Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun, 17 Jan 93       Volume 2 : Issue  14 

Today's Topics:
						 1.22 disks and Demos
							 add-to-list
							 card-review
				Daughterboard gripe/Misc. questions...
							modem conflict
						 StarCon2 and Noises
							  StarCon II
						Statics in Recording..
						  What have I done?!
							   Windows
		 Yet another idea for solving the patch cache problem

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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 11:49:59 -0800
From: ericb@sierra.com (Eric Blood)
Message-Id: <9301161949.AA01624@wrkstn>
Subject: 1.22 disks and Demos
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

First question, I read earlier about there being 1.22 disks?  What is
corrected with this version?  Where is it?

Are there any native GUS demos yet?  To really show of this board,
there needs to be some native stuff.  =)  I read about some groups
doing native GUS, but there was no date to when this would occur.
Anybody have anything to say?

Eric V. Blood
ericb@sierra.com

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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 23:25:16 -0500
From: "Mike Wells" <mw1@reef.cis.ufl.edu>
Message-Id: <9301170425.AA23944@reef.cis.ufl.edu>
Subject: add-to-list
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>



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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 23:25:28 -0500
From: "Mike Wells" <mw1@reef.cis.ufl.edu>
Message-Id: <9301170425.AA23958@reef.cis.ufl.edu>
Subject: card-review
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>



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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 9:07:49 PST
From: aktang@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (I should be studying)
Message-Id: <9301161707.AA22867@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Daughterboard gripe/Misc. questions...
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Whoa!  The 16-bit recording DB will be $149?  (SRP)  That seems to
be a lot to me, considering that the GUS itself is retailed at $199,
and 16-bit ADC can't possibly cost that much.  What else might be on
this DB to make the price so high?  It's almost not worth it.

Also, on the same note, it seems that Gravis is bundling a lot of
new software/goodies, while keeping the SRP at $199.  This is a
great idea, to attract more customers, but how about all of us who
already have a GUS w/o software, etc?  Although we paid considerably
less, the SRP was still at $199, so I don't think street prices are
going up for the "official" release w/ all the software.  It looks
like all we're getting are coupons for the new software.  They
better be good prices.  :-)

Anthony Tang
aktang@sdcc13.ucsd.edu

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Date: 16 Jan 1993 18:52:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: HOLLYK@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA
Message-Id: <01GTLHTHW61K935QPV@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: modem conflict
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I just want to pass on something I discovered the other day.
I was having trouble getting my modem to work properly. It wouldn't connect
after dialing. After trying many different types of modems in the shop....
sure wanted to leave that 14,400 in there.......I realized that it wasn't
the modem. It turned out to be GUS related but not hardware....software.

When I removed ultrinit.exe from my autoexec the modem worked fine!

I'm not a very technical user so I don't know exactly why this occurred
but I thought I's pass it on.....

Kevin Holly

hollyk@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 17:27:44 +1100
From: roland@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Roland Yap)
Message-Id: <9301170627.AA15873@bruce>
Subject: StarCon2 and Noises
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I don't know if this will fix the funny noises with Starcon2 for other
people or not. While playing with a friend's gravis we noticed random
noise and the culprit turned out to be emm386. Disabling it removed
the noises and it was possible to do clean sampling, etc.

Roland

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 03:22:11 -0700 (MST)
From: michael a finkel  <mfinkel@argon.GAS.uug.Arizona.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9301170311.A29295-a100000@argon>
Subject: StarCon II
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

This is probably an FAQ by now, but SCII gives me all sorts of static
mixed in with the music when it tries to play the "hyperspace" music.=20
This is the only sequence that I notice it in and it is extremely annoying.=
=20
I would greatly appreciate ane advice you have.

|                               |      Tell me something I don't know    |
|  MFinkel@Gas.uug.Arizona.edu  |        Show me something I can use     |
|                               |               Push the button          |
|    =AF=C4=C4=C4=C4> Tucson, Arizona     |         CONNECT THE GOD DAMN DO=
TS      | =20
|                               |                        =C4-Ministry      =
| =20

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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 14:32:01 MST
From: Apollo Shau-Yang Wong <apollo@ee.ualberta.ca>
Message-Id: <9301162254.AA00156@orca.es.com>
Subject: Statics in Recording..
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

> From: ebynum@server.cs.jhu.edu
> Subject: GUS Tech support - please read!
> Howdy folks,
> 
>   I need some help with my GUS. If you check your back issues, you'll
> see that I posted to the digest last week asking detailed questions about
> how to eliminate the static that seems to work its way into my samples
> (especially at high sample rates). To refresh your memories, I am using the
> *line in* port on the GUS, the signal comes from my stereo receiver, and I
> am recording onto a RAM disk, so there's no fragmentation or slow hard disk
> problems. Do I need a RAM upgrade for the card (currently 256K)?
> 
>                   Drop me a line,
> 
>                   Evan H. Bynum
>                   ebynum@cs.jhu.edu
> 
> P.S. If *anyone* has *anything* to say about how to record with this card,
> please have a heart and let me know. Tell me I'm doing it all wrong, even.
> I want this thing to record cleanly.
> 
I have no problem in recording clean sound from the US. Even if I am recording
straight into the hard disk.

My set up is:

1. Run the CPU in REAL MODE (Not V86, no EMM386. HIMEM.SYS is OK)
2. Use a very large disk cache (I used all my available XMS for smartdrv,
   turn write behind cache on).
3. Defragmented hard this.
4. Use CD quality source.

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Date: 16 Jan 1993 18:46:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: HOLLYK@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA
Message-Id: <01GTLH2IX4HE935QPV@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: What have I done?!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

I'll try to keep this brief......

I've had a GUS for quite some time and this past Thursday decided to upgrade
to 1 Meg because my machine was in the shop for a problem that turned out
to be GUS-related (more on that later...).

After the problem was solved, I tested flidemo, mididemo, and SBOS and all
was well. I then asked the tech to upgrade my GUS for me to 1 Meg.
He removed the two DRAM's that were in there and installed 8 70ns DRAM's.
Again, I ran flidemo and mididemo and all was well. I DIDN'T RUN SBOS!!!!
The next day when I tried to use SBOS, it crashed! It keeps locking up
just before that familiar nasal voice we all love is supposed to come in.
Also, when I tried to run setup I got the OFF BOARD PARITY ERROR, another
ghost from my GUS past!

I'm using a 486-25sx with 8 megs RAM. Again I stress that everything worked
fine before the upgrade, minutes before in fact. I called Gravis for advice
and they said to go back to 256k and upgrade 256k at a time to see if I have
a bad chip but when I did this it wouldn't even work with 256k any more. I 
don't have the original chips to re-install. Gravis also said that if this
didn't work, then to send the card in for repair/replacement under warranty
but I want to make sure it's not something else before I lose my card for
who knows how long. Doesn't playmidi use the ram on the board? This works
fine so maybe it's not the ram but the board itself.

I would greatly appreciate ANY input before I ship my beloved GUS to the
west coast. By the way, I'm still using SBOS ver 1.1 .

Thanks

Kevin Holly

hollyk@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca

" The mind is a terrible thing to taste "

why does everyone put quotes after their names..........hmmmm

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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 03:28:13 -0700 (MST)
From: michael a finkel <mfinkel@argon.GAS.uug.Arizona.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9301170324.B29295-a100000@argon>
Subject: Windows
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

This is also probably an FAQ, but I cannot get any sound out of my GUS in
windows. =20

I had the driver SPEAK.exe installeed to give me sound out of the PC
speaker while I was waiting for my GUS.  Now, it seems to not want to
relinquish control.  I have installed the files enclosed in GUS0012 in
windows and have ultrasnd.ini in my directory named ultrasnd.  This has
frustrated me as my system sounds have come out of my PC spaeker, and none
of the music utilities I have for windows will work.

All suggestions are encouraged.

|                               |      Tell me something I don't know    |
|  MFinkel@Gas.uug.Arizona.edu  |        Show me something I can use     |
|                               |               Push the button          |
|    =====> Tucson, Arizona     |         CONNECT THE GOD DAMN DOTS      |
|                               |                        =-Ministry-=    | 

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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 12:30:54 PST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS DECwindows  16-Jan-1993 1526" <fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com>
Message-Id: <9301162030.AA14125@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
Subject: Yet another idea for solving the patch cache problem
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

It just occurred to me that what the GUS driver should REALLY do is that when
it comes across a patch change request, and the required patch is not loaded,
it should LOAD it.  Ok, so maybe there is a pause while it is loading, or maybe
the channel for which it is intended uses the old patch for a few hundred
milliseconds...big deal.  That is much better than not working at all!

If AG did that, it strikes me as being more in the spirit.  A command called
patch cache really sounds like a HINT, not a requirement.  That is, if you call
the cache command, then everything is smoother and faster.  If you don't call
the cache command, it still works, just not quite as smoothly.

What do you think?  Any Gravis folks reading this?

Burns

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Date: (null)
From: (null)
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <ultrasound@dsd.es.com>

Hope this help.

Apollo
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| Apollo WONG S.Y.                 | Fourth Year Electrical Engineering,  |
| Internet : Apollo@EE.Ualberta.CA | University of Alberta, Canada.       |
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