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# Getting Started

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Visit the[ SpinCAD Designer Github page](https://github.com/HolyCityAudio/SpinCAD-Designer) and install the SpinCAD JAR file following the instructions.

Before you do any patch design with SpinCAD Designer, you'll want to make sure that the simulator is running with the correct format of WAV file.  I've linked to a couple suitable 32768 kHz 16 bit stereo WAV files to get you started.  The audio has been normalized to -6 dB.

[Clean guitar loop](https://github.com/HolyCityAudio/SpinCAD-Designer/raw/master/patches/clean%20guitar%20loop.wav-323768.wav)

[Drum beat](https://github.com/HolyCityAudio/SpinCAD-Designer/raw/master/patches/spincad-drum-beat-32-khz.wav)