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GUS Musician's Digest       Sat, 30 Apr 94 12:57 PST     Volume 6: Issue  29  

Today's Topics:
                         Lost notes with MIDI
                          musician roll call
                              Musicians
                                Okay.

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 10:37:12 GMT+0200
From: JANNE LAPPALAINEN <JANLAPPA@sara.cc.utu.fi>
Subject: Lost notes with MIDI

HI there,

I have a problem with lost/stuck notes while using GUS with Powertracks
and Cakewalk with midi. For example making ordinary drum tracks is almost
impossible because sometimes some notes are delayed or not played at all from
my keyboard. The problem gets even worse when using Patch Manager. 
	I'm using homemade midi-box (according to FAQ) but that cannot be
the problem, because I experimentally connected the output of my keyboard
straight to the rx pin of GUS and the problem didn't disappear.
	Well the next thing to check out was the keyboard, which is
Korg DW-8000 (from somewhere late 80's, I suppose). I have read from this
digest that some older keyboards may have trouble with their exotic midi
implementations. I suspect this is not the case, because the Korg keyboard work
fine when connected straight to my Yamaha TX81Z-module, no missing notes.
Besides it has a midi option, which makes it send/receive only note data, so
some weird sysex-data cannot mix up things. And its not SO old.
	Any suggestions? What should I try next?   

Any help would be appreciated.
Janne L.
janlappa@sara.cc.utu.fi

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 18:08:37 EDT
From: echen@verdi.sra.com (Eugene Chen)
Subject: musician roll call

I consider myself a serious composer
I'm in a band, Here Are The Facts You Requested,
whose ultimate goal is to be the Timothy Leary of music
 .. i think, either that or tour the Romper Rooms of
the world.

This year I got into MIDI with a setup that is meager by some standards
but I've always given extra points to Art that is Cheap

 ..Recently augmented by a GUS, stricly for sampling.
I fussed with it for many weeks then finally one night
sat down and poured out a break-beat-ish song based
on a lou reed sample and stuff in RAVPATS, sounds good-had fun,
but my major objective is to integrate sampling into our pop

Q:What's the delta between GUS and a "pro" ($1-1.5k) sampler?

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 17:28:06 EDT
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  29-Apr-1994 1731" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Musicians

I'm definitely not much of a gamer, but I have not been much of a musician 
lately either.  In the past, I've been doing stuff like sequencing Vivaldo's 
Violin Concerto in Am (I think...it's been a long time!), mucking around with 
music for a small church band, etc.

Burns

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 16:43:38 -0400 (EST)
From: "Matthew M. Nordan" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
Subject: Okay.

I'm standing up and being heard . . . 

I use my GUS with daughterboard as a sampler and keyboard for making
industrial/hardcore dance/thrash/progressive rock tunes as my solo
project, Angst.  I record to a Tascam 424, usually running composite
digital tracks (MIDs+WAVs underneath) out in stereo to 1 and 2, and put
gtrs and vocals on 3 and 4, occasionally bouncing down to get that one
free track.  I make lots of sample loops and custom patches.

Interested in getting an Angst demo?  E-mail to the address below, it's a
full-length release recorded and mixed this past spring and put out on my
ittybittylabel 137 Records.

       ]\/[atthew ]\/[. ]\[ordan  []. .[]  Allan Aguirre, where are you?
    mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu  [][|][]
                                  [] V []  Yale College heartily endorses
            Jesus Christ is Lord  []   []  every opinion expressed herein.

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