GUS Daily Digest Mon, 17 Jan 94 0:07 Volume 10: Issue 17 Today's Topics: Clicks in patches, using filters in GoldWave Doom, Address, New stuff GUS Daily Digest V10 #16 (2 msgs) GUS Mixer - Windoze lock-up and unending noise Mech II Midi box and joystick ports MW2DEMO.ZIP PatchDir problem fixed Sample dumping Syndicate and SBOS TERMINATOR 2029 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: Sun, 16 Jan 94 20:07:14 GMT From: aswani@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert Aswani) Subject: Clicks in patches, using filters in GoldWave I used GoldWave's Expression Evaluator to create a pure sine wave, using the formula sin(2*pi*66.551*t), and it was then converted into a patch using Patch Maker Lite. When a add a loop to it it sounds fine, all I ever wanted it to be: a bass patch. Just one problem, there is an annoyong click at the start when the patch is played, and another annoying click at the end. I can get rid of the click at the end by selecting the 'reduce volume quickly while note is turned off' envelope option. Does anybody know how to get rid of the click at the begginning? In GoldWave.wri, an example of a low-pass filter is given, but there is no mention of any other filters like a high-pass filter. Does anyonbody know the formulae for any other filters or effects that I can add to a sample using the expression evaluator? Any help is greatly appreciated. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Aswani \ Patch Maker Lite - WARNING : Can only help aswani@sound.demon.co.uk \ slimming as part of a controlled diet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 14:27:58 -0500 (EST) From: Phat H Tran Subject: Doom, Address, New stuff > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 17:02 GMT > From: DAVE > Subject: Doom & GUS query... > > Could I ask some kind soul to send me a suitable GUS setup parameter list to get this great game to play music and/or sound FX. If you're using version 0.99 (aka 1.0) of DOOM, you'll need to get dmxgus.ini from Epas or copy ultramid.ini to dmxgus.ini in your DOOM directory. If you have version 1.1, then you don't need to do this. However, for both versions, you need to set your GUS IRQs to lines less than 8. For example, I set my GUS IRQs to 5 (GF1) and 7 (SB/MIDI) for DOOM. You can make a batch file to automate this for you: set ultrasnd=220,7,7,5,7 ; My settings -- use your own if they differ ultrinit doom.exe set ultrasnd=220,7,7,12,5 ; My normal GUS settings ultrinit You need to use IRQs less than 8 because the DOS extender that DOOM uses does not support the high IRQs. > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 11:11:23 -0500 (EST) > From: Peter Joseph Guillaume > Subject: Gravis Address > > This to any Gravis rep OR anyone who's had a problem (and more hopefully > a solution) with Gravis's address. I'm about to send in my registration card > and remembered reading something about the address changing. Does anyone know > where I should send it so I don't have all the problems I've read with others? I think, since you're in the US, that you're supposed to send your card to Gravis' US dist. centre: 1790 Midway Lane Bellingham, WA USA 98226 I'm not sure about that, so check your manual to see where you're supposed to send your card. The change of addressed occurred over a year ago, so if your GUS package is fairly recent (has a 3.4 GUS or 2.06 disks), then the addresses found within it should be up-to-date. > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 23:59:12 CST > From: Jim English > Subject: New Windows Drivers? Mega EM? > > hello all, I just discovered the daily digest and want to know about the > new windows drivers everyone's talking about and Mega EM. I got the > 2.06 install disks off of a CD-ROM. I looked in reference to some msg > about the ultrasnd.ini file and i guess it seems i dont have these new drivers. > what site can i get them from? and what are the filenames? Also do I get > mega EM from a seperate file? Are there new versions of the Patch Manager > or the Mixer or new windows stuff? Please E-Mail any answers. Thanks for > all help!!! You can get the new Windows drivers in pmak110.zip, which is on archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit directory. The newest Mega-Em can be found in /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/gravis.bbs as megem202.zip. The newest Patch Man is version 1.07 (I think) -- a new one hasn't been released recently. The new mixer is included with the new Windows drivers in pmak110.zip, which, incidentally, is Patch Maker Lite, a patch making utility for the GUS. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 00:23:41 +1100 (GMT+1100) From: "Mr. Michael P. Daniel." Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #16 Has anyone been able to get Indycar racing (papyrus publ.) to work with the gus? It has both 32bit and normal AIL drivers. It locks up with sbos (2.08 I think: whatever came on the 2.06a disks) Also in the installation section it says "adlib/sb reqd. to hear engine noise" This seems to me to mean that it uses FM sysnthesis for engine noise therfore it won't work with the gus, even with AIL drviers. -Michael Daniel- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | This message is composed of 100% recycled electrons. | \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 10:07:48 -0500 (EST) From: fwang@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Frank Wang) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V10 #16 > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 23:59:12 CST > From: Jim English > Subject: New Windows Drivers? Mega EM? > > hello all, I just discovered the daily digest and want to know about the > new windows drivers everyone's talking about and Mega EM. I got the > 2.06 install disks off of a CD-ROM. I looked in reference to some msg > about the ultrasnd.ini file and i guess it seems i dont have these new drivers. When is Gravis going to start releasing Mega-Em on their distribution disks? They're big time shooting themselves in the foot until they do so. You'd think that with the official 2.02 release, and Gravis buying Mega-Em they'd do it already. - Frank Wang fwang@sbcs.sunysb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 19:00:14 -0800 (PST) From: Telepathic Surgery Subject: GUS Mixer - Windoze I just recently installed the new windoze drivers (I know, I'm lazy...), and can get everything to work (i.e. no probs with midi/patches etc.). However, I'm having a problem with the GUS mixer now. Everytime I start up, the volumes are low - the .wavs and the midi are way too quiet, and the right midi channel is totally silenced - so I have to go into the mixer and adjust the volumes. I was under the impression that windoze was supposed to save everything upon exit, so why won't it record the volume levels and keep them constant? What can I do to keep the volumes the same? Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you vey much! chris yaga@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 11:00:31 -0500 From: ak016@freenet.carleton.ca (John Collins) Subject: lock-up and unending noise I've had my GUS for a while now, and I think I've gotten all the kinks worked out, except one rather thorny one. Occasionally, when playing a game (most notably X Wing, RTZ), my machine will lock up solid (requiring hard boot) and the GUS will give me a lovely rendition of all of its patches, cyclically and unceasingly, until my computer's reboot re-initializes the card. This happens most frequently when running mega-em; for instance, it always happens in one particular spot in X Wing when running mega-em, but does not happen in that spot if I'm using SBOS. In RTZ, I'm using Ultramid, etc., and the problem seems to happen after I've saved my game. I have a suspicion that I may be conflicting with my hard drive in some way, here, because it most often locks up if I try to move too soon after I've saved, and not given the disk caching enough time to finish what it's doing. I can't tell if I have a DMA conflict with my hard drive, because I don't know how to find out what DMA my hard drive is using; setup won't tell me, and I can't find a utility that will either (apparently it's usually "1", but I can't tell for sure). So, sorry for the length of this post, but I would really like to solve this problem, and feel sure that someone here can help me. Thanks. ak016@freenet.carleton.ca (John Collins) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 13:46:18 -0600 (CST) From: Joerg Bashir Subject: Mech II I know that it comes with Ultramid, and you can select GUS from the DIGI-PAK testing module.. BUT DIGI-PAK can't seem to find its .SND file. The ultramid that comes with it doesn't run because it can't find the $ULTRAMID/midi files or something to that effect. When I use ultramid from Rampage, and then load the digipak driver, erything works, except there is no sound in MW2. Does this have anything to do with the fact that the GUS is not in the install programs soundcard menu? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 14:25:28 -0500 (EST) From: "K.S. Holly" Subject: Midi box and joystick ports Hi all, Does anyone have or know where to find a schematic for the midi box that includes the pinouts for the second joystick port? The diagram I have only shows one joystick port and I know that a standard y-cable will not work. Any and all help very much appreciated..... Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 08:52:55 -0500 From: liaor@churchst.ccs.itd.umich.edu Subject: MW2DEMO.ZIP Unfortunately, the demo is a beta-version. I couldn't get it running on my system. Furthermore, someone told me the demo isn't very good (slow and poor control...left-right is very coarse, so it's possible to not be able to target a small mech simply because it's width is less than the granularity of your movement.) At least it does left/right panning if you have a stereo-equipped card (GUS). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 05:30:16 -0700 (MST) From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc) Subject: PatchDir problem fixed OK, I installed pmak110 (patch maker lite), and put ultrasnd.ini in the /sound/gus/windows directory (equivalent to /ultrasnd/windows), but not the /sound/gus (/ultrasnd) dir...! This was my problem! So, I copied the pmak110 ultrasnd.ini into it and EVERYTHING WORKS FINE NOW! do try this at home :) -djkc p.s.- why does ultrasnd.ini have to be in both /ultrasnd and /ultrasnd/windows ? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 2:11:49 CST From: Jay Stelly Subject: Re: Sample dumping > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 00:51:30 -0700 (MST) > From: jhender@nyx.cs.du.edu (djkc) > Subject: Sample dumping > > I'd like to know which options I have in dumping samples off of and on to > my Ultrasound. > > I have an Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler which has Digital I/O and MIDI. > Is there a way to transfer samples (ASR <-> PC) digitally, instead of > through the audio lines? I don't want to lose any quality in my samples. > > I've heard of MIDI dumps, and that they take a long time to do. > Is there any software for doing this on the Ultrasound? > I don't know of any software that supports MIDI sample dumps to/from the ASR 10, but they are painfully slow anyway, so you probably don't want to do this. I think the program EPSDISK supports the ASR-10 in some way. It allows you to transfer data to/from EPS/EPS-16+ disks using your standard PC 3.5" drive you can get it from ftp.reed.edu. I'm sorry I don't know exactly where it is. There is also a mailing list for EPS/EPS-16/ASR10 owners that you can subscribe to. There is probably some info on it on ftp.reed.edu as well. (I'm subscribed, but I don't have the address handy - there are some others on this list who are there too, so maybe one of them can fill you in). Jay Stelly jay@cs.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 00:47:53 -0800 (PST) From: wyattc@sfu.ca Subject: Syndicate and SBOS I'm having trouble getting Syndicate to work with my Ultrasound. I used the GUS-SYND program, with SBOS loaded, and I can get the music, but not the sound effects. I tried loading SBOS with the -o2 and -o3 options as well, with GUS-SYND, and without. If I don't use GUS-SYND, I don't get any sound at all, although I do hear an initialization "pop" Port: 240h IRQ: 7 DMA: 1 Can anybody figure out why I'm not getting any sound effects? -- Wyatt Cheng wyattc@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 15:13:20 +0200 From: tjakobs@mswe.dnet.ms.philips.nl (THEO_JAKOBS TEL.62667) Subject: Re: TERMINATOR 2029 hi.. you can use the AIL drivers with this game... It worked for me, and all the sounds and music sound great... Just follow the instructions that came with the Gravis Ail drivers and the game should work... Thank god for AIL drivers!!!!!! Andre Jakobs MicroBrain Technologies Inc. The Netherlands ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V10 #17 *******************************