Ultrasound Daily Digest Wed, 13 Jan 93 Volume 2 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: 3D Sound Accolade looking into problem!!! audio file formats including .mod are in FAQ on epas Curiosity about what low-level things GUS can do FAQ candidate: no MIDI sound under Windows Gravis UltraSound 3D! Gravis UltraSound 3D! & Qsound GUS: Working MIDI connectin circuit. GUS MIDI connector GUS news (2 msgs) GUS news re: 3D p669gu0 and 386max PatchMgr bug? Revisited PLAYMIDI, PATCH MANAGER and SBOSDRV.SYS Qsound on CD. Spectrum Holobyte and GUS Star Control II Ultrasound 3D IS software based!!!!!! (2 msgs) Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #9 (2 msgs) Yet another Windows juke(continued) Yet another Windows MIDI jukebox! Information about the UltraSound Daily Digest (such as mail addresses, request servers, ftp sites, etc., etc.) can be found at the end of the Digest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:58:14 EST From: Mike J. Brown Message-Id: <9301121758.AA25245@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Subject: 3D Sound To: Ultrasound Daily Digest George Kirikos asked if anyone knew if Gravis had signed an agreement with Archer for their Q-Sound technology. I don't know the answer to this, but I do know that Q-Sound is not the only form of 3D signal processing. In fact, there are several different types by different companies, though I don't have the foggiest what the others are, except for B.A.S.E. I like BASE a lot, and prefer it to the clogged-up-ear effect Q-Sound delivers. My Q-Sound recordings: Madonna - Justify My Love US CD5 I've also heard the Immaculate Collection and that last Sting album My BASE recordings: Orbital - Orbital US CD Orbital - Mutations UK 2x12" Tangerine Dream - The Park Is Mine soundtrack US CD Believe me, you don't want Q-Sound if you've heard BASE. (digging through files...) Someone on the net gave me this information: I checked the article and it does indeed mention the Bedini Audio BASE system. The details of what it does were not revealed by the manufacturer, but they say it is 'more a psychoacoustic enhancer than a localization synthesizer;. The signal is broken into center channel (ie. mono) and stereo (ie. left or roght channel only) signals. The center image can be moved nearer or further and the stereo componenet's gain can also be increasd or decreased to widen or narrow the soundstage. The original signal is then re-added (after being pocessed) resulting in 'a more clearly placed image within a broadened soundfield that can be perceived outside of a specific sweet spot.'. You can contact the manufacturer at BASE/Gamma Electronics PO Box 801450 Santa Clarita CA 91380 (805) 253-4724 The article is in the the Oct 92 issue of Electronic Musician. Mike Brown _ _ _____________________________________I think, therefore I ambient ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:40:28 -0500 From: "Frank Pikelner" Message-Id: <9301121540.AA06049@cs.yorku.ca> Subject: Accolade looking into problem!!! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hello all, I just received email that Accolade has had numerous reports of the GUS 1MB, and Star Control 2 BUG. They have been unaware of this and are now looking into the problem. Great JOB to all those that called and emailed!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- --- Frank Pikelner /~\ \ \ \ Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science \- \-- York University (Toronto, Canada) '\^/; \ \ Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca _{!}_ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:18:06 CST From: eason@ncp1d.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dale Eason) Message-Id: <9301122018.AA03634@ncp1d.StPaul.NCR.COM> Subject: audio file formats including .mod are in FAQ on epas To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have uploaded to epas the most recent (2.10) version of the Frequently asked questions for audio formats. I got it from the comp.dsp news group. It includes the .mod file format as well as other many intersting formats and information. Dale Eason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:51:02 GMT From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Message-Id: <1993Jan12.085102.22460@actrix.gen.nz> Subject: Curiosity about what low-level things GUS can do To: Ultrasound Daily Digest In article rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes: > I'm crossposting this to comp.sys.apple2 since I have heard that the > chip used in the Gravis Ultrasound is the same (or very similar) to > the one used to generate the great Apple //gs sound. For those Apple > // users, we're wondering just what the heck the capabilities of the > Ensoniq chip are... what does it do besides sample playback? [This will probably be one of countless dozen responses to your query. :-)] The Ensoniq. Hm, where do I start? The full name is "Ensoniq 5503 Digital Osciallator Chip" (DOC for short). At the most basic level, the Ensoniq simply plays back digitized or synthesized waveforms. There are 32 'oscillators', each of which can play part of a waveform, giving you a maximum of 32 voices, but with limited capabilities. By pairing the oscillators, more flexible operation is possible. A pair of oscillators is termed a 'generator'. Using generators, a maximum of 16 voices are available. You have up to 16 output channels. All channels are multiplexed onto a single sound output, with a channel number available in parallel for external demultiplexers. (The IIgs is limited to 8 output channels. A stock IIgs has mono output, but third-party stereo cards are available. I'm not aware of any cards that support more than two channels.) Each oscillator has: - volume register, used to attenuate the waveform - frequency register, used to vary the playback rate. - control register, used to set the operation mode, interrupt mode, and select the output channel. - wavetable size register, used to set the size of the waveform and the resolution of the table. The Ensoniq has dedicated RAM, accessed in a dual-port fashion. The computer writes wavetables into the RAM, then uses the DOC's registers to control the operation of each oscillator. More than one oscillator can play the same waveform at the same time, using different register settings if desired. The IIgs has 64k of sound RAM, but the Ensoniq can support 128k. The maximum size of a single waveform is 32k. Playing back a digitized sample requires no computer overhead (except for copying additional portions of the sample into sound RAM). Far more complicated operation is possible, with the computer dynamically adjusting the Ensoniq's volume and frequency registers to simulate a typical envelope generator, and to play different notes using the same instrument. That covers the basics (but I've hardly done it justice). No doubt more will be revealed... -- David Empson Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 19:48:08 PST From: bs@mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe) Message-Id: <9301130348.AA23976@ mda.ca> Subject: FAQ candidate: no MIDI sound under Windows To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Q: I'm not getting any sound when I play MIDI files under Windows. The Patch Manager shows empty boxes. A: There is a file in the distribution set called ULTRASND.INI. It must be placed in the directory pointed to by the environment variable ULTRADIR (usually C:\ULTRASND). It does *not* go into the WINDOWS or WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. If you have ULTRASND.INI in your ULTRADIR directory, look at it. It should have many lines in it saying things like "0=acpiano1". If it is only a few lines long, get another copy out of the distribution and copy it to the ULTRADIR directory. Reboot Windows and you will soon be hearing beautiful music! (The purpose of the ULTRASND.INI file is to let the Windows driver know what patch file goes with what patch number. If the driver doesn't find the .INI file in the ULTRADIR directory it creates a truncated version with no patch names in it.) Bruce Sharpe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:13:08 -0500 From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" Message-Id: <9301121613.AA23975@magick.tay2.dec.com> Subject: Gravis UltraSound 3D! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest ipacs@solomon.technet.sg (IPACS PTE LTD) wrote: >> Jay Wilbur (jwilbur@iat.holonet.net) wrote: >> : Good News: I was told that there is no board upgrade for the 3d stuff....it's >> : all in the driver! > OK, just called Gravis and a rep told me they're looking at the end of the > first quarter for release. He doesn't know about the actual specs... ie we > STILL don't know if it's hardware or software (*sigh*). But there > definitely is a place for upgrading for GUS owners... he was emphatic about > that. I called Chris Yuzik at Gravis and he told me a couple of things. First, it is ALL software. As he put it, folks were speculating about what to do with all those 32 digital pannable channels. Well, he knew this was the answer, but was unable to comment due to business issues, such as premature annoucements and all that. The other bit of info was that the press release that is being circulated differs slightly from the "real" release in that it doesn't mention that the sound designers have to do some retooling of their sound tracks to take advantage of this new stuff. They have to define the size of the sphere around the user and then place the sounds within it. Gravis has some demos (things such as a fly buzzing around the user and such). So, we can look forward to this in the future, but it won't just "work" with existing games. He also told me the Windows driver is "almost done", the MIDI box and 16-bit daughterboard are now slated for April (yikes!) and they should be shipping the General MIDI patches soon. DDA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:15:33 -0500 From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" Message-Id: <9301121615.AA23989@magick.tay2.dec.com> Subject: Gravis UltraSound 3D! & Qsound To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > The name of the other company that is using (and actually developed) Q-sound > is Archer Communications of Calgary Alberta. The 3D sound is reproduced on > standard stereo equipment. And has been used on many popular artist CDs. I > knew when I saw the Gravis Pres. coming out of the Q-sound demo booth at > Comdex that this was going to happen. It is an obvious evolution. As I understand it, GUS 3D isn't Q-sound, since the sound is processed in realtime by the board. But I could be wrong... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 8:38:50 EST From: Remek Lipinski Message-Id: <199301122138.AA06456@mamura.ee.mu.OZ.AU> Subject: GUS: Working MIDI connectin circuit. To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have used the followin circuit to connect to the Ultrasound to get the MIDI port working. This has been posted before but to get it to work I had to change one of the resistors, namely the pullup resistor connected between pins 6 and 8 of the optoisolator I also used 6N138 insted of 6N135 (I couldn't get it at the time). Also the inverters have to be able to work at a high speed (i think midi is around 19000 but I am not sure), one of the inverter chips I used didn't work even though the chip was fine, I gues it could not handle the speed. I then tested the port by playing something on the keyboard and listening back to the seqence, the timing seemed ok. to make sure I installed a Roland MPU 401 card into the pc and connected its midi out to the midi in of the Gravis. I then used one sequencer to play something out of the Roland port and another sequencer to record with the Gravis port. Then I listened to the recorded sequence by playing it first through the Gravis midi out and the through the Roland midi out, both sounded exacly like the original. Anyway I hope this will be useful to someone, I for one am happy to have the Gravis midi port working (for the fraction of the cost of what the SB connector box costs). 15 pin D connector 220R pin-1 +5v ----+--------------------------/\/\/\---------------\ | \ 4 | Gnd--2 MIDI OUT | |\ |\ 220R / 5 pin-12 tr >---|------| o-----| o----------/\/\/\--------------/ | 14|/ 13 12|/ 10 | 220R +---------------------------/\/\/\-------------\ | \ 4 pin-15 rx <---|--------------------+ Gnd--2 MIDI THRU | |\ |\ | 220R / 5 | +--| o-----| o---+-------/\/\/\------------/ | | 1|/ 2 3|/ 4 | | | +------+ | 270R* | 220R +--/\/\/\--+ +------+----------/\/\/\--------\ |B |C |A | \ 4 +-|----------|----|-+ | MIDI IN | 8 6 2 | ----- / 5 | | / \ IN914 or IN4148 +-/ | 6N138** | --- | | | | | | 5 3 | | | +------------|----|-+ | | | |K | | pin-5 Gnd --------------+ +------+----------------------+ Inverters are LS7404 Leave pin 2 of the MIDI IN unconnected (Don't connect to ground) * this resitor was 5.6K in the original post, I used a the 6N138 optoisolator and found that this value was too high as not enough current was allowed to sink into the collector of the output transistor. **In the original post this was 6N135, I could not readily find this here (Australia) so I used 6N138 which I think is funcionally the same, one of the catalogues stated that this is a "high speed MIDI standard" device. Happy GUSing. *=============================================================================* ** ** ** Remek Lipinski ** ** e-mail: remek@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU ** ** tel: BH +61 3 344-6714 ** ** AH +61 3 879-2610 ** ** fax: +61 3 344-6678 ** *=============================================================================* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:13:12 GMT From: bjornhk@dhhalden.no (BJORN HAAVARD KLEVEN) Message-Id: Subject: GUS MIDI connector To: Ultrasound Daily Digest The MIDI connector box for the GUS will not be out for a while, the work with it at Gravis isn't proceeding too fast. However, a relatively easy and inexpensive way - that works - is to use an SB connector kit and replace the 6N136 chip with a 6N138 or -139. In addition, add a 5.6K ohm ressistor between pin 5 and 7 on the chip, and one between pin 6 and 8. This definitively works, I'm using one myself! Happy soldering, -=* Bjorn :: bjornhk@sofus.dhhalden.no ACCESS DATA :: TEL: (+47)-9-17 50 48/61-97 311 FAX: 61-97 312 BBS: 61-97 304/97 94 945 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:52:32 GMT From: Orakel@sarpih.no (Jens Kr. Kirkeb Message-Id: Subject: GUS news To: Ultrasound Daily Digest >Sierra/Dynamix is working on a patch that will fix the problem with Front >Page Sports Football. Should be out before too long. New SBOS's will work >better with the current demos like Unreal, and Fishtro. New demos from >Future Crew, Renaisance etc will feature GUS UltraSound. New demos from Twilight Zone will also have GUS support, as soon as The Codeblasters finish GUS support in GoldPlay 2.0. The upcoming Whacker Tracker 2.0 and SBStudio 1.10 will also have GUS support. Jens Kr. Kirkeboe / Twilight Zone ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jan 93 19:34:55 GMT From: harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison) Message-Id: <1993Jan11.193455.26373@lclark.edu> Subject: GUS news To: Ultrasound Daily Digest In article <1iseopINNsst@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko) writes: >Does anyone know where I can get some of these demos that supposedly have >great graphics and sound? An ftp site? > >Thanks in advance... Try ftp.uwp.edu and look in pub/msdos/demos. -- ============================================================================= Mark Harrison | "We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx harrison@sun.lclark.edu | Our great computers fill the hallowed halls." -- Me | -- Rush ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 93 00:35:35 GMT From: worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) Message-Id: <1993Jan13.003535.16551@a.cs.okstate.edu> Subject: GUS news re: 3D To: Ultrasound Daily Digest ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:20:20 -0500 From: "It's your hand, Buckaroo" Message-Id: <9301121620.AA24012@magick.tay2.dec.com> Subject: p669gu0 and 386max To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > Has anyone out there been able to get p669gu0 to work with > 386MAX? How about QEMM? Whenever I try it, my computer freezes (requiring > me to reboot) right after the "Clearing Memory ..." message appears. P669GU0.EXE works fine for me using QEMM 6.03... DDA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 07:42:23 PST From: bs@mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe) Message-Id: <9301121542.AA11486@ mda.ca> Subject: PatchMgr bug? Revisited To: Ultrasound Daily Digest >Here was my original complaint about PatchMgr: >>Every time I close the Help window (by double-clicking on the control >>button at the top of the window -- I haven't tried other methods) the >>PatchMgr puts up a message box that says the midi port is being used >>by another program (or words to that effect), and PatchMgr exits! > >Well, looking at the message more carefully, it says that the WAVE >device is being used by another program. It turns out that I was >running one of those programs that play .wav noises on certain >Windows events... like starting and ending a task (WHOOP-IT-UP is >probably the best known of these kind of programs). And since WinHelp >was closing down... well, you get the picture. Thank you! I have been trying to understand why you and a couple of others were reporting this problem, but I couldn't reproduce it. You've figured it out for me - I don't have WHOOP running. The Windows driver indeed doesn't like to open the MIDI device while a .WAV file is playing (don't know why, I'll ask) and WHOOP would almost certainly cause the behavior you are describing. There is a minor upgrade of PatchMgr (v1.03) being packaged for release as we speak. In this version, if the MIDI device is not available when it is being activated, PatchMgr posts a message but does not exit. This should reduce your problem from pain-in-the-butt to minor annoyance. Meanwhile, I will see if the WAV/MIDI conflict can be eliminated or at least worked around better. Thanks for your feedback. Bruce Sharpe (author of PatchMgr) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 1:00:14 EST From: Meshreki@ee.udel.edu Message-Id: <9301120600.aa13652@zip.ee.udel.edu> Subject: PLAYMIDI, PATCH MANAGER and SBOSDRV.SYS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest -- PLAYMIDI -- PLAYMIDI v3.21 Nov 02 1993 - came with my 1.21 install disks, had consistent bad note problems with certain midi songs like scdemo #4. PLAYMIDI v3.40 Jan 04 1993 - found on epas called PLAYMIDI.ZIP. Fixed problems with bad notes in scdemo #4, and added a high resolution graphics display similar to playmidi -udebug (no command line option; it's automatic) which displays midi tracks, notes, and volumes. Also added some more parameters. However, it also seems to have a serious bug -- at a random point in a song, playmidi will just crash and sustain whatever notes it was playing at the time. PLAYMIDI v3.50 Jan 06 1993 - found embedded in the new 1.22 install disks on epas. Removed graphical midi display found in 3.40. Also seems to have removed the serious "sustain" bug. Playmidi -h now pauses for a keypress after a screen full of parameters. -- PATCH MANAGER -- The PATCHMGR.ZIP on epas is V1.01, and I found a v1.02 embedded in the new 1.22 install disks. I noticed a much nicer Audition menu option. I use TRAX with Windows 3.1 and the PatchManager is just great. Hopefully Passport will also jump on the WinJammer Patch Cache bandwagon soon. PatchManager itself seems to be a very intuitive and well thought out program that is great for auditioning patches! -- SBOSDRV.SYS -- There is also a non-beta SBOS v1.22 floating around epas. (GUS0011.ZIP) It came with its own SBOSDRV.SYS, and has the same problems with Jill of the Jungle. It appears that the problem definitely isn't SBOS v1.23 but how Gravis/Forte makes their SBOSDRV.SYS. (To summarize my previous post: certain games crash if you use SBOSDRV.SYS with LOADSBOS.EXE. If you use SBOSDRV.EXE with LOADSBOS.EXE, these same games worked perfectly fine.) Sam +++ Hardware: 386DX-33 Laptop w/ Docking Station 32K ext. cache, VLSI Chipset, Award BIOS 3.20 386Max 6.02, SBOSDRV.EXE loaded high, MSDOS 5.0, 1MB GUS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:08:01 GMT From: turkstra@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Screwtape) Message-Id: <1993Jan11.170801.23824@cs.hope.edu> Subject: Qsound on CD. To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Don't know if anyone cares, but I thought I'd post that Sting's album "Soul Cages" features Qsound, and has a little mini write up about it inside. I think I heard (probably here) that Maddonna's "Immaculate Collection" has it too. Anyone know of others - I'd like to check 'em out. I can't believe this semester's books cost me $357. Simply can't. -- Chris Turkstra Turkstra@cs.hope.edu Traveling the Internet with a load not properly tied down. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:05:21 PST From: "Burns Fisher, VMS DECwindows 12-Jan-1993 1104" Message-Id: <9301121605.AA17909@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> Subject: Spectrum Holobyte and GUS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi all, I just finished an exchange of mail with Spectrum Holobyte tech support asking whether there was a way to support the GUS under Tetris Classic/Windows (they use hard-wired drivers rather than Windows drivers, apparently so they can support Windows 3.0). Anyway, they suggested using SB mode on the GUS and commented that it was a "great sounding card". On my reply, which explained that SBOS does not run under windows I asked if his knowledge of the card's quality implied upcoming support. He replied that they were considering supporting the GUS, but their sound drivers are written by another company and they needed to wait for this other company. So all is not perfect, but things are looking up for GUS support at least. I wonder if this "other company" writes sound drivers for lots of companies. If so, they would be good folks to lobby with/help! If we knew who they were! Burns ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:06 MST From: Bryan Brown Message-Id: Subject: Star Control II To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hey, I just got Star Control II and I must say that I'm really impressed. There is over an hour of different songs and the sound affects are nice and clear (if only I didn't get to hear my ship blowing up so often :)). I haven't upgraded to 1 meg on my card so I haven't had any of the problems that other's have been complaining about. I do have one question that I hope someone can awnser. Is there a way to control the Ultrasounds volume when it's working in native mode? I just run two speakers off of the amplified output and for most SBOS applications it's fine but ST II is REALLY LOUD. I mean REALLY LOUD. I've taken to using my earphones out of the regular output and even then I slide the pad way up on my cheek bones because it's to loud. If you know how to change this please write and let me know. I'm sure many of us would be interested. Thanks ********************************* * Somebody shot Waldo! * Bryan R. Brown * -Andy, ^Twin Peaks^ * BRYAN@GSE.UTAH.EDU ********************************* ------------------------------ Date: 10 Jan 93 16:50:36 GMT From: dkennett@fraser.sfu.ca (Daniel Kennett) Message-Id: Subject: Ultrasound 3D IS software based!!!!!! Summary: Ultrasound 3D _IS_ software based! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I left a message on the Gravis BBS converning the UltraSound 3D and here is the reply: "3D sound can be played on the present UltraSound's... and the difference is mainly software, except that the UltraSound 3d will be using the new "chipped down" UltraSound.. same hardware but smaller.. So their we have it, _IT_ is software based! -Daniel- -- *======================================================================* | Daniel Kennett | | dkennett@sfu.ca | | "A man who doesn't want to get on in the world, to make a million | | dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, | | hasn't got as much to him as a good dog has - he's nothing more or | | less than a vegetable" - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) | | "Boy meets girl, girl gets cancer, boy hit by meteorite" | | - Margret Attwood | *======================================================================* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:05:43 GMT From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) Message-Id: Subject: Ultrasound 3D IS software based!!!!!! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest In article knepley@CS.ColoState.EDU (Ranseus (Jim Knepley)) writes: >In article dkennett@fraser.sfu.ca (Daniel Kennett) writes: >>I left a message on the Gravis BBS converning the UltraSound 3D and here >>is the reply: >> >>"3D sound can be played on the present UltraSound's... and the >>difference is mainly software, except that the UltraSound 3d will be using the >>new "chipped down" UltraSound.. same hardware but smaller.. >> >>So their we have it, _IT_ is software based! > >AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOYCING! It'll be interesting to see if the same >technology gets developed for the SoundBlaster Pro, though I somehow >doubt it. > I think it would be nearly impossible implementing Q-Sound (assuming that GUS3D will be using Q-Sound or a derivative thereof) on the SB/SBPro/ PAS-16/etc. since: 1. The FM synthesizer may not give enough control over the phase of the waveforms. 2. Using digital samples pumped through the dumb dac would be way too cpu-intensive. It can be done, but would we have real-time positioning of sounds and still have enough clock cylces left for games? I also think that Q-Sound would be just as hard to implement on the upcoming Aria cards since they are ROM-based. The samples need to preprocessed and uploaded to the card, so RAM is a requisite. The Arias have a DSP, but it's not used for wavetable synthesis in any way as far as I can tell. It's only for SB emulation and 1- or 2-channel sample decompression. To operate on the wavetable voices, it would need to be able to process 32 channels "simultaneously". Thus, the DSP won't be able to process the ROM samples on-the-fly to obviate the need for preprocessed samples. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:03 EST From: "Matthew E. Bernold" Message-Id: <9301122002.AA07234@orca.es.com> Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #9 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > >WinJammer v2.3 is a shareware Windows 3.1 MIDI sequencer that now supports the >Gravis UltraSound. > >I have uploaded it to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36). It can be >found in > /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/wjmr22.zip > >(I don't know why it isn't called wjmr23.zip, "22" is the author's >designation.) > >Bruce Sharpe > Actually, it is not version 2.3, it's version 2.23. I think that explains the designation above. The program also has a slightly different look to the interface. I like it better than the previous version I had. Matthew E. Bernold MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU <> meb@haydn.psu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:16:44 -0700 From: Marc Clarke Message-Id: <9301122016.AA02033@hpfimic.fc.hp.com> Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #9 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest The file "wjmr22.zip" is available in the pub directory under anonymous FTP on my machine, "hpfimic.fc.hp.com". -- Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:18 EST From: Scott Bringen Message-Id: <9301121619.AA02434@orca.es.com> Subject: Yet another Windows juke(continued) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Sorry, I forgot to mention the most important thing! I uploaded it to the submit directory at epas under MIDJB104.ZIP. There, I think that covers it. Later, Scott B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 10:59 EST From: Scott Bringen Message-Id: <9301121600.AA01996@orca.es.com> Subject: Yet another Windows MIDI jukebox! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi all! I discovered this one on cica.cica.indiana.edu in the uploads subdirectory. I checked it for viruses, it appears clean. I tested it last night, it works alot like mmjbox, but it can continually loop through the list of selected MIDI files. I like it :). That's all for now .... have fun .... and be careful out there :). Scott Bringen .... man without a .sig ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I was at the CES show in Las Vegas last week/weekend, and visited the Gravis booth. I listened to a demonstration that was absolutely mind-blowing. The guy hands me a pair of headphones. I put them on. I am facing the booth, and I start to hear crickets in front of me. They sounded very real, but then the guy motioned for me to turn around in place. I began to turn to my left, and the crickets location STAYED in the SAME place! I turned all the way around, 180 degrees from my original direction, and the crickets were absolutely behind me. I began to think about my experience later, and decided that what I had heard was impossible. So, I pulled out the Gravis business card and gave the guy a call that had demonstrated this to me. He explained that the headphones I was listening to were indeed normal, everyday headphones, with one exception. There was a magnetic sensor attached to the headphones to give feedback to the demo program as to my head position. He also said the Ultrasound 3D should be shipping in late Feb or March. No word on price -Jason Worley ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #10 ******************************