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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V11 #8

GUS Musician's Digest       Thu, 8 Dec 94 11:52 PST      Volume 11: Issue   8 

Today's Topics:
                        GUS Max and Soundscape
                Power Patch CD by Howling Dog Systems
                           Sampling from CD

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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 10:00:26 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS Max and Soundscape

>In an attempt to expand and simply my system, I'm looking at dumping
>my old GUS (with its 1Meg of memory, but no 16 bit sampling or MIDI
>in/out).  At my local Computer City store, I see the GUS MAX and the
>Ensoniq Soundscape priced at the same $199.  The Soundscape
>has "2 Meg" of internal sounds and an undisclosed (on the box)
>amount of sample memory.  The Gus Max has 512k of memory
>and my old memory won't transfer.  From this brief bit of info, looks
>like the Soundscape is a much better deal.  Any opinions?

I don't know SoundScape personally - it may be very good. Things
to beware: It has been known for people to measure their ROM/RAM
in MegaBITS rather than MegaBYTES (8 times different). Also the
internal ROM sounds are sometimes 'compressed' so they might
claim '2 Meg' when the actual memory is less. Compression is
not necessarily a bad thing - it just depends how lossy the
process is. You really ought to find out when the 'undisclosed'
amount of sample memory is, and whether it is upgradeable, and what
exactly it allows you to do with the RAM samples.
Finally, I didn't think there had ever been a GUS model without MIDI
in/out - or do you mean they are broken on your card - or just that
you need an adaptor to go from UART on the game port to MIDI current
loop?

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Date: 07 Dec 94 19:15:47 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@compuserve.com>
Subject: Power Patch CD by Howling Dog Systems
Message-ID: <941208001546_71333.2166_DHQ23-3@CompuServe.COM>

Stuart Yoshida wrote:

> Watch out, though, if you've already set up custom banks.  It will replace
> your ultrasnd.ini with a modified version.  It will keep your old one
> around, but it *WON'T* copy what you've changed into the new ultrasnd.ini
> file.

Yup this is true. Our banks run from 100 up to about 115, and from 150 up to
about 165. Our next CD will start at bank 200

We had to stake out an area, so we did. Hope this doesn't cause an
inconvenience. What we would really have liked was for someone to administrate
the assignment of patch bank numbers.

Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 94 11:28:30 GMT
From: cad@mari.co.uk (Chris.Dee)
Subject: Sampling from CD

	Is it possible to record a sample from the CD inputs on the GUS?
	I tried this last night and no level was registering on the 
	input level in Wavelite from the CD but plenty from the line
	input. Am I asking too much ?

	Thanks

	Chris Dee

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