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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V11 #14

GUS Musician's Digest       Thu, 15 Dec 94 13:54 PST     Volume 11: Issue  14 

Today's Topics:
                     GUS Rev 2.2 bad? 1meg prob.
                   Len's project studio news status
                               ProPats

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 13:44:40 CST
From: epyle@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Subject: GUS Rev 2.2 bad? 1meg prob.

Okay, I posted not too long ago, but maybe now someone can confirm
my problem.   I have a GUS rev 2.2,  and I am having trouble loading
over 512K of patches without any of them sounding corrupt.  When I 
am tracking a song in UltraTracker or Fast Tracker II, any patches in
the third bank slot, get corrupt.  By this I mean that when the instrument
is triggered, somewhere in the looping sample is a static sounding spike.

Now I know nobody really cares, but this may concern YOU too.  I have
swapped all of my DRAM chips, so I know it isn't my dram, so it must
be hardware or something else.  
For us composers who would like to load *.pat files for the extent of
our 1meg, this becomes an annoying problem.

I load the following patches in this order....

atmosphr, aurora, choir, ghostie, lead5th, slowstr, soundtrk, startrak,
sweeper, synstr1, timpani, tubell, unicorn, voices, warmpad, woodflute,
and bell1 (pp3-orch patch).

In this order, the 17th patch (bell1.pat) gets corrupted.  But if I move
that patch in the (aurora.pat) position, it sounds perfect. 

The bottem line is that I can't load over ~13 patches without having
crappy sounding patches over 13, which makes a crappy song. 
This may apply to YOU too.  

If no one can confirm my problem, then I will try to upload an example
of what the patches sound like with and without the corruption.

thanks for your precious time,
hAndless

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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 94 14:24:16 -0800
From: Fred Handloser <fredh@hpcvusd.cv.hp.com>
Subject: Len's project studio news status

 >From: Len Moskowitz <moskowit@panix.com>
 >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.

It would be great if we could get this info into the GUS FAQ.

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

I got it but didn't realize it required 16 bit recording so I can't use
it with my GUS and I can't afford to upgrade to the GUS MAX just yet.

Is there any way to record 4 tracks and then 4 other tracks in another
file and somehow merge them?  Or, can you use each of the stereo tracks
of each track so you can have 8 different tracks?   I have a 4 track
now and would like to have more tracks and was hoping SAW could
give that to me.

Fred Handloser

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 94 02:42:28 EST
From: banshee@rbdc.rbdc.com
Subject: ProPats

I just recently got my first GUS so I haven't heard anything about this 
yet.  Are these ProPats patches worth downloading?...was like 19 different 
1 meg files I think.  What exactly are they?  Well I mean I know what they 
are but are they, for the most part, better than the patches that come with 
the GUS Max?  Do these ProPats have patches for every one of the General 
MIDI instrument set...or do you have to combine these with the ones you get 
with the card?

One other quick question...has anyone gotten the GUS to work with the 
Miracle Piano software yet?  If so..how?  I have a cheap Yamaha PSR500, not 
GM compatible :(, and it doesn't sound good at all hooked up to the MIDI 
port of my Soundblaster.  It would sound better with the GUS sounds, if I 
could get it to work somehow.

Any help on any of this would be appreciated...thanks!! 

 ------------------------------------
Scott A. Jones
E-mail: banshee@rbdc.rbdc.com
12/15/94
02:42:28
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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 09:37:45 -0600
From: Everett.Garnett@ccmail.natinst.com

>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.

Len this is VERY EXCITING!!! Could you please keep us posted of your 
discoveries? Also have you tried contacting the makers of SAW for any guidance?

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