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GUS Musician's Digest       Thu, 24 Feb 94  3:26         Volume 5: Issue  22  

Today's Topics:
                      16 bit recording option s
                            All Notes Off
                           gravis.exe rip!
                            mpb06 problem
                    The Answer; Re: mpb06 problem

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 12:54:11
From: john.smith@gravis.com
Subject: 16 bit recording option s

16 Bit Recording Option Shipping
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The UltraSound 16 Bit recording option is now shipping!

You may order this product directly from us for $99.95US or $129.95Can
plus shipping. To order call (604)431-5020.

This option card will only work an UltraSound V2.2, V2.4, and V3.4.

Here is a copy of the 16 Bit brochure.

C'ya

John

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                UltraSound - 16-bit Recording Option
                ====================================

  Step Up to 16-bit Recording with the Gravis 16-bit Recording Option
  -------------------------------------------------------------------

Add to the fun and excitement of your Gravis UltraSound board with the
16-bit Recording Option, and turn your home computer into a recording
studio.

The 16-bit recording option offers these remarkable features:

  - Connects *piggyback* to your UltraSound card and does not occupy
        any additional expansion slots
  - Lets you record and playback up to 48 kHz (DAT quality)
  - Supports hardware compressions including ADPCM, ALAW, MULAW
  - Hardware mixing and volume control made easy

To take advantage of the recording capabilities, the 16-bit Recording
Option includes the following software:

USS16 - A radical multi-track recording studio for DOS, that lets you
edit, mix, play and record music while adding effects such as fade,
echo, reverb and more.

Windows Mixer - Enables you to adjust the volume of the left and right
channels for the line in, line out, and  CD in.  You can also adjust
the MIDI and WAV volumes as well as the microphone input.

Patch Maker -  The beauty of the UltraSound is that the instrument
patches are stored in RAM.  Patch Maker grants you an artistic license
to edit or modify existing patches. Should you become really daring,
you can even create brand-new patches that demonstrate your creative
and totally imaginative personality.  The patches you create are
limited only to the boundaries of your imagination!

The 16-bit Recording Option is covered by our 1 Year "No-Nonsense"
Warranty.  With its low suggested retail price, durable construction
and superior workmanship, the 16-Bit Recording Option is a *must have*
addition for anyone interested in having even more fun with the Gravis
UltraSound card!

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 ~ QMPro 1.51 ~ ... Drop your carrier ... we have you surrounded!

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 20:42:00 -0500
From: colin.buckley@canrem.com (Colin Buckley)
Subject: All Notes Off

What is the MIDI message to ensure all notes are off?  This is for General
Midi compliant devices.  Currently, I loop through all 16 channels, sending
note offs from note 0 to 127 with a volume of zero.  However, it takes
upto a second for this to complete.  There has to be an easier way.

Thanks alot.

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 17:26:18 AST
From: Craig Galbraith <J5OA@UNB.CA>
Subject: gravis.exe rip!

Hey all!

     I would like to get those awesome, crisp sounding hi hats out of
that Triton Demo for the GUS.  Anybody out there have a file that can
rip the samples outta that sucker?  Or can anybody tell me where to
get such a file?  any help would be very appreciated!

e-mail me at j5oa@unbsj.ca or post it to the digest
thanks      Craig Galbraith

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 06:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From: jtcapps@netcom.com (John T. Capps)
Subject: Re: mpb06 problem

Jari Kivela wrote:
>I tried the mpb06 patch banker, but I can't get it to work. I have it in
>my path, but it doesn't help. When I start it, it draws the main
>windows and then it gives me an GPF (in module MPB.EXE). All I
>can do is to close it and after that my mouse pointer disappears and
>I have to restart windows. In my friends computer it sometimes
>works and sometimes doesn't. Is there a special windows setup I
>should use to get it to work or should I just forget it (and perhaps
>wait for another version)? Btw. is there another similar program
>available?
 
        The only time I've gotten GPFs from MIDI Patch Browser was
when my ultrasnd.ini file was screwed up.  It's likely that your
ultrasnd.ini has a strange (non-standard) format, for whatever reason.
If it isn't obvious by inspection, do this:  Back it up, then copy a
"basic" (only one bank) ultrasnd.ini to your c:\ultrasnd directory, and
try running it.  It should work.  You'll have to inspect your original
ultrasnd.ini closely to figure out where the error is.
        Incidentally, a reference to a patch which doesn't exist is not
considered an error by MPB. (i.e. 2=gigglesnort, where "gigglesnort"
doesn't exist, won't give an error).  On the whole, MPB has fairly good
error-trapping.
        Hope this helps!
 
John

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 10:23:06 +0100
From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se
Subject: The Answer; Re: mpb06 problem

To all of you having problems with GPF and mpb v0.6;

The problems due to a bit of sloppy programming (or rather too-fast -one-in-
too-little-time; I only made mpb 'cause; 1) I got fed up with the Gravis Patch 
Browser, 2) I wanted too learn programming under Windows (so it's sort of an
advanced win_HelloWorld())...)).

What happens is;
* mpb finds an ultrasound device, checks a table and see's that it should
  use the file ULTRA206.INS
* In that file there's a INCLUDE=\whatever\ULTRASND.INI wich is read for
  instrument name info...
* I didn't think there would be more than 128 banks to put samples in...
* Then along comes Patchmaker Lite; it uses Bank no 1024 to temporarely tell
  the Windows drivers where and what sounds to load (that's why Pmaker Lite is
  sometimes so slow when editing large patches, when modifying a patch it must
  first save it to disk, edit ULTRASND.INI, tell the drivers to reload the
  patch and then it can play it... or something like that anyway, strange thing
  is, when editing loop-points and such, it seems as it's done some other way)
* It sometimes 'forgets' tyo clean up ULTRASND.INI after it's done; so when 
  trying to read a Bank >= 128 mpb06 gets a GPF...

I've know this for quite, some time and it's fixed (along with some nifty
improvements) in mpb 0.7, wich I've forgotten to release... and I can't now
'cause I messed things up when switching to BC++ 4.0, anyway, I'm a bit 
overloaded with school-work at the moment but I'll give mpb a major overhaul
during the Easter holiday; perhaps I'll throw in the ability to load _any_
patch file from anywhere on disk...

Anyway, too use mpb06 until mpb08 is release, just edit ULTRASND.INI and remove
all banks >= 128 before running mpb.
If anyone still gets GPF after doing that, let me know...

/ F. Markus J.
/ <f93-maj@nada.kth.se>

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