GUS Daily Digest            Sun, 22 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  21 

Today's Topics:
                           Audio CD problem
                         CD Audio connection
         CD digital through SCSI bus -- where are FTP sites?
                              gus & Hell
                        GUS Programming Info?
                          Marcato IS wrong!
                          Official Suppliers
                         Ultima Underworld 2

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, 21 Jan 1995 19:06:41 -0700 (MST)
From: rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff)
Subject: Audio CD problem

> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 13:38:03 -0500
> From: Maciej Kalisiak <mkalisia@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
> Subject: CD Audio connection
> 
> I recently got myself a CDROM drive, Sony CDU-55E I think its called, and 
> I have a small problem. Everything works fine except the audio CD 
> connection. I checked the cable and it seems fine. I checked the pinouts 
> and they both match on the CDROM and GUS (left ground ground right, or 
> symmetrically reversed). I stick in a plain audio CD, get it playing with 
> a CD player prog, and nothing comes out of the gus, while the headphone 
> jack actually works, and I can listen to the CD with my earphones. I 
> tried all possible switches on ultrinit. I'm totally clueless. My only 
> possible suspcion is that the CDROM is of the variety that connects 
> directly to the IDE interface, as opposed to a dedicated board or the GUS.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
Uhh.. the only thing I can think of is the go into the \ultrasnd 
directory on your HD and use ULTRAMIX. Use the -h switch and get a list 
of the switches. Enable the cd and make sure the gain is all the way up.

You said you messed with ULTRINIT so I assume that means you tried the 
-ec switch?


           -- Ryan Korniloff
           -- rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 16:17:22 UTC-0800
From: Brad Hawthorne <u9c192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: CD Audio connection

> I recently got myself a CDROM drive, Sony CDU-55E I think its called, and 
> I have a small problem. Everything works fine except the audio CD 
> connection.

I had the same problem with my system, but I soon discovered that, by default,
the GUS doesn't have its CDROM line input enabled. At that time, the only way
for me to get it working was to 'initialize' the soundcard in some way first
(ie. run a MOD player). But after I grabbed the 3.59 disks, I found a utility
on them that did it directly. (I forgot the name of it, I don't think it was
ultrinit)

Hope that helps.

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 21:44:36 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: CD digital through SCSI bus -- where are FTP sites?

I have been directed to try these programs to sample audio through my 
Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive.

> CDDA       -> For some SCSI-CDROM's
> DA2WAVxx   -> Newer version of CDDA ??
> CDGRAB     SCSI also (?), demo-version available for testing only
> CDGRAB-PRO ?
> CDDAREAD   ?
> CDINFO     Non scsi and maybe also scsi
> CDMON      ?
> CDAR       ?

But my archie reveals no sites for them (or they're other things that 
have the letters "cd" in them).  Can someone tell me which sites have 
them?  Also, someone mentioned that it might be possible to route digital 
audio directly to the GUS rather than recording to disk and then playing 
it as a .wav file.  Has such a program been developed yet?  Thanks.

-Peter

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 18:28:47 -0600 (CST)
From: 5087RAISSIA@vmsa.csd.mu.edu
Subject: gus & Hell

I was wondering if anyone had success fully ran the CD-ROM hell with the
regualr GUS?  If so, how?  

Also, did anyone figure out why the digital output from WCIII to the GUS is
only 8 bit?

Thank you in advance,

Abbas

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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 95 09:34:44 EST
From: Pooya Hemami <PHEMAMI@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: GUS Programming Info?

I'd like to program for my GUS in Turbo Pascal but I don't have any
SDK or whatever.  If there are any GUS programming units or SDKs
available on the net, can someone tell me where I can FTP one from?

Thanks.

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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 13:53:13 GMT
From: "Mark D. Billinge" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Marcato IS wrong!

>     I don't think the marcato.pat is messed up.  I've been in an 
> orchestra and seen many.  The violins are on the left, the voilas and 
> cellos middle and near right, and the basses are on the right.  If the 
> patch is played the other way, _then_ one will be sitting _in_ the
orchestra.

I agree with you about the arrangement you say - if you re-read 
the original message, I said exactly what you said - that is the 
violins were on the right in marcato.pat and should be on the left - 
I'm not entirely uncultured myself either!

As the patch stands, the bass strings are on the left.  
That's wrong, surely, if you are in the audience.  Which is the 
obvious place you would be.

Mark

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 13:32:18 -0500
From: Mighty Man <ivanlau@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Official Suppliers

Does anyone know who are licensed/authorized retailers of Gravis products
overseas?  I just came back from Singapore and I saw a store there with
the name Advanced Gravis Computer Technology PTE Ltd.  They didn't carry
the Gravis Ultrasound, they didn't even know what it was.  They were
selling PC-Clones (with names like Gravis Special), which nicely
enough had SoundBlasters in them.

Can Gravis sue these guys?  They're definitely giving Gravis a bad name.
Ivan

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 95 16:29:40 EST
From: rschutt@pen.k12.va.us (Ryan Andrew Schutt)
Subject: Ultima Underworld 2

Anyone know how to get UW2 working with ultramid?

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