SAWClassic

©Copyright 1993 Bob Lentini

SAW is a professional production tool for manipulating and crafting audio on your PC computer using the Windows™ Operating System.

The SAW System allows you to record and edit 16 Bit Resolution CD and DAT quality SoundFiles at sampling frequencies up to 48KHz on your computer’s hard drive with ease. The elegance of the Workshop’s design offers unmatched efficiency in taking a project from conception to completion.

Can you splice on your DAT? No…It’s back to the Reel to Reel for that, and oh, that tape hiss… and worse… the dreaded razor blade. SAW allows you to splice audio data Non-Destructively by building Play Sequences from marked Regions of data without modifying the original SoundFiles directly. SAW gives you the capability to perform your splices with Down-To-The-Sample accuracy. That’s 1/48000 of a second at 48KHz Sampling rate.

Easily create multiple versions of a production and compare them instantly with the click of the mouse. All this is done without leaving the Digital Domain, which translates to higher quality, noise-free final products.

SAW creates the 8 tracks in Software and digitally combines them into a Stereo Output which plays through 1 Windows™ compatible sound card. Many industry leaders said the PC wasn’t fast enough to support such a scheme, but SAW’s extensive use of 386 32Bit-Register Assembly Language coding has made it possible.

SAW gives you 4 Stereo Tracks which can be overlaid and played back in RealTime, allowing you to Non-Destructively build productions that other Editors can’t begin to tackle!

A 4-Channel OnScreen Mixer gives you Non-Destructive programmable mixing control down to Sample Accuracy.

With SAW you can Easily:

*Overlay Vocals On Music Beds

*Add Sound-Effects To Existing Productions

*Draw In Custom Cross fades From One Track To Another

*Assemble and Master Complete Album Projects. And do it all Non-Destructively!

Since SAW allows you to edit across 40 SoundFiles at once in the same editing session, you can mix and blend sounds from pre-categorized libraries or easily assemble that perfect solo from many different musical takes.

The MultiTrack View allows you to place and drag Regions of audio to any position within the production, relative to the other tracks. This means you can control musical phrasing long after the original recording has been made. This also means you can easily create delay and flanging effects by placing the same Regions on two different tracks and sliding one slightly behind the other, alI Non-Destructively.

Digital Pitch Shifting is usually a process whereby samples of the original Waveform are removed or duplicated to cause the pitch of the audio to be altered. A process whereby the original Waveform is so distorted as to render its use intolerable by anyone with the slightest degree of audio integrity. And a process which usually lakes so long to complete its task, that many have gone to lunch while waiting. If you are familiar with this experience, you are in for a treat with SAW!

SAW performs Vari-Pitching, to tenths of a semitone accuracy, without removing or duplicating any Waveform samples. This is done in 386 32Bit-Register Assembly Language so the results are incredibly fast and remarkable to listen to.

No Audio Glitches, Hiccups, or noticeable distortion, and you don’t have to go to lunch while waiting