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GUS Musician's Digest       Fri, 3 Feb 95 14:22 PST      Volume 12: Issue  27 

Today's Topics:
                  Bosendorfer *will* play in Windows
             New underground industrial release using GUS
          Why Won't My New Computer Drive My GUS Properly ?

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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 09:57:38 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Bosendorfer *will* play in Windows

I finally got to the bottom of the non-playing Bosendorfer
patch (bosen_l) under Windows. Someone said that the problem
was that the Windows driver reserved some space for playing
WAVs, which didn't leave enough room for loading this nearly
1 Meg patch.

Obviously, specifying "Load patches as 8-bit" solves it at the
expense of quality.

I now find that if you set the DMA buffer sizes small enough
in driver setup (and set the Fixed option in the latest drivers),
then the amount of reserved GUS RAM is reduced so that the
patch will load. For example, it fits with the Playback buffer
at 4096 Fixed, and the Record buffer at 512 Fixed. With these
settings, PatchMan reports 1016K free with no patches loaded
on a 1024K GUS - presumably two playback buffers of 4096 bytes
reserved (two so one can be loaded while the other plays).
Setting the Playback buffer too small (512) gives very
'scratchy' WAV playback on my machine.

The bosen_l patch has 8 samples, and assuming that no sample
can span a 256K boundary, there are limited ways that the
samples can fit (2 in each 256K block). Perhaps re-ordering the
samples in the patch file might help too, depending on the algorithm
for allocating a block of memory on the GUS.

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:29:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
Subject: New underground industrial release using GUS

Hi there all.  The new album from my industrial project, Angst, is being 
released today.  The name of the album is _The Null Hypothesis_, and a 
1MB GUS with 16-bit daughtercard was the only sampler used on the album.  
(In fact, save occasional use of a Yamaha QY-10 tone module and a cheesy 
FM synth on one track, it's the only electronic sound source.)  Quite a 
few people ordered Angst's previous work, _Strain_, last year--so i 
though i'd go ahead and post the announcement on this list as well.  
Unlike _Strain_, this is a professionally duplicated release, down to the 
shrink-wrap . . . the announcement follows.

      OD  OOOD OOOOOD      OOOOD  OOOOD  OOOD  OOOD  OOOOD  OOOOD   OOOD
     OOD OD  OD    OD      OD  OD OD    OD    OD  OD OD  OD OO  OD OD
      OD    OD    OD       OOOOD  OOOO  OD    OD  OD OOOOD  OO  OD  OOD
      OD OD  OD  OD        OD OD  OD    OD    OD  OD OD OD  OO  OD    OD
      OD  OOOD   OD        OD  OD OOOOD  OOOD  OOOD  OD  OD OOOOD  OOOD

                                  137 Records
                                P.O. Box 204963
                            New Haven, CT 06520-4963
                   for information, email 137.records@yale.edu
         http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~cmpilato/137.records/137.records.html

                  NEW RELEASE:  ANGST - THE NULL HYPOTHESIS

	Angst is a one-man  industrial project out of  New Haven, CT.  Run
	harsh percussion, distorted guitars, percolating synths, judicious
	samples, and vocal harmonies into solid songwriting structures and
	you've got a good picture of Angst's sound.

	The new album is _The Null Hypothesis_, thirteen tracks clocking
	in at just under 45 minutes, professionally duplicated and packaged
	on chrome cassette.  If you're into inventive industrial music
	along the lines of NiN, Machines of Loving Grace, Circle of Dust,
	Mortal, etc., _The Null Hypothesis_ is your cup of tea.  To hear
	some sound clips from the album in Sun .au format, point your
	World Wide Web browser to the address listed above.

	Angst's _The Null Hypothesis_ can be ordered by sending $5.00
	cash, check, or money order to:

		137 Records
		P.O. Box 204963 Yale Station
		New Haven, CT 06520-4963

	******************************************************************
	_VERY IMPORTANT_:  If you pay by check, please make the check
	payable to _Matthew M. Nordan_, _not_ to 137 Records.  We're a bit
	too low-budget to have our own bank account . . . thanks!
	******************************************************************

	For more information on 137 Records, get the info file by mailing
	to 137.records@yale.edu.  To access our World Wibe Web site, point
	your Web browser to:

	http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~cmpilato/137.records/137.records.html

	Quantities are limited.  Check it out.                      2/3/95

 []. .[] | ]\/[atthe]/\[ ]\/[. ]\[orda]\[ | support underground music.  email
 [][|][] |  mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu  |  for information on 137 Records.
 [] V [] |    matthew.nordan@yale.edu     |   angst, portrait of souls, etc
 []   [] |      all praise to Yaweh       |   K2000: there is no substitute

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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 11:30:20 GMT
From: Jason Nunn <Jason@yngminds.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Why Won't My New Computer Drive My GUS Properly ?
Message-ID: <54@yngminds.demon.co.uk>

I have just upgraded my trusty 386DX40 computer to an all singing, all 
dancing 486DX4 100 with PCI. My GUS, an original non-max with 1MB 70ns 
RAM has started to play up. When samples are downloaded to the GUS, 
they are periodically corrupted causing horrible sounds from my 
speakers, this happens under DOS and Windows.

The worst problem I have is under Wing Commander III, sometimes the 
patch loader by Gravis locks, and everytime I enter flight mode, after 
about a minute, the sound dies and then the game locks.

I have tried changing the ISA bus speed from 7.168MHz to 8.25MHz to 
11MHz, but the problem remains. I do not have any interrupt 
or DMA conflicts so what is happening ?? It is driving me crazy.

Can anybody help me - or is anybody else having this trouble ?

Jason Nunn

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