727DRUMS - Advanced Gravis Ultrasound(tm) patches

(C) 1992, 1993 Copyright IdMEDIA and Franois Dion

Description
===========

      727DRUMS is the 2nd patch set of the PERCS patches serie. In this
serie, all patches are of drums or percussive instruments. They are mono or
multisampled. It is distributed in an archive called 727DRUMS.ARJ ( 727 is
from TR-727, a Roland drum machine). In the archive, you should have:

 Directory of B:\
727BONGH PAT      5237 08-09-93  12:45a
727BONGL PAT      7715 08-09-93  12:48a
727CABAS PAT      6793 08-09-93   1:29a
727CONGH PAT      5871 08-09-93   8:55p
727CONGL PAT     12329 08-09-93   8:54p
727CONGS PAT      5017 08-09-93   8:56p
727HIAGO PAT      6793 08-09-93  12:34a
727JAWBO PAT     65275 08-09-93   1:05a
727LOAGO PAT      7715 08-09-93  12:41a
727MARAC PAT      4947 08-09-93   1:15a
727SWHIS PAT     13789 08-09-93   1:51a
727TIMBH PAT     28013 08-09-93   8:53p
727TIMBL PAT     31703 08-09-93   8:53p
727WHIST PAT     13789 08-09-93   1:15a
727DRUMS TXT      3477 08-09-93   9:20p
       15 file(s)

      If a file is missing or is not of this length, please ask the person
you got it from to erase the archive and get the correct version from one of
the official distribution points (see end of file).

      727BONGH is a high bongo and 727BONGL is a low bongo. These (well, the
TR-727 in general) are used by Miami Sound Machine.
      727CABAS is a cabasa. The one included with the GUS sounds better.
      727CONGH is a high conga, 727CONGL is a low conga and 727CONGS is a
slap conga. The 808 congas are more punchy but these are more latin. Watch
for CONGAS.ARJ for a good set full of congas patches, to be released soon.
      727HIAGO is a high Agogo and 727LOAGO is a low Agogo.
      727JAWBO is a Jawbone.
      727MARAC is a maracas.
      727SWHIS is a short whistle. Even if you sustain it, it dies rapidly.
      727WHIST is a sustaining whistle. You can use it sustained or not.
      727TIMBH is a high timbale and 727TIMBL is a low timbale. These are
quite nice and can even sound industrial if you change the root note.

      A note for people using playmidi: when playmidi reads the .cfg file,
the parser cant read patch names that start with a number. to remedy to that:
type the full path of the patch. Example, if you want to use 727JAWBO.PAT at
position 34 in the percussions:

      34 ultrasnd\midi\727jawbo

      Or even better, you can create a new directory and put all the custom
patches there:

      34 ultrasnd\custom\727jawbo

      for example.

What's next
===========
      
      More percussive instruments (steel drums, 909) are beeing made now
(July 9th 1993), and they will be released sometime in the future.
      In parallel i'll be doing a REAL patch serie (real instruments) and an
ANASYN patch serie (analog synths).

Legalities
==========

      Ultrasound is a registered trademark of Advanced Gravis Computer
Technology.

      TR-727 and TR-909 are registered trademarks of Roland Corporation.

      Even if the files are not that big, a lot of work went into creating
them. This is why i have put a copyright on them. What this means is that
they are provided for a personnal use. Any public performance, recording
or commercial use is forbidden unless an written agreement is signed
between me (Francois Dion) and the user of these patches.

      You can redistribute this archive provided that you keep all the
files in the archive. You cannot rename the archive to anything else
than: 727DRUMS.ext, where ext is the extension of the archiver. You
cannot modify the patches (including the name) without my permission.

      No fees can be charged to distribute this archive except for
the direct cost of the media on which it is distributed, limited to
3$ in Canadian funds. For CDROM, contact me.

      By using or distributing the patches you agree to these conditions.

The future
==========

      This patch set is released to the GUS community to try out and is
free. You can however send me any contributions ( postcards, money,
floppies, beers, cars =) ) to keep me motivated in developping new patches
(and applications) for the GUS community. A big THANK YOU to people who
have sent me notes of appreciation (be it for patches, tutorials, articles,
programs, etc...). Also a special thanks to the beta testers:

      Edmund E. Tsai
      Dan Nicholson
      Stuart Yoshida

How to contact me
=================

      Snail mail:
      IdMEDIA
      c/o Francois Dion
      P.O. Box 312
      St-Lambert, QC
      Canada
      J4P 3P8

      Phone:
      514-671-4933 or 514-343-7511

      Internet:
      dionf@ere.umontreal.ca or cism@ere.umontreal.ca

      Fidonet:
      Francois Dion
      1:167/228

Where to get the goodies
========================

      By FTP: archive.epas.utoronto.ca  in  /pub/pc/ultrasound
              wuarchive.wustl.edu       in  systems/msdos/ultrasound
              archive.orst.edu          in  pub/packages/gravis

      By email: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
                subject: help

                (you can also use an email-ftp to get the files
                from archive.epas.utoronto.ca)

      By Mail: the address of IdMEDIA in the previous section.

      By BBS: Check your favorite BBS, it'll get there...

Thanks,
Francois Dion
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