Native Instruments NCW Audio File Format

Description

NCW (Native Instruments Compressed Wave) is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Native Instruments which is essentially DPCM and bit truncation.

This is a cli frontend to the ncw crate which decode NCW files into standard WAV files. It serves as part of a wider reverse engineering effort of proprietary audio formats, and this particular library is used in ni-file.

Installation

To install the cli utility, you can use cargo:

cargo install ncw-convert

Usage

Run the program with the following command-line arguments:

ncw-convert <INPUT> <OUTPUT>

• <INPUT>: Path to the input NCW file.
• <OUTPUT>: Path where the output WAV file will be saved.