Thank you *VERY* much for the compliments, Ziad, Samer, and Eddy !!!

I would love to get these sounds out to all of you via e-mail, but my e-mail does not support large attachments!!! So, I think the best way to send them out is by all of us getting on MSN, Yahoo, or AOL messanger. Then I can just do a direct file transfer.

Here's all my messanging information, most of the time, I am on either AOL or MSN.

AOL: HyperAG
MSN: aboudghazi@hotmail.com
Yahoo: aboudg

And now, here's some answers to some of your questions:

Eddy - I can get into all the complications and details of how the deed was done, but I can write pages about that! Let me just sum it up, to cure your curiosity.

I did not use any sound editor of any kind. There is NO sound editor available that can open a file type SND, or even emulate to open it as a WAV and get you the proper samples. Not possible, because all of the header information stored in the SND file's first 2K of bytes or so is specific only to that SND format. In addition, the sampling rate on every sample is dynamic (differs), and on a WAVE file, you typically have a fixed sample rate. That would explain your out-of-tune attempts.

But that doesn't mean, much like other software hackers would tell you, that it is impossible to obtain the samples. It's a matter of bieng able to recoginize the signature of a WAV file and writing an algorithm to extrapolate that within the SND file to match a typical WAV file. So to sum up, I ripped apart the SND files piece by piece and converted the algorithmic format type into that of a WAV.

If that sounded too compkex for most you, thats ok! There's not many people out there who know HEX editing and binary-data manipulation. I'll be glad to start up an "Intro to Hacking" classroom for all of you if there is enough interest!!! :-)

Samer: I talked to you on MSN yesterday, so I gave you the answer to your question. Just to post it here though, I *MIGHT* be able to replace some drum sounds on the exisiting 8MB drumset with some from another set (uh hmmm....), but that is going to be a little hard to test considering the fact that I sold my X1 a few days ago and I would not have a way of checking the SND format when I put it back together!!!

And I also believe that I might be able to do some lead sample replacments (strings, aoud, etc ...). Given the lack of an X1, it would be pretty much a hit or miss deal though.

Ziad: I have added you to my contacts list buddy! I am always willing to help, in any way I can!!! Meet me on AOL or MSN and I will send you whatever you like.

-Aboud