This FAQ was compiled by Pierre Gander (pierregander@hotmail.com), from the TX16W mailing list and from my own experience (I've owned Typhoon since December 1993). Thanks to everyone on the list for their contributions. Some parts of this FAQ was simply copied from the TX16W FAQ created by Mark Lakata (lakata@nsdssp.lbl.gov). Also thanks to Magnus Lidström (cucumber@stacken.kth.se) for details about Typhoon.
Suggestions, corrections or comments to this FAQ are very welcome.
The latest version of this FAQ can be found at http://www.pierregander.com/typhoon/.
(Note: the old archives rydnet-gw.lysator.liu.se and ftp.informatik.uni-freiburg.de are obsolete.)
You can also load samples in AIFF format directly into Typhoon. AIFF-samples are available at many places on the Internet.
You can also use the old Yamaha waves, but the Setups, Performances and Voices have to be remade in Typhoon (which is quick and easy) or be converted using some of the software converters available (see the section Software.)
The archive has been put onto CD ROM by Steven Selick (smselick@styx.ios.com). Here's what he said in two mails to the people of the TX16W mailing list:
Subject: Now taking CD Orders! Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:27:34 -0500 (EST) Hi All! I'm ready to start taking orders for the TX-16w CD-Rom discs! I do not plan to make money on this project. I am charging $15 US for the disc including shipping & handling within the local US. I make no guarantee that the disc will work, but I have seen it read on a PC (NT, and Win95), an Atari ST (Extendos and Toshiba drive), Unix, and VMS machines. The disc I am making is an ISO-9660 standard disc based on the archive as of a few days ago. It will include a tar file of the original archive with long filenames, etc. Please mail a check made out to me (Steve Selick) for $15 US (let's say, $20 for outside the continental US should cover it - please send an international money order) and include your return address in the letter. There is no need to e-mail me - just send snail-mail. I will cash your check approximately 3 days after I mail the disc to you to allow for shipping time. Send to: Steven Selick 515 Mount Prospect Ave #12C North Newark, NJ 07104 U.S.A I look forward to hearing from you! -Steve Subject: Cd's and money orders Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:21:20 -0500 (EST) Hi! Just wanted to let you international people know that it is fine with me to have you send me US cash if you like. Just realize that I can't be held responsable for it not making it here. No reason this should cost any more than it absolutely has to. Also, I will send up to 3 discs for the same shipping charge, so international people can pay $20 for one, $35 for 2, $50 for 3 instead of $20, $40, $60. Hope that helps some people out! -Steve P.S. Please leave a note in there telling me what you are paying for, and be sure to include the return address!
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 17:45:10 +0200 From: mpakesch@t0.or.at (muki pakesch) . . . i've test-compiled it on a sgi (R4400) it works as promised :-)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:02:21 +0100 From: muki pakesch (mpakesch@t0.or.at) Subject: typ2yam for BE . . . well, i've successfully compiled typ2yam (the typhoon to yamaha sample converter) and krz2tx (the kurweil sample stealer) for.....hold your breath ;-).....the Be OS! :-) so for anybody of you having a BeBox or a PowerMac with BeOS point your browser to: ftp://ftp.t0.or.at/pub/sound/tx16w/util/be/typ2yam.tar.gz and ftp://ftp.t0.or.at/pub/sound/tx16w/util/be/krz2tx.tar.gz just ungnuzip, untar the files, put 'em in the /bin directory and you're ready to go :-) for typ2yam i also included a small bash-script which will batch-convert all typhoon samples in the given directory i've also tried to port sox, sdx2tx and vortex.c but unfortunately to no avail yet... cheers, muki
BASIC IBM version contains
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:24:15 +0000 From: Brahim HAMADICHAREF (brahim@rome.cis.plym.ac.uk) Subject: Re: WinVortex (Win95/NT) Beta Testers required Hi all ! A new version of WinVortex is available (same place) Now WinVortex will tell you when it can not read Yamaha setup/perf/voice/Timbre/Wave Yamaha or write typhoon setup/perf/voice. Future version will include destination path (so that will save on floppy ...) and description.readme will become - wave.readme - setup.readme I will add some checkbox for that ... I tried it with Fanta and it seems ok. Test feedback appreciated. -- Brahim [brahim@cis.plym.ac.uk] http://www.cis.plym.ac.uk/cis/brahim/
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:50:06 +0100 From: Brahim HAMADICHAREF (brahim@rome.cis.plym.ac.uk) Subject: TX16WConverter (Win95/NT) Beta Testers required Hi all ! TX16WConverter is a convertion tool under Win95/NT for all the PC / TX16W users. TX16WConverter is free. A nice postcard with a collection stamp would be appreciated :-) ... From 30/04/98 TX16WConverter can load - TX16W Yamaha Wave (no loop) - TX16W Typhoon Wave - PC WAV file (8-16bits) - Atari AVR files (8-16bits, signed/unsigned) - Sun/Next SND-AU files (16 only) and it can save to - TX16W Yamaha wave (no loop) - PC WAV file (16 always) - Atari AVR files (16 always) and it can play WAV files TX16WConverter can be found under http://www.cis.plym.ac.uk/cis/brahim/tx16w/download/ /////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // TODO - Load/Save AIFF files - Sampling rate conversion - Stereo-Mono mangement - Internet access (download from TX16W Ftp archive) - Dump through MIDI port - batch conversion - Search and catalogue functions to see what files you have on your disks. Feedback would be appreciated, any suggestions and bug report should be directly send to me. TX16WConverter has only been tested under NT. Please try it under Win95 (it's a Win32 build so it should not be any problems). I hope TX16WConverter will make your life easier. Happy convertion ! -- Brahim email: brahim@cis.plym.ac.uk http://www.cis.plym.ac.uk/cis/brahim/
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:01:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Ewan A. Macpherson" (MACPHERSON@Waisman.Wisc.Edu) Subject: Sample extractor program (Windows) I thought TX-folk might be interested in the sample extractor program available at http://www.nada.kth.se/~f93-maj/fmjsoft.html. It will read samples from many formats and extract them from EPS disk image files, Kurzweil files etc. It only saves in a few formats, but one is AIFF, so Typhoon users may find this useful. I played with it a little over the weekend and it converted a Yamaha wave to .WAV without problems (although I did have to change the filename to .TXW - format is tied to file extension). . . .Also, available in the TX16W archive as ftp://ftp.t0.or.at/pub/sound/tx16w/util/ibmpc/awave301.zip
SndConv imports: TX16W Yamaha *.wxx, TX16W Typhoon *.c01, aiff, wav, snd resource, SampleVision, 8SVX, VOC, AU, MOD, RAW signed/unsigned. It exports: TX16W Yamaha *.wxx, aiff, wav, snd resource, SampleVision, 8SVX, VOC, AU, MOD, RAW signed/unsigned.
SndConv is the only dedicated tx16w file converter for the MacOS.
Available at:
ftp://ftp.t0.or.at/pub/sound/tx16w/util/mac/SndConv.sit.bin
ftp://ftp.t0.or.at/pub/sound/tx16w/util/mac/SndConv.sit.hqx