GUS Daily Digest Tue, 25 Oct 94 9:37 PST Volume 15: Issue 19 Today's Topics: Bounced Message to mbh.lightstream.nl!gus-general Campanions of Xanth CD-ROM sound problems? CD Audio line-in under OS/2 GUS Daily Digest V15 #13 GUS i/o ports, HMI drivers, SCSI CD's (3 replies) GUS MIDI controllers and bankswitching Mail Delivery Status MEGAEM and EMM incompatibility my Power Chords rhythm editor is gone Myst? Need GUS MAX for 200$ in PARIS Panasonic 563 drive.. Pro-Pats v3 ProPats 3, Where Are You... Question SBOS & NHL Hockey Some answers Vol. 15 No. 1-9 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: Mon, 24 Oct 94 18:45:56 GMT From: postmaster@mbh.lightstream.nl Subject: Bounced Message to mbh.lightstream.nl!gus-general Message-ID: mbh.lightstream.nl bounced a message for gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu You are not connected to the list "gus-general" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Original message follows below : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 09:21:29 EST From: "Carl" Subject: Campanions of Xanth CD-ROM sound problems? Has anyone got MEGA-EM to work with Companions of Xanth? It is not a protected mode program, so it should work, however I get no music from the game. It's one of the few games i've seen that rquests a ROland IRQ, however, I did set it properly with MEGA-EM. Can anyone help me out? THanks.. -- Carl Mueller cRaNeScUrEpJhArVeY WSU Detroit, Michigan :P Bart: Akira, my good man, when do we break blocks of ice with our heads? Akira: First, you must fill your head with wisdom, then you can hit ice with it. -- Karate school, "When Flanders Failed" [7f23] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 15:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca Subject: CD Audio line-in under OS/2 Mike Laster wrote: > > I am running a GusMax under OS/2 2.11, and when the system is first booted, my > CD audio input is disabled. The only way I have been able to enable this is > to go into the MMPM2 CD tool, switch to digital transfer, and then switch it > off. I can then quit this, and load up Albatros to play CD's. This is very > annoying to do. Is there an OS/2 program similar in function to ULTRINIT? > If not, does anyone know what value I need to write to what port in order to > turn this on? I have the UltraSound Lowlevel Toolkit, and it makes no mention > of how to turn on the CD input...just line in, mic in, and the main output > signals. Get ultra05e.zip from hobbes.nmsu.edu. This is the first version to fix the external line-in disabling problem. You might also try getting GUSmixer from the same site. Robert. -- # Robert J. Manley, rjm@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca # # NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA # # OS/2:OSs :: 92,93 Blue Jays:MLB :: Canada:World # ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 14:17:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bryon Thur Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #13 I just would like to thank the 42 people who flamed me after my last 'UNSUBSCRIBE' thing. It was a very humbling experience!! Guess I should have read the end of the message! See ya... Bryon Thur ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 20:30:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Batchelor Subject: GUS i/o ports, HMI drivers, SCSI CD's (3 replies) Not the GUS Server once wrote... > > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 05:47:07 +0100 > From: A.PAUW@ELSEVIER.nl > Subject: GUS - Mitsumi CD-ROM - Video for Windows > > [...] > I also have a Mitsumi CD-ROM and no problems. Make a list of the > DMA, IRQ, IO-address settings and check for different settings. > For the I/O address the following note: address 388 is always > used (ADLIB soundcard compatability). Also, the GUS uses some > I/O addresses at baseaddress+100H I believe. So, baseaddress > GUS 220H has extra I/O on 320H (note!). So don't put the Mitsumi > CD-ROM on 320H. The GUS uses ports 338 and 339 (Adlib, as you said), and if set to 220H, it uses 220H-22fH, and also 320H-32fH, i.e. it uses a range of 10H ports at the base port setting, and 10H ports at base port+100H. If you have your GUS set to 230H, it will conflict with an Adaptec or other SCSI at 330H, even before you load MegaEm, and even if you move the SCSI to 334H, so be careful. > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 13:09:55 -0400 > From: AdvGravis@aol.com > Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V15 #16 > > The following games listed are games that use the HMI drivers without GUS > support (they cut the game before HMI updated their drivers): > > Theme Park > Dark Legions > FPS Baseball > Aces of the Deep > > A Dark Legions patch has been released by SSI. I would suggest you email > Dynamix and ask them if a patch will be released that includes updated sound > drivers. If HMI is so much better than AIL, why do we still have to wait for patches from the game vendors so it will work with the GUS HMI drivers? Riddle me that one, Batman. > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 21:42:59 -0700 (PDT) > From: Truong Long Nguyen > Subject: SCSI CDROMS > > Maybe its already been asked but can I hook up a scsi cdrom to my gus? No. > There is a 50pin connection there. Oh, it might be helpful since Where? Near the end? That's for an IDE-type CD ROM; Panasonic, I believe. -- M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 16:54:48 EDT From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom) Subject: Re: GUS MIDI controllers and bankswitching Albert Pauw asked in a previous digest: >> And how about bankswitching? The bankmanager can do it. As far >> as I can check it doesn't use the GS standard of Roland (which >> is becomming a widely accepted one). Using controller #0 plus >> the usual Program Change. Would be nice to have a similar bank >> switching scheme and bank management. Bank 1 (Roland counts >> from 1-128) is the General MIDI bank, and Bank 128 is the MT-32 >> bank. What I have found is that the current windows drivers DO support bankswitching, but do not support incremental patch loading, thus only one bank may be specified (with fallback to bank 0 for patches not in the specified bank). Thus, for example, a sequencer could call midiOutCachePatches with a bank of 128 (127?) to get a MT-32 mapping if someone wrote the correct mapping into ultrasnd.ini. The problem is that a sequencer needs to know what bank to request. If, for example, I ask for bank 128 on channel 1, but don't specify a bank for channel 2 (or specify a different bank number), what should the sequencer assume? Even within a single channel, what should the sequencer assume if the bank is changed in the middle of a piece? Proposal: 1) The "correct" solution would be for Gravis/Forte to implement incremental patch loading (i.e. not to treat a MIDI_CACHE_BESTFIT as a clear and reload, but rather as an append), so that patches from multiple banks could be loaded. 2) An expedient would be for sequencers to assume that the first non-zero bank encountered for melodics (and separately for drum channel 10) becomes the "controlling" bank, and is used for the midiOutCachePatches call. 3) Sequencer authors incorporate the bank arguments. On an interim basis (until proposal 1 is done, and I have no idea if Gravis even plans to do #1 - any comment from Gravis) the bank arguments could be set either by using the expedient suggested in proposal 2, a sequencer setup screen allowing input of bank arguments, or a sequencer specific string or sysex. Any opinions here? Any sequencer authors willing to implement something like this? Ivan Strom ------------------------------ Date: 25 Oct 1994 04:11:04 GMT From: "Central Postmaster" Subject: Mail Delivery Status ***** Error in Mail Delivery ***** CANCELLED Recipients: STERN6@SMTP.LOC.GOV ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 23:17:03 -0400 From: Daniel LeBlanc Subject: MEGAEM and EMM incompatibility > From: Ryan Baker > Subject: Armada and native GUS > ... > Besides this MEGA-EM > refuses to run on my computer because of EMM incompatibility. I use QEMM > 7.04, STAC 4.0, and DOS 6.0. Any ideas? MegaEm used to work fine for me on my i386DX33 with QEMM 7.04 but when i got my i486DX66 with the VERY SAME software configuration than i had this EMM incompatibility. What i do is use multiple config and use EMM386 when i know i'll use MegaEm. BTW QEMM 7.5 didn't solve the case with EMM incompatibility... As earlier-on . Any ideas ? / short-sign: -dan (!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 94 12:34:11 -0700 From: Fred Handloser Subject: Re: my Power Chords rhythm editor is gone >I tried to use Power Chords tonight and the rhythm editor was gone. >I then brought up the Power Chords demo and saw the rhythm editor >but when I clicked on the icon the icon disappeared and the rhythm >editor disappeared from the demo as well. This may help others. I got my rhythm editor back. I still don't know exactly what happened but it seems like Power Chords had saved my session with the rhythm editor window off screen so when I used the "windows" menu to put this window on top it still did not show up. What I did that seems to have fix this was to close Power Chords and open Power Chords demo. I did a single click on the rhythm editor icon to get the icon menu and then "maximized" the window. This brought the window on screen. Then I exited Power Chords demo and started Power Chords again. The rhythm editor window was then on screen and usable. Does Power Chords store configuration info about a session in the executable or in a file somewhere? Fred Handloser Corvallis, Oregon --- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 23:38:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Seymour Subject: Myst? This might be in the faq (*still* wading through that 130K digest from the other day...), but: Has anyone gotten Myst to work? It's not on the g-list, and I assumed that since it was going through windog, it would be alright. Uh uh. Total system lockup. If I choose the making of Myst movie, it freezes and I have to hard reboot. If I choose the game, the screen blackens, and something starts to come up, then an ungodly racket comes from the gus and another hard boot is in order. Help! Please! My system: AMD 486/67 8 meg RAM 2x Phillips CD-ROM Windog 3.11 Dos 6.2 Gus rev 2.4 (yep, an oldie but a goodie) Midi Irq: 11 Digital fx: 5 DMA: 1 Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! chris yaga@u.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 16:18:14 +0100 From: stoyanov@physique.ens.fr (STOYANOV) Subject: Need GUS MAX for 200$ in PARIS Hi All of You, Does the Hell any one know where from I can find a GUS MAX for a normal prise about 200$ IN PARIS. The sheapest I found was in FNAC for 1700FFR /more then 300$!!!/ Thanks alot for any ninformation. Regards Simeon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 14:54:29 -1000 (GMT-10:00) From: Paul Murgatroyd Subject: Panasonic 563 drive.. Well folks, I failed to get the Panasonic 563 working, so I took it back and got the Mitsumi FX001-D drive, and now I am as happy as can be, with a working CD-ROm drive and all :-) =============================================================================== Paul Murgatroyd E-Mail : s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au Student Residence : dreamer@rip.it.Bond.edu.au Bond University IRC : MouseTrap Gold Coast, 4229, AUSTRALIA Phone : +61-75-954-649 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 07:55:01 +1000 (EST) From: "Jason L. Williams" Subject: Pro-Pats v3 Has ProPats v3 been validated yet? It seems to only be on the submissions directories and not in very full versions (i.e. 3 of the 19 files). Can someone upload the full versions on ftp.mpx.com.au please!!! Has anyone who lives in Australia ftpeed it yet? If you have and you live in Australia would you be willing to copy it onto some disks if I sent them to you and gave you the postage to send it back? Thanks, -Jason ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 14:12:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Whittier Subject: ProPats 3, Where Are You... Greeting, All! Minor cross-posting action happenin' here. Pardon the redundancy. I have been frantically trying to find pp3-1 thru pp3-19.zip: these are the third distribution of ProPatches. I've done Archie searchwes that claim they're at ftp.bla.bla.bla, and it turns out that that site is just mirroring somebody else, who has only got version 2. Will somebody pleeeeeze tell me where I can find these things, assuming they even exist? BTW - Anybody out there like DOOM? Anybody wanna play DOOM in a taxi? Try Quarantine. Yum!! Cheers. Doug Whittier ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 07:18:09 -0400 (EDT) From: James Lantos Subject: Question Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 21:11:07 -0400 (EDT) From: James Lantos Subject: midi question To: gus-general@mail.orst.edut Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 654 I know the manual says no playing the keyboard to record in recording session, buuuuuuut......does anyone know a quick and dirty way to record stuff using the keyboard in recording session? jl (anything to avoid spending the money to buy the dreaded midi box) also....I have a midi box from a macintosh with midi outs and ins except the socket for the cable to the computer is for a macintosh circular eight pin cable. Can such a cable be fitted at the other end with a fifteen pin to work successfully? How would such a 15 pin head be attached to such an 8 pin macintosh cable? (lots of funny colored wires...where to put them?) help! jim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 23:18:17 -0400 From: Daniel LeBlanc Subject: Re: SBOS & NHL Hockey > From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" > Subject: SBOS versions & NHL Hockey? > ... > Am I the only one with this problem and if not, does it > affect other games? I use to simply use MegaEm with no special switchs. Sometimes the voice sounds jurky but the rest is fine short-sign: -dan (!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 16:29:02 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Some answers >Does anyone know to which midi controllers the Windows drivers >listen to? I asked Gravis and they don't know (?). At least the >person who answered me didn't. I can add 'Sustain' to the list of ones that it does already posted. > It would be nice if Advanced Gravis release a new version of Playmidi > where it scans the whole MIDI file and checks the most voices ever used > simultaneously. Then, it initializes the UltraSound using that many voices. Like we keep saying, this is not possible unless you know exactly what patches are being used. You don't finish using a voice just because there is a 'note off' event - the note still continues to decay according to the definition of the particular patch. >Does anyone know how many channels Playmidi sets before playing MIDs? Or does >it scan the MID first to find out how many channels are needed? Can't remember, it's some middling sort of number, and NO it doesn't. Old versions (is it in new ones?) had a debug mode (-debug?) which produced a graphical display of which voices were playing, so you could tell from that. There is a command line switch to set the number of voices - is it -x (guess). >So far, my WIndows UltraSound drivers are set to initialize the card to >play a maximum of 32 voices. I recalled that I read somewhere that the >Windows drivers automatically reserve 2 voices for the digital playback >of WAV files, etc. So, is it better if I just set the drivers to >initialize the card to play a maximum of 30 voices? I don't know if it REALLY sets 32 when you tell it to, or truncates it to 30. Presumably if you played a WAV while a MID was playing (e.g. a system 'ding' or whatever) then there would be a nasty interaction if both used the same voice. Note that the sound quality deterioriates if you set high numbers of voices (above 14) as the sampling rate decreases. This may not be noticeable, but it makes a lot of difference to the sound of some patches - so don't set a high number unless you know that you need that many simultaneous notes. >What must i do to install 'Video for Windows'(vfw11d.exe) >properly ? I get choppy frames and the sound just stopps after >some time. Any ideas ? and >playback of .AVI files suffers from painfully choppy video. One thing that I know can affect it is the DMA buffer size, which you can set in the Driver setup box for the GUS driver (accessed via control panel) (old drivers didn't have the option). The docs say that 4096 is the max, but it also accepts 8192. For video, you seem to have to set a SMALLER number to get smooth playback e.g. try 4096, or 2048, or 1024. I can only assume that DMAing a large amount hogs the machine for too long and interferes with the video. Finally a question of my own. At some point I acquired a new better Media Player than the one with Windows 3.1. It has more controls, and can play e.g. embedded AVI files while still in the host document (is this OLE2?). This is used to good effect in the MS Dangerous Creatures CD. Does anyone know if this Media Player came with this CD, or if not, where did it come from? -- Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 8:10:34 EDT From: "Edward Linderman" Subject: Vol. 15 No. 1-9 Message-ID: Where can I find Daily Digests Vol.15 numbers 1 thru 9 ?? ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V15 #19 *******************************