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GUS Musician's Digest       Tue, 19 Apr 94 16:28 PST     Volume 6: Issue  19  

Today's Topics:
            "Naming" Patches in Cakewalk and Power Chords
                      Multiple pitch bends in CW
                          Note/Drum skipping
                           pitch bend in CW

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 15:14:57 MDT
From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com>
Subject: "Naming" Patches in Cakewalk and Power Chords

  Now that we're getting a bunch of custom patches available on the Net,
  I was wondering how to give these patches meaningful names when I
  choose them in the dialogue boxes in Cakewalk Pro and Power Chords
  Pro.  In other words, I don't want them to show up with cryptic names
  like "roldepno.pat", but rather I would like "Roland Electric Piano"
  to be displayed.  Please post your hints and suggestions.

  Thanks!

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  Stuart Yoshida

Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com
   Voice: (303) 229-2324

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 10:07:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: vic@cd.com (Vic Serbe x237)
Subject: Re: Multiple pitch bends in CW

Shawn T. Rutledge writes:
> 
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 23:00:11 -0700 (MST)
> From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
> Subject: Pitch bend in CW
> 
> I just answered my question - you have to use separate PORTS to get multiple
> bends, not just separate channels.  (What's the difference anyway?  In a 
> normal midi context would a port refer to a physical plug on the card,
> for example the music quest 4-port card?  And the Ultrasound pretends
> that it's a whole roomful of synthesizers each with its own connection
> to the computer?)

This is crazy.  There's NO reason why CW should have this limitation.  PB
is *channel* information... not *system*.  This means you ought to be able
to have as many different independent PB events going on as you have
channels on any separately addressable bus (port).  Do you only have this
problem when using the multi-timbral implementation on the GUS?  If so,
it's a GUS problem, not a CW problem (which is what I really suspect).
Try it with some external MIDI modules, and I bet you don't have this
problem.

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 14:43:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: <Krzysztof_Leszczynski@camk.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: Note/Drum skipping

Hi,
Jason writes:
> 
> 	Would anyone happen to know why Recording Sessions constantly insists
> on skipping notes that are being played from my keyboard?  My group is into
> composing hardcore/techno/transcore, etc and we use custom patches.  This
> brings me to my second question.  When I edit Ultrasnd.ini and change the name
> of the drum sounds to custom names, I never get the drum sounds when on channel
> 10.  This also happens when I leave the GM set of patches installed.  Can
> anyone give me any insight.  BTW, my system is a 486dx2-66 with 8 megs of RAM. 
> I figured that this would be a fast enough system for composing and sampling. 
> Also, are there any other sequencers which are as easy to use as Recording
> Sessions, with a little more reliability? They obviously would have to work
> with the GUS (such as patch caching etc).  Thanx!

I found Recordin Session skips some notes when playing MID files with more tha 3-5
instrument, striving.mid is a good example. I have managed the problem explicitly
loading the patches using Patch Manager. The same problem happens with CakeWalk
Professional for Windows. In this case program reports 'Too many patches' or
'Out of patch memory'. Again loading patches with Patch Manager solves the problem.
I hope that will be useful for you.

	Best regards
		Chris (chris@camk.edu.pl)	 
					 
	

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 10:27:31 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: pitch bend in CW

Hopefully, there'll be some answers from greater experts than me, but
I believe that you SHOULD be able to get pitch bend to apply only
to a particular channel, after all, the MIDI message is channel
specific. If you can't, then is sounds like a bug/limitation in
CakeWalk. You did have a different channel, and not just a different
track?

If is works with a different port, even though both these 'ports' are
actually the GUS Synth, then it points even more to CakeWalk. A more
common ues of ports would be to have some of your tracks playing on
the GUS synth, with others going to some external device on the
MIDI port.

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