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GUS Musician's Digest       Fri, 6 May 94 14:21 PST      Volume 7: Issue   6  

Today's Topics:
              GusDelay version 1.0 has been released!!!
                        GUS Musician's Digest
                     GUS Musician's Digest V7 #5

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Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 11:01:19 -0400
From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon)
Subject: GusDelay version 1.0 has been released!!!

Hi, GUSers,

I have officially released GusDelay version 1.0! (finally)  It has many 
significant improvements to the old version as well as many new and useful 
features.  A list of some of the key features is given below.

You may find GusDelay 1.0 in...

archive.epas.utoronto.ca:/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/gusdly10.zip

Here is an excerpt from the introduction to GusDelay's documentation...

GusDelay is a program that transforms your Gravis UltraSound into an 
extremely powerful yet easy to use digital delay system (DDS).  It has 
features found only on professional DDSs that cost far more than the Gravis  
UltraSound itself.

Features
--------
Here is a brief list of some of GusDelay's features:

*** Up to 14 individually controllable output taps - GusDelay can use this 
    ability to create regenerative effects that are not degenerative.  
    Single tap delay units must feed the output back into the input in order 
    to create regenerative effects (such as multiple echoes or reverb).  
    Each time the signal goes through the system it is degraded in quality.  
    After several iterations the signal can be quite distorted.  With 
    multiple taps, regenerative effects can be simulated without feeding the 
    output back into the input thereby eliminating the degenerative side 
    effects.

*** Sampling frequencies up to 44.1 kHz in both mono and stereo - GusDelay 
    supports the entire sampling frequency range of the Gravis UltraSound.  
        
*** Jitter free and dropout free recording - GusDelay uses a technique for 
    recording that produces higher quality recordings than other recording 
    programs for the Gravis UltraSound including USS 8 and Playfile.

*** Real-time surround sound capabilities - GusDelay can produce real-time 
    output that can be decoded by surround sound systems to produce true, 
    on-the-fly surround sound effects.

*** Supports text based configuration files for plug-and-play usability 
    and easy customization - GusDelay is highly configurable through the use 
    of ASCII based configuration files.  This makes it easy for GusDelay 
    users to save their favorite "presets" for quick recall, exchange their 
    favorite settings with other users,  write simple programs to generate 
    the settings for a mathematically calculated effect, and so on.

*** Command line arguments - GusDelay takes many of its parameters from the 
    command line.  This enhances GusDelay's flexibility by allowing it to be 
    started unattended from within batch files.

*** On-line help - GusDelay offers on-line help for the command line 
    arguments as well as runtime operation.  This on-line quick reference 
    information makes GusDelay easier to use.

I hope you like it,
Dave

David MacMahon
Software Engineer
davidm@marcam.com

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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 11:01:08 EST
From: jmorris@ace.com (Cuthalion)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest

{gus-music@gaia.ucs.orst.edu}
 >         (Hmmm!  Envision this:  You draw freehand a spectrum of the
 @1> waveform.
 > You then give it another waveform, and some control points, it basically
 > morphs from one to another, making sound everywhere in between. :-)

 @1> You read my mind dude!  Sort of a Corel Draw for musical waveforms. 
 @1> That's the ticket to be sure.

        Hmmm.  I thought I posted this to the programmer's digest.  Oh
well.  :)   I'll work on it.  I suspect what it will do is generate .pat
files.  (with loopspoints set, and all!  :)  Either that or just dump them
to raw sound files.  :)  (maybe an option for either.)

 .. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

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Date: Fri, 06 May 94 09:00:05 +0300
From: Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V7 #5

>Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 14:12:56 -0700 (MST)
>From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
>Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V7 #3
>
>> F.M.J.-Software presents:
>>
>> :Ultrasound Patch Librarian: v0.2b    [UPL02.ZIP]
>
>Just like to express my gratitude for you guys coming out with this, and
>then upgrading it so soon!  It's definitely something Patch Manager should
>always have done.  Are you gonna add a mouseable keyboard so I can play
>notes to try out a patch, like in PM?  Yasee, myself and probably lots of
>other GUS users don't necessarily have MIDI keyboards yet.

First of all, this isn't so vital.  For the time being, a much better solution
would be plugging PCMag's KBMIDI utility (you can't include it) in a prominent
place in your help file.
Second, let me note that Microsoft has released public source code for a
mousable keyboard, available somewhere on ftp.microsoft.com (and perhaps also
at ftp.cica.indiana.edu, pub/pc/win3/sounds).
I hope to see more from FMJ!
Yossi.

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