GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 15 Jan 94  0:07         Volume 10: Issue  15 

Today's Topics:
							 2.06a disks
					2 Hell and Back w/New Drivers
					   Adding memory to a GUS?
							Band in a Box
								DOS4GW
							  GUS Chips
					   GUS Daily Digest V10 #14
						New drivers && Megaem?
		   New windows drivers and lack of MIDI-my solution
						   PatchDir/GUS etc
				 REPLY: DUNE I AND SBOS DOES NOT WORK
							Sample dumping
					Solved Adding memory to a GUS
						  Street Fighter II
						  UltraTracker 1.50
					   Voice Recognition & GUS
					   What does it all mean?!

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, 14 Jan 1994 12:29:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Nashold <nashold@WPI.EDU>
Subject: 2.06a disks

  My brother got an Ultrasound for Christmas and the MOD player from
 the 2.06a disks rots! It only came with 2 mods and the only thing I could
 see on the screen was the 4 channel volumes. Any answers?

 Doug Nashold
 nashold@wpi.wpi.edu

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 4:14:01 CST
From: chuth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Cornel H. Huth)
Subject: 2 Hell and Back w/New Drivers

[For specifics in my case see the GUS-digest of 12-Jan-93, "PatchDir to Hell".]

I still don't know what's up with the new drivers (PMLITE bunch). They
had been working with all apps until two days ago. As a kludge, and one
hell of a one, I made a couple of .bat files to replace the drivers.
Simple, not terribly effective, but at least there's some MIDI music!
Here's what I did, everything else unchanged:

Directory of F:\SND\_GUS\WINDOWS\OLD  (both .bat files here)

COPYOLD  BAT           145 01-14-94   3:53a
xcopy grvsultr.386 e:\win31\system
xcopy midimap.cfg e:\win31\system
xcopy ultmport.drv e:\win31\system
xcopy ultrasnd.drv e:\win31\system

COPYNEW  BAT           157 01-14-94   3:53a
xcopy ..\grvsultr.386 e:\win31\system
xcopy ..\midimap.cfg e:\win31\system
xcopy ..\ultmport.drv e:\win31\system
xcopy ..\ultrasnd.drv e:\win31\system

All this does is replace the new driver set with the old, and vice-versa.
This makes all the old apps happy and makes PMLite happy (PMLite seems to
work with the old drivers, but just not very well (or stable)). I know,
one hell of a kludge. The Mixer also is not compatible between drivers,
so that really should be altered with the drivers. Now, how many that are
having problems also kept their old drivers around? Anyway, this is not
intended for anything but a next-to last resort.
--
Cornel

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:39:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Todd C. Gleason" <tg2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Adding memory to a GUS?

Excerpts from mail: 14-Jan-94 GUS Daily Digest V10 #14 by GUS
Server@dsd.es.com 
> I bought a 256K GUS a while back, and now want to expand it to 1Mb.
> I have seen messages that say I need to buy 256Kx4 fast page DRAM chips.
> I looked at my GUS board and there is a total of eight slots, two of which 
> have been filled.
>  
> Now, a bit of maths here. 1Mb / 8 slots = 128K per chip.
> When I look at the chips in the board the numbers on the top claim the
> chips to be 256K, which means I have 256K * 2 = 512K of on-board memory
> on the GUS card.
>  
> Would someone please please please explain:
> 1. Why this is?
> 2. What should I expect to buy? 128K chips or 256K chips.
> 3. IfI buy 256K chips, how many and where do I fit them on the GUS to
> get 1Mb of memory!

Essentially, you are right--but your thinking is just a bit off.  256Kx4
means that they are only 4bits wide.  Two chips gives you 8bits wide,
256K.  Thus, six chips (surprisingly, the number of formerly "free"
sockets on my GUS card) gives you the additional 768K to bring you up to
a meg.

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Date: 14 Jan 94 10:28:00 PST
From: EBULALACAO@CSUPomona.Edu
Subject: Band in a Box

If you like such things...then try out Juker v3.0 for Windows...it supports
patch caching...I also have Band in a Box...Juker is much better...and it's
shareware!  It's available in EPAS.

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 08:55:12 EST
From: eths1306@ele.etsmtl.ca
Subject: DOS4GW

Hi,
	I'm a satisfied owner of Ultrasound card since 6 months, despite some
minor problem with certain software the emulation for programs which doesn't
support it natively is quite good.

	The problem is that we are seing more and more programs that use the
DOS4GW extender, are these programs unusable if they don't support natively
our Ultrasound ? Since not many company have release softwares that use
directly our card, some of us are getting afraid not to be able to emulate
SoundBlaster any more because of the DOS4GW.

			Thank you
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|      Styve Ethier        | Take one more look at what you found old |
|  eths1306@ele.etsmtl     | And in it you'll find something new      |
|  ETS Montreal, Canada    |                           -Depeche Mode  |
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 09:16:08 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  14-Jan-1994 0919" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: GUS Chips

>I have seen messages that say I need to buy 256Kx4 fast page DRAM chips.
>I looked at my GUS board and there is a total of eight slots, two of which 
>have been filled.
>
>Now, a bit of maths here. 1Mb / 8 slots = 128K per chip.
>When I look at the chips in the board the numbers on the top claim the
>chips to be 256K, which means I have 256K * 2 = 512K of on-board memory
>on the GUS card.

>Would someone please please please explain:
>1. Why this is?

What you missed is the "x4" in 245Kx4.  That means that this particular memory 
chip contains 256k nybbles (i.e. 4-bit words).  In order to get 256K *bytes* you 
need two of them with the same address lines, and you use one chip for the most 
significant 4 bits and one for the least significant 4 bits of the byte.

>2. What should I expect to buy? 128K chips or 256K chips.

256Kx4 fast page

>3. IfI buy 256K chips, how many and where do I fit them on the GUS to
>get 1Mb of memory!

Buy 6 of them (that is 6x256Knybbles/(2 nybbles/byte) = 3x256K bytes) and put 
them into the 6 empty sockets.

===========================================

After 1 was answered, I'm sure you figured out 2 and 3 by yourself :-)  Sorry 
for being pedantic...

Burns

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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 01:22:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "Kerry I. Kurian" <pedro@WPI.EDU>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #14

PLease send the GUS mail to my other address:

KKURIAN@smith.smith.edu

Thanks!

-Cat

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 10:15:04 CST
From: Jon Holt <holt@holt.camax.com>
Subject: New drivers && Megaem?

I've installed the new drivers bundled with Patch Maker Lite, and all is
well in the Windows world.  I'm a bit confused about the new ULTRASND.INI
file, and some side effects of it (I think.)

1.  I have been using Megaem for GMIDI support.  I replaced patch #127,
	ringwhsl with pistol2 in my old ULTRASND.INI, and Megaem would use
	the pistol2 patch.  (You guessed it, I haven't finished Xwing yet)
	
	I attempted to replace this patch in the new ULTRASND.INI file (both
	occurances), but Megaem didn't use it.  Do I have to switch back to
	my old ULTRASND.INI every time I use Megaem?

2.  What's the deal with the multiple patch sets in the new ULTRASND.INI
	file?  I get the idea, but how do you actually switch to a different
	set of patches from inside a Windows application?  Anybody have sample
	code to accomplish this?

3.  TO GRAVIS:  Will you be shipping a new set of update disks to registered
	Ultrasound owners sometime this year?  I would like to see the new drivers,
	Megaem, Patch Maker Lite, etc. shipped out to your loyal customers.
	Grabbing things piecemeal from epas is a pain, and isn't an option
	for non-internet folks.

-- 
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   Jon Holt (holt@camax.com)     -   CAMAX Systems, Inc.        612/854-5300
   Have coffee, will travel.     -   Minneapolis, MN, USA   Fax 612/854-6644
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.  
-HUNGARIAN PROVERB

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Date: Fri, 14 JAN 94 16:07:40 BST
From: ERH6HALLS@CLUSTER.NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK
Subject: New windows drivers and lack of MIDI-my solution

Date sent:  14-JAN-1994 15:57:18 

Simon says: It's a real mess but it's Fun!..  


I installed the new windows drivers from the SDK along with PMlite. I have a 
custom ultrasnd.ini which I didn't want to change, which has it's roots in the 
2.06a disks..anyway, I lost the patches in windoze, and all the other symptoms 
described in the last few digests.

After re-installing the drivers to no avail, I compared the .ini files..
The new one has headers for each bank eg [melodic bank 0] as well as [Melodic 
patches], so I edited my old .ini to resemble the new one, started windoze and 
problem solved.

My Solution: Install the new .ini (edit each bank's path to your patch dirs) to 
/ultrasnd or compare the new one with yours and edit it manually. Patchman only 
seems to notice the old headers so keep them in, and add seperate banks (like 
the new .ini) at the end.

Hope this works for someone else,


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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 09:19:22 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  14-Jan-1994 0922" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: PatchDir/GUS etc

>I have the ultrasnd.ini file in both my \ultrasnd dir as well as my
>\ultrasnd\windows file, and both point to c:\ultrasnd\midi .  Still, no
>windows midi whatsoever.  Can someone send me detailed instructions on
>how to completely reinstall the gus drivers?  I'm fed up with this...my
>midi worked okay with the original gus drivers, and I don't even know
>what it might be that I didn't do right--I went completely through their
>readme file and changed things like the gravultr.386 (or whatever it was
>called) file, and the patchdir fields.  Still, no midi sound.

Are you sure you got the *new* ultrasnd.ini, i.e. the one that came with the new 
drivers?  You can tell because it has stuff like

[Bank0Melodic]

and

[Band0Drum]

in it.  Sorry, but I don't have my system here, and I don't remember the *exact* 
words.  Neither do I remember the exact sequence of events that I followed to 
install the new driver.

Hope this helps, though.  I know it is really frustrating.  That seems to be the 
way with a lot of PC things.

Burns

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 15:27:53 MEZ
From: hach@oracle.dwhl.de
Subject: REPLY: DUNE I AND SBOS DOES NOT WORK

>From: Mike Surgeon <surgeon@vss.fsi.com>

>I agree, the music with SBOS is awful (so bad, in fact,
>that I turned the music off). However,using MEGAEM to
>emulate Roland gives very good sound (I used the
>latest version which I beleive is 2.02).

>Mike Surgeon


Hello!!

Yes, you're right. It's working with MEGAEM, the problem is, it does not
sound (no way) like the original SB sound (of course not, it's MIDI:).
But the SB sound is much, much better than MIDI.
I really don't understand why it's not working with SBOS :( :(, in some
games it does, in some not!
Even the option '-o2' does not help :(. But '-o2' is described as the
appropriate option dor DUNE in the SBOS README FILE.


Anyway, thanx a lot for your reply.

Greetings from Germany!

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 00:51:30 -0700 (MST)
From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc)
Subject: Sample dumping

I'd like to know which options I have in dumping samples off of and on to
my Ultrasound.

I have an Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler which has Digital I/O and MIDI.
Is there a way to transfer samples (ASR <-> PC) digitally, instead of
through the audio lines?  I don't want to lose any quality in my samples.

I've heard of MIDI dumps, and that they take a long time to do.
Is there any software for doing this on the Ultrasound?

Any help+info is appreciated!

-djkc

p.s. - I'm looking to upgrade my ASR from 2megs to 16megs;  anybody?

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 15:07:41 +0000
From: "|\/|artin" <martin@wyvern.bri.hp.com>
Subject: Solved Adding memory to a GUS

Hi all,

Many thanks to everyone who replied. You've all been a great help.

To summarise (and this is the bit (pun intended) I didn't understand:

You need to buy 256Kx4 DRAM chips. The x4 means that the chips you are
buying use 4 bits, or a nybble.  So, 256K * 4 bits = 128K.
Hence, you need 2 chips of 256Kx4 to get 256K bytes.

Thanks again,

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 10:03:01 ADT
From: "Craig Galbraith" <J5OA@acad1.UnbSJ.CA>
Subject: Street Fighter II

Hey There!
	I was wondering if anybody knew how to set up the GUS and SF2 to 
work so that you get the Roland music with SB sound effects?  Using 
MegaEm I imagine...but how?  I've tried a couple of things but I 
guess I haven't lucked onto the right way..
	Thanks..
	Craig Galbraith
	j5oa@unbsj.ca


						are you phishsperienced?

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:42:36 -0800 (PST)
From: nickj@autotelia.Isv.Uit.NO
Subject: UltraTracker 1.50

 

Just thought I'd mention that I uploaded UltraTracker 1.50 to Epas today.
Find it in the submit directory. Loads of new tracker-formats are supported.

Nick

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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 18:36:53 -0500 (EST)
From: bpage@infi.net (Bob Page)
Subject: Re: Voice Recognition & GUS

Thomas Lew said:

>Does anyone know of any speech or voice recognition packages that support
>the
>GUS?  If they exist, any opinions on how well they work?

I upgraded my Borland C++ to 4.0 at Christmas and Creative Labs included a
demo version of their Voice Assist program (Demo version 1.07).  I just now
got around to installing it and it works perfectly fine with the GUS.  Here
is an excerpt from the readme file: 
===============   =====    =======    =======    ======   =================
This demo version provides much of the functionality of the full-feature 
retail version of VoiceAssist.  VoiceAssist works with all sound cards 
which can sample at an 8 kHz sampling rate.  The full-feature version of 
VoiceAssist is available at your local Sound Blaster dealer for a retail 
price of $99.95.


LIMITED FUNCTIONALITY

The demo version of VoiceAssist scales-down many of VoiceAssist's features:

			VoiceAssist Demo        VoiceAssist Retail Version

Number of Users                 1                       Up to 256
Number of App.'s                2                       30 per user
Commands per App.               20                      992
Max. commands at one time       52                      1024
User-defined Commands           yes                     yes
Automatic Menu Extraction       yes, up to 18 items     yes
=========== ======= ==========  ========== ========== ========== =========

The demo on my disk also has source code (c & c++) as well as dll info.  I
haven't used it other than to just try it out, but it works great so far.  I
assume that the $99.00 version would work just as well.  

The only regret I have is that I don't know where or if the demo is
available on the NET.   
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--- Bob Page (bpage@infi.net) 
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 13:42:57 -0500
From: Dale Luther Bewley <dbewley@tech.iupui.edu>
Subject: What does it all mean?!

	OK, I understand SBOS and I've read a little about miles drivers (havent
had to use them, but I think I get it. BTW are they the same as AILs?), but I
don't know anything about Mega EM. Can someone explain all these different 
drivers and ways to get this card to work with games that just don't like it?!

i.e. When to use which driver? Which driver is better? etc.

Thanx
	dbewley@etsun.tech.iupui.edu

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