Ultrasound Daily Digest     Thu, 10 Dec 92       Volume 1 : Issue  44 

Today's Topics:
	A huge evergrowing pulsating GUS - ultrasound probe 43 orbit 1
			  GUS runs flawlessly on my new motherboard
							 GUS static?
						 Have you been nice?
						Kick out the acpiano1
			   Misc. Stuff (Patches/Questions/Support)
					 More on MIDI/Winjammer/email
						  My visit to Gravis
		   New statement from LucasArts about GUS (2 msgs)
							OPTI 386-40 ?
			   Pin outs for GUS Jostick/MIDI Connector
						the new SBOS V1.22???
			   Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #43 (2 msgs)

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 1:00:18 EST
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Message-Id: <9212100600.AA04798@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: A huge evergrowing pulsating GUS - ultrasound probe 43 orbit 1
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 92 06:42:40 EST
> From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
> Message-Id: <9212081142.AA24887@vongole>
> Subject: Anti-Aliasing
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
> 
> Is there a MOD player that has the anti-aliasing feature?  I thought 

DS15 and Whacker Tracker have filters... I don't know if they are the
same kind.

>----------------------------
> Subject: clearing RAM
> 
> I'd think that clearing the RAM would be a fairly simple thing to do. 
> Would someone with the developers kit please write a "GUS_CLEAR.EXE"
> utility, or is it not so simple. 
> 
> Morgan

Ultrinit works for me. I put it in the win.bat...

> ------------------------------
> From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
> Subject: Different stories about MIDI IN
> 
> I just got off the Gravis tech line. I was reporting success/problems
> with the new SBOS. I happened to ask about MIDI In, and the guy (I
> think it was Walt ????) said the adapter would be out in January.

True.

> So I said that I had heard that the driver has MIDI In disabled.
> He seemed surprised and said it should work - I could get the Creative
> Labs MIDI connector box and use it now.

Absolutely positively definitely NOT. (At least in windows with the GUS).

> Then on Internet in the soundcard group, I see that Bjorn wrote that
> people have used the Windows MIDI In driver and the Gravis output
> driver and gotten an external MIDI synth to work for input in a
> sequencer (like Cakewalk).

With the SB coexisting in the machine and receiving midi instead of the GUS
with the Midi IN SB driver. The GUS midi in driver is not even on the
distribution disks 1.21.

> WHAT'S THE DEAL?!?!?!?! Who is right? Is anyone doing this currently?
> Does the 1.21 software have a working driver? 

The driver is not finished i suppose. I am right. Nope.
Nope again.

> One of the main reasons I got the GUS is for music - I am chomping at
> the bit, so to speak, to write music using MIDI. I am frustrated that
> I can't at this point do that. But if there *is* a way, I'd like to
> know about it!! PLEASE email ken@austin.ibm.com if you are doing this!

Midisoft studio and powerchordz are surely beeing beta tested presently,
so i'm pretty sure that the midi in driver is not that far also.

> Also, Fracois Dion wrote about converting patches from other synths

That would be me if there was a n after Fra...

> (like the Korg Wavestation) into GUS patches. HOW?!?! Enquiring minds
> want to know!

These patches must be wavesamples. You can usually get them thru sysex
dump or floppies on the keyboard. Note however that some keyboards have
ROM wavesamples and so the only way to get these wavesamples would be
to read the ROM with a device.

Last thing: do not mixup between wavesamples *modifiers* (called patches
on SCC-1 for example) and actual wavesamples (called patches on EPS16+
as another example). Some synths can only give you the first thru
sysex.

> Lastly, how much is the Creative Labs MIDI box, and would it be a
> better idea to wait for the real GUS one?

The kit will be the same price, so i would suggest the GUS one, if you
are not into making your own (even i will probably end up buying one
if i don't succeed. Last trick: open collector driver on midi out
(like a midi thru). If it doesn't work, i'll ask Dave to remove the
SB cable from the request server.(Anyway i have a better layout
presently in GIF format and with midi Thru but it still wont work. But
i have not gone thru another last resort: cutting 2 caps on the GUS.
But i think the open collector driver will leave these capacitors
intact. BTW, the caps cut is a Gravis recommendation, but check with
them before doing anything stupid...).

> ------------------------------
> From: d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning)
> Subject: FAQ for GUS?
> 
> Hi! I'm getting interested in the Ultrasound, but i'd like
> to know more about it. Is there an FAQ somewhere?? If so, 
> would someone please mail it to me, or tell me where I can
> FTP it?

Check epas, i will upload a FAQ that will cover the very basic, but
will expand thru this mailing list readership...

> ------------------------------
> From: Roland Ferreras <U56980@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
> Subject: LucasArts' official word on GUS support
> 
> Well, since there has all this comotion about the LucasArts rep on
> Compuserve, I checked in with the rep on America On-Line.  Well, I relayed

I got a similar message. Ah, the power of the word! (What do you think
really happened to \\illiam? Did he lost his job?)

> ------------------------------
> From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca
> This is a letter I got from sierra few days ago.
> ------------------------------------------------
> Wow, this is amazing.  I can't tell you how many emails I'm getting
> about the GUS.  With such a push out there, and for such a powerful

We have a fair idea 8)

> card, I think the only thing we have to worry about is not WILL
> Sierra support the card, but WHEN will the drivers for it be
> released.  I've been in contact with one of our producers who


> Obviously, there support of GUS is not out of reach so just push them far
> enough, we'll eventually get GUS support on all the Sierra games.

You are definitely right. People: call the sierra BBS and write them a
letter requesting for GUS support. Hey if we can make change the mind
of Sierra and LucasArt, we have a pretty good future in front of us 8).

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion
	'  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	  (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 11:17:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Morgan Stair <Morgan_Stair@dl5000.bc.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9212091111.A10697-b100000@dlws9>
Subject: GUS runs flawlessly on my new motherboard
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

  I posted a message about getting a new 486DX-33MHz Local Bus Motherboard
(W/o CPU) to fix my GUS problems.  Whenever I used the card (in any
configuration) my system would eventually hang, often with background
noise similar to the tail end of car accident... you know, when someones
head is resting on the horn :-)

  I can smile about it now, because I replaced my motherboard and haven't
been able to make GUS break.  I did NOT however go with the $199 option
from ATLAS INDUSTRIES because I was told that getting refunds from them is
like pulling teeth (if anyone I spoke to did end up buying from Atlas, I
hope you had no hassles). 

  I bought my bare-bones motherboard from a friend in a local computer
store for a little more money, but I knew I'd have no hassles if GUS still
didn't work.  I'm happy now, which means I made the right choice.  My bad
chipset (assuming the chipset was the problem) was ZyMOS '87. 

  Morgan

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* Morgan Stair <Morgan@DL5000.BC.EDU> *
* X11 / Motif Programmer              *
* BC Institute for Space Research     *
* (617)552-8783                       *
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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 19:37:18 EST
From: lebeld@JSP.UMontreal.CA (David Lebel)
Message-Id: <9212100037.AA05596@spp3.jsp.umontreal.ca>
Subject: GUS static?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

	I just bought a GUS today, and god it sounds good (I was impressed
by some of the midi files included, so... :-)). However, as you might
notice in my subject line, I can notice, while playing some midi files,
static (or crack & pops).  I doesn't happen all the time, but enough
to bother me... Is my board defectuous?  Help...

	(via email, if you can).


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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 17:49:22 EST
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Message-Id: <9212092249.AA24927@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Have you been nice?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

If you have, you can go to epas (i'll send also to David to put on the
request server) and pick up these midi files:
comesail.arj - come sail away (styx)
goodvibe.arj - Good vibrations (Beach Boys)
imagine.arj - Imagine (John Lennon)
peggysue.arj - Peggye Sue (Buddy Holly)
strawbry.arj - Strawberry fields (beatles). Some part missing
whatisay.arj - Check this out... one of the best sounding for the GUS

Playmidi seems to work okay with these (except peggysue which need inst#88).
Mediaplayer does strange things to volume. Play with media player just to
load the patches, and then use winjammer.

I have some more midi files but they dont sound too hot on the GUS. Until i
get Cakewalk with GUS support (or Winjammer with GUS support), i cant
ameliorate them. BTW, if you have ameliorated one of the midi files i
have uploaded, dont be shy! Upload it also.

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion
	'  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	  (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
_______________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 1:08:34 EST
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Message-Id: <9212100608.AA04843@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Kick out the acpiano1
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Anybody is annoyed by the acpiano1 patch when several notes are playing? I
was talking to someone over the phone about the sound quality of the GUS,
and had noticed long ago that the acpiano1 was really bad when several notes
were played (ragtime.mid, entrtnr.mid etc...). But after this phone i
decided to give another careful listen, and there is a definite problem
with this patch. Anybody else think this patch is not up to the level of
the others? (looks like quantization grunge to me...)

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion
	'  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	  (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 8:27:36 PST
From: aktang@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (I should be studying)
Message-Id: <9212091627.AA00416@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Misc. Stuff (Patches/Questions/Support)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

First, if ANYONE figures out how to convert patches from a MIDI
synth into a GUSable format, there's an FTP site with a lot of
patches floating around (ucsd.edu, /midi/patches.  Oh, yeh, they
also have some MIDI music, almost all classical ).  These might be
just synth-specific type instructions to modulate the various
waveforms and not "sample"-type patches, however.  (They're
seperated into directories by synth name, and I can't identify some
of them, so I don't know what type of synth they are).

Anyway, it's good to hear that LucasArts and Sierra are turning
around in their support.  Good to know that the masses count after
all!

On a side note, is the SCSI daughter board out?  If so, how much
would it be?

Anthony Tang
aktang@sdcc13.ucsd.edu

Happy Holidays!

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 10:14:08 CST
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Message-Id: <9212091614.AA04401@batman.austin.ibm.com>
Subject: More on MIDI/Winjammer/email
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Greetings GUSers,

Here's a response to Tim and some info for ya'll:


#I read Ken's posting about Winjammer.  Ken, I tried sending you email
#directly (ken@batman.austin.ibm.com) but it bounced!

I need to be sure to put my real email address in my posts! It
is ken@austin.ibm.com. Leave batman out of the path. We've
changed the way we get mail, but our sending address still
displays our node names.

#What is Dan McKee's email address?  (Ken, you should know.)


Dan McKee is 70742.2052@CompuServe.COM. He's very good about
responding to email! 


#Ken, you said the GUS works well with Winjammer?  Don't you have any
#problems loading in the patches?

Of course, but I did with Cakewalk Pro too, so I've just kind of
accepted this! ;-)

#Some people have suggested loading
#the MID file into Microsoft's Media Player and then load it into
#Winjammer.  That way the patches would be loaded in correctly.

Exactly. Load Media Player first, then open Winjammer.


#While that may work (I haven't confirmed this for all MID files I have),
#how do I write a new song with Winjammer?  Simple scenario: I want 4
#instruments say, a piano, flute, oboe, and bass.  How do I load in the
#patches or should I say, how do I specify the right patch for the
#particular melody?

I hope you are a patient man!

I think the biggest problems I've had in this area are (1) no MIDI
IN (which means I had to put the notes in with piano roll - YUCK)
and (2) remembering to always have patch 0 in there - I think this
is a GUS requirement.


#How do I use the piano roll thing for input of the
#melody itself?  Seems counter- intuitive.  Any help would be
#appreciated.  I just want to begin writing some MIDI songs with my
#GUS!

I am dying to use this thing to write .MID files. I've got one that
the orchestra sounds will be perfect for.

Here's what the deal is. We all know you have to load Media Player
first, right? Well, Winjammer has a little snag here. You cannot
assign a patch number until after you've recorded on the track.
That makes things a bit complicated. Let me see if I can remember
what I did to get this to work. I think I opened a new file and
hit record and let it run for a measure. Then I copied the blank
track to several other tracks. Then I could specify a patch number.
Then I went into piano roll and inserted some notes. I only did one
measure since this was laborious as hell! Then I exited Winjammer
and loaded the MID in Media Player to load the patches. Then I could
play back my new MIDI file (stunning - a whole note on three tracks!)
with either Winjammer or Media Player.

Hellish? Well, yeah, for a guy with no patience. I'll double check
this procedure tonight and see if there are any other little oddities
I had to do and make sure the order is correct. I will post my response
to the digest.

Now if we can get the MIDI IN working and get a patch loading app,
things will be very cool.

I'm still taking suggestions on getting the MIDI Mapper set up.
I am convinced mine is incorrect and I do not look forward to
editing that big monster. I noticed you can specify if it is 0
or 1 based. I guess we should use 0 based since you have to have
patch 0 in all MID files, but then patch 128 doesn't show - only
0-127 - and 128 is the percussion track! What to do, what to do...
Francois Dion suggested using channel 10 for percussion and setting
up key mapping for each instrument, and Anthony Tang sent me an
MT-32 patch map for use with playmidi that lists what values
should be in the keymap for percussion, so I might try to hack this
stuff when I get some free time.

Perhaps Francois and Anthony will post that info here as well?

Any comments, questions, help, email ken@austin.ibm.com.

Good luck!

Ken 

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 15:37:10 PST
From: dedmunds@sfu.ca
Message-Id: <9212092337.AA07869@selkirk.sfu.ca>
Subject: My visit to Gravis
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I called Alan at Gravis yesterday morning about some static problems I
was having with my GUS.  Since I only live about 10 minutes from Gravis,
Alan asked if I wanted to bring my machine in for a checkup.  Of course I
jumped at this opportunity, secretly hoping for inside info on future
GUS goodies.  I wasn't disappointed.  After sorting out my technical
problem (which turned out to be nothing at all), the fun began.

We all know about the patch loading problem under Windows and that Gravis
is working on a utility to load patches.  Well I saw a beta version
demonstrated and it literally blew me away.  I begged to become a beta
tester but to no avail.  This is the software we've been waiting for.
I'm upgrading my card to 1Mb in the next couple of days in anticipation.
No, I don't know when it will be released - it looked complete and
seemed to work like a charm.

I'm convinced that this card is going to take off like a rocket in the months
to come.  The near pinacle of my visit, *almost* getting to meet the guy who 
says "SBOS installed". 
 
Is anyone working on a patch editor?
 
Darran Edmundson (eagerly awaiting World Circuit with GUS support)
darran@chaos.phys.sfu.ca

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 05:33:16 GMT
From: tazzzzz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor)
Message-Id: <1992Dec9.053316.26251@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Subject: New statement from LucasArts about GUS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

...From LucasArts (75300.454@compuserve.com):
Hi Kevin. Thank you. Despite recent postings from Bill Watters, our ex-CompuServe rep,    

we DO plan on supporting the Gravis card, as we here at LucasArts Games        
recognize its technical innovation and the exciting prospects it represents for
sound. We are, however, giving the product a little time to see how well the
consumer market embraces it. After this introductory period, we'll be able to 
better judge our plans and give you an update on how we're planning to use
its capabilities. I appreciate your patience with this correspondence,
and hope you will contact our new rep, Wallace Poulter, at this number anytime 
you'd like technical assistance or have any questions or concerns. I may
also be contacted at this number if there is a specific question you would    
like to have answered with regard to this message. Thanks again for your 
message, and your patience during this transitional time.
Best Wishes,
Khris Brown
LucasArts Games

...end of quote...


Obviously, the question of software support is tied to consumer demand.
Luckily, quite a few people are buying the card without the native support,
so demand will be great enough for developers to take note.

I hope Sierra holds the same attitude as Lucas. (even better would be
holding the same attitude as Accolade!)

...Kev

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 17:32:21 GMT
From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Message-Id: <markus.283.723922341@clement.info.umoncton.ca>
Subject: New statement from LucasArts about GUS
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

In article <1992Dec9.053316.26251@zip.eecs.umich.edu> tazzzzz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor) writes:
>From: tazzzzz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor)
>Subject: New statement from LucasArts about GUS
>Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 05:33:16 GMT

>Obviously, the question of software support is tied to consumer demand.
>Luckily, quite a few people are buying the card without the native support,
>so demand will be great enough for developers to take note.

>I hope Sierra holds the same attitude as Lucas. (even better would be
>holding the same attitude as Accolade!)

	And it is done!!  Sierra WILL support the GUS.  They'll create a GUS 
driver to support it in native mode.  The question is, when will it be ready.
Soon they say.....
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Date: 09 Dec 1992 19:37:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: JAM@eclx.psu.edu
Message-Id: <01GS4GBA3MSYAH2SDF@eclx.psu.edu>
Subject: OPTI 386-40 ?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Has anyone been able to get the GUS to work with a 386-40?
Specifically the OPTi-386WB chip set that includes System Controller
SYSC 82C391, Date Buffer Controller DBC 82C392, and Integrated Peripheral
Controller 82C206.

Thanks.

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 10:13:54 EST
From: BARRYM@TOROLAB2.VNET.IBM.COM
Message-Id: <9212091513.AA24326@orca.es.com>
Subject: Pin outs for GUS Jostick/MIDI Connector
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Well, after coming home from Pizza Hut last night (No, I don't work there,
<grin> that's just our Tuesday night after-choir eatery), I considered the
GUS Joystick connector pinout.  Since I know that my PS/1 Joystick works
in it no problem, and the GUS box says that you can use a simple Y cable to
get both joystick ports, I would guess that the port would be more-or-less
exactly the same as the joystick port that came with my 1981 PC.

So, I popped open my old Tech Ref. and had a read.  After reading through the
MIDI connector file from the Request machine and also looking at my IBM IMF's
Tech Ref, I would guess that the pinouts for the GUS would be the following:

1  - +5V Line out for joysticks coords            NOTE : THIS IS JUST A GUESS
2  - Joystick 1, Button 1 In                             I HAVE NOT TESTED OR
3  - Joystick 1, X Coord In                              BUILT THE ADAPTER YET
4  - Ground for buttons (connect buttons here)           NO WARRANTIES ON THIS
5  - Joystick 1, Y Coord In                              USE THIS INFORMATION
6  - Joystick 1, Button 2 In                             AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!
10 - Joystick 2, Button 1 In
11 - Joystick 2, X Coord In
13 - Joystick 2, Y Coord In
14 - Joystick 2, Button 2 In
*************************
5  - Ground (MIDI In data)    NOTE : BASED ON MIDI CONNECTOR FILE INFO.
15 - +5V for MIDI In                 MAYBE YOU COULD JUST USE THE
9  - +5V for MIDI Out                JOYSTICK'S +5V LINE, BUT I'M TRYING
12 - Ground (MIDI Out data)          TO ISOLATE THE MIDI STUFF.
*************************

Pin 8 might also be a +5V line out, but I haven't check any of this.
Has anyone used a Y splitter on the board?  If so, then maybe I can use a
more conventional wiring.

I'll try building it this weekend between rehearsals and concerts (Oh the
joy of the Christmas season, another concert here, another one there, etc).
I'll append my results on Monday.  Total cost for all the parts brand new
from Radio Shack and Electrosonic is around $35 Cdn. including housing, etc.

Anyone with more info, please append.  Let's get this problem fixed now.
Later.

Barry - BARRYM@TOROLAB2.VNET.IBM.COM or 70416.1217@COMPUSERVE.COM
* Not an IBM rep., all my words, not IBM's. *
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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 09:57:20 -0600
From: captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
Message-Id: <9212091557.AA08204@pooh.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: the new SBOS V1.22???
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Ok, so now I've downloaded the file gus0008.exe.  What do I do with it???
SBOS is a .BAT file that calles at least TWO .exe files.  Does gus0008.exe
replace one/both of these, or what?  

I guess I could just try overwriting each of them, and see, but it would
be nice to know what I ought to do before I do it.

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Date: 9 Dec 92 17:19:25 +0100
From: BJORNHK@dhhalden.no
Message-Id: <MAILQUEUE-101.921209171925.480@sofus.dhhalden.no>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #43
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> I'd think that clearing the RAM would be a fairly simple thing to do.
> Would someone with the developers kit please write a "GUS_CLEAR.EXE"
> utility, or is it not so simple.
>
> Morgan
>

OK, try changing to your UltraSound directory and type

	COPY ULTRINIT.EXE GUS_CLEAR.EXE.

That'll do it! ;-))))) (just kidding) Seriously, the Ultrinit does
clear memory, and if that doesn't work, try running PLAYMIDI. These
are both solutions suggested on comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.


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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 16:21:45 EST
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <9212092121.AA23362@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #43
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 92 22:36:30 CST
> From: Roland Ferreras <U56980@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
> Message-Id: <9212090454.AA16339@orca.es.com>
> Subject: LucasArts' official word on GUS support
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
> 
> Well, since there has all this comotion about the LucasArts rep on
> Compuserve, I checked in with the rep on America On-Line.  Well, I relayed
> the message of what the Compuserve rep said, and here is the official
> word on Gravis Ultrasound support by Lucasarts.  Reprinted from email
> message
>

[Glorious letters from LucasArts sadly deleted for brevity.] 

I'm tickled pink at such wonderful news!  For a while there, even I was
sweating a little under the collar about support for the Ultrasound.  I
guess the people at LucasArts aren't really knuckleheads after all.

> 
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 10:43:07 -0600
> From: captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
> Message-Id: <9212081643.AA28356@pooh.cc.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Media Player w/GUS?
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
> 
> I'm sorry to ask this again, but I have spent the past several hours 
> wading through the ultrasound digests and trying to get Windows' Media
> Player to play canyon.mid, all to no avail.  
>

Have you copied midimap.cfg from your Ultrasound directory into 
windows\system?
  
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 06:23:50 -0500
> From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
> Message-Id: <9212081123.AA24690@vongole>
> Subject: Winjammer...
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
>
[...] 
> do I write a new song with Winjammer?  Simple scenario: I want 4
> instruments say, a piano, flute, oboe, and bass.  How do I load in the
> patches or should I say, how do I specify the right patch for the
> particular melody?  How do I use the piano roll thing for input of the
> melody itself?  Seems counter- intuitive.  Any help would be
> appreciated.  I just want to begin writing some MIDI songs with my
> GUS!  Thanks in advance.
> 

To load specific patches onto the GUS, compose a "song" that calls them
in WinJammer, save it, and then load it up and play it with Media Player.
Be sure to have only one program using the GUS driver at a time or else
you'll get the "Device in use" message.  That is, before playing the
song with Media Player, removing the Ultrasound from WinJammer's MIDI
configuration.

> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 05:48:53 -0500
> From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca
> Message-Id: <9212081048.AA00786@norton.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>
> 
> This is a letter I got from sierra few days ago.
> ------------------------------------------------

[Another encouraging letter deleted.]

The good news continues!  

BTW, I haven't voiced my opinion to Sierra yet.  Can somebody give me
their address?

Phat.

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 02:29:33 EST
From: gt3017a@prism.gatech.edu
Message-Id: <9212100729.AA20353@prism>
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Subject: anyone get Out of this World working?


   I just tried to get my GUS to work with Out of this World, using SBOS v1.22b
, and didn't quite succeed.

the thing plays the sound ok, but it is INCREDIBLY slow.

anyone want to help me out here?

(i.e., lemme know what setup you used to get it working, IF you have it working,
etc... :-)

thanks.

gt3017a@prism.gatech.edu             | "All of us get lost in the darkness,
a.k.a. Guy Elden Jr.                 | Dreamers learn to steer by the stars,
					Neil Peart ------| All of us do time in the gutter,
					'The Pass'       | Dreamers turn to look at the cars"

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