BASE

The 'light' version of Base is basically just an echo-machine, but don't be deceived by this: once you've heard a Base-enhanced SID-tune, you'll never want to play one without it!

Base has 5 different echo-modes with adjustable delay and feedback:

• stereo
  each channel has its own echo. Use this to simply add that extra touch to the music.
  
• cross
  An echo of the left channel is audible on the right, and vice versa, but the echos do not bounce between channels. Use this to play Jean Michel Jarre's "Arpeggiator"
  
• ping-pong:
  echo's bounce back and forth between channels. Use this to create the illusion of a large hall.
  
• spatial
  phase inverted stereo echo. Most useful when you have a mono signal played in stereo. Use BeMikMod set to MONO to test this, and you'll see that stereo, cross and ping-pong have no effect, but spatial will bring a stereo-effect back into the sound.
  
• mono
  mono echo. Some people prefer it simple...
  

In addition to this, you can request that Base apply a low pass filter to the echo's. This is mostly useful for very short echo-delays, when the unfiltered sound starts to sound "metallic". The filter is applied only to the echo's, the original signal is not affected. Note: Base assumes it is running on a 16 bit stereo big endian audio stream. It will also work with 16 bit mono big endian streams if you only use 'stereo' mode. (it is harmless to use the other modes, but sound will be suboptimal) Base will not function properly on 8 bit or little endian streams.

History:

version 1.3

• recompiled to use layoutlib
• fixed windowtitle
• added 'cross' echo mode

version 1.2

• window position is now checked against screensize to prevent off-screen windows.

version 1.1

• optionally accepts first click in window
• optionally saves settings on exit

version 1.0

• initial release