I just got the developer's kit for the SoundBlaster so I can fill
in some holes in the CMF File Format. - John
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Creative Voice File (VOC) Format:
HEADER (bytes 00-19)
Series of DATA BLOCKS (bytes 1A+) [Must end w/ Terminator Block]
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HEADER:
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byte # Description
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00-12 Creative Voice File
13-15 1A 1A 00 (eof to abort printing of file)
16-17 Version number (minor,major) (VOC-HDR puts 0A 01)
18-19 2's Comp of Ver. # + 1234h (VOC-HDR puts 29 11)
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DATA BLOCK:
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Data Block: TYPE(1-byte), SIZE(3-bytes), INFO(0+ bytes)
NOTE: Terminator Block is an exception -- it has only the TYPE byte.
TYPE Description Size (3-byte int) Info
---- ----------- ----------------- -----------------------
00 Terminator (NONE) (NONE)
01 Sound data 2+length of data *
02 Sound continue length of data Voice Data
03 Silence 3 **
04 Marker 2 Marker# (2 bytes)
05 ASCII length of string null terminated string
06 Repeat 2 Count# (2 bytes)
07 End repeat 0 (NONE)
*Sound Info Format: **Silence Info Format:
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00 Sample Rate 00-01 Length of silence - 1
01 Compression Type 02 Sample Rate
02+ Voice Data
Marker# -- Driver keeps the most recent marker in a status byte
Count# -- Number of repetitions + 1
Count# may be 1 to FFFE for 0 - FFFD repetitions
or FFFF for endless repetitions
Sample Rate -- SR byte = 256-(1000000/sample_rate)
Length of silence -- in units of sampling cycle
Compression Type -- of voice data
8-bits = 0
4-bits = 1
2.6-bits = 2
2-bits = 3
Multi DAC = 3+(# of channels) [interesting--
this isn't in the developer's manual]