GUS Daily Digest            Mon, 21 Mar 94  9:37 PST     Volume 11: Issue  45 

Today's Topics:
					  cakewalk - not enough mem
			   cakewalk - not enough mem on your card?
						CD-ROM Recommendation
					   CDROM DAUGHTERCARD INFO
						   FS5 and Win-OS/2
						   General MIDI set
					Gravis Ads in new mags!  Yeah!
				  GUS Daily Digest V11 #43 (2 msgs)
					   GUS Daily Digest V11 #44
					  HELP! Megaem and Novell 7
					  My MIDI won't come back :(
						NEC triple spin CD rom
		 note tieing using MidiSoft Recording Session for GUS
							 optifix.zip
							 Patch Banks
							  PCM or DSP
			 Returned mail: Cannot send message for 1 day
					 Sierra's 32 Bit AIL Driver ?
							 wontwork.mid
							   XMI.ARJ

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: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:02:13 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: cakewalk - not enough mem

Cakewalk gives this rather annoying 'There is not enough memory on
you soundcard' message if there are program change events on channel
10 (percussion). Often, there seems to be a program change 0 near
the start of the track. Delete any program change events on channel 10
and it will play correctly.

The trouble arises because Windows has two calls, MidiOutCachePatches
and MidiOutCacheDrumPatches to perform patch caching. The former will
cache patches for any channel other than 10, and the latter only on
channel 10. Cakewalk responds to the error trying to cache a melodic
patch on channel 10 by not caching any patches at all. It would be
better if it just carried on regardless, or had in-built knowledge
that caching melodic patches on channel 10 was not a good idea.

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 08:47:41 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  21-Mar-1994 0852" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: cakewalk - not enough mem on your card?

>I just tested cakewalk (midi prg. for windows) with my GUS.
>It's sure a great peace of software BUT, if I try to load a big midi file,
>Cakewalk reports 'There's not enough memory on your soundcard to hold all
>patches' I don't understand this, because I can play these Midi-Files
>with playmidi from dos!?

This is the message that gets reported to you when CW gets ANY error from the 
Windows patch-caching calls.  Most likely what happened is that you have a patch 
specified on the percussion channel (10).

Another possibility is that multiple tracks are being sent to the same channel 
(which is fine) except that more than one track specifies the initial patch for 
that channel.

Burns

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 94 18:10:00 -0640
From: chris.liu@dscmail.com (Chris Liu)
Subject: CD-ROM Recommendation

	Hi all Gussers.  I'm considering on buying a 2x CD-ROM drive but I am
totally new to the world of CDs.  Which one should I buy and should I use it's
own interface card or buy one from Gravis?  And while we're on this subject, can
you explain how I get sound from the CD through the GUS?  I think it involves
just plugging it in LINE IN or by the 4 pin connector onto the GUS.  Thanks for
any information.  And last, which CD game should I get!!! ;->  7th Guest?  Dune?
Willing to spend around $250 for CD drive and game.

Chris

---
 ~ SPEED 1.40 [NR] ~

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 17:42:41 -0800
From: tkabal@crash.cts.com
Subject: CDROM DAUGHTERCARD INFO

Can someone please mail me the info and prices on the cdrom daughter
cards, or post them to the digest. I want to order the mitsumi daughter
card and cannot find any info. Thanks...

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:50:41 +0200 (METDST)
From: John Peter Jore <JohnPeter.Jore@mrih.no>
Subject: FS5 and Win-OS/2

What is the address of the microsoft site where the major update of FS5 is?

Also I can not get the windows software to work under OS/2 2.11's Windows. The
drivers say that I'm not running Windows in 386 Enhanched mode. All other
windows programs say I AM using 386 Enhanced mode.

When I installed the GUS software the installation program says something
about "?????? WIN.INI QUIETLY" And other *.INI files too. I can not find
anything about this in the manual.

Is there a fix for this or is it just something I'm doing wrong?


jjo@samson.mrih.no

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:48:59 -0600
From: Sesterhenn Steven J <ssesterh@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: General MIDI set

To all who know,
	I bought my GUS in June of 1993, have rev2.4 and install disks
2.06_.  Does anyone know if this is the set that came with the full
General MIDI compliant set of patches?  Someone mentioned that 2.06
did, and I thought I didn't get the whole set, but just a set large
enough to play the sample MID files that came with the card.  I checked
the 2.06 disk updates on FTP and they are dated May 93.  Does anyone
know for sure if I have them, or a way to check for that matter?

	Thanks for any and all help,
	Steve Sesterhenn

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 08:47:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "M. Wells" <mww2g@kelvin.seas.virginia.edu>
Subject: Gravis Ads in new mags!  Yeah!

I opened my newest edition of "WIRED" and what do I find, much to
my great surprise?  An ad for the GUS MAX!!!!   It seems that 
Gravis has lifted their ad ban... and I like what they came up with.
the title says "WHY THE 'F' IN FM SOUND BOARDS MEANS 'FAKE.'"  Subtile
aren't they... :)  other great quotes from this ad include:
"all good things must come to an end"
"Even Van Gogh could appreciate the CD quality delivered by the MAX"
"F(t)=A sin( 2 pi f.t t ) + I sin(2 pi f.t)  This is the mathematical
	 formula used by the FM soundboards to create the sound of a 
	 piano.  We prefer to record a real piano."
"{picture of 8 track tapes deleted} FM synthesis originated when 
	 people thought these sounded good.  Need we say more?"
"With a full 192 instrument MIDI, you could become the world's
	 next great composer.  Or not."
"In fact, PC journalist John C. Dvorak wrote, '... the UltraSound
	 has a Sound Blaster emulation mode so good that it sounds better
	 than the Sound Blaster itself.'"

It's a great add with lots of humor and SoundBlaster blows in it.
It is definately eye catching and I'm happy with the ads.  Someone
said that they have also run these ads in Computer gaming world and 
some other game magazines.  3 cheers for Gravis!!!

Mike

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 94 12:56:08 CST
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #43

hach@oracle.dwh.de writes:
> Subject: cakewalk - not enough mem on your card?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just tested cakewalk (midi prg. for windows) with my GUS.
> It's sure a great peace of software BUT, if I try to load a big midi file,
> Cakewalk reports 'There's not enough memory on your soundcard to hold all
> patches' I don't understand this, because I can play these Midi-Files
> with playmidi from dos!?
> 
> I've a GUS with 1024 kb!
> 
> Thanks in advance .....
> 

Cakewalk for Windows, V2.0 has a small buglet which confuses the program
when there is a program change of any sort on channel 10 (the drum
channel). Version 2.01, which will ship within the next 10 days, has
supposedly fixed this problem. In the meantime, just remove any program
(or patch) change information from any track sending to channel 10 and
you'll be fine.

John
-- 
	 John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com   CompuServe: 72074,451
						Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
						3000 Waterview Pkwy
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:37:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Bryon Thur <bhthur@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #43

  Hi there!  I've only had my GUS for about a month now and think it's 
the best thing since sliced bread, but I'm not crazy about the patches 
that came with it.  I'd like to change some of them, especially the 
guitar ones.  Can someone tell me the best guitar patches to get, and can 
I just copy them over the old patches?

  One other thing...I'd love to get my hands on a guitar patch that 
has a real Metallica-like crunch to it, as I'd like my Doom music to 
sound just a bit more 'metal' than it already does!  Thanx in advance.

 Bryon
  bhthur@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <Bryon Thur>

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 16:51:34 -0700 (MST)
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #44

> From: V128NKGA@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
> Subject: A different MIDI in Windows problem ...
> 
> this particular problem mentioned.  When I try to play a midi file under
> windows, some files will play, but many won't.  Even the ones that do play
> are often missing some instruments (eg credits.mid of xwing is missing

Obviously the patches are not being loaded.  This is most likely 'cause
you don't have a 1 meg GUS; it starts to load the patches, but when it
runs out of memory, it can't load any more, so it just plays the song with
the partial set of patches, and frequently (as Murphy would have it) the
patch(es) that wasn't loaded is the lead part of the song.  Solution:
upgrade your ram; or select "conserve space" on the GUS driver control
panel.  Or, maybe you have some patches missing off the hard drive.  Print
out your ultrasnd.ini and look to make sure that every patch file that is
listed is on your hard drive.  If not, get them off your installation disks,
using the "restore files" option.

-- 
  _______                                                             KB7PWD
 (_  | |_)                                            shawn.rutledge@asu.edu
 __) | | \__________________________________________________________________
* C * virtual reality * GUS * techno * cyberspace * Internet * fusion * 

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 9:53:44 CST
From: Daniel A Nielsen <dnielsen@ria-emh2.army.mil>
Subject: HELP! Megaem and Novell 7

Is there any way to get megaem work with novell 7?  Usually I get an error
msg from EMM386.  The best I can do is get "not enough EMS available".
Suggestions?

I can't seem to get a subscription, so please try to send to me and the list.

thanks
dan

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 09:11:19 -0216 (GMT-2:16)
From: "J.Waghorn" <ts0jwa@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>
Subject: My MIDI won't come back :(

Hi folks,

Just a quickie

Since I upgraded to Winslows 3.11 and GUS Install 3.1, I've lost the MIDI
in Windows. The .WAVs play fine, but I can't get .MIDs to play at
all. 

The info in the Gravis Manual for Install 2.06 is (to say the least) brief 
on troubleshooting, and I've been through all it's suggestions.
So what should I be looking for in my config files ???

Regards

Jason 
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 14:04:41 -0700 (MST)
From: Derek the Dweebosaurus <dng@med.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: NEC triple spin CD rom

I am considering buying the new NEC triple speed CD-rom. Anybody know if 
it will work with GUS or any of its CD-ROM daughter cards? Does GUS have 
a SCSI interface or do I have to buy that separate or buy another sound 
card that has one such as the ProAudio Spectrum?

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 20:51:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert J. Adams" <adamsr@turing.uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: note tieing using MidiSoft Recording Session for GUS

On Sun, 20 Mar -1, GUS Server wrote:

> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 19:45:00 EST
> From: Akintunde Omitowoju <ZAO1@ETSU.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU>
> 
> I know this might now be the proper area to ask this question, but I was
> wondering how to you do note ties in MidiSoft Recording Session for Windows?
> 
> Akintunde Omitowoju

Well when you select the note tool to manually place notes, a little
dialog box should come up to let you select note velocity and a few 
other settings like duration of note, there should be a check off box 
in which you select tie to last note.  Some of the older verions that 
came with the GUS did not have this though, so yours might not. 

/***************************************************************************
* Robert Adams                  University of North Carolina at Greensboro *
* adamsr@hamlet.uncg.edu                                     Undergraduate * 
* adamsr@turing.uncg.edu                          Computer Science / Music *    
***************************************************************************/
 

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 18:13:03 GMT+1
From: <MAKRAI@evt.bme.hu>
Subject: optifix.zip

Where can I find the file optifix.zip?
On which ftp-site?

Thanks in advance.

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:06:16 PST
From: <HEYROVSKY@br.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Subject: Patch Banks

Hello.
In Midisoft Recording Studio: how do I use patches that are in other 
banks than bank zero? (in ultrasnd.ini) There is an option to choose 
different bank numbers, but it has no effect.
Thanks a lot.
Emil

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:37:04 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: PCM or DSP

> I was reading in PCFormat that the UltraSound uses DSP based wave
> table as opposed to the more advanced PCM wave table...

Unfortunately, I have little idea what the terms PCM and DSP actually
mean. What I have in mind is that PCM is a method of compressing
waveform data so that it occupies less memory or disk space. The GUS
does not perform any hardware compression or decompression - samples
are stored in its memory exactly 'as is'. (Maybe the rumoured 'son of
GUS' can do some of these things.)

DSP? Well the GUS certainly processes samples digitally! It cannot however
produce e.g. reverb or chorus effects which are sometimes described
as 'signal processing'.

The GUS is really quite a simple device. Samples are loaded into its
memory, and it plays them, up to 32 at once, and with control over
rate and amplitude. Thats all there is to it, and this leads to great
versatility in what software can get it to do. 
OK - compressed samples might be good, but there is no reason why they
shoud SOUND any different. This is perhaps more important with a ROM based
card, where you CANNOT load new samples, and hence as many as possible
must be packed into the amount of ROM available. It's time these
magazines learned the difference between ROM and RAM based cards.

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 11:33:30 MET
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Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 1 day

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> I wanted to know how Gravis got SimCity 2000 to work with the 32bit
> AIL.  I don't seem to be able to get it to work.  I have one meg. on
> board RAM and I followed all the instruction.  The problem is that I
> am getting garbage and random sound samples.  This happens whenever a
SC2000 works fine with me (DMA 5, IRQ 11). Do you have GAIL3214?
You should NOT use SBOS, ULTRAMID or MEGAEM. Just edit the
'sc2000.cfg' manually. Set the [MidiBank] to GM. 
>  
>  Also when playing Doom I sometimes get slowdowns in the music. I have
>  a dx2-66 and a 1meg gus on 220,1,1,7,5. Should I change dma or irq?
This is not a soundboard problem. DMA is used only at startup (DMXINIT).
DOOM v1.2 supports all IRQ's (I'm using IRQ11 myself). It's a memory
problem. Don't use TSR's or memory managers (like EMM386, 386MAX & QEMM).
I'll save memory. Also, I think that DMA 0-3 have higher priority than DMA 4-7.
 

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 11:35:26 +1000 (EST)
From: Mr KS Yap <ksyap1@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Sierra's 32 Bit AIL Driver ?

Hi,
   I wrote to Sierra recently to ask about the progress of the 32 Bit AIL
driver, and the following is the reply :

			********************
Hello,

Technical Support does not have Gravis Ultra Sound drivers for the DOS
versions of  our SCI32 products at this time, nor do we know when, or if,
such drivers will be released. At this time, GUS users can play these games
in Windows, assuming that the correct GUS 
drivers have been installed in the Windows environment. With the correct GUS
drivers installed, GK works great in Windows.

If and when such drivers are available, they will be posted on our BBS and
AOL and will be available through our Technical Support epartment. However,
at this time they are not available and we have no information about when
these drivers may become available. We really don't know when these drivers
will be out, if at all (contrary to what other may have said!)
			*************************

	Disappointing, isn't it ? I thought Sierra have done a pretty good job
with 16 Bit AIL driver, I really wonder why they suddenly seems to lose
their interest with GUS (I actually want to wait for the driver so that I
can play Gabriel Knight with it, BTW do anyone knows if GB plays
allright in Windows?). And do anyone has any info. regarding the above
message, or have I been mislead by the techinal support stuff. 

Shan
ksyap1@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au

Share and Prosper.

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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 17:12:03 -0700 (MST)
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
Subject: wontwork.mid

>   I'll be loading one of the midi files that won't play under windows
> onto archive.epas.utoronto.ca in pub/pc/ultrasound/submit under the file
> name wontwork.mid.  Please take a look at it if you get a chance, and see
> if you can get any sound out of it in windows (btw, it's really the midi
> 1moretry).

That particular file doesn't have the patches defined in the midi file!  But
when I opened it up in Cakewalk and assigned patches it played fine.  What also
works is to first open patch manager and load the piano, then run media player
and play the mid, then immediately switch back to patch manager and click on
the piano patch in the top right window.  It will then proceed to play whatever
is on the midi stream using that patch.  I still doubt that this is the problem
with all your mids that don't play, though. 

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* C * virtual reality * GUS * techno * cyberspace * Internet * fusion * 

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 00:22:34 -0500
From: Doug Tooley <djtooley@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: XMI.ARJ

}I ftp'd XMI.ARJ off of epas after the validation from the game directory,
}but when I uncompressed it, it had errors! And ARJ doesn't have any fix
}utility like PKZIP!  Well, then I d-loaded it off of orst.edu, but since
}it had already copied from epas, it was also corrupted.
}Could it be upoaded again please?

I beg to differ.  ARJ *does* have a fix utility. Like just about every
other ARJ command it's in the ARJ.EXE program itself:

ARJ u -jr filename            (update, recover... or -jr1 for badly damaged)
							  RTFM.

Just the same, I would recommend re-downloading it since any damaged 
archive has almost always lost information. (possible exception: UC2)

But that wasn't GUS related... so I'll add this:

THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX THX (eye-catcher)

I will be posting the THX "logo" sound to alt.binaries.sounds.misc some
point in the next few days. I will also be uploading the files to
wuarchive.wustl.edu probably in the /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/sound/THX directory.

After that, I will be accepting requests for emailed versions. But be
warned:  these sound files are all quite large. (.WAV format)

Have Fun!
--
Doug Tooley         4B Co-Op CS/C&O student at U of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
djtooley@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca  |  doug@io.org
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 09:13:40 EST
From: ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen)

Somebody from Germany writes:

>I would like to by a midi-keyboard for use with my GUS!
>I'm completely new to the midi-keyboard stuff, so I need your recommend
>for the purchase!
>
>What do I have to buy?
>
>Do I just need a plain keyboard to play the patches loaded to the GUS?
>Or is it better to buy a real 'instrument' with CPU RAM etc.?
>What do I have to invest?
>What do I have to consider?

There is an excellent writeup concerning midi equipment, but especially
keyboards on the ftp sites.  It is called GUSmidi_shopping.FAQ.


Same writer from Germany:

>I just tested cakewalk (midi prg. for windows) with my GUS.
>It's sure a great peace of software BUT, if I try to load a big midi file,
>Cakewalk reports 'There's not enough memory on your soundcard to hold all
>patches' I don't understand this, because I can play these Midi-Files
>with playmidi from dos!?

I've experienced the same problem. Midi files that work fine using Midi Session
when loaded into Cakewalk don't have enough memory.  Anybody understand why this
would be true?

Bill
ballen@ejv.com

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