Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sat Jul 24 00:07     Volume 4: Issue  52  

Today's Topics:
	  Corrupted GUS0033.ZIP on the net, but I have a clean copy.
					 GUS: GUS0033.ZIP re-uploaded
							MIDI GUS Usage
					Power Chords/Recording Session
						 Thanks guys...*NOT*
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #48
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #51
					 various disk images on epas

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: Fri, 23 Jul 93 7:39:55 CDT
From: ibmpa!hartmann.austin.ibm.com!lance@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: Corrupted GUS0033.ZIP on the net, but I have a clean copy.
Message-ID: <9307231239.AA15246@hartmann.austin.ibm.com>

> 
> =Date: 22 Jul 93 14:41:52 GMT+0100
> =From: "Alexander Majarek, Sascha, SAM"  <Alexander.Majarek@uibk.ac.at>
> =Subject: SBOS-V2.B10
> 
> I downloaded GUS0033.ZIP (SBOS 2.B10) from EPAS yesterday. The zip-
> file was corrupted. But when I tried from WUARCHIVE the same thing
> happened. (I used IMAGE :=} for transfer). When I ZIPFIX it, I get a
> few files, but SBOSDRV.SYS (or the like) is damaged.
> 
> Any hint? Did that happen to any other? If the file is corrupted (it
> has only 78 K) could someone be so kind to upload a non-corrupted
> version?
> 

Like, you, I found GUS0033.ZIP corrupted.  Surprised to see a corruption
problem even AFTER it had been "checked" and moved from the "submit"
directory, I grabbed copies of GUS0033.ZIP from three (3) other places
only to find them corrupted as well.  I guess if you mirror junk, you get
copies of junk.

Anyhows, I downloaded GUS0033.ZIP directly from Gravis' board last
weekend.  The real file (read:  UNcorrupted) is more than 300K.

Lacking FTP access, though, I have no real means in directly uploading
files to the Internet (I can only download using the mail-server).  If
no one else has done so and anyone is interested, I'd be happy to 
email a uuencoded copy to someone so they could in turn put it up
on the net.  I don't have my copy of GUS0033.ZIP with me right now,
but could access it by this afternoon or tomorrow.

-- 
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
			   Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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All statements, comments, opinions, etc. herein reflect those of the author
and shall NOT be misconstrued as those of IBM or anyone else for that matter.

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Date: 23 Jul 93 10:22 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: GUS: GUS0033.ZIP re-uploaded
Message-ID: <3939*twong@civil.ubc.ca>

The file GUS0033.ZIP has been re-uploaded to epas and wuarchive
under the directory .../gravis/patch. Wait 24 hours for the other
2 site to mirror the update. Thanks.

Thomas.

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:23:08 BST
From: "James Andrews, User Support" <james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: MIDI GUS Usage
Message-ID: <3896.9307231323@uk.ac.uel.sol1>

> A have Roland U20 connected to the PC with a MPU-401. I'm 
> trying to make my own samples for the GUS but stumbled on some
> problems like : the amount of steps to use the samples with 
> the keyboard : first sample with FILEPLAY, then convert the .WAV to
> a patch format with WAV2PAT, then edit the sample with PATCH including
> cold booting a few times when it hangs, then edit the ULTRANSD.INI file, 
> to finaly discover that Midi Session doens't work because I changed the
> .INI file (sometimes it accepts a new sample sometimes it won't) ??? 
> 
> Do you happen to know an easier way to use the GUS as a MIDI Sampler ?
Not anything radically easier.  The only hints I'd have are:

Use noisemaster instead of fileplay and trim the thing at the first stage
into more or less what you want that way.  I never use patch, I only make
simple patches ( not wavetable ),  so this makes a lot of sense to me.

Write a little visual basic program/ get a multiple program launder/ write
a windows macro that starts up all the junk you need to do this eg:

write or notepad on the ultrasnd.ini
noisemaster or some other windows sampling program
wav2pat

Use a temporary patch name for testing, eg assign one of the ultrasnd.ini
numbers to a 'temporary' patch.  I *think* this gets around rebooting between
tries at testing the patches, but I dont remember.  Like I say, I only make
very simple patches and bung them straight into my vandalised not general at
all midi map.
> 
> Thanks in advance & best regards,
> 
> 
> Marcel.
> --
> 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Marcel M. Schoffelmeer       Internet : marcel@tophat.cdh.cdc.com

In a few months patch making might get a bit easier, with moves afoot from
gravis to implement some kind of bank switching and also the great Mr. Dion's
patchgod program becoming available.
I'll copy this to the ultrasound list.

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 08:09:26 -0400
From: stewartj@engg.dnet.dupont.com
Subject: Power Chords/Recording Session
Message-ID: <9307231209.AA05971@esds01.es.dupont.com>

Hey all... I just received my gravis upgrade disks in the mail and
installed them.  I installed them expecting to find all the programs
everyone has been talking about... namely... PowerChords and Recording
Session.  I received five disk and have installed them twice.  I gues
they didn't include the programs?  Any help is appreciated. =)

Thanks,
Todd

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 16:39 GMT
From: EXT0012@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK
Subject: Thanks guys...*NOT*
Message-ID: <9307231539.AA12246@orca.es.com>

Re: Yesterdays digest...

Ooooh! Four digests in one! Great! Only 3 of them were identical and VERY long.

I have but a small modem which is slow and files of 70K or more don't do the
old 'phone bill much good.

I gather they were sent automatically, but could someone put a catch in so
that it doesn't happen TOO often?

Thanks!

PS. I've got OS/2 drivers for the GUS, but I haven't managed to get them
	decompressed yet! More soon...

Jonathan Clark.

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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 23:22:33 EDT
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org (Jim Blakely)
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #48
Message-ID: <743463762@rylos>

Note:

When playing .MID files under Windows (or OS/2) through MIDI Mapper,
one must be sure *not* to direct anything to channels 11-16. Channels
11-16 are reserved under the Multimedia specification for *base
level* synthesizers. 

The multimedia specification for extended level synths, such as the
GUS, requires melodic data on channels 1-9, and percussive data on
channel 10.

This could be why you find pieces of songs missing when played in
Recording Session - the piece may need revoicing to be in compliance
with the Multimedia specification.

Most MIDI files done in the last year or so have been written to the
Multimedia spec - some older ones may not.

-Jim

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 15:38:46 EDT
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #51
Message-ID: <9307231938.AA21655@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>

> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 11:13:20 CDT
> From: monty@butler.cps.com (Montgomery Kosma)
> Subject: gravis tech support?
> Message-ID: <2c4ebca4.butler@butler.cps.com>
> 
> can somebody tell me the proper email address for gravis tech support? 
> Everything I've tried has bounced.  (like tech@gravis.com, tech_1@gravis.com,
> etc.) 
>

I think the proper addresses are 
	john.smith@gravis.com 
	tech1@gravis.com and
	tech2@gravis.com
 
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 16:35:03 CDT
> From: xeno@iastate.edu
> Subject: How can I get proper volume response under Windows 3.1?
> Message-ID: <9307212135.AA03638@iastate.edu>
> 
> While running my GUS under Windows 3.1, the volume response is terrible.
> Any sound played 'softly' is nearly inaudible and any sound that is
> audible drowns out all of the other instruments.
>

The volume response of the GUS has been linearized in as yet unreleased
versions of the Windows driver and PlayMIDI.  In the meantime, you can
use VMAP to remap the volumes in MIDs to match the GUS' log response.

Phat. 

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 12:45:55 -0700
From: haslock@fungus.zso.dec.com
Subject: various disk images on epas
Message-ID: <9307231945.AA10884@fungus.zso.dec.com>

Having been out of touch for a while, I checked out the archive and
realized that I had missed an upgrade. I copyied over the 2.06L disk
images and tried to install them last night.

The install program could not recognize either disk 3 or disk 5 and I
never got to either disk 4 or disk 6. However, Disks 1 and 2 worked
fine so I believe that I am copying and unzipping them correctly. Did
the images ever work? Have they gone corrupt while noone was looking?

I also found that the latest SBOS disk (gus0033) is incomplete.

	Nigel Haslock
	haslock@zso.dec.com

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