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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V11 #9

GUS Musician's Digest       Fri, 9 Dec 94 13:59 PST      Volume 11: Issue   9 

Today's Topics:
                 FT2 and samples around bank slot 11
                         GUSMax vs Soundscape
                            Power Patch CD

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 94 21:00:31 CST
From: epyle@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: FT2 and samples around bank slot 11

Well, I have finally figured out FT2 a little bit.  But I think there
must be something wrong with my GUS dram or FT2 and UltraTracker's patch
players.....this is what happens....

I loaded 17 patches in UT 1.6 attempting to make a song.  Well, first I 
had to tune all of them! but any ways, the 17th patch was a file called
bell1.pat (propats 3.0 orch) which was loaded into the last dram region
I believe.  Anyways, when I tracked the song with this sample, it became
corrupt and plays a statiky spike in the middle of it.  
	I was ticked, so I loaded the same patch set into Fast Tracker 2.
But the same thing happened when the bell1.pat was located at the 11 sample
position, plus or minus 8 slots.  But when I put the sample into slot 3, 
there is no corruption.  
	So I thought maybe there is something wrong with my DRAM, but I tried
Patch Manager in windows, and all the samples played correctly.  Could there
be a common bug in the loading the instruments in the upper dram regions or
something in both UT 1.6 and FT2?  I doubt it, but it is really annoying!

thanks for anyhelp!
eric

btw: here is the patches in order:
atmosphr.pat
aurora
choir
ghostie, lead5th, slowstr, soundtrk, startrak, sweeper, synstr1, timpani,
tubell, unicorn, voices, warmpad, woodflute, bell1.pat <--pp3,orch patch.

Many of the above are the GM ProPat replacements.

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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 00:23:13 -0800
From: Zacharias Morales <zachm2@hooked.net>
Subject: GUSMax vs Soundscape

Responding to msg by gus-music-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS 
Musician's Server) on Thu Dec  11:52 AM

>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.

Regarding the above:
I bought a Soundscape appx 1 month ago and here's my pro's and 
con's on it.

CON'S

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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 15:05:57 -0800 (PST)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Power Patch CD

> > 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

You posted in the GUS Daily Digest that you have enough patches to make 
the GUS GS compliant (minus the bank switching drivers via SysEx 
commands), but since your banks run from 100 to 115, how could it nearly 
GS compliant in terms of patch availabilty?  For starters, drum patches 
are needed for the Standard GS drum banks 8,16,24,32,etc.. 
(Room,Power,...Jazz/Orchestra/SFX).  Does your CD have the patches for 
these banks?

-George

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From: (null)

As for the wavetable ROM it says Mbytes on the box but Mbits in 
the User Guide. Go Figure?

RAM? Yeah 256k for *.wav files ONLY. You can't use these for 
creating your own samples for MIDI instruments.

Also as for the CD-ROM it runs a proprietary driver to activate 
the card prior to loading the usual CD-ROM drivers. I found 
that some software has problems with this. eg. OS/2


PRO'S
Generally good sounding instruments. Excellent on Strings.

Great game compatibility. It looks like they spent all their 
time on this one!

For a good overall general soundcard -heh- its good.

For more professional music work I would suggest SB AWE-32, GUS 
Ultrasound Max & Roland SCC-1.

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