GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 4 Feb 95  9:37 PST      Volume 19: Issue   4 

Today's Topics:
                          Aftertouch w/ midi
                     Converting WAV sample rate.
                   Descent + GUS problem solutions
                                 GF2
                       gravis 3.59 and WfW 3.11
                      GUS and Magic Carpet demo
                   GUS Daily Digest V19 #2 (2 msgs)
              Joystick calibration in NASCAR (again)...
             More on the joystick calibration problem...
                           NASCAR Joystick
                        Real-time echo effects
                           Win95 People...

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: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 01:20:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Aftertouch w/ midi

I have a question about after-touch. The midifier program that comes 
with the ultrasound software claims in it's docs that aftertouch does get 
recognized by the GUS. Can someone with a midi controller that has 
aftertouch  verify this for me? I have a midi horn that uses aftertouch 
for expression i.e. you blow harder it gets louder and vice versa. This 
is obviously a necessity for a midi horn. However, the GUS does not 
respond to this, at least not when using patch manager.

Am I doing something wrong?

Kevin

p.s. BIG KUDOS GO THE GUY THAT TOLD US TO SET DMA BUFFER SIZE (RECORDING) 
TO 512K AND SET 'FIXED' TO 'ON' SO THAT THE BOSENDORFER PATCH WOULD FIT 
IN WINDOZE! 'TIP OF THE YEAR' SO FAR BY MY VOTE!

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Date: Fri,  3 Feb 1995 14:24:05 UTC-0800
From: Brad Hawthorne <u9c192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: Converting WAV sample rate.

> Is it possible to change the sampling rate on a preexisting WAV file?  I 
> have a 800k+ wav file sampled at 44.1 kHz, and I don't need that 
> resolution.  Is there a program out there that will cut out about half the
> samples (leaving 22 kHz or less)?

Try Cool Edit, it's a really nice windows-based waveform editor. You should
be able to find it on wuarchive.wustl.edu or any one of the other popular ftp
sites as cool???.zip

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 17:24:32 -0800 (PST)
From: aktang@sdcc15.UCSD.EDU (Anthony Tang)
Subject: Descent + GUS problem solutions

This is for those people who get a lockup or reset when running
descent 1.1/shareware with their GUS.  This occurs when the program
attempts to load patches.

Don't ask me why, but this is somehow related to your graphics card.
(I have a Diamond Speedstar 24x).  If you run a vesa utility (I used
VESA1D), then run descent, the problem is cleared up.  Sound+ music
work perfectly.  No memory allocation errors on exit.  Weird, huh?

-- 
Anthony TangCall The AANThill BBS!
aant@ucsd.edu(619)550-8168
aktang@sdcc15.ucsd.edu FidoNet (1:202/244)
Computer Engineering, UCSDAdv. Gravis Dist. Node

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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 95 11:47:42-010
From: amfg@cic.teleco.ulpgc.es (Angel Fern'andez Gonz'alez)
Subject: GF2

Does any one know anything about about the technical differences between the
GF2 and the GF1,
will it improve the sound quality of the instrument of the Ultrasound ,
address more memory or 
have more voices?.

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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 95 02:19:05 MST
From: rmwalker@nyx10.cs.du.edu (rod walker)
Subject: gravis 3.59 and WfW 3.11

And now for something which I haven't seen mentioned in the digest
before!!
 
I have updated my Gravis software regularly without any great hassle
and I thought that this was the case with 3.59 until I noticed the
following problem:
 
On FIRST loading WfW 3.11 when I use File Manager I cannot change
which drive File Manager is 'looking' at by clicking on the drive
icon.  Except that if I then click on a file or directory the dive
will change to the drive that I just tried to select.  In addition
if I try to scroll the list of files or directories using the scroll
button the list scrolls only a small amount unless I keep clicking
on the scroll button ie no smooth, continuous scrolling.
 
If I then close WfW down and restart it everything is back to normal,
weird is it not.  The same thing happens every time I switch on or
do a cold or warm reboot.  Nothing else appears to be affected.  The
problem is so annoying that I have gone back to a previous version
of the Gravis software.
 
Anyone else noticed this problem?
 
Glad of any comments whatsoever
 
TVM (ta very much - translation for our American and foreign
correspondents)
 
Rod Walker (rmwalker@nyx.cs.du.edu)

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 14:02:25 -0800
From: "Dale Newcomb, Jr." <newcomb@gemtech.com>
Subject: GUS and Magic Carpet demo

What's the final word on getting the Magic Carpet demo to work with the GUS?
I've tried MegaEM, Ultramid, and SBOS to no avail, looks like a great game -
but
without sound...I don't know. I remember reading about a possible GUS patch
coming out, has that been made available or was it purely rumor? Please reply
via email unless you have new info that hasn't been on the list yet - thanks.

-Dale

PS: Standard GUS with 1 Meg RAM - not the GUS MAX.
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 14:03 -0500
From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #2

>> Hello, I'm a Advanced Gravis UltraSound card owner 
>> (model Jan. 1993). Recently I have switched from
>> Windows 3.11 operating system to Windows NT 3.5.

>Someone posted that GUS works *mostly* fine on Windows 95 (I guess Beta).
>Then I don't see why it should not work with Windows/NT.
>The problem here is the "install.exe" program.
>When I tried to install the GUS software on NT, it complains that
>the program (install.exe) tries to access hardware directly, and
>it is not allowd in NT.
>Maybe Gravis can change the install program, so that at least the
>install program may run on NT :) :)

Regular Windows drivers will NOT work under NT and never will, usually because
they try to mess with the hardware directly and NT, being a mostly real OS,
won't allow that (and it even tells you so! :-). From messages I've seen, the
GUS doesn't work at all under Windows 95 (Beta 2). I haven't had a chance to
try it myself...

DDA

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 19:43:42 CST
From: "Jay R. Jaeger" <dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V19 #2

> Well.. I mentioned the next significant post... surprise ! A whole
> good-old-digest quoted by Jay R. Jaeger <dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us>, just to
> answer a single article.

Not quite accurate, I am afraid.

If you look carefully at my mistake (for which I earnestly apologize), I
inadvertantly quoted only the part of the digest *BEFORE* the message I
was responding to.  I did indeed remove that part *AFTER* the message I
was responding to.  It was an error - I thought I had removed the earlier
part, and intended to, but just blew it.

--
Jay R. Jaeger                                   dotjrj@dot.state.wi.us

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 21:34:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Joystick calibration in NASCAR (again)...

Glad to see that I'm not the only one having these problems.

Here's what I ended up doing. I enabled the joystick port on my SBPro and 
disabled the one on the GUS. Then I tried to use sound from the GUS and 
the joy port from the SBPro. The joystick goes crazy. Then I tried using 
midi music from the GUS and effects from the SBPro. Even using loadpat -l 
which is supposed to leave line-in enabled, I didn't get the sound from 
the SBPro (which is routed through the GUS). The joystick was OK though. 
Then I tried the opposite. Effects from the GUS and music from the SBPro 
(yech!). The Joystick went wacky again and I got no music coming through 
the line-in from the SBPro.

So, to sum it all up, if I could get the GUS to let sound through from 
the SBPro, I could use the GUS for music and the SBPro for effects and 
the joystick would be ok. But like I said, loadpat -l does not leave 
line-in enabled like it should. Either that or line-out is not enabled. 
There's no switch in loadpat for that.

Kevin
 

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 13:00:18 +0100 (MET)
From: hh@hhdo.venture.net (Henning Holtschneider)
Subject: More on the joystick calibration problem...

> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 21:14:42 -0500 (EST)
> From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
> Subject: More on the joystick calibration problem...

> I am completely baffled. The card works fine. But when I try to use the 
> sound of the GUS and the joystick of the SBPro, it goes wacky just as if 
> I had used the port on the GUS.

You should perhaps contact Papyrus (papyrus@world.std.com) If they don't
already have a solution, they might perhaps investigate further.

Greetings from Dortmund

<-gninneH<-
-- 
      Henning Holtschneider * Bauernkamp 41 * 44339 Dortmund * Germany
 Telefax: +49 231 7285296 * Home: hh@hhdo.venture.net * Work: hh@venture.net
  mail to my home address w/ the subject "GET PGP" to get my PGP public key

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 19:21:20 -0700 (MST)
From: Randy Nonay <rnonay@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: NASCAR Joystick
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950203191939.232460A-100000@gpu2.srv.ualberta.ca>

 I found the simple thing to do is to disable the joystick for the menus. 
Driving seems unimpaired, and menus work using the keyboard instead.

  Perhaps if you are having trouble with Nascar and your GUS you might 
want to try this.

  Randy

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 16:34:30 EST
From: ping@cais.dsm.sp-agency.ca (Ka-Ping Yee)
Subject: Real-time echo effects

>I realize this is probably way beyond the scope of the Gus (Max), but I
>was wondering if there is ANY way of using a Gus (Max) to produce realtime
>effects to audio input (ie.  Add echo from microphone input, have realtime
>result from speaker).

This can be done with a "lowly" Sound Blaster: i've tried it.
 
>   A lowly 7 Mhz 68000 Amiga can do real-time echo/flange effects with
> an audio digitizer (straight ADC, no other DSP hardware), so I'm sure a 33
> Mhz 486 could do the same without much effort.  The GUS would have no
> advantage over any other sound card in this case because the CPU would be
> doing all the work.  Does such a program exist for the PC?  I don't know

I disagree.  The GUS has a vast advantage over the PC, because recording
can be done into the RAM banks on the card and played back from those
RAM banks -- possibly through more than one channel at a time, mixed by
the GF1 on the GUS.  Since the timing and amplitude of each channel can
be set without actually performing any calculations on the wave, you can
get a whole host of effects.

This is just what Apollo does.  Take a look at apollo.zip.

I tried it out and i was pretty impressed, but i noticed a problem: do
any of you notice that the echoes are played back higher in pitch than
the original sound?  It's pretty obvious on my GUS (it's a GUS Max) --
really short delay periods with feedback cause the echoes to sweep up
the scale.

Though for echoes this is generally bad, it's still another example of
how you can get a different kind of interesting effect on the GUS by
intentionally setting the pitch, without the PC ever having to do any
thinking.  Chorus shouldn't be too hard to implement...


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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 15:08:29 -0600
From: bbaskin@mail.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
Subject: Win95 People...

Hey y'all,

I'm an OS/2 Warp user at the moment, and i'm very impressed by its native
and DOS abilities. For people experimenting with Win95, i have a few
questions...

        I have heard that some of you can't get the Win31 drivers for the
GUS to work. I can't help you there, but it'd be nice to be able to use a
few of the WinGUS apps (mainly patchmanager and MidiSoft). My question is
how well DOS GUS software works in Win95 DOS sessions (without quitting
everything). Does GUS sound work on most games? (Doom/Heretic, OMF, etc.)
How well does midiplay work? Or Iplay, etc.? Does SBOS/MegaEM crash the
system?

        In OS/2 all games by Epic work with full sound. Games based on Id
basework like Doom, Heretic don't work with digital. (Except Doom 1.2) Iplay
and MidiPLay bothwork well. And both sets of GUS drivers work well. I prefer
the Manley drivers for the VDD support (Hey Gravis, talk to this man and
work on combining his VDD with your set...). In reality, i don't miss the
Win apps too much, there is quite a bit of OS/2 MMOS/2 stuff running around
the net.

        Since i'm willing to give MS a fair shot at being the next OS on my
computer, i'd like any info on how well this kind of stuff works, DOS being
the most important. Thanks

Oh, yea. For the guys wanting real-time effects on the GUS, definatly pickup
Gus Delay.

        
                                                  Baskin -)
                                                  The University of Texas at 
                                                  Austin
                                             

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