Ultrasound Daily Digest     Tue, 13 Apr 1993     Volume 3 : Issue  13 

Today's Topics:
							 A new patch
						archive.epas & midimon
						   Bloody PlayMidi
				  FTP site archive.epas.utoronto.ca
							GUS vs. PAS16
				  invalid sboslib.sbs error message
					   ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST
						   UltraSound SDK.
			 Wanted: Potential OS/2 device driver writers

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:33:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Subject: A new patch
Message-ID: <9304130133.AA03214@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA>

Remember accrdeon.pat? It was noisy, off key, bad looping and bad release.
It was a beta version with one sample.

I have redone it after finally mastering all the patch format (including the
new parameters of v.1.10). If you want to be surprised, go download it.
It's on archive.epas.utoronto.ca in pub/pc/ultrasound/submit under filename:
accrdeon.arj

The old version in pub/pc/ultrasound/sounds/patches/files should be removed.
(Anasyn1 should also be removed because they are buggy... I will redo them.
Keep in mind that they were done back in november...)

Anyway, back to accrdeon: it is noise free, no "ultraclick", include 2
good accordian samples with wind sound. It is much better than the included
accordn.pat. Everything is very close to a real accordian (well the loop is
a bit flat, but since i'm still editing with hexadecimal, it'll stay like
that for now. It is much better anyway than accordn).

More patches on the way, but i want your feedback! At one point i had about
40 patches but erased them all because i was not satisfied. You want 16 bit
without noise and click free patches and that's what you'll get.

For percussions i have a problem: to which key do i assign them?

Also, for patch which are not replacements for Gravis patches, how will they
be included in ultrasnd.ini? 

Last, all people who were interested in developping a patch editor, contact
me asap. I know that two people from sweden were interested (one beeing
Lars Ljungberg) and some from the US (Michael Chen and others). I have
sent some stuff to several of you, but i have not seen much feedback, so
i think a mail reflector would be in order... Dave? A list for programmers
only?

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion
	'  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	  (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
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Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-...

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 16:54:29 WET DST
From: dp@hydra.carleton.CA (Dave Perry VE3IFB)
Subject: Re: archive.epas & midimon
Message-ID: <9304122054.AA00242@hydra.carleton.CA>

The "archive" name works for me - maybe something is amiss with your mailer
or domain name server.

Midimon didn't work for me either. No window, no nuthin'. Thats the other
reason I wrote miditest :-)

Dave

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:42:34 -0700 (MST)
From: BENI@PYROS.HACKS.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Bloody PlayMidi
Message-ID: <930412164234.20403e03@PYROS.HACKS.ARIZONA.EDU>

	I have PlayMidi  4.03 - And it works quite well. For one piece, at least.. then when it exits the graphics mode back to the blue screen, it locks up. Does anyone know how to fix this? 
	Thanks,
		Ben Iten
		beni@hacks.arizona.edu

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 9:29:58 PDT
From: roberts@brahms.amd.com (Dave Roberts)
Subject: Re: FTP site archive.epas.utoronto.ca
Message-ID: <9304121630.AA08668@angelo.amd.com>

To those who have the power to correct this sort of thing:

I'm a user who doesn't have FTP access so I use DEC's FTPmail to get
files.  Recently, I've noticed that archive.epas.utoronto.ca seems to
have dropped of the face of the Internet.  In particular, whenever the
DEC mailserver tries a domain name lookup on it, it fails.  I usually
end up snarfing my files off wuarchive instead.  Of course, I can't
get the recent submit stuff.  If anybody who shepards the epas archive
would like to look into this, all of us lowly FTPmail users would be
very grateful.  I'm not sure what's wrong, but if somebody wants a
transcript of what the DEC server spits back, I'd be glad to provide
it.

Dave Roberts
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Network Products Division
david.roberts@amd.com

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 10:53:58 PDT
From: thrilla@spectrx.Saigon.COM (Stephan Suhocki)
Subject: GUS vs. PAS16
Message-ID: <NkNw2B3w165w@spectrx.saigon.com>

I just bought a PAS16, but after reading about the GUS, I am having
second thoughts.. Does anyone have a comparison sheet between these
2? Also, is the GUS fully AdLib and SB compatible?

--
thrilla@spectrx.saigon.com (Stephan Suhocki)
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005  Silicon Valley, Ca

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:14:43 MST
From: "Dave Bakken" <bakken@cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: invalid sboslib.sbs error message
Message-ID: <199304122314.AA20817@centennial.cs.arizona.edu>

I installed the new five 2.01 disks Saturday, and they seem
to work wonderfully.  Then I installed the SBOS 2.04 files
as directed, i.e., by unzipping them into my ultrasnd/sbos
directory. (OK, I had to copy ultrainit.sys up to the ultrasnd
directory, because there was an old one there.  This may not
have been necessary, since it was the same size and thus
probably the same thing.)

After I installed SBOS 2.04 like this I get the following
error messages when SBOS is fired up:
	
	Invalid (c:\ultrasound\sbos\sboslib.sbs) SBOS patch library

	Error on load of patch library(C:\ultrasound/sbos/sboslib.sbos)

I don't get the audio ``Ultrasound installed'' message like usual,
but perhaps it is working since playmidi seems to work fine after
this.

Oh, yes, I don't know if this is related, but when the following
line in config.sys:

	DEVICE=C:\...\ultrainit.sys ULTRASOUND=...

is processed, it spits out the message

	Ultra Sound initialized to 1.02.

Now, maybe this is OK, but the version is supposed to be 2.01 (or
2.02).  I did delete my old ultrasound directory before installing
the new one.  

Does any one know why I might be getting this message and, more
importantly, how to fix or at least further diagnose it?  Thanks for
any help!

Dave

P.S.  As an aside, I found it interesting that the install program
modified my autoexec.bat file to call sbos.bat, even though I
later fire up windows.  I commented this line out since it seemed
unnecessary and maybe even harmful.  Unless I'm missing something
here, the Gravis folks might want to have their install software
scan the autoexec.bat file and try to see if it fires up windows
before inserting the sbos.bat file.  It may well hurt nothing with
the new version, though.

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 07:56:25 
From: brian.simpson@t8000.cuc.ab.ca
Subject: ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST
Message-ID: <9304120756.A5658wk@t8000.cuc.ab.ca>

Hello all,
Can some one please tell me how I can FTP files from the FTPmail-server located
in the GUS archives? 
		Thanks
		brian.simpson@t8000.cuc.ab.ca

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Date: 12 Apr 93 19:24:06 U
From: "zz Paul Murgatroyd" <zz_paul_murgatroyd@macmail.bu.oz.au>
Subject: UltraSound SDK.
Message-ID: <9304120917.AA28407@kirk.bu.oz.au>

  I am interested in finding out if there is an SDK for the GUS. I have very
little experience with C, but would like to get a GUS SDK for C anyway. Most of
my programming experience is with Turbo Pascal, so if there is a GUS SDK
written in Turbo Pascal, that would be the best choice for me. We are using
Modula-2 for our course work at Uni, but I won't hold my breath for any
Modula-2 libraries, since although Modula-2 is *supposedly* the successor to
Pascal, I am am yet to discover one shred of evidence  to support this claim.

Anyways, if anyone can help me locate an SDK (for Turbo Pascal, C, or both), I
would much appreciate it.

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 10:38:47 -0500 (EST)
From: DEATH BEFORE DISCO <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Wanted: Potential OS/2 device driver writers
Message-ID: <01GWX5NYC32690OPY6@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>

I am interested in getting together (over Internet) to write a device
driver for our beloved GUS. Anybody SERIOUSLY interested in doing this
should E-Mail me. I will have access to a GUS sdk as well as an OS/2
sdk. Don't look any further into this. I will not have the time to start
this until summer.

	I also don't know how to program in C yet. But after programming
in LISP, I think I could do anything.


					Jeff

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