GUS Daily Digest            Thu, 3 Mar 94 13:37 PST      Volume 11: Issue  28 

Today's Topics:
							 .xmi player?
				  Doom on 486-50, Dune 3 and Origin
		Followed instructions but no music or sound with Doom.
					  Good .MIDs for Solo .PATs
					 gus0038 and gus0040 (2 msgs)
							 GUS convert!
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #27 (2 msgs)
			   Haven't recieved GUS DD since Vol 11 #20
						  Just bought a GUS
						   Megaem & QEMM703
					  Might and Magic w/ Megaem
						Moving mailing time...
							  Patches...
							  PatchMaker
						Putt-Putt's Loud Music
	  Ultrasound Internet Archives News - Wuarchive resurrected
						  Voice Recognition
					  Vot hppened to mi stereo?
							Windows + GUS

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: Thu, 03 Mar 94 08:32:00 EDT
From: Henrique 'Snoopy' Vianna <HVIANNA@brufpel.bitnet>
Subject: .xmi player?

Hi all!
 
Am I wrong or is .xmi a midi-compatible music file?
If it is, I would like to find a player, or better, a xmi to mid
converter. Also, if there's anybody interested, I've written a program
to split the MEGADATA file from SimFarm (I wonder if other Maxis
games use this archive scheme) into its several files, so you
can pick up the digitized effects and, I hope, the music files.
 
Thanks for any help.
 
Snoopy.
 
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Henrique Avila Vianna                                   hvianna@brufpel.bitnet
Universidade Federal de Pelotas                         hvianna@vortex.ufrgs.br
Centro de Informatica            "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
96010-900  Pelotas, RS  BRAZIL                               - Albert Einstein

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 23:05:58 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: Doom on 486-50, Dune 3 and Origin

A friend of mine has had trouble running Doom on his 486-50 Mhz, same goes
for the games that use the 32-bit AIL drivers. What happens is that the
machine resets and the GUS plays through all the samples that are loaded
until ultrinit.exe is called again.

I have been following the digest closely trying to find solutions to
this problem, and have tried run his system from boot disk, without
mem-managers etc etc. His irksome programs run fine on my computer. 

So, in order to track the problem down, we opened his computer and
popped in a DX2-66 mhz, and everything worked without any problems at
all. Furthermore, after placing his 50-mhz back in, we tried exchanging
GUS cards (I have rev 3.4 of the card, he has rev 2.4), but the same
problems re-appeared on his computer. It even worked fine with a DX2-50,
and we tested his 50-mhz on another motherboard, but whoa, boom, schmack,
the game still went down when running on the 50-mhz processor.

Now, since it works fine on my 33-mhz and on his computer with a DX2-66
we came to the conclusion that the GUS has trouble running Ultramid (if
that indeed is what Doom uses; the shareware version did) on 50 mhz
computers. Can this be so ? I have not seen this mentioned in the digest,
and therefore find it a bit hard to swallow.

I hope someone will reply to this as we have spendt quite some time 
trying to figure it out...... 

Just as a side note I saw Doom on another friends computer, playing music
through SCC-1, and boy did that rock. I know the GUS never can match this
level of midi-music, but still, someone, please give us some better el-
guitar patches, the classical music on the gus is so good, but the guitar
pats really suck. Playing midi's like haze.mid and the "bad love" midi 
(clapton song I believe) really blows.

Lastly:

	* Pleeease give us some more MIDI's Chris! :)
	* Pleeease Origin! Give us gus support! The Ultima midi's rock!
	* Pleeease give us F1GPII, Dune 3 and StarCon3 with GUS support!
	  (No more games with 1 digital sound effect at the time! (dune2))

Thanks for your time,

	\////
	|. .|
	( - )   Broderdue

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 14:03:02 CST
From: mail c570833 <C570833@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Followed instructions but no music or sound with Doom.

Help! I've followed the instructions obtained in doomgus.txt and can't
get anything out of Doom v1.1.  I use to have have Doom v1.0 and
I got sound effects but no music.  Now I get nothing at all from the GUS.
I have 256K on my GUS and the original software that came with it (v2.05)
except for a newer version of SBOS.  Please help.

								   Tim

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 02:33:04 -0600
From: vader@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Vader)
Subject: Good .MIDs for Solo .PATs

I've gotta' mention this: After loading SOLOGUIT.PAT on my system, DUST.MID 
(Dust in the Wind) sounds totally EXCELLENT (except maybe that the guitar is 
a little too loud, but who cares).  All the patches even fit onto 1 Meg.

So here's my queston, are there any other .MIDs with great guitar parts? 
(I'm thinking Stairway to Heaven or More Than Words, by Extreme)  They can 
either be well known songs, or not-so-well-known-but-great-anyways.  Also, 
are there any songs that show off the solo trumpet (SOLOTRMP.PAT)?  I'd like 
to hear how that sounds in a real song.

As a side note, does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with these 
extra patches that are on epas?  Should I use them to replace the Gravis 
patches?  Or should I use them only with selected songs?

I know this probably should go on the musicians digest, but I figured that 
they wouldn't want it cluttered up with some trivial questions such as these.

Thanks,
		Vader

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 12:28:54 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: gus0038 and gus0040

I finally got round to installing gus0038 and gus0040 on top of
my 2.06 software.

Just a couple of points. Initially I fell into the pitfall that
ultrasnd.ini was not updated - presumably because my old
one had been edited and had a newer date than the 'new' one.
Result - no MIDI sound in Windows, and patches won't load in
Patch Manager until I used the install option to copy
ultrasnd.ini explicitly. The tremstr.pat situation is still a little
unclear. I think you still have to get this from one of the other
gus updates zips if you want it. And then change the first marcato
into tremstr in all sections of all ini and cfg files (only if
marcato is in there twice!).

Secondly, the UltraSound setup part of install repeatedly
told me that SoundBlaster DMA was failing on read, yet if I said to
proceed regardless, I could then test the settings with NO failure.
Does this matter? I haven't observed any REAL problems.

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 19:30:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark Charsley <wa94002@ox.ac.uk>
Subject: GUS0038 and GUS0040

My GUS has been working fine with the rev2.06a software. I recently 
upgraded to the v3 software after the first bug release, using GUS0038 
and then GUS0040. Everything's working fine EXCEPT midi playback in 
windows. The media player trundles through the file as per normal, but 
nothing comes out (.WAV's and DOS playmidi work fine).
I presume I'm missing a .ini file somewhere, but I don't know. Can anyone 
help?

Ta in advance,

Mark

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 11:59:29 +0000
From: fadhley <eeyjsfa@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS convert!

My friend Mike is sitting next to me now and he thinks his SB Pro is rather shite. He
cant wait to get his hands on a Gravis Ultrasound! 

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 15:13:40 +0200
From: YOssi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #27

>From: "|
>Subject: [Q] Which CD-ROM drive to buy?
>
>Hi all,
>Any recommendations for a CD-ROM drive to buy?
>It MUST be double speed.
>It MUST be able to send audio through my GUS.
>It would be nice to be able to plug it into my GUS directly (Are the CD-ROM
>daughter boards available in the UK?)
>Price as cheap as possible (I know, you get what you pay for).

$200 gets you the Sony DoubleCD GUS bundle, with card and bundled CD titles.
Direct from Gravis (sales@gravis.com).
I think 10 bucks will get it to your place, too.
Yossi.

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 9:26:02 -0800 (PST)
From: KOZARD@uvphys.phys.uvic.ca
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #27

> From: liaor@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu
> Subject: Different GUS (hardware) revisions

> Like start with v2.2 (the one I bought for $99 from EA Direct back in Oct 92)
> all the way up to the latest (v3.7?!?) one.

> I'm at college (away from any PC that can use the GUS meaningfully) so I
> might sell it now and buy a newer hardware version if Gravis ever bothers to
> add a decent hardware mixer.

I have a v3.7. It has a hardware mixer and used LM833 low noise op-amps.
I think the hardware mixer is very good on this card. (Now that I finally
have it working....)

Does anyone know why John.Smith@Gravis said the 16 bit board works with
certain revisions, but he didn't list 3.7 ?!

Ken

KOZARD@UVPHYS.PHYS.UVIC.CA

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 08:36:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Shannon Bradford <sbradfor@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Subject: Haven't recieved GUS DD since Vol 11 #20

I still am not receiving the GUS Daily Digest and haven't since issue 11 #20.
I sent a post to this address several days ago and was told something to
the effect that there are so many GUSDD subscribers that you couldn't help
them all, and that I could ftp the ones that are missing.  While ftp'ing
a few stray issues isn't a problem, ftp'ing them all is a BIG problem.  
What is the use of a mailing list otherwise?  I've emailed to the gus
server (gus-general-request@mail.orst.edu) and received help on how to
subscribe and unsubscribe, but NOTHING on how to deal with problems.  If
I'm in the wrong place, I'm sorry.  The gus server suggested this address
to me.  Please either help or send me to someone who can.

Thanks,

Shannon
 

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 19:20:22 PST
From: "Simeon Ventura" <SVENTURA@BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA>
Subject: Just bought a GUS

To: GUS     --INTERNET gus-general-owner@


I just bought a GUS and am very happy with it. However, after playing
around with it and the software that came with it and after reading the
digests and the Usenet, I seem to be lacking Midisoft Recording Studio
and Power Chords. I ftp'd the latest version of the disks down and the
latest update disks, read the readmes, and found that those two apps
are only available when you purchase the GUS. Well I purchased the GUS,
so why don't I get those apps? Or, heaven forbid, do I have to shell out
some more coin to get those fine apps?

Thanks in advance.

Simeon Ventura - BC Systems - SI EBU |
ph: (604)360-7222 fax: (604)360-7285 |
internet : sventura@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca |
															   .

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 21:25:32 +0100
From: svein harald fossum <fossum@nora.gih.no>
Subject: Megaem & QEMM703

Hi! I have this problem I hope someone out there can help me with...

I have a 486 Dx2 66 Mhz Computer with one Gravis Ultrasound 1Mb installed.
I have installed the QEMM386 v7.03 Memory manager on it. Everything works
fine with the gus, both native and sbos support. But when I try to run
megaem v2.02 (or any other version) I get the message that my EMS memory
is not compatible. When I try to disable the EMS memory with the Megaem switchm
I get a message telling me that the Gravis Ultrasound is currently in use
buy another program.

The only problem is, there is no such program running.

I forgot to mention that I have 4Mb of RAM. I ran the same program on my old machine.
That was a Copam 80486 Dx 25Mhz with 8Mb of RAM. On that machine everything worked
just fine.

I would be most happy I someone could help me.

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:35:08 -0700 (MST)
From: re7813ke@meteor.uscolo.edu (Is this ship sinking?)
Subject: Might and Magic w/ Megaem

Dear Gussers,

   I use Megaem to drive sound for might and magic 4 /5 World of Xeen, and
when The intro for MM5 shows, there is alot of noise blocking large spots
of voice.  It sound like interference you might get, putting your mouth
too close to a microphone.  My setup is as follows:

386dx25 (no bad chipsets)
Ultrasound set on IRQ:7 DMA:1 MIRQ:11 ADDR:220
Digiboard set on IRQ:5 no DMA
Serial Card set for Standard IRQ:3 and 4 for COM1 and COM2
Both Floppy Drives (You know the IRQ's)
Card With LPT1 and LPT2 at standard irq's
HD Controller at Standard IRQ

The Digiboard Only allows certain IRQ's and with the equipment other than
the ultrasound, it doesn't seem like I can move it from irq 5 (wont let me
put it on a high irq setting...none over 5 from my memory).

When setting up the Gravis, IRQ:7 seems to be the only valid irq to set the
board up on.

Anyone else have this problem?  Is it because of the IRQ:7 setting?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 01:51:22 -0700 (MST)
From: Dave DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com>
Subject: Moving mailing time...

	I'm moving the initial mailing time for the GUS Digests.  Up
until now, it has been starting at 12:07am PST, and running for about
4 hours after that -- the mail server sleeps between each send so that
it doesn't flood any mail queues.

	I'm moving to start at 12:07 *pm*, PST.  This is because the
Digests are now non-local, so I can't fix the machine if it goes down.
Doing the sends during the day increases the chances that someone
local to the machine running the digests will have the system up when
the mailing occurs.

	The hit on the net should be minimal; I spread the mailings
out over time, and they are running at Bulk precedence.  If you have
any problems with this new time, please email me.

	Thanks!

-- 
Dave  ddebry@ debry@   \ 
DeBry dsd.    peruvian. | "A jar of eyes can be a tasty treat."
	  es.     cs.utah.  |
	  com     edu      /  

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 18:52:17 CST
From: jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu (Josh Hightower)
Subject: Patches...

Hi all,
		I downloaded a the new gus0041a.zip & gus0041b.zip
and I deleted the old ultrasnd directory.  Unfortunatly 
all the patches weren't in the in two zip files.  So I 
installed the patches came with the GUS.  But when I tried to  
use install Megaem and then Emuset it told me the Charang.pat
is missing.  I couldn't find where the patch is could someone
out there tell me where I could find the patch.
 
								Thanks alot,
									Joshua Hightower
									jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 12:36:13 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: PatchMaker

Just playing around with the new PatchMaker from the gus0038/gus0040
disks.

I have finally noticed that PatchMaker Lite does indeed store patches
temporarily in the TEMP directory, and alters the 1024 bank section
of ultrasnd.ini to point to them. Among the temp files it creates
are .wav files for just the waveform parts of the patch. Presumably,
before exiting from PatchMaker, you could copy these to a proper filename,
and hence use PatchMaker as a Patch to WAV converter, should you want to!

I notice that the PatchMaker help describes a button which is supposed
to allow the part of the waveform after the loop section to be played
on release (i.e. a sampled release), but the actual button does not
seem to be present. Any comments?

As I have said many times before, a clear explanation of which parts
of the 6-point patch envelope do what, depending on the settings of
various bits in the patch header, would be most welcome (Even if you
do have to use patch.exe to change them, since PatchMaker does not
allow full control).

I often wonder if stuff like this should be in the Musician's Digest,
but there is so little traffic in there, and patch editing does
not necessarily imply music - or does it?

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 9:39:43 EST
From: David Steinberg <desteinb@tews16.cs.hh.ab.com>
Subject: Putt-Putt's Loud Music

I'm running the Putt Putt demos (for my kids, of course) and the
volume levels of the music are very uneven. Sometimes the music
gets so loud that the spoken words are drowned out. I've had this
with both SBOS 3.7B2 and SBOS 3.81.

David Steinberg
steinberg@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com

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Date: 3 Mar 94  7:44 -0800
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Internet Archives News - Wuarchive resurrected

				   GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVES NEWS
==============================================================================
					   FTP Sites                     Archive Directories
					   ---------                     -------------------
Main N.American Site:  archive.orst.edu              pub/packages/gravis
					   wuarchive.wustl.edu           systems/ibmpc/ultrasound
Main Asian Site:       nctuccca.edu.tw               PC/ultrasound
European Callers ONLY: theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de    pub/sound/gus
Submissions:           archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca      pub/pc/ultrasound
Mirrors:               garbo.uwasa.fi                mirror/ultrasound

MailServer For Archive Access: Email to <mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi all.... Well, after a month or two of reconstructing the GUS archive
on wuarchive, I think it's finally done. No more comments from the other
admins so I'd say we're back in business. Sorry it took so long. I'm
only doing this on my free time and we were quite hectic trying to
setup a new lab at work.... so bad timing for wuarchive to go down.

If you find anything wrong with the wuarchive's gus archive (or any
other archive for that matter), please let me know. We're only human. :)

Anyways, looking at epas' submit directory, I'd say we're long over due
for another set of validations. So I'm looking at starting my download
of all the files there and start my validation by about the weekend
(may have to leave town this weekend so perhaps it'd be safer for me
to say next week). I'll let you all know.

Happy GUSing,....


Thomas.


P.S.
Did anyone upload Gravis' first beta for their OS/2 driver that can be
found on the Gravis BBS onto epas's submit yet? Not the 3rd party one
but the Gravis one we'd been hearing about for the last year or two...

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 13:52:47 PST
From: msudul@glenayre.com (Mark Sudul [590])
Subject: Voice Recognition

Is anyone using voice recognition software with their GUS? I am interested in
any information on the various products available for this purpose (even if they
don't work with the GUS). Cost, features, hardware compatibility and
requirements would all be useful information.
Thanks,
Mark Sudul.

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:38:10 -0700 (MST)
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
Subject: Vot hppened to mi stereo?

Hi.

I just sent a letter to tech support about this too, but since I don't know
yet how long that's going to take, I  figgered I'd tell you guys about it
too.

When I first got my GUS, I think I remeber being able to use balance controls
in various applications (such as the demo of Cake 2, and GUSMOD) and getting
the sound to shift from left to right or vice versa.  But now I always get
equal volume from both speakers, and in GUSMOD, when I move a channel's
balance control to the right, I get reduced volume and an increase in
distortion for that channel, but on the left it sounds like it should, 
but comes out of both speakers.  I also hooked the GUS up to my stereo,
and I get lower volume out of the right channel and more distortion,
compared to the left (but maybe the channels are hooked up backwards;
that is irrelevant to what is happening).  When I first hooked up the 
stereo, I think I remeber getting good sound from the line input on the
GUS (which is hooked up to one of my tape out jacks on the stereo).
Now it sounds distorted too, albeit well-balanced.

One more thing that is probably related:  I hooked up two mikes (using
a stereo-to-2-mono splitter of course).  One mike sounds good and goes
to both channels when I enable the mike input using the Windows mixer;
the other mike sounds terrible and much quieter but also goes to both 
channels.  They should be fully split, separate channels shouldn't they?

I'm going to experiment a little more just in case I have something hooked up
wrong, but I don't think so.  It seems to have gradually degenerated.
-- 
  _______                                                             KB7PWD
 (_  | |_)                                            shawn.rutledge@asu.edu
 __) | | \__________________________________________________________________
* anti-Macintosh * GUS * packet * IEEE * C * Internet * electronics * 

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 10:10:35 GMT
From: Hauxwell James S BSc 1 Mod Comp 93-94 <J.Hauxwell@teesside.ac.uk>
Subject: Windows + GUS

Well it did seem that my GUS was running happily with windows but the I changed
something and now it doesn't.

BIG OOOPPPSSS!!!

Could someone kind and considerate mail me with their setup.

Cheers
		J.Hauxwell@uk.ac.teesside

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