GUS Daily Digest Thu, 3 Mar 94 13:37 PST Volume 11: Issue 28 Today's Topics: .xmi player? Doom on 486-50, Dune 3 and Origin Followed instructions but no music or sound with Doom. Good .MIDs for Solo .PATs gus0038 and gus0040 (2 msgs) GUS convert! GUS Daily Digest V11 #27 (2 msgs) Haven't recieved GUS DD since Vol 11 #20 Just bought a GUS Megaem & QEMM703 Might and Magic w/ Megaem Moving mailing time... Patches... PatchMaker Putt-Putt's Loud Music Ultrasound Internet Archives News - Wuarchive resurrected Voice Recognition Vot hppened to mi stereo? Windows + GUS Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 08:32:00 EDT From: Henrique 'Snoopy' Vianna Subject: .xmi player? Hi all! Am I wrong or is .xmi a midi-compatible music file? If it is, I would like to find a player, or better, a xmi to mid converter. Also, if there's anybody interested, I've written a program to split the MEGADATA file from SimFarm (I wonder if other Maxis games use this archive scheme) into its several files, so you can pick up the digitized effects and, I hope, the music files. Thanks for any help. Snoopy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henrique Avila Vianna hvianna@brufpel.bitnet Universidade Federal de Pelotas hvianna@vortex.ufrgs.br Centro de Informatica "Imagination is more important than knowledge" 96010-900 Pelotas, RS BRAZIL - Albert Einstein ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 23:05:58 MET From: Broderdue Subject: Doom on 486-50, Dune 3 and Origin A friend of mine has had trouble running Doom on his 486-50 Mhz, same goes for the games that use the 32-bit AIL drivers. What happens is that the machine resets and the GUS plays through all the samples that are loaded until ultrinit.exe is called again. I have been following the digest closely trying to find solutions to this problem, and have tried run his system from boot disk, without mem-managers etc etc. His irksome programs run fine on my computer. So, in order to track the problem down, we opened his computer and popped in a DX2-66 mhz, and everything worked without any problems at all. Furthermore, after placing his 50-mhz back in, we tried exchanging GUS cards (I have rev 3.4 of the card, he has rev 2.4), but the same problems re-appeared on his computer. It even worked fine with a DX2-50, and we tested his 50-mhz on another motherboard, but whoa, boom, schmack, the game still went down when running on the 50-mhz processor. Now, since it works fine on my 33-mhz and on his computer with a DX2-66 we came to the conclusion that the GUS has trouble running Ultramid (if that indeed is what Doom uses; the shareware version did) on 50 mhz computers. Can this be so ? I have not seen this mentioned in the digest, and therefore find it a bit hard to swallow. I hope someone will reply to this as we have spendt quite some time trying to figure it out...... Just as a side note I saw Doom on another friends computer, playing music through SCC-1, and boy did that rock. I know the GUS never can match this level of midi-music, but still, someone, please give us some better el- guitar patches, the classical music on the gus is so good, but the guitar pats really suck. Playing midi's like haze.mid and the "bad love" midi (clapton song I believe) really blows. Lastly: * Pleeease give us some more MIDI's Chris! :) * Pleeease Origin! Give us gus support! The Ultima midi's rock! * Pleeease give us F1GPII, Dune 3 and StarCon3 with GUS support! (No more games with 1 digital sound effect at the time! (dune2)) Thanks for your time, \//// |. .| ( - ) Broderdue ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 14:03:02 CST From: mail c570833 Subject: Followed instructions but no music or sound with Doom. Help! I've followed the instructions obtained in doomgus.txt and can't get anything out of Doom v1.1. I use to have have Doom v1.0 and I got sound effects but no music. Now I get nothing at all from the GUS. I have 256K on my GUS and the original software that came with it (v2.05) except for a newer version of SBOS. Please help. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 02:33:04 -0600 From: vader@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Vader) Subject: Good .MIDs for Solo .PATs I've gotta' mention this: After loading SOLOGUIT.PAT on my system, DUST.MID (Dust in the Wind) sounds totally EXCELLENT (except maybe that the guitar is a little too loud, but who cares). All the patches even fit onto 1 Meg. So here's my queston, are there any other .MIDs with great guitar parts? (I'm thinking Stairway to Heaven or More Than Words, by Extreme) They can either be well known songs, or not-so-well-known-but-great-anyways. Also, are there any songs that show off the solo trumpet (SOLOTRMP.PAT)? I'd like to hear how that sounds in a real song. As a side note, does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with these extra patches that are on epas? Should I use them to replace the Gravis patches? Or should I use them only with selected songs? I know this probably should go on the musicians digest, but I figured that they wouldn't want it cluttered up with some trivial questions such as these. Thanks, Vader ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 12:28:54 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Re: gus0038 and gus0040 I finally got round to installing gus0038 and gus0040 on top of my 2.06 software. Just a couple of points. Initially I fell into the pitfall that ultrasnd.ini was not updated - presumably because my old one had been edited and had a newer date than the 'new' one. Result - no MIDI sound in Windows, and patches won't load in Patch Manager until I used the install option to copy ultrasnd.ini explicitly. The tremstr.pat situation is still a little unclear. I think you still have to get this from one of the other gus updates zips if you want it. And then change the first marcato into tremstr in all sections of all ini and cfg files (only if marcato is in there twice!). Secondly, the UltraSound setup part of install repeatedly told me that SoundBlaster DMA was failing on read, yet if I said to proceed regardless, I could then test the settings with NO failure. Does this matter? I haven't observed any REAL problems. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 19:30:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Charsley Subject: GUS0038 and GUS0040 My GUS has been working fine with the rev2.06a software. I recently upgraded to the v3 software after the first bug release, using GUS0038 and then GUS0040. Everything's working fine EXCEPT midi playback in windows. The media player trundles through the file as per normal, but nothing comes out (.WAV's and DOS playmidi work fine). I presume I'm missing a .ini file somewhere, but I don't know. Can anyone help? Ta in advance, Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 11:59:29 +0000 From: fadhley Subject: Re: GUS convert! My friend Mike is sitting next to me now and he thinks his SB Pro is rather shite. He cant wait to get his hands on a Gravis Ultrasound! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 15:13:40 +0200 From: YOssi Oren Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #27 >From: "| >Subject: [Q] Which CD-ROM drive to buy? > >Hi all, >Any recommendations for a CD-ROM drive to buy? >It MUST be double speed. >It MUST be able to send audio through my GUS. >It would be nice to be able to plug it into my GUS directly (Are the CD-ROM >daughter boards available in the UK?) >Price as cheap as possible (I know, you get what you pay for). $200 gets you the Sony DoubleCD GUS bundle, with card and bundled CD titles. Direct from Gravis (sales@gravis.com). I think 10 bucks will get it to your place, too. Yossi. +---+---+---+---------------------------------------------------+---+---+ | = | E |_|/| Signature 1.2 | V | ^ | +---+---+---+---------------------------------------------------+---+---+ |Yossi Oren, Al-Daf Engineering Ltd., Rishon Le-Zion, Israel. Help | ++-----------------------------------------------++--------------------++ ||Internet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL || The people are with|| ||Bitnet EMail:LIOREN1@WEIZMANN ++ the Golan Heights! || || "Even if you do live in this country, it doesn't mean ++ DOOM!! || || you have to behave like an animal." --Nati || GUS!! || +=========================================================++============+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 9:26:02 -0800 (PST) From: KOZARD@uvphys.phys.uvic.ca Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #27 > From: liaor@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu > Subject: Different GUS (hardware) revisions > Like start with v2.2 (the one I bought for $99 from EA Direct back in Oct 92) > all the way up to the latest (v3.7?!?) one. > I'm at college (away from any PC that can use the GUS meaningfully) so I > might sell it now and buy a newer hardware version if Gravis ever bothers to > add a decent hardware mixer. I have a v3.7. It has a hardware mixer and used LM833 low noise op-amps. I think the hardware mixer is very good on this card. (Now that I finally have it working....) Does anyone know why John.Smith@Gravis said the 16 bit board works with certain revisions, but he didn't list 3.7 ?! Ken KOZARD@UVPHYS.PHYS.UVIC.CA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 08:36:13 -0800 (PST) From: Shannon Bradford Subject: Haven't recieved GUS DD since Vol 11 #20 I still am not receiving the GUS Daily Digest and haven't since issue 11 #20. I sent a post to this address several days ago and was told something to the effect that there are so many GUSDD subscribers that you couldn't help them all, and that I could ftp the ones that are missing. While ftp'ing a few stray issues isn't a problem, ftp'ing them all is a BIG problem. What is the use of a mailing list otherwise? I've emailed to the gus server (gus-general-request@mail.orst.edu) and received help on how to subscribe and unsubscribe, but NOTHING on how to deal with problems. If I'm in the wrong place, I'm sorry. The gus server suggested this address to me. Please either help or send me to someone who can. Thanks, Shannon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 19:20:22 PST From: "Simeon Ventura" Subject: Just bought a GUS To: GUS --INTERNET gus-general-owner@ I just bought a GUS and am very happy with it. However, after playing around with it and the software that came with it and after reading the digests and the Usenet, I seem to be lacking Midisoft Recording Studio and Power Chords. I ftp'd the latest version of the disks down and the latest update disks, read the readmes, and found that those two apps are only available when you purchase the GUS. Well I purchased the GUS, so why don't I get those apps? Or, heaven forbid, do I have to shell out some more coin to get those fine apps? Thanks in advance. Simeon Ventura - BC Systems - SI EBU | ph: (604)360-7222 fax: (604)360-7285 | internet : sventura@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca | . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 21:25:32 +0100 From: svein harald fossum Subject: Megaem & QEMM703 Hi! I have this problem I hope someone out there can help me with... I have a 486 Dx2 66 Mhz Computer with one Gravis Ultrasound 1Mb installed. I have installed the QEMM386 v7.03 Memory manager on it. Everything works fine with the gus, both native and sbos support. But when I try to run megaem v2.02 (or any other version) I get the message that my EMS memory is not compatible. When I try to disable the EMS memory with the Megaem switchm I get a message telling me that the Gravis Ultrasound is currently in use buy another program. The only problem is, there is no such program running. I forgot to mention that I have 4Mb of RAM. I ran the same program on my old machine. That was a Copam 80486 Dx 25Mhz with 8Mb of RAM. On that machine everything worked just fine. I would be most happy I someone could help me. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:35:08 -0700 (MST) From: re7813ke@meteor.uscolo.edu (Is this ship sinking?) Subject: Might and Magic w/ Megaem Dear Gussers, I use Megaem to drive sound for might and magic 4 /5 World of Xeen, and when The intro for MM5 shows, there is alot of noise blocking large spots of voice. It sound like interference you might get, putting your mouth too close to a microphone. My setup is as follows: 386dx25 (no bad chipsets) Ultrasound set on IRQ:7 DMA:1 MIRQ:11 ADDR:220 Digiboard set on IRQ:5 no DMA Serial Card set for Standard IRQ:3 and 4 for COM1 and COM2 Both Floppy Drives (You know the IRQ's) Card With LPT1 and LPT2 at standard irq's HD Controller at Standard IRQ The Digiboard Only allows certain IRQ's and with the equipment other than the ultrasound, it doesn't seem like I can move it from irq 5 (wont let me put it on a high irq setting...none over 5 from my memory). When setting up the Gravis, IRQ:7 seems to be the only valid irq to set the board up on. Anyone else have this problem? Is it because of the IRQ:7 setting? Thanks in advance, Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 01:51:22 -0700 (MST) From: Dave DeBry Subject: Moving mailing time... I'm moving the initial mailing time for the GUS Digests. Up until now, it has been starting at 12:07am PST, and running for about 4 hours after that -- the mail server sleeps between each send so that it doesn't flood any mail queues. I'm moving to start at 12:07 *pm*, PST. This is because the Digests are now non-local, so I can't fix the machine if it goes down. Doing the sends during the day increases the chances that someone local to the machine running the digests will have the system up when the mailing occurs. The hit on the net should be minimal; I spread the mailings out over time, and they are running at Bulk precedence. If you have any problems with this new time, please email me. Thanks! -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "A jar of eyes can be a tasty treat." es. cs.utah. | com edu / ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 18:52:17 CST From: jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu (Josh Hightower) Subject: Patches... Hi all, I downloaded a the new gus0041a.zip & gus0041b.zip and I deleted the old ultrasnd directory. Unfortunatly all the patches weren't in the in two zip files. So I installed the patches came with the GUS. But when I tried to use install Megaem and then Emuset it told me the Charang.pat is missing. I couldn't find where the patch is could someone out there tell me where I could find the patch. Thanks alot, Joshua Hightower jhighto@squhs.uh.ilstu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 12:36:13 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Re: PatchMaker Just playing around with the new PatchMaker from the gus0038/gus0040 disks. I have finally noticed that PatchMaker Lite does indeed store patches temporarily in the TEMP directory, and alters the 1024 bank section of ultrasnd.ini to point to them. Among the temp files it creates are .wav files for just the waveform parts of the patch. Presumably, before exiting from PatchMaker, you could copy these to a proper filename, and hence use PatchMaker as a Patch to WAV converter, should you want to! I notice that the PatchMaker help describes a button which is supposed to allow the part of the waveform after the loop section to be played on release (i.e. a sampled release), but the actual button does not seem to be present. Any comments? As I have said many times before, a clear explanation of which parts of the 6-point patch envelope do what, depending on the settings of various bits in the patch header, would be most welcome (Even if you do have to use patch.exe to change them, since PatchMaker does not allow full control). I often wonder if stuff like this should be in the Musician's Digest, but there is so little traffic in there, and patch editing does not necessarily imply music - or does it? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 9:39:43 EST From: David Steinberg Subject: Putt-Putt's Loud Music I'm running the Putt Putt demos (for my kids, of course) and the volume levels of the music are very uneven. Sometimes the music gets so loud that the spoken words are drowned out. I've had this with both SBOS 3.7B2 and SBOS 3.81. David Steinberg steinberg@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com ------------------------------ Date: 3 Mar 94 7:44 -0800 From: Thomas Wong Subject: Ultrasound Internet Archives News - Wuarchive resurrected GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVES NEWS ============================================================================== FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: archive.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound European Callers ONLY: theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de pub/sound/gus Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound MailServer For Archive Access: Email to ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all.... Well, after a month or two of reconstructing the GUS archive on wuarchive, I think it's finally done. No more comments from the other admins so I'd say we're back in business. Sorry it took so long. I'm only doing this on my free time and we were quite hectic trying to setup a new lab at work.... so bad timing for wuarchive to go down. If you find anything wrong with the wuarchive's gus archive (or any other archive for that matter), please let me know. We're only human. :) Anyways, looking at epas' submit directory, I'd say we're long over due for another set of validations. So I'm looking at starting my download of all the files there and start my validation by about the weekend (may have to leave town this weekend so perhaps it'd be safer for me to say next week). I'll let you all know. Happy GUSing,.... Thomas. P.S. Did anyone upload Gravis' first beta for their OS/2 driver that can be found on the Gravis BBS onto epas's submit yet? Not the 3rd party one but the Gravis one we'd been hearing about for the last year or two... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 13:52:47 PST From: msudul@glenayre.com (Mark Sudul [590]) Subject: Voice Recognition Is anyone using voice recognition software with their GUS? I am interested in any information on the various products available for this purpose (even if they don't work with the GUS). Cost, features, hardware compatibility and requirements would all be useful information. Thanks, Mark Sudul. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:38:10 -0700 (MST) From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" Subject: Vot hppened to mi stereo? Hi. I just sent a letter to tech support about this too, but since I don't know yet how long that's going to take, I figgered I'd tell you guys about it too. When I first got my GUS, I think I remeber being able to use balance controls in various applications (such as the demo of Cake 2, and GUSMOD) and getting the sound to shift from left to right or vice versa. But now I always get equal volume from both speakers, and in GUSMOD, when I move a channel's balance control to the right, I get reduced volume and an increase in distortion for that channel, but on the left it sounds like it should, but comes out of both speakers. I also hooked the GUS up to my stereo, and I get lower volume out of the right channel and more distortion, compared to the left (but maybe the channels are hooked up backwards; that is irrelevant to what is happening). When I first hooked up the stereo, I think I remeber getting good sound from the line input on the GUS (which is hooked up to one of my tape out jacks on the stereo). Now it sounds distorted too, albeit well-balanced. One more thing that is probably related: I hooked up two mikes (using a stereo-to-2-mono splitter of course). One mike sounds good and goes to both channels when I enable the mike input using the Windows mixer; the other mike sounds terrible and much quieter but also goes to both channels. They should be fully split, separate channels shouldn't they? I'm going to experiment a little more just in case I have something hooked up wrong, but I don't think so. It seems to have gradually degenerated. -- _______ KB7PWD (_ | |_) shawn.rutledge@asu.edu __) | | \__________________________________________________________________ * anti-Macintosh * GUS * packet * IEEE * C * Internet * electronics * ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 10:10:35 GMT From: Hauxwell James S BSc 1 Mod Comp 93-94 Subject: Windows + GUS Well it did seem that my GUS was running happily with windows but the I changed something and now it doesn't. BIG OOOPPPSSS!!! Could someone kind and considerate mail me with their setup. Cheers J.Hauxwell@uk.ac.teesside ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V11 #28 *******************************