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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V12 #15
GUS Musician's Digest       Thu, 19 Jan 95 12:28 PST     Volume 12: Issue  15 

Today's Topics:
                       CD Read for SCSI Toshiba
                            Digital pianos
                GUS Max and Panasonic 563 CD-ROM drive
                     MIDI in does not work for me
                 Reading audio on SCSI CD-ROM drives

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:52:24 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CD Read for SCSI Toshiba

>Is there a type of readcda for SCSI CD-ROM drives (for Toshiba 3401)?  

There certainly is. I can't remember the exact names, but do an
archie for 'cda' or 'cd' if you can. I did that and ended up with
3 different programs for MS-DOS which could read from my SCSI
4101 with varying degrees of success. Some need an ASPI driver
and some don't. Some made a poor recording. Sometimes my machine
hung. But sometimes it worked! I have a SCSI HD as well on the
same Future Domain TMC-1680 controller so I
don't know if that might have been causing some problems.

As I said the other day, Corel SCSI II for Windows includes a
CD audio capture program for Windows which also works.

Mail me, preferably at clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk rather than the
address on this message, if you really can't find the programs.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 21:01:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Digital pianos

> I thinkt I need a fully (piano) weighted keyboard
> with at least 76 keys. My options are ..
> 
> 1) buying a master keyboard like the FATAR 900 and then 
>    hooking it up to my GUS
> 
> 2) buying a second hand Yamaha Clavinova or similar.
> 
> With the first option, I can get a better (more piano-like)
> keyboard but will it sound as good. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help
> 
> Chris
> cph@inmos.co.uk
> 

Buy the Fatar keyboard, for sure! The clavinova is nice enough but with 
the Fatar you'll have much nicer feel and more versatility down the road. 
If you're not happy with the GUS piano patches, you can always get a 
separate module just for piano sounds and hook it up via midi. Many of 
these modules are available used for $100 or less used and they sound 
really good. If you are just starting out on piano, I think the GUS 
patches will keep you happy for a while.
The Fatar 900 has received good reviews in the past....

Good luck!

Kevin

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 10:24:41 +1000
From: Ridley Williams <WILLIAMSR@melia.qut.edu.au>
Subject: GUS Max and Panasonic 563 CD-ROM drive

I know this isn't exactly the right place to post this but the right 
people are here so here we go...

I'm trying to get a GUS Max (version 1.8) to work with a Panasonic 563 drive.

The manual from the GUS says that the drivers come with the CD-ROM drive 
and the company we bought the CD drive from say they come with the sound 
card.

I got hold of the Creative Labs drivers, and they don't seem to work -- 
they're constantly looking for a SB Pro that it's interfaced through...

Are there any other drivers, etc around that look straight at the CD 
drive (i.e. IO address 340) not through a SoundBlaster Pro at 220 or 
whatever?

Thanks!

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 17:05:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sadahiro Iwamoto" <si11@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: MIDI in does not work for me

Hi,
I hope someone on this list can help me. I'm using the MIDI adaptor
from PME that is guaranteed to work with the GUS. The cables are connected
to a Korg X5 keyboard. The MIDI out works since a Windows sequencer can
drive the X5. But I can not get MIDI in to work on any Win or DOS
softwares(recording session, winjammer, midifier).
I know the keyboard's MIDI out is okay since the X5 can control another synth.
Software is okay since MIDI out works and the PC keyboard midi input works.
So I think the problem lies in the MIDI adaptor or the GUS card. Assuming
the MIDI adaptor is fine, is there a way to check my GUS card? Has anyone
else had a similar problem? And how did you fix the problem? Thank you in
advance.
Sadahiro Iwamoto
si11@cornell.edu

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 11:29 MET
From: hst@mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra)
Subject: Re: Reading audio on SCSI CD-ROM drives

Quoting "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>:
> 
>Is there a type of readcda for SCSI CD-ROM drives (for Toshiba 3401)?  
>Thanks.						-Peter
>
There are several programs that grab cd-audio from an audio CD using a
CD-ROM drive. A few of them can be used on SCSI cd-rom drives. Some
SCSI CD-ROM drives can't do it (no firmware support).

A few program names (try archie for FTP sites for them):
CDDA       -> For some SCSI-CDROM's
DA2WAVxx   -> Newer version of CDDA ??
CDGRAB     SCSI also (?), demo-version available for testing only
CDGRAB-PRO ?
CDDAREAD   ?
CDINFO     Non scsi and maybe also scsi
CDMON      ?
CDAR       ?
CORELSCSI  You must buy this one of course
others ?

Klaas

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