox source.
To compile studio type;

			./install

in the directory containing the studio files. Then edit,if necessary,
the path names in the file named studio.

To run studio, enter the command, studio, from a shell-tool running in
X-windows.  It is also possible to load a file into studio directly
from the commandline, by typing

			studio <filespec>

This will load the file and play it. Thus it should be possible to
configure a web browser to play sound files via. studio.

To uncompress the manual simply type;	 gunzip studio_man.ps.gz

For more details you can access the online documentation, providing
wish is installed, by issuing the command:

			wish StudioHelp

from within the directory containing the studio files.

Patch history:

	a: got rid of silly bug in init.tk (didn't manifest itself on
	   Paul's or my machine!).  Thanks to Jasom Adams.  7/11/96.
	b, c: Sundry nicities (OK, I forgot to update this file! 0%
	   for software engineering!! Nick.)
	d: Addressed major bugs in 16-bit, high sample rate and stereo
	   files.  Patched file.tk and playpanel.tk.        12/9/97.
	   Many thanks to franco@kairos.dibe.unige.it for sending me
	   all the patches to correct my patches, and for contributing
	   quite a few of his own!  I have also hacked edit.tk to make
	   editing work on zoomed windows with 16-bit samples.  Still
	   not sure it's bug-free.  Changes to LOAD array (not yet
	   documented)  See Franco's comments (#FC).  Thanks also to
	   Rich Drews for patch in file.tk to fix avg bug.

	Renamed to version 0.2.4 for sunsite compatibility 1st October
	1997.  

	0.2.5: Another patch from franco to get the program to work with
               newer versions of sox, which apparently don't like the
               -e stat flag.
	       Fixed bugs to do with signed/unsigned tmp files.
	       User can save at different rate after recording

	0.2.6: Fixed broken type/style flags in the effects package
	       so that it works when the loaded sample is something
	       other than unsigned bytes.  14th November 1997. NJB.