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GUS Musician's Digest       Sat, 21 May 94 15:00 PST     Volume 7: Issue  18  

Today's Topics:
                         Better Quality Patch
                      Carson's Ceyboard ReCwests
                             Digest mail
                          GUS MIDI road map
                           MIDI controllers
                  Patch Maker Lite:  Bug or Feature?
                           PLAYXMI.BAT v1.0
                  submit directory cleared...AARGH!

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Date: Thu, 19 May 94 09:18:35 +0200
From: mr@nit.be (Marc Resibois)
Subject: Re: Better Quality Patch

> Can anyone advise where I might be able to find the patches I seek? 

Larry,

I believe you'd better search in the "Musical" samplers libraries ( like Roland , Ensoniq , etc..). They got some damn good patches and thanks to a FMJ software called 2PAT, you can transform them in GUS patches :)

Mail me if you need more infos.

Marc.

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Date: 19 May 94 08:32:32 EDT
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Carson's Ceyboard ReCwests

Carson,

> I am sure there are many of us that would buy a velocity sensitive MIDI kybd
> priced under $500. Any recommendations?

Check out the way cool Novation products for compact quality.

The Roland PC-200 is reasonably priced, with velocity sensitive keys, about 4
and a half octaves, mod wheel/pitch bender.

Also Fatar has some desktop stuff - check out Keyboard mag for their ad - they
have a keyboard which has room for your reg computer keyboard and a mouse pad
all integrated. Gotta get one!

Eric

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Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 09:03:04 +0100
From: P.VanHorssen@hol0606.wins.icl.co.uk
Subject: Digest mail

What is happening with the Digest deliveries?
Have I missed something? Is there a strike on the Internet
sending out the Digests?

Rgrds Pieter

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Date: Thu, 19 May 94 09:21:47 +0200
From: mr@nit.be (Marc Resibois)
Subject: Re: GUS MIDI road map

>
> On a similar vein, is there a specification that describes which MIDI
> messages (particularly controller messages) the GUS MIDI drivers do
> respond to?

Someone from Gravis told me that a midi spec sheet was coming really soon .. :)

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Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 10:04:16 +0930 (CST)
From: Gavin Scarman <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
Subject: MIDI controllers

Using cakewalk 4 win, you can set all sorts of controllers up. Is there a list 
of them somewhere, and will the GUS respond to all of them?

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Date: Fri, 20 May 94 14:54:42 EDT
From: Meshreki@eecis.udel.edu
Subject: Patch Maker Lite:  Bug or Feature?
Message-ID: <9405201854.aa04715@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu>

Well, I'm trying to make some percussion patches using Patch Maker Lite 1.12. 
I've come across a weird bug with either PML or me.  :-)

Looking at a couple of percussion patches in the official General MIDI 
distribution (by Eye&I), it appears they have the following properties:
[1] There is only 1 sample per patch.
[2] The playable range of notes is set as a single note/frequency.
[3] The root note/frequency is the same as the range.
[4] The root frequency can be any note.
[5] TUNE: The box marked "No pitch shift" is checked.
[6] ENVELOPE: The box marked "No Sustain" is checked.
and
[7] You can play ANY note on the virtual keyboard and hear the percussion
sample, even outside of the range!  ASSUMPTION #1:  This is so you can use 
the patch in any position in the drumset defined in the CFG and INI files.

HERE'S MY PROBLEM:

When I duplicate the above, I get no sound from my patches.
Both PLAYMIDI and Patch Maker Lite refuse to play a peep.

I've got three workarounds.  These workarounds give me sound in PML and
PLAYMIDI, but don't meet all the properties of an Eye&I percussion patch.

1.  Meet every condition except for [5].  I lose [7].  This forces the
patch to an exact position in the drumset, but retains proper pitch.  Yuck.
______________________
| | || || | | | || | |
| | || || | | | || | |
| |_||_||_| | |_||_| |
|  |  |**|  |  |  |  |           **    root frequency
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|
     ->  <-                    ->  <-  range

2.  Meet every condition except for [2].  If I extend the range to include C5,
then I will hear sound and I also get property [7], but with an undesirable 
side effect:  the pitch is NOT the same as the sampled wave, even though it 
remains constant no matter what piano key I press.  The pitch shifts (and 
holds) to whatever C5 dictates.  Yuck.
______________________
| | || || | | | || | |
| | || || | | | || | |
| |_||_||_| | |_||_| |
|  |  |**|  |C5|  |  |           **    root frequency
|__|__|__|__|__|__|__|
     ->        <-              ->  <-  range

3.  Meet every condition except for [4].  I can get everything else with
the correct pitch, etc., if I start with a root frequency of C5 (i.e. place
my .WAV on that note).  Ok.

ASSUMPTION #2:  Eye&I did NOT make their percussion patches with PML.  :-)

Eye&I's patches work fine with PML, so is it a bug or feature that percussion
patches created with PML have to root at C5?

I'm also getting a bad feeling in my gut that this has been discussed before.
Did everyone else know this and I just found out the hard way?

--
Sam "not known for his short posts to the digest"

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Date: Fri, 20 May 94 14:56:30 EDT
From: Meshreki@eecis.udel.edu
Subject: PLAYXMI.BAT v1.0
Message-ID: <9405201856.aa04768@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu>

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

User-friendly batch file to play .XMI files on the GUS in DOS.  Online help.  
XMI = eXtended MIDI.  Uses UltraMID and MIDPAK.  DOS shell during playback.
by Samer Meshreki (meshreki@udel.edu).  Source code included!  :-)

Let me know what you think.

Sam

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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 09:28:53 +1000
From: David Mitchell <davidm@hparc7.aus.hp.com>
Subject: submit directory cleared...AARGH!

What a day!  I come in to work, decide to FINALLY download some of the great
stuff that people have been writing recently (GUSDELAY, 2PAT, MPC, ...) and
IT'S ALL GONE!!!

Somebody cleared out the submit directory on epas!!!

Could some kind soul PLEASE re-upload all the useful utilities?  Thanks...

Dave "From now on, I'll download things as soon as I see them" Mitchell

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