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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V8 #10

GUS Musician's Digest       Sun, 26 Jun 94 14:01 PST     Volume 8: Issue  10  

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                     GUS Musician's Digest V8 #8

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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 94 17:53:21 CDT
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V8 #8

Albert Pauw writes:
> ------------------------------
> 
> So:
> Controller 0,  bank select LSB
> Controller 32, bank select MSB
> 
> Remember that data bytes in MIDI talk can only range from
> 0-127 (7 bits), thus:
> Bank 1024
> Controller 0, data byte 1024-128*Controller 32 
> Controller 32, data byte 1024/128 (integer number)
> In this case Controller 0  = 0
>              Controller 32 = 8
> 
> However, when I put this bankselect event in a MIDI file
> with my sequencer (WinJammer 2.30, good stuff!) the GUS
> midi driver don't switch banks. Funny, because with
> PatchManager/BankManager I can do this manually.
> 

I have talked to folks at Gravis, and the current driver does NOT
switch banks (although patch manager does). They plan to implement this
in the next release.

> As another question in the digest: it would be nice to have
> an overview on all controllers which the latest GUS drivers
> respond to.

I'd like to see this too!

> 
> Albert Pauw
> a.pauw@elsevier.nl
> 
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     John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com   CompuServe: 72074,451
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