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GUS Musician's Digest       Sat, 3 Dec 94  2:27 PST      Volume 11: Issue   2 

Today's Topics:
             Apologies about the massive flood of digests
                       Extreme Tracker Samples
                     GUS w/Band-in-a-Box/Windows
                      Looking 4 GUS drum patches
                    MIDI synth with SP/DIF output
                       Project Studio (2 msgs)

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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 00:45:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct <mailserv@ucs.orst.edu>
Subject: Apologies about the massive flood of digests

Hello fellow GUS Users,

	I am very sorry for the massive flood of digests that was coming
all from mcimail.com, apparently, it seems like some idiot has also
subscribed the digest address to the list so that is why you may see
doubles of some stuff that bounced back.  Anyways, Hopefully I fixed it
now.  If this happens again, can someone try to email me the message of
the address that bounced or whatever and I'll remove it from the last so
this doesn't happen again the next day.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay as
I was busy for the last few days.


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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 00:19:23 CST
From: epyle@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: Extreme Tracker Samples

Anyone know how to load samples properly?
I just get a bunch of noise when I try
to load any type of sample.
I tried to convert files to .SMP format
but still just noise....

eric
hAndleless

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 11:14:12 EST
From: ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen)
Subject: GUS w/Band-in-a-Box/Windows

> Trying to install Band-in-a-Box PRO for Windows version 6.0 to use with
> the GUS MAX w/1MB RAM
>   The only way I can get any sound is to pre-load the necessary samples,
> play the song, go to the next song, pre-load needed samples, etc., etc.,
>   Does anyone know of a way to cause BiaB/W to cache the necessary
> samples on song load like 99.9% of all the other MIDI programs?

Here is a message that I got from Mr. PG of PG Music:

> From: Peter Gannon <75300.2750@compuserve.com>
> To: "INTERNET:ballen@ejv.com" <ballen@ejv.com>
> Subject: Band in a Box
> Date: 26 Aug 94 16:25:30 EDT
> 
> We'll have version 6.01, a free upgrade to BBW 6.0 out in a compule of weeks.
> You'll be pleased to know that we've added patch caching to BBW 6.01. Contact us
> again in 2 weeks.
> Peter

I actually use Biab 6.0 myself and have not felt the need to get the new
copy because I also use PG's Power Tracks Pro for Windows which can cache
for GUS.  What I do is position both programs on the screen and when I change
patches for Biab, I write a Midi file to the clipboard, which I then read
with Power Tracks Pro. It's like 3 or 4 extra keystrokes and works fine.

BTW, I highly recommend Power Tracks Pro as a high quality, low cost
sequencer that also has (very importantly to me) very adequate music
printing.  I have used other programs and nothing comes close for several
times the cost.

I am also a big fan of Biab.

Bill

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 14:51:15 -0800 (PST)
From: The Unga Bunga <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Looking 4 GUS drum patches

I'm looking for GUS drum patches for the following drum banks:
  
  Jazz, Orchestral, Power (gsdrum16.zip only has 2 patches and says to 
use those with Bank 8).

Thanks

BTW, someone u/l a bunch of tr-808 drum patches at EPAS call 
ar-tr808.zip.  I d/l those but the the patches are in numbers, so I do 
not know which patch corresponds to which instrument# (or whatever you 
call it).

Thanks,
-George

<EOT>

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Date: 2 Dec 94 08:52:00 MET
From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: MIDI synth with SP/DIF output

>My problem is that I want the digital audio stream directly to DAT; the
>midi control stream doesn't help me.  Do any midi sound sources have
>digital audio (e.g., S/PDIF) outputs or can they output their sound
>stream to a soundfile (e.g., .WA or .SND)?

The SB AWE32 card has a SP/DIF output from its EMU8000 MIDI engine.
It's just a TTL pin, so you'd need to connect it to some Toslink transmitter
(made by Toshiba). Shouldn't be a great problem.

				Martin Grecner

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 23:47:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Len Moskowitz <moskowit@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Project Studio

I played around with SAW again tonight.  I found why my GUS Max was
bombing: my S/PDIF card wasn't initializing and it created a DMA
problem.  I now initialize it in my autoexec and everything works fine.
It plays .WAV files that I recorded with my DAT and transferred over to
the PC with the ZA1 S/PDIF interface board.

I recorded with the GUS, after adding the ultrinit options to activate
the line-in.  One tip: when recording, use the GUS mixer to turn down
the .WAV inputs -- they contribute an amazing amount of hiss.  You can
leave the mixer minimized in a corner of GUS so you can keep the mixer
controls at hand.

I also originally had a problem with SAW wanting EMM off while the GUS
drivers need EMM.  SAW provides another alternative: turning off virtual
memory via the Windows Control Panel's "Extended 386" icon.  Select the
"changes" and "virtual memory" buttons and then select the virtual
memory size options.  Select "none."  This seems to let SAW operate at
full speed with no problems for GUS.

At the moment I'm still getting some buffer overflows when recording.
That's most likely because I'm using a 386DX25.  The new 486SX-33 CPU
comes in next week and I'll try to report on whether that solves the
overflows.

By the way, SAW is very impressive.


Len Moskowitz
Core Sound
moskowit@panix.com

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 09:23:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Len Moskowitz <moskowit@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Project Studio

Brian K. Dowtin <dowtin@ncat.edu> wrote:

> I have a DOS program for the GUS that does 16 track (I think) recording,
> and isn't half bad (I actually use 4 track tape deck). It seems pretty
> rough hewn, but with some development it had the potential to be great.
> I can't recall the name, but I'll look it up - (and if you've tried it and
> think its hopeless - well, nevermind.)

If I recall correctly, that program was 8-bit only.  If you should find
that I'm wrong, please correct me.


Martin Grecner <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de> wrote:

> SAW supports ANY Windows multimedia sound card from version 3.x.
> The latest version is 3.2. There is a demo version of SAW at
> ftp.vortex.com/audio/saw/saw3demo.exe. Someone should finally try it
> with the GUS MAX to see if it works, and if it can simultaneously
> play and record. If not, than it's practically limited to two cards only:
> TurtleBeach Tahiti(or Multisound) and CardD. Please, someone with the 
> GUS MAX, get the SAW demo and try.

I had a CD playing into the GUS line in and SAW recorded it; I could
hear the GUS playing the CD.  I haven't yet tried playing back a .WAV
file while recording.  I'll try that this weekend.  I wouldn't be
surprised if it fails because I'm running a 385DX-25 and IQS recommends
a 386DX-40 as the minimum configuration for SAW.  My 486SX-33 CPU is
coming in next week and I'll try it again then.


Len Moskowitz
Core Sound
moskowit@panix.com

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