YOW, YOW2, and YOW3; three ear-catching sound effects, by Joe Horn. Uses the SOUNDER program by Joe Ervin (included in this directory). Joe Ervin's nifty SOUNDER package makes it easy to create great sound effects. [Later note: It's even easier to use Fatri's SoundKit, also on this disk.] Although it's not strictly possible to create chords (two different frequencies or notes at the same time), the "effect" can be pretty well faked by careful manipulation of the repeat loops. For example, a constant frequency played for a long duration sounds like a clean, single note, but if you instead play that frequency in tiny bursts of varying duration, you'll hear two notes at the same time, namely the constant "real" note, plus a "fake" note caused by the interference of the ticks between each burst. If the bursts are brief enough, the ticks become a very audible buzz on top of the note being played. Varying the duration of the bursts varies the frequency of the buzz. Sort of an audible moire pattern. The YOW and YOW2 example sounds in the YOW directory carry this concept one step further. Not only does the buzz go up and down in frequency, but the "real" frequency is simultaneously changed, going down and up (opposite of the buzz). YOW2 is the same as YOW but slower and wider, so you can really hear what it's doing. It sounds like a toy slide whistle to me. You can actually hear the frequencies going up and down at the same time! YOW3 sounds outrageous because it combines the YOW2 idea with the SWEEP command in SOUNDER. It is basically a bunch of tiny sweeps upwards, with each sweep's frequency interval being slightly lower than the previous sweep, so it's going up and down at the same time. Then it reverses, sweeping down as the frequency intervals go up. And so on, for several loops. To create your own effects like this, see SoundKit by Fatri on this disk.