Although this looks very complicated and difficult to use, it isn't.
"Current" is the current frame number; "Total" is the total
number of frames. Selecting "Hear wave" allows you to hear the
current waveform.
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This is the harmonic synthesizer. Its main window looks like this:
Although this looks very complicated and difficult to use, it isn't.
"Current" is the current frame number; "Total" is the total
number of frames. Selecting "Hear wave" allows you to hear the
current waveform.
"Cut" stores the current frame's settings in the clipboard memory.
"Paste" replaces the settings with those in the clipboard.
"Blank" sets all of the settings to the default.
"Insert" inserts a new frame; "Delete" deletes the current
frame.
"Clear all" wipes all of the frames, effectively restarting the
program.
"White noise level" is as it was in SampMaker, except here, as with all of the sine, triangular and square wave settings, the scale is 0 for off, 128 for full, and 255 for maximum (distortion volume). The frequency can be from 128 to 512, with 256 being the default; it is measured in Hertz (cycles per second).
"Frames between this and next" speaks for itself, as does "Name of finished sample".
The "Sine", "Tri" and "Square" columns refer to sine, triangular and square waves respectively. Each row represents one harmonic; the topmost is the fundamental, the next is the first harmonic, the next the second, and so on. Between frames, the computer slides the values for the previous frame into the values for the next frame, taking the specified number of in-between frames to do it.
It is recommended that, for non-repeating samples, the last frame should be blank - this is so that the sample fades off to zero volume before ending, otherwise it would probably end with an audible click.
Since a single frame invariably sounds like a simple beep (and white noise does not sound like white noise at all), I recommend building the sample and saving it to the editor (Samp-Edit) frequently to see how it sounds when compiled; it takes very little time to compile and save, unlike SampMaker.
However, this is a fairly primitive synthesizer, and I would not expect any particularly wonderful sounds to come out of it - most samples from this program tend to sound very similar to each other.