Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue Jun 29 00:07     Volume 4: Issue  28  

Today's Topics:
                  Alternatives to epas and wuarchive
                         damn scratchy noises
                 Dune ][ with SCC AND Digitized Sound
                           MidiMusic Digest
                       SC2_DEMO is _WAY_ to dim
                    T7G/AIL - the saga continues!
                            The Syndicate
                       ULTRAMID won't load high
                      ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST V
                    Ultrasound SBOS and syndicate
                       Windows Problem: Solved

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: 28 Jun 93  9:14 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to epas and wuarchive
Message-ID: <3780*twong@civil.ubc.ca>

Yes, there will be other sites coming. Give us a chance to plan it out
first. There will be an announcement this week. Before July.... I think.
Wuarchive and epas will not be our only sites. But it will take time
cause our sites and admins are scattered all over the world. So we don't
getting the benefits of all sitting down in one room to work out all the
details in one sitting. It takes time to ask questions and wait for
replies.


Thomas.

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 9:30:37 BST
From: "James Andrews, User Support" <james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk>
Subject: damn scratchy noises
Message-ID: <18485.9306280830@uk.ac.uel.sol1>

>Greeting friends,
>
>     I have a slight problem.  I have had my Ultrasound for about 9 months now
>and have failed in every way to provide a clean sound recording on my GUS.  I
>now have the 2.06 software, Goldwave, mixer, the whole bit.  My machine is
>a 386/25, I have a quantum 80 meg hd, and Stacker 3.0 installed.  I have
>recorded with every possible setting: Mic, no mic, no output, several setting
>on my stereo system, 11k 22k 44k recording, mono, stereo, the works.  For
>some reason, there are noises(scratchy things) that occur what seems randomly
>throughout the recorded track.  I have disabled stacker, hoping that was the
>problem, reduced freq, increased freq...its just not hashing.  My lineout is
>clean ( I hooked it to an external amp and there was no noise), and My
>connections on the back of the gravis seem to be secure.  Is anyone else
>having these kind of problems?
>
>treason@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Yes, I have what seems to be a similar problem.  I too have tried every
possible piece of recording software, drivers, ram disks all kinds of crap,
moving the card away from the video etc etc but it still does these scratchy
noises like soft scratches on a record at fairly regular intervals- they are
especially annoying on the fade section of samples.

My current theory on why this happens is that the gus's audio record section
is picking up RF interference from its own DMA bursts off the bus in my 
particularly cheap motherboard.  I think I've seen messages about this on
csips and you could try emailing John Smith about it ( I havent tried this
yet )

I cant do a lot about this at the moment as I'm moving house.

Please keep me informed though

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 12:02:55 +1000 (EST)
From: int757n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr. Thaddaeus)
Subject: Dune ][ with SCC AND Digitized Sound
Message-ID: <9306290202.AA08360@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>

	Someone asked for a new dune.cfg file to use Sound Canvas
plus digitize sound. Well, I've posted the info in c.s.i.p.soundcard
but here it is again.

	Edit dune.cfg and change it to this (hex)
		B6 A8 A9 A3 A1 A6 A4 A5 00 BB

	The music is MUCH better and the annoying "Initializing MT32"
and the game trying to rip off your drive A and B are gone ];->.

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       Why is it that everytime I write out an answer the question
is wrong?
	    - Thaddaeus Kong a.k.a int757n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 15:22:17 +0100
From: zccaj19@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stefan Magdalinski)
Subject: MidiMusic Digest
Message-ID: <9306281422.AA21050@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk>

in digest V4 #27, Ido replies

>> suggesting that we set up}
>> a digest or mail round thingy for this subject.}
}

>Good idea, but why make a new news list when there already is one -}
>GUS Programmer's digest. 
>Since patch-making is officially SDK stuff, and heavy R2D
>touches on the limits of the MCI itself -  it's natural that those of us who 
>wish to DEVELOP a song using own patches and digital audio simply move over to
>the currently low-volume gus programmer's digest, and leave non-developers
>more space in the regular gus digest.

Maybe, but I think we should leave the programming  digest to
the programmers. I don't know about anyone else but all that
DMA interrupt vector double buffering widget wangling stuff
goes way over my head. I'm not having (very) many problems with
patch-making. It's patch using that bugs me. I don't think that
using custom patches should really be called DEVELOPEMENT.
Developement means C for me. 
Also, I suspect that volume will increase rapidly on the
programmers' digest now the SDK has been released.
I think our own digest or mailing list would be useful. After all,
I'm sure that there are more people interested in making serious
music than in LINUX drivers(the PUGD list) (but no offence to
you guys), but we don't seem to be getting anywhere.

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 00:59:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Morgan Stair <Morgan_Stair@dl5000.bc.edu>
Subject: SC2_DEMO is _WAY_ to dim
Message-ID: <Pine.3.03.9306290056.A25509-9100000@dl5000.bc.edu>

The subject says it all.  My monitor is fine for all applications I've
ever dealt with, but that demo is just way too dim.  What gives??

Has anyone else had this problem?  Either way, I'd appreciate hearing from
people about it.

Thanks,

  Morgan

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 22:01 GMT0BST-1
From: Paul Kokis <scratcher@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: T7G/AIL - the saga continues!
Message-ID: <memo.377577@cix.compulink.co.uk>

OK, I've now managed to get enough mem free to run t7g with ULTRAMID, 
playing midi using MT32 and speech with SBDIG. Despite what the 
GUSAIL97 readme says, I *can* use my V1.21 PATs (after PUPDATEing 'em). 
  My only problem now is that screen updates have slowed down so as I 
can see the next frame dropping slowly down. Strangely, I get the SAME 
video % rating now as pre-AIL (52% using Cirrus). I tried changing to a 
Tseng ET4000 card - I got 1% of optimum! I thought ETs were fast in 
DOS? Comparing the two *running*, the ET seems to redraw slightly 
faster! I think I need some help! Anyone? 

Oh, BTW. I would be grateful if a UK-based Digest reader could snail me 
 the latest GUS disks, as I'd like to have the latest PATs etc. Please 
contact me via my CIX address if you can help me out. Thanks.

Paul the user of the slowest t7g in the known universe - on a 486/66!  
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                          

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 17:45:07 -0700
From: winston@Cadence.COM (Winston S Worrell)
Subject: The Syndicate
Message-ID: <9306290045.AA00425@cds653>

Has anybody gotten the Elctronic Arts distributed Game called
'The Syndicate' to work with the GUS. I'm using sbos 2.08 to no avail.

The box says "soundballaster only" as the supported  sound card.

Any ideas. Plus -- How can I tell if I have the Opti DAM problem --
where's the fix?

Thanks

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 20:22 GMT0BST-1
From: Paul Kokis <scratcher@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: ULTRAMID won't load high
Message-ID: <memo.377156@cix.compulink.co.uk>

In-Reply-To: <9306270857.AA02488@itchy>
I'm having terrible problems getting t7g to work with the AIL stuff. I 
already mentioned that ULTRAMID -C returns 'error loading patch', even 
after using PUPDATE. I now notice that Windows is saying 'Invalid 
Patch' just after the wallpaper comes up. I reloaded all the *original* 
patches again but I notice that (in PATCHMGR) they all have a ? as the 
first character. They now *play* in Windows (the PUPDATE-ed ones 
didn't), but I still get that 'Invalid..' message. 

Anyway, I noticed that my t7g screen update has *really* slowed with 
AIL, and I can't get enough mem free to run t7g past the credits. There 
seems to be no difference in available mem between ULTRAMID and LH 
ULTRAMID. Typing MEM /C shows ULTRAMID eating 54K conventional. 

What is going on? I'm considering changing back to sbos, just for an 
easy life! 

Paul. Very annoyed! 

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 15:10:47 
From: john.smith@gravis.com
Subject: ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST V
Message-ID: <9306281510.A9244wk@gravis.com>

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>From: swask@unixg.ubc.ca (Shane Waskiewich)
>Subject: [GUS] Xwing sounds
>I download the new SBOS (2.0B9) the other day, with the hopes that
>XWing would finally sound awesome.  After some fiddling, it did.  I had
>to run sbos like:
>     sbos -o13 -x123
>Don't ask me why.  It works.  The sound is rich and full.  The intro
>was truely incredible.
 -----------------------------

I think this person has just invented some switches that we didn't even
know were in there. <grin>

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>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 22:59:42 GMT
>From: thomasvk@blackhl.hacktic.nl (Thomas van Kuipers)
>I send John Smith a message (hope he would reply):
>I Have read the dicussion on AIL drivers. A few mentioned that it
>worked under Os/2, but no one mentioned when REAL OS/2 driver come out
>(no VxD for WinOs/2, unless is extra).
> wI have heard somewhere that a realease date could be 22 june but that
> wasn't sure it was that day. I also want to know if YOU send new files
>only to the list of bbs-en you gave or also on FTP (preferable
>wuarchive by you, I don't mind which Ftp,
> as long as it ftp). If it's only the bbs-en you gave with note number,
>how can you access from ftp to that bbs?
>Also are there any plans on NT-drivers yet (or dus MS make them)? I
>would mention that os/2 drivers must have higher priority. I find the
>GUS a GREAT device, so don't take the message to heard, but i only want
>to know WHEN the mentioned features are out (i can wait a bit, but not
>for years ofcourse <grin>)
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1) Anyone know when IBM is planning to release the VxD patch for OS2?
2) June 22? Not. That was a rumor that someone started a few weeks back.
3) No NT drivers planned yet.


C'ya all later.

John
---
 ~ QMPro 1.50 05-8925 ~ All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 11:29:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: treason@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Ultrasound SBOS and syndicate
Message-ID: <9306281529.AA08820@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

iHas anyone purchased a copy of syndicate AND had it play music/sound
through sbos?  I have tried every conceivable setting other than
changing the address, dma and irq settings.  My current settings are:
ADD: 220, DMA: 1, IRQ: 5.  If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.
I have gotten NO sound at all from this setup.  BTW:  Even without sound
Syndicate is still an awesome game!

treason@gnu.ai.mit.edu

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 09:58:04 -0400
From: "Robinhood -- Marshall Lai" <mtl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Windows Problem: Solved
Message-ID: <9306281358.AA00688@crux2.cit.cornell.edu>

Dear Fellow GUSers,
	Forget about my problem about not able to launch DOS program.
Apparently, a lightning struck on a powerline recently caused my system
to crash which in turn screwed up my GUS windows drivers.  After I reinstall
the GUS windows drivers from the 2.06 disk, everything is ok once again.
							Marshall

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 14:42:18
From: gary@minster.york.ac.uk
Message-ID: <swordfish.741275421@minster.york.ac.uk>

OK - let's liven this up a little. The reason I bought a GUS was to experiment
with good quality sound synthesis. I don't mean playing .MOD files with Gravis's
patches or having noises of jet fighters passing whilst I play tetris (which,
incidentaly, I don't play). My interest is in using Linux as a good/high quality
music and sound workstation.

Currently there are few affordable music workstations. The SGI Indigo has some
reasonable software but is too expensive. The NeXT is no longer made. Mainframes
are difficult to attach DAs to. The CDP system is based upon the old Atari ST
(although it is currently being ported to the Falcon) - a 66MHz 486 seems to give
better price/performance than the humble ST.

A PC running Linux could become a high powerful and easily affordable alternative.
The GUS is cheap and gives moderately good results. Combine the two and we possibly
have a strong combination for both amateur and professional alike.

I consider direct to disk recording and direct from disk playback to be essential
for this.

Now what would be useful and interesting (at least to me:-) are the following
(for example, not exclusively)...

1) direct to disk recorder
2) direct from disk playback
3) waveform-based sample file editors
4) port of c-music (or is it c-sound)
5) port of the phase vocoder
6) frequency spectrum manipulation tools (a la groucho?)
7) MIDI manipulation
8) WHY?

Now 1 & 2 have been made much easier by the release of the SDK. Is Hannu
interested/doing these already?

Regarding 3 I believe that IRCAM have some interesting tools for this
on their FTP site. I believe that they work under X and may be oriented
towards some specific hardware. Anyone with any better knowledge?

4 and 5 shouldn't be too hard. (I always get c-sound and c-music mixed up.)

I don't know of any software for 6.

In 7 I was thinking of tclm (already ported), keynote (v4.7 already
ported), mpu401 drivers (done), GUS midi drivers (looks easy) and
perhaps MAX.

8) What Have You? What's on MITs media labs FTP site? How about
using the GUS with MIDI to emulate commercially available
samplers such as the AKAI S01? etc....

Am I alone in these aspirations?

cheers.... gary

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