Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com GUS Musician's Digest Sat, 6 Nov 93 3:31 MST Volume 2: Issue 6 Today's Topics: Patch banks 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: Fri, 5 Nov 93 08:50:33 EST From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 05-Nov-1993 0852" Subject: Patch banks One concern I have about multiple banks: Windows is already mightily slowed down in startup by the GUS driver, apparently reading through the config file to set up its patch/file correspondences. If we have 1024 banks, I don't think I can wait long enough! I hope Gravis will consider this in their new drivers. In fact, I hope they will look for a way to speed up the startup with only a single bank. I'm still not clear why the disk cache doesn't work better to solving this. Burns ------------------------------ End of GUS Musician's Digest V2 #6 ********************************** 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 archive.orst.edu /pub/packages/gravis theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de /pub/sound/gus FTP mail server: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (general use, programmers, etc.).