Ultrasound Daily Digest     Mon Jul 19 00:07     Volume 4: Issue  47  

Today's Topics:
						 669 Composer on EPAS
				  FW: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #43
				  GUS and Midisoft Recording Session
							   GUS DRAM
				 Power Chord and Recording Session...
				Question about 16bit sampling upgrade
							   Stacks?

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: Sun, 18 Jul 93 13:26:39 GMT-3:30
From: Dups <duleepa@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: 669 Composer on EPAS
Message-ID: <9307181556.AA24037@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>

Hiya...

(first time posting on the digest...gives me the chills :-)

A quickie question which is not in the FAQ (I think). How do you get the
669 composer up on EPAS to work..the file is composd13.zip from
Renaissance. I got past the initial hurdle of having a clean system ie
Dos is low, no memory managers no TSR's, then it gave me the error that
I MUST have an SB or SBPro. So fine, I installed SBOS...various
versions, 2.04 didn't work but 1.20 did in that the screen disappeared
and my system crashed. 

Has anyone out there got this thing working????????

Any help is greatly appreciated...

Dups
(who still hasn't received his disks but hopes fervently they won't
arrive till AFTER he has done his History paper :-)

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 11:52:34 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1098@kowande.Bond.edu.au>
Subject: Re: FW: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #43
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9307191133.A6852-a100000@sand.kowande.Bond.edu.au>

On 19 Jul 1993, zz Paul Murgatroyd wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 11:32:18 -0400
> From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
> Subject: Virtual Leftovers...
> Message-ID: <9307141532.AA17970@magick.tay2.dec.com>
> 
> Has anyone tried this demo/intro? If so, does anyone get any sound out of
> it???

Yep, and I'll I got was virtual silence, just like you! GUSMOD does work
on my system though, as does everything else. My GUS set up is 240,7,7,11,5

If you want to hear the mod, just rename virtual.000 as virtual.mod (so
your mod player can see it), and play it to your hearts content. 

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 21:28:44 -0400
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <kwanr@ecf.toronto.edu>
Subject: GUS and Midisoft Recording Session
Message-ID: <93Jul18.212852edt.4945@skule.ecf.toronto.edu>

Has anyone experiencedproblems with the Midisoft which came with the GUS 2.06
diskettes? First, I could not select to output to midi port like winjammer 
could. Second, I've changed the patches of a midi and saved it, still I could
not play the midi in the right patches. Any idea what's wrong with the prog.
or is the Midisoft that came with the GUS 2.06 diskettes is a limited demo
version??

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 14:05:22 -0400
From: blevins@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: GUS DRAM
Message-ID: <9307181805.AA26501@cacciatore>

I finally decided to upgrade my GUS memory from 256k to 1Meg.  I
remember reading that some people had problems with some brands of
DRAM.  Can those people email me and let me know which Brand/Speed/etc
of DRAM to stay away from.  Can those people who have had success with
memory upgrades let me know what kind of DRAM they got.  Any and all
replies by Email or on the GUS Digest appreciated.

	--Matt

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 3:16:05 PDT
From: Jody Franzen <jfranzen@scf.usc.edu>
Subject: Power Chord and Recording Session...
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.2.742990565.jfranzen@aludra.usc.edu>

	 I haven't received my upgrades via snail mail so I ftp'ed 'em.  But
these files don't seem to come with Power Chord or Recording Session.  Do I
have to wait for the disks to come in tha mail.  And if so, how can I check t
see that I am indeed on the mailing lists for upgrades?  Thanks.


			  J. J. Franzen

			Bringing true meaning to the phrase:

			"Starving Student"

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 13:26:14 +0200
From: Christian Klass <chribeag@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Question about 16bit sampling upgrade
Message-ID: <9307181126.AA25621@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>

Hello there,
someone in the soundcards newsgroup mentioned that
the 16bit samplingboard has a 4 to 1 compression.
Can this compression be used playing compressed patches
in realtime? Imagine how much samples you could stuff
into the GUS...

Bye,
	Chris

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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 14:15:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: Siu-fung Lee <umlee182@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Stacks?
Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9307181454.A3948-c100000@ccu.umanitoba.ca>

In the previous digest, Jim Blakely mentioned setting stacks to 9,128 (or
something like that).  With the newer versions of dos like 5.0, and most
newer programs, you do will not need stacks, so 0,0 setting shouldn't
cause any problems (hasn't for me, nor any of my friends).  The Dos
Powertools manual suggests setting it to 0,0 to save a bit of conventional
memory (if need be).  Why am I even talking about stacks here?

I'd personally be afraid to set buffers to a high setting....  I've seen
some wierd crashes whenever I set buffers > 40.  Of course, I was playing
U7 at the time, so I guess it would be okay if one runs dos "friendly"
programs.  Instead of adding buffers (since it's ineffective anyways), use
a cache, and keep buffers low (5 or so).  But I guess programs like U7,
Windows, etc. would make most users think twice about eating up memory
with a cache.

Oh and my GUS problem... I wrote to ibm.pc.soundcard about GUS hiss!  I'm
now pretty sure now that it is a hardware problem, and not an EM problem.
In short, my card adds hissing to my sample recording off mic-in and line-
in, and the hiss matches the volume changes of the sound that I record!  I
think it may be something to do with the DAC (too much voltage?), but I
dunno anything about circuits, so I dunno.  I tried a friend's GUS, and
all you get is some hiss from EM, which is negligible when recording
loudly.  But mine... nooooo!  The hiss gets louder when I record louder! 
Used the same equipment for both soundcards, played with all the software
settings....

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umlee182@ccu.umanitoba.ca                        |\           Siu-Fung Lee
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University of Manitoba, Winnipeg                   | |
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Thesis: Mobile Suit theology - "In Search of Subtitling for Zeta Gundam"
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