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GUS Musician's Digest       Fri, 18 Mar 94 15:26 PST     Volume 5: Issue  38  

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                     GUS Musician's Digest V5 #37
                               GUS RAM
                      Saxophone is great, but...

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 16:03:10 -0800
From: chrisw@popserver.stanford.edu (Chris Wilkins)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V5 #37

>From: iddos@math.tau.ac.il
>dionf@ere.umontreal.ca (Francois Dion) writes:
>>Note that women usually hear higher than men, so they can make more
>>accurate mixes.
>
>Women are also more responsive emotionally, so by watching them listening 
>you can tell when you "got it" or "lost it". I found they also easily 
>_demonstrate_ while men _explain_. This of course works better for dance 
>but less for macho style music.

Not only that, but they're better to look at as well (!?!?!).

Come on! The variation in mixing talent within people of the same sex must 
easily outweigh any difference in mixing talent between the sexes. And I 
don't think being able to hear the high frequencies makes much of a 
difference. Its important to be able to isolate individual sounds in a mix 
(a skill which is very closely related to musical training and experience). 
It's also important to have a good feel for overall balance. Again, it's a 
question of musical experience. Lastly, a good technical knowledge of the 
equipment helps you know what the options are to make the sort of adjustment 
you're looking for.

For what it's worth I know a lot more men who can do mixing than women. This 
is not surprising since I know a lot more men who write music using 
sequencing and multitracking than women. As long as women are encouraged to 
not be 'technically minded' I don't think there will be much serious 
competition to the enormous male dominance of the music industry.

Chris.

P.S. I know it's an inappropriate post, but I didn't start it!

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 15:29:52 GMT
From: cb@jet.uk (craige bevil)
Subject: GUS RAM

It mentions in the GUS user manual that you can install 256K DRAMS
into the board to upgrade the memory to 1 Meg. Looking through my PC
magazines I came across a firm selling 256K DRAM's with various
specifications. I know very little about memory chips and I want to
know if I can plug any sort of 256K DRAM into my baby or is there a
specific type of chip I need. Can anybody tell me *exactly* what I
need to buy and do.

  I believe that Gravis do an upgrade kit but I don't have any idea
where in the UK I can get hold of one. Any help on the chips and
upgrading the board in general will be appreciated.

Ta,

Craige

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Craige Bevil    Joint European Torus    email: cb@jet.uk
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:25:15 -0500
From: jgamache@aix1.si.usherb.ca (Jerry Gamache)
Subject: Saxophone is great, but...

Hello folks, 
	there is a tendency for musicians to concentrate only on one
instrument and ignore the other ones. I fully agree that Saxophones
are some of the hardest ones to reproduce, but they are not the only
ones. There is still some mistakes I saw in your expose I would like
to point out... (Please note that the saxophone part was most complete
and well explained)

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 09:32 -0500
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: Saxes and sound
W> waveform that comes from the way the sound is generated, which
W> is then modified by the instrument.  Strings vibrate in a sine
W> wave.  Brasses begin with  vibrating lips producing a sawtooth
W> wave.  "Woodwinds" (which include flutes that have no wood
W> anywhere) begin with a column of air vibrating in a pipe,
W> which produces a square wave.  Saxophones are an exception,
W> since they are not made with a straight bore.  The bore of a
W> saxophone is a cone, not a cylinder.

- Strings: Its a sine OK, but the strings does not only vibrate
longitudinally, producing a simple sine, they also vibrate
rotationnally, producing a lot of harmonics that make the richness of
the violin.

- Brasses: That where you hit the spot, you know. I'm a trumpet,
baritone, and tuba player. I also think that none of the patches of
the GUS reproduces the full richness of brass. The sound is generated
by the lips, but is also, like a vibrating pipe, amplified by the
instrument. (FYI, the bore of the baritone, flugelhorn, french horn,
and tuba is conic, like a saxophone and also produce a more mellow
sound as the bore of the trumpet and trombone is straight, producing a
more brilliant sound). The brass sound can also be modified, for
expression, by a lot of factors. The lips position, the opening of the
throat, the flow of air, all influence the harmonics present in the sound.

- Flute: First, standing waves in a tube are sinusoidal, not square.
Second, there is always the fundamental, but for recorder, there is
also a first harmonic, and for the c-flute, there can be as much as
four harmonics present. I made a recorder patch as my first experiment
with patch maker lite and the difference was big even with 8 bit
recording and line noise.

You must keep in mind that for instruments where you can play multiple
harmonics with the same fingering ( primarily brass, but all wind
instruments enter this category) the richness of the sound comes from
the harmonics. And that it is the capability of the instrument (and
the instrumentist) to handle harmonics that makes live instruments
better than computer.

				A bon entendeur, salut!
						Jerry Gamache

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