Ultrasound Daily Digest     Thu May 27 00:26     Volume 3: Issue  56  

Today's Topics:
					16-bit daughter card and 48KHz
						Comanche Mission Disks
							Cubase and GUS
			 GUS + Adaptec 1542B + new installation disks
					Miles Drivers strikes again...
							New patches...
			Nightly digest uploads to archive.epas fixed!
						The Treehouse & SBOS?

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: Wed, 26 May 93 10:42:35 MDT
From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com>
Subject: Re: 16-bit daughter card and 48KHz
Message-ID: <9305261642.AA02543@elektra.fc.hp.com>

Eric N. Liao <liaoe@aero.org> writes:
>Now that we know the GUS cannot sustain 44.1KHz sampling in 32-voice wavetable:
>mode...what's the point of being able to record at 48KHz?!?

 Here are two reasons:

 1.  When recording any sound source, the better the resolution you have
	 (i.e., the higher the sampling rate), the better the recording
	 results.  Also, you won't always be recording from the GUS.  I plan
	 on recording external audio input, and therefore a 48KHz sampling
	 rate is very desirable.

 2.  The sampling rate is *UP TO 48KHZ*.  If you want to record at
	 44.1KHz, then go ahead!  Just change the sampling rate to 44.1KHz.
	 But having the OPTION of recording up to 48KHz gives you the
	 ability to make some high quality sound samples.

--

  Stuart Yoshida

Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com
   Voice: (303) 229-2324

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:31:36 MES
From: fischer@tmpmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer)
Subject: Comanche Mission Disks
Message-ID: <m0nyJhv-0002wHC@tmpmbx.netmbx.de>

Hi,

I also bought the new set of mission disks. I had to restore the original
comanche.exe and apply the mission disks. Than i also tried the patch 
but it (as you said) checks the source. 

Than I tried comanche with the mission disks and without the patch and
everything works fine. You don't need the patch for the new mission
disks anymore. Obviously the GUS patch is build in or whatever. I have
digital sound (speaking) like before.

-Axel

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 10:57:57 +0001
From: "Z. Horvat" <zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Cubase and GUS
Message-ID: <4g0n4Jg00000ITyUhs@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de>

[Some people recently started a discussion about Cubase/Win and the GUS]

Another thing i have noticed about Cubase is that you have (should!)
start windows in standard mode. This does not work with the ultrasound
drivers, as they only will work in enhanced mode.
The problem is that Cubase does not work smoothly in enhanced mode, at
least not on my 386/40. It needs standard mode (or more processing
power) to hold the tempo constantly. Playing midi files can give a very
funny sound! Other sequencers (or demos of them) that i have do not show
this.
Has anybody gotten around this ?


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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 10:05:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: rwright@dhostwo.convex.com (Randy Wright)
Subject: GUS + Adaptec 1542B + new installation disks
Message-ID: <9305261505.AA26598@dhostwo.convex.com>

> Date: Mon, 24 May 93 4:23:05 CDT
> From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
> Subject: Bug in Windows setup
>
>  While installing the new disks I ran into a bug in the windows setup.
> 
>  Because I have an Adaptec SCSI controller which uses interrupt 11, I changed
> my GF1 interrupt to 12. During the windows setup, a line was put into
> my system.ini that said: gf1_int=11
> 
>  Needless to say, everything hung (or gave spurious errors) when I tried to
> run windows. It took me a LONG time to find the problem, so if you have
> changed your interrupt, look in the system.ini file in the section
> [ultrasnd.drv] and make sure it's right. Interestingly enough, I had also
> changed the midi interrupt to 7 and that was put in correctly.

I have essentially the same hardware setup as John - i.e. GUS and
Adaptec 1542B - and I also experienced the same problem.  Windows did
work well enough for me with the new GUS installation disks to be
able to reconfigure the drivers correctly with the menu sequence
ControlPanel->Drivers->Gus->Setup.  The net effect, however, is the
same as John's more direcrt edit of SYSTEM.INI.

Also, another Adaptec+GUS note: GUSMOD as it is shipped on the 
the 2.06 disks seems to still suffer from the problem described
in volume 3, issue 18 of the GUS digest, wherein Wayne Hodgen writes:

| Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 14:58:42 MET DST
| From: hodgen@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
| Subject: Adaptec and GUS
| 
| I finally got it working. Gusmod doesn't hang any more. I can save the setup
| as often as I want. It even works from the CD-ROM no problem. Ultramod works
| with the CD-ROM drivers in and Starcon2 as well. It all boils down to the
| programmers scanning for the interrupt and DMA lines. Maybe there's some
| reason why they can't just use the ULTRASND variable but ... The answer is
| to set the interrupt and DMA for the ultrasound and the adaptec so that these
| programms find the ultrasound first. My setup now is
| Ultrasound: B/a 210, DMA 5, IRQ 11 and 12
| Soundblaster: B/a 220, DMA 1, IRQ5
| Adaptec: B/a 300, DMA 7, IRQ 15

I cannot vouch for the recommended configuration, as I chose simply to
live without GUSMOD until it co-exists more gracefully with the Adaptec.
BTW, I did configure GUSMOD correctly using the supplied GUSMOD
configuration program, which also left me wondering why the authors
did not use the standard environment variable.

-- 
Randy Wright            Usmail: Convex Computers
Phone: (214) 497-4868           3000 Waterview Pky. M/S DV4
Email:  rwright@convex.com      P.O. Box 833851
					Richardson, TX  75083-3851

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:58:42 EST
From: Jerry <QAAA@vm1.si.USherb.ca>
Subject: Miles Drivers strikes again...
Message-ID: <9305261808.AA07517@orca.es.com>

I sent a note asking John Smith at GRAVIS if the new Miles drivers would be
released on archive sites. The answer I received was: "They can be found at"
and then he pasted the complete BBS nodes list. I looked at EPAS for any new
file and the last one was GUS0031 (SBOS 2.08). Either the .ADV files I am
looking for are included with the new disk set, or the EPAS archive is not up
to date. Could a kind soul please check at the GRAVIS BBS for any new file and
put them in the SUBMIT directory of EPAS.

										   Thanks
												Jerry
												  QAAA @ UDESVM
													   @ VM1.SI.USHERB.CA

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 14:30:14 PDT
From: cs64sbg@sdcc8.UCSD.EDU (Anthony Tang)
Subject: New patches...
Message-ID: <9305262130.AA18602@sdcc8.UCSD.EDU>

First, a little warning/comment about the files in epas.  Last time
I looked, there wasn't a file called "newpatch.zip" although there's
a text file called "newpatch.txt"  It seems the 2 new patches in the
new disk set were ULed unzipped.  (*.pat files).  Anyway, what patch
does charang.pat replace?


There is a file called patch.zip which is the patch editor from the
SDK.  Anyway, if you try to load an older patch file (usually one of
the custom ones), it says "old version,  Use update to update the
file".  Where's update?  (It's not in the SDK anywhere, either).

Anthony Tang
aktang@ucsd.edu

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:45:46 CDT
From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry)
Subject: Nightly digest uploads to archive.epas fixed!
Message-ID: <9305261945.AA05616@itchy>

	To all of those who have been wishing for this to come back
(and those of you who couldn't care less as well :)...

	The digest(s) are again being uploaded to archive.epas every
night.  Fweee.

	The Ultrasound Daily Digest goes into the directory
/pub/pc/ultrasound/digest, the GUS Programmer's Digest goes into
/pub/pc/ultrasound/sdk-digest.  The 'daily' file will be updated daily
(oddly enough) with the latest digest, and back issues will be stored
in the directory vol-X/Y, where X is the volume number and Y is the
issue number.

	Also, for those who keep track of such things, I am going to
change the system so that the volume number increments every month,
instead of every quarter.

	Finally, the GUS FAQ is posted to the relevant USENET
newsgroups on the 5th and 20th of every month.

	I'll upload the missing digests to archive.epas as soon as I
get a free moment.

-- 
Dave  ddebry@ debry@   \
DeBry dsd.    peruvian. | "I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar.
	  es.     cs.utah.  |  I like it a lot."
	  com     edu      /

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Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 00:07:58 EDT
From: Marc Rouleau <mer6g@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: The Treehouse & SBOS?
Message-ID: <9305270332.AA16324@orca.es.com>

Has anyone gotten this to work?  Is there a magic SBOS flag, or is The
Treehouse known not to work with SBOS?  Whenever we do something which
triggers a digital sound, our PC locks up while the sound repeats
endlessly.

	-- Marc Rouleau

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 11:02:23 +0200
From: rock@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
Message-ID: <9305260902.AA14525@messua>

 Hi folks!

 Please be careful with the midifile pianoman from the archive midis.zip.
 When trying to play it with playmidi V4.03, i got the following error:

  Expecting MTrk, correct midi file ?

 Then my system hang up. After rebooting, i got (and still get) a
 xcoms checksum failure...:-(
 This seems to be a bug (definitly not a feature ;-) ) of playmidi 
 which can't handle the error.
 Ciao...Olli

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