Ultrasound Daily Digest Thu May 27 00:26 Volume 3: Issue 56 Today's Topics: 16-bit daughter card and 48KHz Comanche Mission Disks Cubase and GUS GUS + Adaptec 1542B + new installation disks Miles Drivers strikes again... New patches... Nightly digest uploads to archive.epas fixed! The Treehouse & SBOS? Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 May 93 10:42:35 MDT From: Stuart Yoshida Subject: Re: 16-bit daughter card and 48KHz Message-ID: <9305261642.AA02543@elektra.fc.hp.com> Eric N. Liao writes: >Now that we know the GUS cannot sustain 44.1KHz sampling in 32-voice wavetable: >mode...what's the point of being able to record at 48KHz?!? Here are two reasons: 1. When recording any sound source, the better the resolution you have (i.e., the higher the sampling rate), the better the recording results. Also, you won't always be recording from the GUS. I plan on recording external audio input, and therefore a 48KHz sampling rate is very desirable. 2. The sampling rate is *UP TO 48KHZ*. If you want to record at 44.1KHz, then go ahead! Just change the sampling rate to 44.1KHz. But having the OPTION of recording up to 48KHz gives you the ability to make some high quality sound samples. -- Stuart Yoshida Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com Voice: (303) 229-2324 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:31:36 MES From: fischer@tmpmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer) Subject: Comanche Mission Disks Message-ID: Hi, I also bought the new set of mission disks. I had to restore the original comanche.exe and apply the mission disks. Than i also tried the patch but it (as you said) checks the source. Than I tried comanche with the mission disks and without the patch and everything works fine. You don't need the patch for the new mission disks anymore. Obviously the GUS patch is build in or whatever. I have digital sound (speaking) like before. -Axel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 10:57:57 +0001 From: "Z. Horvat" Subject: Cubase and GUS Message-ID: <4g0n4Jg00000ITyUhs@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de> [Some people recently started a discussion about Cubase/Win and the GUS] Another thing i have noticed about Cubase is that you have (should!) start windows in standard mode. This does not work with the ultrasound drivers, as they only will work in enhanced mode. The problem is that Cubase does not work smoothly in enhanced mode, at least not on my 386/40. It needs standard mode (or more processing power) to hold the tempo constantly. Playing midi files can give a very funny sound! Other sequencers (or demos of them) that i have do not show this. Has anybody gotten around this ? -------------------------------------------------- SYS337654 Could not locate coffee - Operator halted -------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++ Z. Horvat | MIME & | Rechenzentrum Universitaet Konstanz | METAMAIL | ++49-7531-88-2405 | ACCEPTED | ++++++++++++++ zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de rzhorv@nyx.uni-konstanz.de ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 10:05:54 -0500 (CDT) From: rwright@dhostwo.convex.com (Randy Wright) Subject: GUS + Adaptec 1542B + new installation disks Message-ID: <9305261505.AA26598@dhostwo.convex.com> > Date: Mon, 24 May 93 4:23:05 CDT > From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles) > Subject: Bug in Windows setup > > While installing the new disks I ran into a bug in the windows setup. > > Because I have an Adaptec SCSI controller which uses interrupt 11, I changed > my GF1 interrupt to 12. During the windows setup, a line was put into > my system.ini that said: gf1_int=11 > > Needless to say, everything hung (or gave spurious errors) when I tried to > run windows. It took me a LONG time to find the problem, so if you have > changed your interrupt, look in the system.ini file in the section > [ultrasnd.drv] and make sure it's right. Interestingly enough, I had also > changed the midi interrupt to 7 and that was put in correctly. I have essentially the same hardware setup as John - i.e. GUS and Adaptec 1542B - and I also experienced the same problem. Windows did work well enough for me with the new GUS installation disks to be able to reconfigure the drivers correctly with the menu sequence ControlPanel->Drivers->Gus->Setup. The net effect, however, is the same as John's more direcrt edit of SYSTEM.INI. Also, another Adaptec+GUS note: GUSMOD as it is shipped on the the 2.06 disks seems to still suffer from the problem described in volume 3, issue 18 of the GUS digest, wherein Wayne Hodgen writes: | Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 14:58:42 MET DST | From: hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de | Subject: Adaptec and GUS | | I finally got it working. Gusmod doesn't hang any more. I can save the setup | as often as I want. It even works from the CD-ROM no problem. Ultramod works | with the CD-ROM drivers in and Starcon2 as well. It all boils down to the | programmers scanning for the interrupt and DMA lines. Maybe there's some | reason why they can't just use the ULTRASND variable but ... The answer is | to set the interrupt and DMA for the ultrasound and the adaptec so that these | programms find the ultrasound first. My setup now is | Ultrasound: B/a 210, DMA 5, IRQ 11 and 12 | Soundblaster: B/a 220, DMA 1, IRQ5 | Adaptec: B/a 300, DMA 7, IRQ 15 I cannot vouch for the recommended configuration, as I chose simply to live without GUSMOD until it co-exists more gracefully with the Adaptec. BTW, I did configure GUSMOD correctly using the supplied GUSMOD configuration program, which also left me wondering why the authors did not use the standard environment variable. -- Randy Wright Usmail: Convex Computers Phone: (214) 497-4868 3000 Waterview Pky. M/S DV4 Email: rwright@convex.com P.O. Box 833851 Richardson, TX 75083-3851 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:58:42 EST From: Jerry Subject: Miles Drivers strikes again... Message-ID: <9305261808.AA07517@orca.es.com> I sent a note asking John Smith at GRAVIS if the new Miles drivers would be released on archive sites. The answer I received was: "They can be found at" and then he pasted the complete BBS nodes list. I looked at EPAS for any new file and the last one was GUS0031 (SBOS 2.08). Either the .ADV files I am looking for are included with the new disk set, or the EPAS archive is not up to date. Could a kind soul please check at the GRAVIS BBS for any new file and put them in the SUBMIT directory of EPAS. Thanks Jerry QAAA @ UDESVM @ VM1.SI.USHERB.CA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 93 14:30:14 PDT From: cs64sbg@sdcc8.UCSD.EDU (Anthony Tang) Subject: New patches... Message-ID: <9305262130.AA18602@sdcc8.UCSD.EDU> First, a little warning/comment about the files in epas. Last time I looked, there wasn't a file called "newpatch.zip" although there's a text file called "newpatch.txt" It seems the 2 new patches in the new disk set were ULed unzipped. (*.pat files). Anyway, what patch does charang.pat replace? There is a file called patch.zip which is the patch editor from the SDK. Anyway, if you try to load an older patch file (usually one of the custom ones), it says "old version, Use update to update the file". Where's update? (It's not in the SDK anywhere, either). Anthony Tang aktang@ucsd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:45:46 CDT From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Subject: Nightly digest uploads to archive.epas fixed! Message-ID: <9305261945.AA05616@itchy> To all of those who have been wishing for this to come back (and those of you who couldn't care less as well :)... The digest(s) are again being uploaded to archive.epas every night. Fweee. The Ultrasound Daily Digest goes into the directory /pub/pc/ultrasound/digest, the GUS Programmer's Digest goes into /pub/pc/ultrasound/sdk-digest. The 'daily' file will be updated daily (oddly enough) with the latest digest, and back issues will be stored in the directory vol-X/Y, where X is the volume number and Y is the issue number. Also, for those who keep track of such things, I am going to change the system so that the volume number increments every month, instead of every quarter. Finally, the GUS FAQ is posted to the relevant USENET newsgroups on the 5th and 20th of every month. I'll upload the missing digests to archive.epas as soon as I get a free moment. -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar. es. cs.utah. | I like it a lot." com edu / ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 00:07:58 EDT From: Marc Rouleau Subject: The Treehouse & SBOS? Message-ID: <9305270332.AA16324@orca.es.com> Has anyone gotten this to work? Is there a magic SBOS flag, or is The Treehouse known not to work with SBOS? Whenever we do something which triggers a digital sound, our PC locks up while the sound repeats endlessly. -- Marc Rouleau ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 93 11:02:23 +0200 From: rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Message-ID: <9305260902.AA14525@messua> Hi folks! Please be careful with the midifile pianoman from the archive midis.zip. When trying to play it with playmidi V4.03, i got the following error: Expecting MTrk, correct midi file ? Then my system hang up. After rebooting, i got (and still get) a xcoms checksum failure...:-( This seems to be a bug (definitly not a feature ;-) ) of playmidi which can't handle the error. Ciao...Olli ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #56 ************************************* To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP sites: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (UNIX, OS/2, GUS-MIDI, etc.)