Ultrasound Daily Digest     Fri May 28 00:07     Volume 3: Issue  57  

Today's Topics:
								   
		   DIGEST ADMIN: NEW UGLY POLICY!  YOU'LL HATE IT!
			GUS + Adaptec 1542B + new installation disks 
					   Midi card + Ultrasound?
					   Strike Commander/SB Pro
						 The Treehouse & SBOS
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #56

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: 27 May 1993   00:54:27 PST
From: chrisw <chrisw@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: 
Message-ID: <9305270753.AA18890@leland.Stanford.EDU>

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>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.

But what are you going to play it back on? I mean, unless you've got 48khz
recording AND playback I'm not sure I see the point. Actually, to tell you
the truth I've never understood the 48kHz rate anyway. 44.1kHz should be 
enough to capture all audible frequencies, shouldn't it? (Though the
neighbourhood cats and dogs might be really impressed!). My feeling is
that most microphones and speakers are going to start rolling off pretty fast 
above the 20kHz mark anyway.

The only thing I could think of was that perhaps if you're recording ofF a 
DAT there's some reason that it's better to be using it's sampling
frequency. Though you still need 48kHz playback, otherwise you're still
going to have to do the sample rate conversion when you play back the 
recording. Besides which, you should really transfer the data digitally.

Chris.

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 19:02:59 CDT
From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry)
Subject: DIGEST ADMIN: NEW UGLY POLICY!  YOU'LL HATE IT!
Message-ID: <9305280103.AA10981@itchy>

	I don't have time to track people down if there is a mail
bounce (which happens more and more frequently as the number of users
and the number of lists and digests goes up).  The new policy is that
if I receive a bounce from your site, your name comes off the list
immediately.

	Sorry I have to do this.  I'd really like to devote more time
to support of this digest, the programmer's digest, and all the
mailing lists, but I do have to pay rent and buy groceries, and no one
here has volunteered to help me out with those yet.  :-)

	(BTW: This includes "vacation" program replies.  If you are
going on vacation, remove yourself from the list for the time, and
then get back on when you come home.  Otherwise I'll do it for you,
with much less kindness.  Grrrr.)

	If you don't get a digest someday, check the ftp sites to see
if there was a digest made that day.  (If no one sends messages to the
digest, it's not supposed to mail anything out.  Of course, it might,
if there's a bug.  We'll see tonight... no mail has come in to the
programmer's digest today.)  If there was, then your site might be
having mail problems, in which case you've been removed from the list.
When the problem is fixed, go ahead and resubscribe.

-- 
Dave  ddebry@ debry@   \
DeBry dsd.    peruvian. | "We are the Abnormal Mystic Police!"
	  es.     cs.utah.  |
	  com     edu      /

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 23:45:21 -0400
From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" <dantonio@magick.tay2.dec.com>
Subject: Re: GUS + Adaptec 1542B + new installation disks 
Message-ID: <9305280345.AA18499@magick.tay2.dec.com>

> 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:

Yup. I Also have an Adaptec 1540B as well as an SB 1.5 and a GUS and I've
written to CyberStrike about this a couple times, with no response. If I
keep all the MOD files and such off the SCSI disk, it works ok, however, it
still hoses the Adaptec so that it cannot complete the scan of the SCSI bus
if I reboot. The only thing that will fix it is a Reset.

Since the code for GMOD 2.11 has been posted, I'll see if I can find out
why, but not knowning 80x86 ASM will most likely make this difficult...:-)

DDA

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 14:54:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: ccastge@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: Midi card + Ultrasound?
Message-ID: <9305271854.AA02008@prism>

   I've had my Ultrasound now for about 6 months, and do not want to wait any
longer for the midi cable box to come out. I've tried a friend's SBPro Midi
connector, with my keyboard (a Yamaha PSS-790, I think), and no dice. It
kind of worked when the GUS was sending it midi data, but neither Cakewalk,
nor the kbmidi player, would respond to keypresses on my keyboard, on any
channel.

   What I'd like to know is, has anybody used a 'generic' midi board, or if
such a thing exists, along with the GUS? I've heard that there are cards you
can plug into a slot, that allow you to plug in midi cables, and work with
whatever soundcard you've got.

   How much is something like this going to be (U.S.), and where can I get it?

   Thanks for any info you might have!


ccastge@prism.gatech.edu         | Why are we here?              --Neil Peart
a.k.a., Guy Elden Jr.            |   Because we're here...       ------------
Currently being 'frizzle-fried'  | Why does it happen?
in the CS realm...               |   Because it happens...  Roll the Bones...

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Date: 28 May 93 11:41:11 U
From: "zz Paul Murgatroyd" <zz_paul_murgatroyd@macmail.bond.edu.au>
Subject: Strike Commander/SB Pro
Message-ID: <9305280133.AA15840@kirk.Bond.edu.au>

Is anyone out there using a SoundBlaster Pro with Strike Commander??? I just
obtained a SoundBlaster Pro, and I can't seem to get Strike Commander to
recognize it. I managed to get Strike Commander working with my ordinary
soundblaster, but the same method does not seem to work with the SB Pro. Any
help is appeociated greatly. It seems to be only Strike Commander that has
problems "finding" the sound board. Everything else I have works flawlessly,
making me wonder if perhapd the sound card initialise routine in Strike
Commader is a bit buggy. Here is my current sound board config:

SB PRO: Base=220H, IRQ=7, DMA=1
GUS   : Base=240H, IRQ=11, DMA=7, SB/MIDI IRQ=5

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 10:46:35 MST
From: "Dave Bakken" <bakken@cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: The Treehouse & SBOS
Message-ID: <199305271746.AA15939@centennial.cs.arizona.edu>

I don't know about Treehouse, but hopefully my experiences with
Playroom, its little brother, will help.  Playroom works
fine with my GUS when run from DOS, although for some reason
half of the sounds come from the PC speaker and not the soundcard.
(I'm sure this is not a problem with the GUS.) However, the
sounds that come over the GUS don't work when I try to fire
up Playroom from Windows.  It doesn't hang, but the sounds
don't come out.  When I first got Playroom and my GUS in January
it would sometimes hang when fired up from Windows, but that has
worked for a long time (I think a new GUS software release fixed
it).

I saw that they're coming out with a new Playroom version; hopefully
this will work better with GUS and Windows.  And hopefully they
will improve Treehouse for you or you can find a way to make it work.

Dave Bakken

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 19:14:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Timothy C. Gion" <gion@ravel.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #56
Message-ID: <Pine.3.03.9305271941.A6557-b100000@ravel.udel.edu>

>Date: 23 May 93 14:10:28 U
>From: "zz Paul Murgatroyd" <zz_paul_murgatroyd@macmail.bond.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #51
>Message-ID: <9305230357.AA03739@kirk.Bond.edu.au>


>Timothy, I also had this problem, and I do not know why it won't recognize the
>SB. I found a work around which should also work for you. This only needs to be
>done immediately after a cold boot (ie:the first time you turn the power on).
>After the computer has booted, change to the ULTRASND directory, and run
>SETGUS. When SETGUS shows you the current settings, choose "Accept". SETGUS
>will now test the settings in the usual way. They should both pass. Accept the
>settings, but when SETGUS asks if you want to modify CONFIG.SYS and
>AUTOEXEC.BAT with these settings, choose NO, then exit the program as usual.
>Now you will be able to run Strike Commander with no problems.
>   The thing that puzzles me this work around is that it doesn't change any of
>the setup files at all, so the problem lies somewhere other than CONFIG.SYS and
>AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Thanks that fixed everything!  All these tricks we have to pull to get the
GUS to work with the SB should go in the faq.


Tim Gion   AKA  /     \     University of Delaware - Computer Science
			   -Merdion- 
				\     / 

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 08:21:12 +0200
From: rogan@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Rogan Alan Hastings Dawes)
Message-ID: <9305270621.AA17169@concave.cs.wits.ac.za>

Subject : GUS in South Africa?

Looking in the FAQ yesterday, I saw that one of the recommended places to
get the GUS was Telemart. Now, seeing as how I live in South Africa,
(yes, we do have computers down here :-) it is a bit difficult to get
hold of a GUS ( at a reasonable price ) locally.  I was wondering if anyone
could tell me how Telemart's international ordering works.
I know they do take international orders, 'cos I saw their ad in the PC  
Magazine. Unfortunately, a phone call to the States costs a lot from here,
otherwise I'd phone them myself.

I think that they usually take credit card numbers, but due to local 
foreign exchange laws, I don't think that I will be able to do it that
way. Is there an alternative? And how much will this little lot end up
costing me?

I see that they are advertising the GUS for about $127-00 and then say 
that I must add 6% for an international order. Does that include postage?
If not, any idea of how much postage is?

Thanks a lot.



Rogan Dawes    -    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

rogan@concave.cs.wits.ac.za

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