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New in alpha 3:

- Have improoved the user interface, Ctrl and Alt are swapped now.
  F4 playes from line now.
- AST won't crash, if you load a WAV with wrong header.
- Samples can be seen in a graphics Window.
- An Osci "shows" you the sound, even Adlib!
- ':' can be entered in the directory config menue (for german users)
- Changed default colors
- Changed default sample settings
- Changed default tune. If you load a "C" tuned sample the output will
  also be a "C" if you press the key for "C"
- Removed some minor graphics bugz.
- Made the interface more "colorful"
- New effects:
  "Cxy": Notecut after y ticks. Value for y: 1-7
  "Uxy": Notecut after 4 ticks + set offset to xy
  "Vxy": Set panning on previous channel to xy
  "Pxy": Set fine offset to xy*8


New in alpha 5:

- "Osci slow down" removed 
- Removed crashdown bug when loading songs with 8 Bit samples
- Cliping is shown in the sample window
- AWE32 Reverb decoded!!!
  The parameters are programmable without blasting your speakers.
- Auto config directories
- osci shown in player window
- updated help file
- Warning message when loading new song when pattern has been edited


New in alpha 7:

- Figured out detailed Reverb parameters, no wrong values can be entered,
  milliseconds of reflections delay are shown.    
  Now eryone should be able to programm the EMU8000 reverb. ;-)
- Current sample is also shown in AWI and SAMPLE screen.
- Shown samples change when editing them.
- Removed chrashdown bug in Trim function.
- Tube Essence, Expander available to process samples dynamics. 
- Looppoints shown in Sample Window.
- Extra Sample Window in AWE32 instruments editor.
- When going from AWE32 to Sample Window the actual sample is tracked
	automatically.
- Photographed my headphones and created a titlegraphic. (hope'u like it!)
- Enhanced optic Style and colors of AST. Delete your Ast.cfg !


New in alpha 8:

- Title graphic can be disabled by entering "Ast NOTILTE" as paremterstring
- "Feilei says:..." ;-)
- Internal Rom samples are shown as "AWE Rom" in the Grafixwin.
- Made handling files easier (deleting sets you not to start of directory)
- Waves are saved into the actual waves directory (shown on bottom left); 
	Hotkey: [Alt]+[s].
- Removed graphics bug with 8-Bit samples.
- Unlinked Samples are shown with "?", linked with "x" and empty ones with " ".
- Waves can be loaded by pressing [ENTER] in the awi screen. New hotkey to
	load an awi is [l].
- Instruments can be deleted by pressing [Del].
- In Song used samples+instruments are marked brighter color than unused ones.
- When moving in pattern cursor skips unimportant coordinates.
- Notes are colored, the unused rest of pattern is shaded; now you got
    a real good overview about your song.
- Changed design again... Delete ast.cfg again... 
- Added How2trak.txt
- [Enter] sets volume, octave and effect to the values of current note.
    New notes will be associated with that values.	
- [.] deletes values form current row.
- Figures [0]-[9] can be entered on top of keyboard.
- "y30" and "^" are automatically set in 1st pattern.
- Destination of channel is shown of top.
- Use the shift key, to mark a pattern.
- [ESC] pop up the menu. Use cursorkeys to move.
- Use [Shift]+[+/-] to set instrumet, value to "i" sets auomaticaly; when
    pressing [F3] instrument is routed.


New in 1.4 release 1:

- Keyboard does not hang in dos after exiting.
- Removed bug in marking of used instruments.
- Prog runs now also on Pentium 300+ CPUs.
- Volume fading [Alt+k] enhanced.
- Interface and graphics fixes.
- Updated How2trak.txt
- Added "Xsamples" directroy
- Menues and ixy effect behave more intelligent.


New in 1.4 release 2:

- Pitch is shown in percentage on Samplewin. 
- Waves can be saved also on AWI-Win.
- Tune is automatically saved and loaded in wave-file.
- New feature: Normalize frequency.
  Resamples data to standart "C".  
  Use this if you work with sampleeditors who do not support non-
  standart samplerates. Attention: Loss of sample data!
- Removed bugs in interface.
- Made Ast faster.
- Kicked asss verrrryyy nasty evil bug when ast played wrong instruments.


New in 1.4 r03:

- [Shift]+[+/-]: increase/decrease value by 4096; useful to make sample one
   octave higher/lower.
- Removed bug with noteoff in Midi
- Samples are overwritten when loading Wavs
- Minor Bug fixes
- Pattern editor behaves more intelligent
- Changed keyboard


New in 1.4 r04:

- Added "Midi.txt" and "samples.txt"
- It is possible to use the Midi also in Win9x. Read midi.txt!
- Removed bugs again & again...
- Improved midi output; Notes are really played when they should be.
  Ast should work correctly also with older synths now.


New in 1.4 r05:

- Midi channel is displayed in tracker
- improved midi controls
- New effect: Shuffle play Wxy


New in 1.4 r06:

- Removed Bug in BPM displayed on screen


New in 1.4 r07:

- Removed "Borland Pascal Pentium Bug" again... ;-)


New in 1.4 r08:

- Groovy: Seperate shuffle effect available for every channel
- Minor changes


New in 1.4.2 beta:

- Completely new and faster player routines
- Fixed Bugz in Midi handling
- Fixed Bugz in Shuffle playing
- Midi resets automaticaly to default values
- Song is followed when playing
- Design and control changes
- Bxy and jxy effect behave more intelligent
- New player window


New in 1.4.3 beta:

- More stability and less bugs
- Optic design and interface changes


New in 1.4.4 beta:

- Removed Bug when Midi Notes "hang"


New in 1.4.5 beta:

- Removed strange exotic Borland-Pascal-Bug with wrong IOresults..?!
  Fact is that no 0-byte AST files are written to harddisc. I hope so at least... 


New in 1.5.0 beta:

- Removed some logic interface bugs and simplyfied handling
- Undo Paste Pattern function
- More info in "Load file" window - date of files is shown; removed bugz
- Changed groove of Song Shuffle effect Wxy for 3/4 rhythms. Works together with
  Channel Shuffle now. Groovy!
- Fixed compatibity of jxy and Bxy effect.
- Fixed graphic bug in song follow mode with patterns longer than 64 rows
- More compact online help
- New effect: Apreggio wxy
- New effect: Tremor Axy, works like notecut, but does no noteoff
- REVOLUTIONARY: Ast 1.5 is the first Tracker with a PITCHSHIFTER!
  You can run up to 15 different Pitchshifters at one time!
  Use effect Pxy.


New in 1.5.2 beta:

- New 8x8 text-graphic mode
- IT3 fonts can be imported (use itf.exe)
- SHIFT-track-marking is working
- AST sends midi-clock signal
- Removed nasty bugs in file-handling (i hope)
- Made handling of tracker easier
- Keyboard hangs not after exit
- Improved MIDI-latency. About -0.003 seconds...;-)
- Channels are "intelligent" auto-sorted by player-routines. 
- Player routines send only really essential midi-data.


New in EMU 8000 Sampler 1.5 r (former AST):

- Midi instrument changes are handled correct
- Removed bug in help-file-memory-allocation
- No more wrong AWE-volumes
- Due to distibutional reasons Ast is called EMU 8000 Sampler now
- In my opinion: The prog RUNS more STABILE !  :)


New in AST EMU 8000 Sampler 1.6 (former EMU 8000 Sampler):

- Colour schemes can be imported, functiones to rotate RGB values
- Ast.cfg can be saved
- AST shows also hidden and readonly directories
- Removed bugs and improved OPL3 menue
- Added support for SGI and SBI instruments
- Smoother display changes
- Added 364 OPL3 instruments to the package
- Added new title graphic. I hope this one is cool enough for you now.
- Prog crashes not saving new songs or AST.CFG
- Prog hangs not after exit to dos
- Removed Bug in Preset directories 

New in AST EMU 8000 Sampler 1.6.2

- Removed bug in midi-instrument changes
- Removed bug in Midi-note-hangs
- Removed bug in directory changes
- Should not crash on some wavs...
- Won't overwrite last row's note on midi-in 
- New effect: Pitch-Wheel portamentoes: Use effect exy and qxy
- New effect: Bank select for Midi: kxy
- New effect: Brightness for Midi: nxy
- New effect: Harmonic content for Midi: oxy
- New: Auto-polyphony-set for midi-in
- Shift[+/-] (instrument quick set) works also on midi

New in AST 1.62final
*** This will probably be the -final- version of AST for DOS ***

- Play from order works again
- Songs are looping again
- Disabled Feilei's "yxx-all-channels-to-instrument-0-setup"
- Color schemes work again
- Help function rebuilt
- Startup screen now works properly.
- Some small Midi-debuggings esp. Midi-In
- ATTENTION: You need a registration keyfile to get AST working. Send an
  email to AST@JAMRAM.DE
- The sucking sampler is disabled for now, since the last stable version
  was in AST ver1.31.
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************************** Feilei says: ***************************************
Thanx go to :

Mad Max (Knack-Max, Butter-Max, Fisch-Max), Roland, Marc Irsch,
Maan M. Hamze, JamRam, Peter Hanuliak, Bubi

Greatinx go to :

Maria (Langbein), Bubi, Odi, MAZ, Petz, Westner, Orgl-Schorsch, Hanslwirth, 
Jens Blomquist, R. Pinna, Peter Hanuliak, boaz neon, subz3ro,
somebody@peyam, Andrei Andrei, Anders Vinje, Jeffrey Lim, Simon, Bradford Allen,
Marcin Stefanski, Jean-Francois Lapierre, Mike Mercator, Espen Oddvik, Maarten Lommers,
Tommy Leivseth, Oskar, Eldwin, saNya, Mikko Hyyrylainen, Dac Chartrand, Kevin Grupp,
Bas van Ekkendonk, ML, Fabrice Duhem, Reverb Rick, Nevatie Niko, Slamgabba, Nir Bittan,
nico bellera, David Redman, Alex D, Stevie, Slickers, Dokter Omer Baute, David Dohnal,
Luca, L.Lostak, Mike Wolniak, L. Svoboda, andyi, Anders Vinje, bob szczaw, Kenneth van
Velthoven, James Tilberg, Carlos Rey Conejero, L. Lostak, Firoz Adam, Pablo Mayo Sanz,
Juan Carlos Muro, Bruno Thierry, Cris Craig, Rnurnb, Breakthru, codehead, Jim Mitchell,
Andreas Back, Twin Speakers, Emilio, Uwe, Ricardo Cassolatto, Nargila99, Michael Karam,
Miklos Marschall, Montini and all other Phreax!
...and i still ask myself, why i never met a female tracker...

And of course: --- Cagliostro ---

...if you can't find you here, you should mail me at feilei@bnro.de

************************** JamRam says: ***************************************
Thanx to: Hackix, JdGiGa, jocca

Greatinx and saludos to: Feilei (...ist irgendwie der selbstzweck, oder? ;-) ),
Cagliostro (are you still alive?), scravor (vielleicht schaff ichs ja doch!),
destro64 (du schaffst das auch), hackix (lass ma wieder was h„cken!), fana-
ticoon (erst sylt, jetzt weimar, wann sieht man sich mal wieder...), MIDY,
hanz petrov, slap, neumi, timmsen, drdemouth (wir sehn uns ja auch in wedel),
annie (ein blumenkuss), lesky (hdgdl), fredini (ja, ich bin dran mit anrufen),
jocca (alles wird gut), Maan M. Hamze, ACat, djsmoerebroed (eigentlich wollte
ich dir schon immer mal was sagen... schade auch), andrei ioncica, 
...and everybody who sends mailbombs, because i could have forgotten him/her. 
;-)

...why not me? jamram@jamram.de