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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V11 #13

GUS Musician's Digest       Wed, 14 Dec 94 13:47 PST     Volume 11: Issue  13 

Today's Topics:
                          Csound and the GUS
                  Project Studio, Recording Samples

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 00:19:40 +0800 (WST)
From: Adam Soudure <gillius@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Csound and the GUS

To whom ever it was who wanted to know...

I have successfully used Csound with the GUS (with a 286 no less!!!)

Basically, I had csound compile the orc and sco files into a wav file
and use playfile to output the results (I think you use unsigned 8 bit).
Can't remember too much else about it, but it DID work...

Adam
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 12:06:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Len Moskowitz <moskowit@panix.com>
Subject: Project Studio, Recording Samples

Project studio news:

Last night, for the first time I was able to get my GUS Max and SAW to
record without overflowing the record buffer.  The key was to disable
smartdrv, DOS's disk caching utility, for the audio drive.  That more
than doubled my disk write & read performance to more than 1.2
Megabytes/second, as measured using SAW's hard drive evaluator.  Once I
did that, the only time I ran into buffer overflows was when I used the
mouse during recording.  On my slow 386 with its CPU-driven SCSI
controller, apparently that was enough activity to slow the disk writes.

I was also able to get GUS to play and record simultaneously, albeit
with dropouts.  SAW's minimum CPU requirement is a 386DX-40.  I'm
running a 386DX-25 so it's not suprising that I had problems.  My new
486DX2-66 CPU should arrive within the next week so I'll report on that
later.  I may also upgrade my SCSI controller to a DMA type.

By the way, the SAW demo is available via ftp from ftp.vortex.com in the
/audio/SAW directory.


Max <3MFC@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA> wrote:

>      I'm new at making mods, and am having trouble recording clean samples.
> There always seems to be a fair amount of static/noise in the
> background... It
> isn't so bad that you can't hear what's being sampled though.  If any one has
> any tips, on how to make good samples (or general pointers on making 
> mods), I'd love to hear them.

Go into the GUS Mixer and turn off the WAV, CD, and MIC inputs.  Each of
them contributes noise to the recording.

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