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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V10 #22

GUS Musician's Digest       Mon, 28 Nov 94 11:59 PST     Volume 10: Issue  22 

Today's Topics:
                            GUS and Music
                              Midi Soft

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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 12:07:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Len Moskowitz <moskowit@panix.com>
Subject: GUS and Music

I'm trying to use my PC as a project studio.

The first order of business is to use it as a multi-track recorder.  I
have a GUS Max but don't care for its recording sound quality, so I
record to an outboard DAT and use a PC/DAT interface card to let me
transfer the DAT's tracks into the PC as .WAV files.  This part works
fine except none of my sound file editors will recognize the interface
card/DAT combination as a soundcard, so I still have to use my GUS to
play the files.

Most of my recordings are acoustic instruments so I don't use midi yet.
But now I need a drum machine.  Are there any natural sounding drum kit
patches for the GUS Max?  I'm also looking at the Boss DR-660 and Alesis
SR-16 drum machines.  Can the GUS Max compare to them in sound quality?
Can someone recommend drum patches that sound good and a good
quality/reasonably-priced sequencer software package?  Once I have a
sequence programmed, can I capture the midi data stream directly to a
 WAV file or do I have to play it analog and then record it to either
the DAT or the GUS Max's recording input?

I've also played with a few software mixers/editors.  Goldwave is a nice
shareware program but only handles files that will fit in RAM.  Cool is
crippled in its shareware form and doesn't handle recording and
multi-tracking very well.  WAVElite is a joke; I can't even get it to
recognize the GUS Max's 48 kHz sampling rate.  SAW is professional
quality software (it is not cheap) that does everything I need but,
though it is supposed to work with MPC soundcards, it seems to prefer
Turtle Beach and DAL's boards; it has problems with the GUS Max.  Also,
SAW likes Windows to run without the memory manager and the GUS windows
driver needs the manager.

Are there any other multi-track mixers/editors that I've missed?  Is
there any way to get SAW running with the GUS Max?

Thanks for all comments!


Len Moskowitz
moskowit@panix.com

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 12:47:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "James W. Metz" <jmetz@slonet.org>
Subject: Midi Soft
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.90.941127124252.16364A-100000@pinot.callamer.com>

Maybe some of you more experienced musicians can help me. How do I bring
up the drum bank when I'm in MidiSoft? Whenever I click on a particular
track to change the instrument, all I get is the melodic bank. I've combed
the instructions to no avail. I've composed the rhythm tracks but I can't
get the drums up. Please help. Thanks.

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