Ultrasound Daily Digest Sun May 30 00:32 Volume 3: Issue 59 Today's Topics: composers GUS probs with 7th Guest help Patches from various keyboards on GUS Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #58 Volume bars in playmidi program in 2.06L disk. Where's the beef? WHERE IS FP3D.EXE ?!? 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: 30 May 1993 01:43:42 -0500 (EST) From: STU_JABIRCHE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU Subject: composers Message-ID: <01GYROZ5MKCI8Y5GFU@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU> I am musically frustrated. Composd 669 won't work on my system, I don't have a midi controller, and I can't find a module composer. Can anyone direct me to a mod composer somewhere please please please? (I am working on getting a midi controller). I am tired of writing machine-sounding music with Cakewalk's staff edit (look at marcsong and marc). Any help would be appreciated. I have this awesome card and all I can do is listen to other people's stuff. (fume) Not that it's bad. :) -=Marc=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 93 01:25:42 -0700 From: rchoi@netcom.com (Raymond Y. Choi) Subject: Re: GUS probs with 7th Guest Message-ID: <9305290825.AA13982@netcom2.netcom.com> We have the same problem on our system. The digitized speech plays for a few seconds and then cuts out, but the music continues without problems. We're using a 386-40 with a Texel 3024 cd-rom drive running off a Future Domain 1660 controller. Ray ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 93 13:10 GMT From: EXT0012@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK Subject: help Message-ID: <9305291224.AA07173@orca.es.com> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 93 16:52:21 EDT From: ccastge@prism.gatech.edu Subject: Patches from various keyboards on GUS Message-ID: <9305292052.AA06178@prism> Well, now that we've all got the new GUS SDK, does anyone know of a way to convert patches made for keyboards like the K2000, Yamaha DX7, etc... to a format compatable with the GUS? There are a couple of ftp sites which are LOADED with patches for these and many other keyboards... if there was a way to convert them, the GUS could quickly become a low-cost alternative to the many other high-priced sound cards which have specialized hardware to make sounds. Any thoughts/ideas? (btw, if this gets overly technical, maybe post replies to the sdk mail list). ccastge@prism.gatech.edu a.k.a., Guy Elden, Jr. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 93 17:16:28 EDT From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org (Jim Blakely) Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #58 Message-ID: <60XB5B1w165w@n4zfd.UUCP> 2. It seems that Windows and GUS is too slow to get all midi information > that DH100 sends because usually Note Off messages are not caught > (Patch Manager, WinJammer etc.). > > I have even tried it with 486DX2 50 MHz machine. Most sequencers change Note Off messages to Note On messages with a velocity of zero, or just drop them entirely and store the length of the note with the Note On message. Windows & GUS is not too slow - MIDI itself is a low speed communications protocol - it's just that Note Off messages are translated into something else. -Jim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 93 05:00:16 -0700 From: thomasp@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Thomas Pearson) Subject: Volume bars in playmidi program in 2.06L disk. Message-ID: <9305291200.AA20360@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU> Is something wrong with the midiplay program in the new 2.06L disk??? I had the version with 2.04 and didn't notice any problems, but the 2.06L version doesn't show the channel volumes corretly. That is to say the white lines of the different channels are either on all the way, or off. The version with the 2.04 disks showed the volumes rise and fall with the outputs of each chennel. Anyone else have this problem. Also the Gmoddemo program plays the mod files very quitely compared to the moddemo program. It also has a background tone playing along with the mod file that is very annoying. What am I doing wrong, or am I doing anything wrong???? Other then that the 2.06 patches are WAY better then the ones in 2.04. Just some comments for GUSIANS. /****************************************************************************\ * Thomas Pearson |Internet: * * California State University, Fresno|thomasp@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU * \****************************************************************************/ ------------------------------ Date: 29 May 1993 13:02:44 PST From: chrisw Subject: Re: Where's the beef? Message-ID: <9305292001.AA29931@leland.Stanford.EDU> Someone (sorry, I'm in a hurry): > The reality of the sampling rate is that even at 48KHz you're not > really getting much information at 20KHz. The *MINIMUM* number of > samples needed to capture a 20KHz signal is 40KHz, but we're talking a > pretty crude signal reconstruction. So in practical use a 48KHz > sampling rate is better because it gives you *OVERHEAD* to capture more > of the characteristic overtones of the signal at, say, 10KHz to 12KHz > (where a lot of stuff is going on). Fair enough, but my CD player does sound pretty good at 44.1kHz. >From: brian@ccnext.ucsf.edu (Brian Huddleston) >This is getting scarey! Nothing new has gone up on EPAS for a while. >The inactivity is doesnt seem right. Is anyone out there making anything for >the GUS? Any info to wet our whisle's (sp?).....:-???? Afraid there isn't likely to be much new music from me in the next two weeks. Got two seven hour exams based on a years coursework to sit (yes, I am serious). After that I'm going into the patch production business. I've more or less got the patch editor from the sdk figured out and I'm trying to work out how to use Csound. Looks like I'm going to be stuck with 8-bit sampling for the moment, though. Also going to have a go at 3D effects in midi files. Anyway, once I've got all this worked out I'll write some new tracks using the technology and write some FAQs on how I did it. Tell you what though, there's at least two unreleased fairly complete midi tracks out there by other people. I won't name any names, but perhaps it's about time ... Chris. ------------------------------ Date: 29 May 1993 23:13:41 PST From: chrisw Subject: WHERE IS FP3D.EXE ?!? Message-ID: <9305300613.AA23450@leland.Stanford.EDU> Hi everyone. I'm really annoyed. I actually bought a modem today in order to download the Fp3d.exe file from the Gravis BBS (well, it was only $20, but still). Got on to the BBS having fallen for the promise of the $10 download of Fp3d.exe and then I couldn't find it anywhere! I'm pretty desperate because soon I'll be over in Australia and I'm not going to pay to download the thing from there. If anyone at all has succeeded in downloading this file PLEASE tell me how to do it. I cannot try to write 3D Chrismid's unless I can get this file. Thanks, Chris. ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #59 ************************************* 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.)