GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 20 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  44 

Today's Topics:
			   A different MIDI in Windows problem ...
							cymbal static
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #42
						  Hiss in recordings
	   note tieing using MidiSoft Recording Session for GUS...
							  PCM or DSP

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.

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 13:30:12 -0500 (EST)
From: V128NKGA@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: A different MIDI in Windows problem ...

	I've been reading the digest for a while, but have never seen
this particular problem mentioned.  When I try to play a midi file under
windows, some files will play, but many won't.  Even the ones that do play
are often missing some instruments (eg credits.mid of xwing is missing
some instruments in the middle section ... compared with how it sounds
under playmidi).
	I've read the faq, and I have tried everything they suggest
(midimap.cfg, ultrasnd.ini, etc... in the appropriate directories).  This
doesn't seem to help.  I've had this problem for as long as I've had
windows -- all of the gravis versions have made no difference (starting
way back at 1.2).
	Here's one more strange thing : when I load these silent midi's
into the Midisoft Session program (from the registered install disk), the
files load just fine with notes and everything.  When I hit play, however,
I get silence ... even though the notes are being tracked (highlighted,
when they are supposed to be being played).  When I choose a track, and 
assign and instrument to it ... it plays!
	So, I'm guessing there's a problem in the ultrasnd.ini or something.
I don't want to mess with it, since I don't know what I'm doing, but any
help would be greatly appreciated.  This problem has been bugging me for
a really long time, and I would like to get it fixed.
	I'll be loading one of the midi files that won't play under windows
onto archive.epas.utoronto.ca in pub/pc/ultrasound/submit under the file
name wontwork.mid.  Please take a look at it if you get a chance, and see
if you can get any sound out of it in windows (btw, it's really the midi
1moretry).
	Please e-


	Please post or e-mail any replies.  Thanks in advance.

					Later,
					Henry

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 15:52:50 EST
From: jeffow@aol.com
Subject: cymbal static

I've just installed the newest gravis stuff (gus0041) and was 
playing around with the patches.  (I'm a newbie at this, so 
please be patient.)  I've noticed that with my percussion 
instruments, especially the cymbals, after it plays, following 
it is a .5 second static bit.  Originally I've had this problem 
with my games, and thought it was just a bad snare drum patch 
or something, but I think I've narrowed it down to these cymbal 
patches.

What could be causing this?  I have 768k ram, with basic 
default setup.

Jeff

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 18:03:14 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #42

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 18:10:48 +0100 (MET)
$  From: Geir Johannessen <joge@stud.unit.no>
$  Subject: GUS and Windows 4.0
$  
$  The release of Windows 4.0 is soon seeing the day of light.
$  This version of Windows will *not* run on Dos. Instead Dos will be
$  availiable from Windows.
$  
$  Will the Gus function with pure Windows? And if so, what programs will
$  function properly with Gus and Windows?

Windows 4, also know as "Chicago", is not a product, but rather, is a
collection of new technologies Microsoft has been developing.  What we
will see as Windows 4, on the shelves in shrink-wrap, has not yet been
decided.  That's a paraphrase of a quote from Microsoft in a recent issue
of InfoWorld.

What it means is (turn on echo effect) "Nobody knows." (echo effect off)
Yet.  Not even Microsoft.

My opinion is that it will have the same sort of compatibility problems as
OS/2 has now with DOS and Windows 3.1 programs.  It's inevitable, since
"Chicago" is basically what Microsoft did with OS/2 after they parted ways
with IBM.

$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 10:08:47 EST
$  From: symon@radonc.unc.edu (James Symon)
$  Subject: NOEMS
$  
$   Oh, and do not use the EMS:N switch for QEMM, even if you use the
$   corresponding switch with MegaEm for -NOEMS.  The -NOEMS switch is risky
$   with any memory manager that has put the CPU in protected mode.
$  
$   -- 
$   Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
$   mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU
$  
$  Please help a beginner who has read the FAQ and DOS docs but is still
$  confused. My G2000 486 machine runs EMM386 with the -noems switch. If
$  I try to run megaem -noems I still get a message saying there is not
$  enough EMS space.

Then remove the NOEMS switch.

$  What is the reason for using EMM386 with the -noems switch? What will

It can still make high ram or UMBs without making EMS, too, so you can
loadhigh and devicehigh if you don't have programs that need EMS.

$  I be risking if I get rid of it? Will that be likely to solve my
$  problem getting megaem to run?

Very likely.  There is no risk in getting rid of it, just run MemMaker
again afterwards (or use MemMaker itself to turn EMS back on - choose
"Custom").  I have seen Megaem have problems with DOS 6.2 EMM386 with
and without NOEMS.  I don't know why, but its probably because Microsoft
changed something in EMM386 that causes Megaem to fail when NOEMS is
present.  Jayeson can't be psychic, he's got to have the EMM driver handy
to test before he can get Megaem to work with it in all configurations.

I didn't mean to imply that you risk losing data, by the way.  A lockup is
all that would happen.  Reboot, and you're okay again.

-- 
Mike Batchelor      | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux
mikebat@netcom.com  | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU
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Q:  What machine does Windows/NT run best on?

A:  A 35mm slide projector.

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 13:06:19 EST
From: Haroon Sheikh <hsasheik@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Hiss in recordings

Why is it that no matter what sampling frequency that I record at, I always
get a layer of hiss (noise) over the entire recording. I've tried all
combinations (11KHz to 44KHz, stereo/mono and 8-bit). 
My setup is a portable CD player feeding into the LINE-IN of the GUS card.
I've tried recording with playfile (v3.5), WaveLite and Goldwave with the
same problem.

Anyone who has done some serious sampling should have some idea what I'm doing
wrong.

-- 
Haroon S. Sheikh
email: hsasheikh@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca

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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 19:45:00 EST
From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
Subject: note tieing using MidiSoft Recording Session for GUS...

I know this might now be the proper area to ask this question, but I was
wondering how to you do note ties in MidiSoft Recording Session for Windows?

The manual that comes with the GUS disks doesn't explain anything at all on
how to do it.  Any help would greatly be appreciated.  Thanks!!! =)

Akintunde Omitowoju
zao1@etsu.bitnet           (BitNet)
zao1@etsu.east-tenn-st.edu (InterNet)

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 13:55:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: Toby <T.W.Nichols@hertfordshire.ac.uk>
Subject: PCM or DSP

I was reading in PCFormat that that the Ultrasnd uses DSP based wave 
table as opposed to the more advanced PCM wave table. IS this correct?
In my understanding. DSP wavetable uses an oscillator and variouse 
parameters to operate on a single wave form. Where as the GUS uses PCM 
wave table ie. Similar oscillators and parameters but with actual PCM 
sampled patches. Who is right me or PCF ?


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