Ultrasound Daily Digest Sat, 7 Nov 92 Volume 1 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: AAAAAAHHH!!! Cakewalk Demo is on CICA (2 msgs) DIGEST ADMIN: Please read this!!! Finally, I'll be getting my Gravis, but... Game List? Gravis Shipping Delays gsmidfil part 0 of 2 gsmidfil part 1 of 2 gsmidfil part 2 of 2 GUS delivery to Telemart: Dead End GUS delivery to Telemart: Who to believe? Links 386 Pro New patches Orders to Disk-Count / MIDI and WAV's SBOS <-> Win 3.1 survey... Ultrasound Problems Upgrading memory Digest Address: ultrasound@dsd.es.com To post to tomorrow's digest. Request Server Address: ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, and request files. Owner Address: ultrasound-owner@dsd.es.com To contact a human if the server has troubles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 13:51:47 CST From: Bill Lockett Message-Id: <9211061951.AA19539@tamsun.tamu.edu> Subject: AAAAAAHHH!!! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I think I am going crazy! Every time I get something working, it then stops The latest problem is with windows. When I start windows, I get an error message stating STOP couldn't load patch acipiano1.pat , and about thers 92 others. Sorry about the typing! After I answer ok to all of the errors, it continues to play the wav file for windows stratup and everything else. But, media player won't produce any sound. I configured my ultrasound driver in th in the drivers box, and in the midimapper in the control panel. What have I done wrong? I also upgraded to 1 MEG at CompUsa for $20 due to my corporate discount. Discounts are nice. I used 256K x 4 70 ns chips. Yet, I still can't get can't get canyon.mid to play with playmidi. Do you have to set some jumpers to activate th to activate the additional memory? I have even tried deleting all of my software and stating over. Please help me make my GUS work like I would expect it to. I don't blame very many of my problems on the card, but the fact that I have never had a sound card before, and an imperfect software may not have been the best one to start with. I am also still having trouble with trouble with Earl weavers baseball II. After I pitch, I get no sound from the card, just the PC speaker, any ideas? I am using SBOS -o2. thank you, Bill ------------------------------ Date: 6 Nov 92 13:59:23 +0100 From: BJORNHK@dhhalden.no Message-Id: Subject: Cakewalk Demo is on CICA To: Ultrasound Daily Digest CAKEWALK MY ASS!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 14:16:06 EST From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion) Message-Id: <9211061916.AA20414@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Cakewalk Demo is on CICA To: Ultrasound Daily Digest ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 14:23:35 MST From: ddebry@itchy (Dave DeBry) Message-Id: <9211062123.AA21185@itchy> Subject: DIGEST ADMIN: Please read this!!! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I think I need to make an Ultrasound Digest Owner FAQ. Q1] I didn't get my digest last night. What's wrong? A1] First of all, if no one mailed anything to the digest, you won't get one. Also, because of the load of stuff going out from this site, the digest may get delayed a few hours. (If you haven't noticed, each digest is set with Precedence: Bulk so that other more important things take priority in mail queues.) Essentially, please don't complain to me if your digest doesn't show up one day. If it's not there for two or three, then feel free to whine. =^) Q2] How can I get a list of what is available on the request server? A2] The request "help" (sans quotes) works. (Actually, any request that is illegal works. If the server can't parse your request, it will send the help file.) Q3] Can you please send me back issues of the digest? A3] NO! NO NO NO NO NO! I appreciate that all of you are really interested in the digest. I'm thrilled, and I'll bet Gravis is too. But I have a job and an education to take care of. As soon as the FTP site is up, all the digests will be there. So will anything that is on the request server. Grab any of them at your fancy. For now, be happy getting your Daily Digest. :) -- Dave ddebry@ debry@ \ "Wait!" "Can you explain?" "I can explain!" DeBry dsd. peruvian. | "This better be good. They shot you last es. cs.utah. | week." com edu / - Dr. Frank N. Furter and Audience ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 23:26:10 PST From: aktang@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU (I should be studying) Message-Id: <9211050726.AA23804@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU> Subject: Finally, I'll be getting my Gravis, but... To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Yay! I hope that post from Chris Yuzik is true. I hope I get my Gravis from EA next week. I've been waiting a VERY long time now. Anyway, has anyone heard of the new SB coming out (SB16)? (Okay, so this is the "Gravis Digest" Why am I bringing up the SB? Hold on...) It's supposed to have a daughterboard add-on which will give it what sounds like wave-table synthesis. There are several reasons I bring this up. First, it seems I've been waiting for the Gravis so long, that other card manufacturers have started "catching up" to Gravis' technology (Not that the SB16 is coming out anytime soon, or it even has this thingy.... (Please clear this up if it isn't true)). (Yes, I'm one of those gotta have the newest best thing out there type) I'm sure I'll be happy with the GUS, but I hope other soundcards don't stomp it out before it can create its own niche. This brings me to my second point. As far as I can tell, in the US, there has been NO advertisements for the GUS. Why? How has everyone even learned of the GUS? If it wasn't for Internet/Usenet, I would've never even heard of this great new product. Don't you think it'd be wise to start hyping the GUS, so it catches on and doesn't lose its own market? (Much like the famed CompuCom, which was known to me only via BBSes, which seems kind of useless, since people who call BBSes already have modems...) You'd think a card like this with its price/performance ratio would have a very nice mass appeal. OK, maybe they should wait until they can actually supply them to those masses, but... Well, you get my idea. Lastly, I'm kind of curious. Just how many GUS's have been distributed so far (Worldwide). Anthony Tang aktang@sdcc13.ucsd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 17:19:36 PST From: nestlero@daystrom.usc.edu (Mikeee) Message-Id: <9211070119.AA12127@daystrom.usc.edu> Subject: Game List? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Wasn't someone working on a list of games, and what was necessary to get them running? I'm told my GUS will be here (1 more week......) soon, and it'd be pretty cool if someone else had done all the leg work, so I could plug-n-play! :-) That's it....any progress out there? Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeee nestlero@spock.usc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 13:36:02 EST From: litt3509@mach1.wlu.ca (Carl Litt u) Message-Id: <9211061836.AA23739@mach1.wlu.ca> Subject: Gravis Shipping Delays To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I would like to say something to all those people complaining about shipping delays on the Gravis Ultrasound... Has anyone considered that maybe Gravis just can't keep up with the demand for this card. Everyone and their brother/sister is complaining about 'Ohhhh, I have to wait another week for my Ultrasound....' Too bad. Life's tough, isn't it??? It's not like Gravis produces hundreds of cards each day like some other comanies do. It's the typical quality-quantity tradeoff: If you want quality, you may have to wait. Personally, I agree with Gravis' plan of releasing as many as they can ASAP. This way, the customers are assured that yes, this card really does exist, and yes, it is as good as promised. And, if you're lucky, you'll get your card now. Whereas if Gravis waited another 6-8 weeks to release it, everyone would have given up on the GUS, and there wouldn't be any. Gravis was under a lot of pressure to produce the card, and now that it's out, there's even more pressure because everyone wants one NOW. Flames are welcome. Send them to my account, not the newsgroup or the mailing list. And to those also complaining about wasted band- width: screw off. If we have to listen to you bitch about shipping delays, then you need to listen to this. litt3509@mach1.wlu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:04:42 CST From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles) Message-Id: <9211062204.AA28848@hydra.convex.com> Subject: gsmidfil part 0 of 2 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Here are 34 midi files set up for the gs-midi standard, and hopefully they should sound fine on GUS. I have NOT YET RECEIVED my ULTRASOUND! I WANT IT! IWANT IT! I WANT IT! (There - all ranting finished - I can continue.) With the exception of a couple of sequences which I found in .rol file format in a small shop in Seoul, Korea, everything in this collection was entered by me from scratch - therefore, any problems are my fault! These sequences are all 'TYPE 1', midifiles, that is, they consist of multiple, polyphonic tracks, with the drum track (if any) on channel 10 (as per the gs spec). Besides the normal 'note' events, the sequences almost all include tempo changes, and use of various midi-controllers such as sostenuto, reverb, chorus, and portamento. They do NOT include pitch-wheel events, as I'm unsure how GUS responds to these - for instance, Creative Labs and Adlib divided a single semitone into 8192 parts, whereas most of the 'serious' synths made by korg, ensoniq, and roland divide a semitone into 4096 parts. Therefore I'm not sure whether I'd get a full semitone or half a semitone if I had a pitch-wheel event of -4096. Perhaps Chris could answer this one :-). Many of the sequences make use of midi 'markers'. A midi 'marker' is a flag inside a midi file which is associated with a particular time, and which may have text associated with it. It was meant to be used so that someone building a multimedia file could say 'start showing the animation at marker 3', or whatever. I use it for lyrics. There is a 'lyric' event specified in midi, but no sequencer that I'm aware of makes use of it. Cakewalk for Windows can show these 'marker' events as the sequence is playing; if your sequencer does not, you can use the debugger to read the file, or use Piet Von Oostrum's 'mf2t' program (see the archive address below) to translate a midi file into readable ascii and then back to a midifile. If you have the un*x command 'strings', you can use that as well. These sequences have also been uploaded to Piet Von Oostrum's MIDI archive on archive.cs.ruu.nl, and can be found in /pub/MIDI/SONGS as 'gsmidfil.zip'. I have MANY midi files. These, here, tend to be of a 'classic' nature, but if people are interested, perhaps sometime in the future I could post some stuff more popularly oriented. I am currently working on editing some oriental popular and folk tunes which I found on my last trip to the Far East. In any case, PLEASE send me feedback. Did you get them to work? Did they sound all right? Have you made them better? Send me email. Notes to some of the sequences: barimyst.mid - This is Francois Couperin's "Les Barricades Myterieuses", arranged for the classical banjo. This style of banjo playing is practiced nowadays by only a few of us. If there is any interest, I have a great deal of classical banjo music. fairsun.mid, folsaint.mid, wanton.mid, whenthou.mid - These are Thomas Campion songs from Philip Rossiter's "Books of Ayres" (1601-1603) lostcord.mid - This is a late 19th century "parlor" song by Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame. I have synchronized the words to the music using markers, so that you can sing along. deadmen.mid - This is a seventeenth century English drinking song, from Chappel's "Music of the Olden Time". If anyone wants the words, I'd be happy to supply them. forelle.mid - Schubert's "Trout", transposed down (for my voice). hana.mid japnmed.mid sakura2.mid soshunfu.mid yukifuru.mid - These are Japanese "folk" songs. They were actually composed early this century, and are learned by every Japanese schoolchild. galuppi.mid johnblow.mid scararia.mid - I entered these baroque pieces in order to play with ornamentation! hngarian.mid stlouis.mid lindberg.mid rufsrsts.mid - Popular music from earlier this century. Lenzburg's Hungarian Rag cleverly parodies Brahms; Tom Turpin wrote St. Louis Rag; Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown was a typical ragtime song from the first decade of the century; Lindbergh, the Eagle of the USA has all the words in the markers so you can sing along. leyenda.mid swwo30n1.mid vivconct.mid - A bit more serious "classical" music, with more care taken when entering the sequences (Albeniz, Mendelssohn, and Vivaldi). mort.mid - An anonymous Renaissance setting of a poem by Francois Villon. playford.mid - Dances from Playford's English Country Dance Master. sunflowr.mid - Theme from the movie "Sunflower". Although popular when it was made 35 years (or so) ago, I can now find it nowhere. Does anyone know what happened to it? jeuxdeau.mid sixiang.mid - These are two ".rol" files which I found in Seoul, Korea in a small shop which made and sold Soundblaster clones. I converted them to midi using Dan McKee's Winjammer program. By the way, I said the jeuxdeau was by Liszt, and although Liszt wrote a Jeu d'Eau (fountain), this one is by Ravel! (Sorry!) I welcome any feedback, and would love to listen to any midi files anyone on the net would care to send. John Cowles cowles@hydra.convex.com Convex Computer Corp. 214 497 4375 3000 Waterview Pkwy Richardson, Tx. 75080 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:05:27 CST From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles) Message-Id: <9211062205.AA28971@hydra.convex.com> Subject: gsmidfil part 1 of 2 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Please remove this header and the one on part 2, concatenate the resulting files and run uudecode on the result. gsmidfil.1 part 1 of 2 ------------------------------cut here------------------------ begin 664 gsmidfil.zip uuencoded stuff removed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:06:15 CST From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles) Message-Id: <9211062206.AA29005@hydra.convex.com> Subject: gsmidfil part 2 of 2 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Please concatenate this file (after the 'cut here') with the previous part so there are no empty lines between the encoded lines, and then run uudecode on the result. gsmidfil.zip - part 2 of 2 -----------------cut here----------------------------------- uuencoded stuff removed end ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 10:26:50 MST From: Stuart Yoshida Message-Id: <9211061726.AA09571@elektra.fc.hp.com> Subject: GUS delivery to Telemart: Dead End To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I called up Telemart and asked them who its distributor is for the GUS. The order processing person said, "I can't give out that information." Although I understand that Telemart is trying to protect its markets, it means we're out of luck as far as finding out when the GUS will be realistically delivered. I called Chris Yuzik at Gravis, and he confirmed that we're pretty much at a deadend unless we could provide the name of a distributor. He also wasn't surprised that Telemart wouldn't give out the name of its distributor(s). *Sigh* The wait goes on... -- Stuart Yoshida Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com Voice: (303) 229-2324 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 9:25:50 MST From: Stuart Yoshida Message-Id: <9211061625.AA09353@elektra.fc.hp.com> Subject: GUS delivery to Telemart: Who to believe? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Lasse Hero writes: > >Gravis seems to be doing exactly the same thing with Telemart that they >supposedly (?) did with EA.. Telemart was originally promised to receive >the cards weeks (monts?) ago, but the shipping date has been delayed about >once a week. Well, this time there seems to be even greater delay. I'm not sure who is to blame. My first reaction was also to vent my frustration toward Gravis, and so I decided to give Gravis a call (1-800-663-8558). The person who answered the phone transferred my call to "Chris." I thought to myself, "Hmmm, `Chris'? As in Chris Yuzik, the Gravis rep on Internet?" Sure enough, it was the same Chris! Chris was not able to give me a date when the GUS would be delivered to Telemart (1-800-521-1973) because Gravis doesn't ship directly to retailers! Gravis is shipping to *distributors*, and thus we are getting second-hand information from Telemart about the delivery date. So, if Chris is correct, then Telemart is just blowing smoke when they say that "Gravis has delayed again" because Gravis doesn't ship direct to Telemart in the first place! To really get an accurate date of delivery, we need to find out the name of the GUS distributor for Telemart. Once we find that out, then we can call Gravis directly (be sure to ask for Chris Yuzik ;-) and find out from the horse's mouth when the fraggin' cards will be shipping! If it's any consolation, Chris claims that all back-orders to their distributors are projected to be filled by mid-December. This is from the horse's mouth, and I'm holding Gravis to this date. The information I received from Telemart is most likely just a retailer that is stringing us along. >I just received a fax from Telemart (thanks to them, great service so >far) in which they told me that Gravis has delayd again, and they >(Telemart) now expect to get the cards 11-12-92. They also added that >they can't guarantee that even this date will hold true... > >Now, does Gravis think someone will really wait that long to get a >sound card? (it might be a really good one, but still) It's up to the individual consumer. Personally, I'd feel much better if I got a delivery date that I could believe. After talking with Chris Yuzik I got a sense of where the production bottleneck is (anyone who is involved in board manufacturing can appreciate this): Board Testing. This, of course, is NOT an excuse, but at least it makes sense to me, and I can live with the delay (at least for now). But before you give up, give Gravis a call directly. Talk to Chris, and mention that you're on Internet. >I hope someone at Gravis sees this and does something similar with >the situation to what they did with EA (shipping earlier, or did they?). >I'd also like to get a confirmation from Gravis to this December- >shipping date. > >P.S. Could it be that the 11-12-92 means November 12 instead of > December 11? I just thought that if maybe possibly the woman > at Telemart converted that to "Europe"-format... (see, I'm TRYING > to be optimistic) The order processing person I talked to at Telemart said November 12. Telemart is merely slipping the ship date by a week each week. We won't really know the ship date until we find out who the DISTRIBUTOR is for Telemart. Any volunteers to get this information? Anyone? Anyone? Okay, okay, *I'll* do it :-) -- Stuart Yoshida Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com Voice: (303) 229-2324 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:29:21 PST From: yuzik@sfu.ca Message-Id: <9211061929.AA19596@fraser.sfu.ca> Subject: Links 386 Pro To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi Everyone! OK, by popular demand, here it is. A few of you have been having problems with Links 386 Pro from Access Software and your GUS. The following is something that I put together about 2 weeks ago and had the technical manager from Access check over. I would have posted it sooner, but I had to figure out how to do it (short of typing it out), and I got some much needed help yesterday. Thanks to DDA. Sorry about the formating - the document was prepared on my mac at the office in a proportional font and probably won't look too well by the time you get it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Links 386 Pro (Access Software) UltraSound Setup Version You must be using Links 386 Pro version 1.05 or newer. Version 1.05 fixes some with the sound. To find out your version #, type LINKS386 /V from the directory. Version 1.05 can be found on most bulletin board systems by calling Access Software Directly (1-800-793-8324). Memory Links 386 Pro comes with it's own memory manager. Access Software does not using QEMM with Links 386 Pro. It has been our experience that Links 386 Pro works best without any expanded memory driver, including EMM386.EXE. Conclusion: Don't use EMM386.EXE (or any other expanded memory driver)! According to Access Software, you must use the HIMEM.SYS driver that comes with 5.0 (not the one that comes with Windows 3.1). If you use the driver that comes with Windows 3.1, then Links will probably crash. Links Configuration Once you have your computer's memory set up as above, and you have installed Links 386 Pro version 1.05, you are ready to begin. You must delete the configuration file in the LINKS386 subdirectory called LINKS386.CFG. SBOS Because Links 386 Pro "looks for" a specific version of the Sound Blaster card, you must run SBOS with the -X2 option. Example: SBOS -X2 Running Links Links must be run with the /S option, which eliminates possible device conflicts with sound cards. Example: LINKS386 /S or GOLF /S. You should then go to the "Options" menu and select "Sound Options." Choose the Sound Blaster option. At this point, Links should set up (by itself) for DMA channel 1, and interrupt 7. You should change this to whatever is listed for the "I" option in your SET BLASTER= line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, usually 5. Try "pressing" the TEST SOUND button on the screen. You should hear sound. Try several to make sure your system is set up correctly. Whew! You should now have your Links 386 Pro working. Enjoy. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 14:39:46 EST From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion) Message-Id: <9211061939.AA21084@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: New patches To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I should make some new patches available next week by ftp. Probably on wuarchive. Some of the instruments: Hammond B3, TR808, some analog synths... Also, i give some pointers for the second time since some people who had requested them didn't get the first week of digest. -Csound is available from cecelia.media-lab.mit.edu for Unix and documentation in PS and Word format. DOS executable can be found on ftp.bath.uk Csound is the program i have used to generate some 16 bit instruments. -I have not received the correspondance of DX7 patch maps, so i have not done a DX-7 patch -> Csound orc file yet. -Sox is a format converter that can exchange between almost any sound formats. A good tool. Can be found on wuarchive. -No i have not been able to succesfully use a home made cable with the Gravis. And now for the main point: i am tired to receive hate mail, flames, rude comments etc... so i guess it will be a long time before i post anything else on the ultrasound list. Bien a vous, -- Francois Dion ' _ _ _ CISM (_) (_) _) FM Montreal , Canada Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA (_) / . _) 10000 Watts Telephone no: (514) 343-7511 _______________________________________________________________________________ Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 09:55:23 CST From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) Message-Id: <9211061555.AA05285@batman.austin.ibm.com> Subject: Orders to Disk-Count / MIDI and WAV's To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi all, Just wanted to respond to some items I saw in the digest. First, Lasse Hero wrote: >Gravis seems to be doing exactly the same thing with Telemart that they >supposedly (?) did with EA.. Telemart was originally promised to receive >the cards weeks (monts?) ago, but the shipping date has been delayed about >once a week. Well, this time there seems to be even greater delay. >I just received a fax from Telemart (thanks to them, great service so >far) in which they told me that Gravis has delayd again, and they >(Telemart) now expect to get the cards 11-12-92. They also added that >they can't guarantee that even this date will hold true.. I thought, for those of you who ordered from them, I'd give the latest poop on Disk-Count Software. I called them a couple of weeks ago and asked when they'd get the GUS, when they'd ship, etc. The gave me some sob story about how the FCC had not yet approved the GUS, to which I responded that there were people in the USA who already *had* the card. They didn't believe me, but the addresses of people who posted in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard made me think they were lying. So I got on their case about it. Yesterday I called back, and they said the FCC *had* approved it but that Gravis had discovered a software problem (probably the Windows driver from what I've read) and were fixing that and that they (Disk-Count) were supposed to get their shipments yesterday (Nov. 5) but that they hadn't gotten them yet (I called at noon). If they aren't lying, some of us might see the card by Saturday, but at this point I'm not holding my breath. For one, they might be lying. Two, they had about three shipments worth of orders the last time I called (I have no idea where I am on the list). But they said they were talking with Gravis about when they'd get the card. I have decided that I am going to call again on Monday (although it will take all the self control I have to wait until then!) and ask if they got their shipments, if not, when they expect to get it, and where I am on the list. Then I'm gonna call Gravis and ask them, because I think somebody is lying to someone and I wanna get to the bottom of this, dammit! And someone is going to lose my business if I find out they've been jerking my chain!!! Grrrrrr.... I'll mail a followup here next week. On to the other note I saw! alona@math.huji.ac.il (Alon Amit) wrote: >What exactly is the story with the Windows drivers? I would like to trigger . >WAV files from Cakewalk for Windows. Will it work? If the file is BIG, can >it be loaded to my main memory (I mean, the memory on the PC, of course...) >- I have 8 Meg of that? Or do I have to enlarge the memory on the GUS? ------------------------------ Date: 7 Nov 92 0:00 -0800 From: Thomas Wong Message-Id: <2383*twong@civil.ubc.ca> Subject: SBOS <-> Win 3.1 survey... To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I am just wondering, how many of the GUS owners out there is having problems with sounds in Win 3.1 after loading SBOS, and how many doesn't have a problem at all? For example, if you set up your Win 3.1 so that when you start Windows it plays a sound, and when you exit Windows it plays a sound (.wav file), are you able to first load SBOS (then you can unload SBOS if you want to with the -f option. As long as you have loaded SBOS without rebooting before running Windows) then run Windows and exit Windows with the sounds playing ok? Or do you get garbage? Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 15:05:26 EST From: crlehew@eos.ncsu.edu Message-Id: <9211062005.AA13660@c00357-247dan.eos.ncsu.edu> Subject: Ultrasound Problems To: Ultrasound Daily Digest When I first heard about the ultrasound i was very excited and willing to pay the $200 price that i first heard on compuserve. after looking more closely at the specs of the card and all of the problems that it has with various hardware/software componets i have decided not to purchase an ultrasound and wait for gravis to come out with a new version. the instability of any product greatly effects my decision to spend even the least amount of money on it. i believe that the ultrasound is a superior product and will play a major role in the pc sound revolution that has already been started. in order to be sucessful it must not only out perform its competion (which ive heard it does but only if you can get the thing running) but it also must fully support the current standard (SB). this is the reason that owners of os/2 (i am not one) are desperate to get the ultrasound running for their systems. they have moved to a superior operating system that fully (well windows support is not fully compatiable but that will be solved in v.2.1) compatible with the current standards. Gravis still has a lot of work to do on the Ultrasound. ill wait until they are finished. Rob in a few years we will all be using NT ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:45:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam K. Rixey" Message-Id: Subject: Upgrading memory To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I'm interested in upgrading to 1 Meg on my Ultrasound - do I need any special type of memory chips or will anything work? - AkR - ar2w@andrew.cmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest What the hell are you talking about? If you are implying that cakewalk demo is not there, then learn how to use ftp. If you are trying to be rude, you have the perfect way of doing it. No ciao, -- Francois Dion ' _ _ _ CISM (_) (_) _) FM Montreal , Canada Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA (_) / . _) 10000 Watts Telephone no: (514) 343-7511 _______________________________________________________________________________ Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-... ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest IM-patiently awaiting the Airborne Express truck to arrive, Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:27:22 -0500 From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca Message-Id: <9211061727.AA08399@norton.uwaterloo.ca> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi, everyone. Ever since I heard from gravis that they are working on patch loader for windows I've been wondering what that meant. Well, I just bought BCPP 3.1 and was fooling around with KBMIDI ( from PC Mag - which doesn't work with GUS either ) source code and MM windows references, I found that MM windows has support for synthesizers like GUS that loads patches as it needs and MM windows also has 'Patch Cache' functions to support it. I don't know where it caches to but anyway, I fixed ( tell it to load patches to cache before a note is played ) it just a little bit and it WORKS now. It's not a fancy program or anything but it IS a good toy for GUS owners to play with different instrument patches and so on, I think. However, I don't know whether it is legal to post modified KBMIDI here so could someone please tell me if I can post it here so everybody can have it ? - YURI - ylee@sunee.uwaterloo.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:45:29 +0100 From: Hans Christian Egeberg NTH H92 Message-Id: <9211061945.AAnic11388@nic.unik.no> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Subject: ULTRINIT.EXE hangs bus and serial mouse??? After rereading the GUS readme file for the n'th time, i noticed the section concerning ULTRINIT.EXE. Ok... I'm not exactly sure what the MIDI IRQ is used for, except SBOS emulation, but I put the program in my AUTOEXEC.BAT. Just about the same day, i installed my brand new Microsoft compatible serial mouse. It didn't work. The mouse cursor was there, but no cursor movement was possible. To cut a long story short, I spent about 20 hours with screwdrivers, technical reference manuals, incorrect jumper settings, and PC parts lying everywhere, to figure out why the mouse would work on only one of my two PCs. After that I gave up, and reinstalled an old heap of a bus mouse. Now that wouldn't work either! I'm pretty sure I have figured it out now... If I run ULTRINIT.EXE after MOUSE.COM, the mouse freezes. If I run ULTRINIT.EXE before MOUSE.COM, the mouse driver outputs a screenfull of garbage, and refuses to load. This is consistent for the following configurations: Bus mouse IRQ 3, No COM2, No LPT2, ULTRASOUND=220,7,7,11,5 Bus mouse IRQ 5, No LPT2, No LPT1, ULTRASOUND=220,7,7,11,7 Serial Mouse COM2, No LPT2, ULTRASOUND=220,7,7,11,5 Serial Mouse COM2, No LPT1, ULTRASOUND=220,7,7,11,7 Serial Mouse COM1, No LPT2, ULTRASOUND=220,7,7,11,5 Serial Mouse COM1, No LPT1, ULTRASOUND=220,7,7,11,7 If I don't run ULTRINIT.EXE, the problem disappears. Running ULTRINIT.EXE freezes the mouse (mice) immediately, and can not be cured by CTRL-ALT-DEL. Running Windows, however, revives the mouse. I now think this is because of loading the GUS driver, and not because of loading the Windows mouse driver. Is there any way I can run ULTRINIT.EXE, and keep my mouse? What are the consequences of never running ULTRINIT.EXE? (what ceases to work?) Is this a problem with my machine(s) only??? I'll be back... Christian ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #12 ******************************