Ultrasound Daily Digest Sat, 23 Jan 93 Volume 2 : Issue 20 Today's Topics: About T2029 and IRQ's Cakewalk and GUS (A Gravis rep, please read the last section!) Front Page Sports Football GUS comments and questions GUSDAC Problems How to get DuneII to work MIDI interface problems? Missing Left Channel OS/2 support Survey: Ultrasound ftp site directory structure UART and MPU-401 ?? ultima7 Walkman's mics 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: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:30 EST From: "Matthew E. Bernold" Message-Id: <9301221830.AA24862@orca.es.com> Subject: About T2029 and IRQ's To: Ultrasound Daily Digest >Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:29:41 -0500 >From: Kevin Wengcheong Cheng >Message-Id: <8fLUeJe00VpEMZkpZC@andrew.cmu.edu> >Subject: GUS and T2029 WORKING >To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > >Just in case anyone is wondering... > >I managed to get the digitized audio to work... I think... > >Using SBOS 1.23 with no switches ( -o3 seems to hang the thing ) >and settings >ULTRASOUND IRQ = 5 >MIDI IRQ = 7 > >This was someone's ( I can't remember who ) suggestion that IRQ 7 is >hardwired in T2029. I figure that this might be the same problem with >alot of games with digitized audio problems. Unfortunately, I also found >out that with the IRQ settings this way, The Lost Files of Sherlock >Holmes just crashes on me... I know for a fact that the IRQ 7 is hard coded into T2029. Many people had problems with the PAS-16 for just this reason. The PAS-16 defaulted to SB emulation on IRQ 5, and lots of PAS-16 owners had problems. Someone out there made a crack file that lets you search the .EXE file and manually change this IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (or I'd assume whatever you want to change it to) When the company that makes T2029 was asked about this problem, they said that their product does not support the PAS-16, and since it was a PAS-16 specific problem, they had nothing to offer as help. Real nice tech support, eh? I'll look for this crack, and if I find it, I'll post it to the list. >Anyone want to confirm this? >And who's updating the compatibility list? >/> meb@haydn.psu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:36:00 -0600 From: captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) Message-Id: <9301222236.AA13555@tigger.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Cakewalk and GUS (A Gravis rep, please read the last section!) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Subject: Cakewalk and GUS (A Gravis rep, please read the last section!) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Original poster said:{ In addition, it would be EVEN BETTER if you would modify your drivers to either interpret a SYSEX command to load patches, or (BEST OF ALL) make the drivers load a patch when it sees a patch-change request! So what if it pauses? It's better than silence. } Better for whom?!?! Certainly not better for a professional musician on stage trying to play along with his sequence. One can often cover the loss of a few instruments, but dissaster would ensue if the background musicians (MIDI) just decided to stop playing, lose time, and start up again. Remember, not everyone has the same goals or desires, particularly when it comes to what to do with a computer. ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:15:18 -0500 From: Greg Cummings - Computing Services Message-Id: <9301221715.AA03347@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Front Page Sports Football To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I can not get the GUS board to work with this great game. The intro sounds good but... when the game starts the voices studder. This is with the SoundBlaster as the sound board choice. When I select Adlib as the sound board the intro again sounds fine but...when the game starts the voices are s..l..o..w but do not studder. Are there any patches etc. that might get around this problem. Thanks.....Greg Cummings ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:04:21 GMT From: harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison) Message-Id: <1993Jan22.180421.7138@lclark.edu> Subject: GUS comments and questions To: Ultrasound Daily Digest In article <1jnj3n$pv0@agate.berkeley.edu> ssu@garnet.berkeley.edu writes: >Now the questions: > >1. What are the bundled software packages that I heard will be included > with the card after Jan. 25? Midisoft Recording Session from Midisoft Corporation and Power Chords from Howling Dog Software. >2. Will I be eligible for a free upgrade since I purchased the card > recently (Jan. 20)? > >3. If not, is the price $10 + $4, as I've seen posted? Probably have to pay the $14. I doubt that anyone will get them free. Gravis will probably up the price a bit. But this is just a guess. >4. How common have missing/damaged disks been for other people? I had a bad disk 3 and have heard from MANY other people with a bad disk or two. This is something Gravis should seriously look into since not everyone can easily ftp the correct disk. >6. What is the general consensus on the best SBOS, 1.20, 1.22, or 1.23? It seems to be a toss-up depending on which you prefer. >7. Is the message from the Windows Media Player that 'This file may not > play correctly with the default MIDI setup.' supposed to appear, or > have I messed up the installation? That's fine. I'm guessing that it will go away when we get the new patch set. -- ============================================================================= 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: Fri, 22 Jan 93 9:52:50 EST From: jagati1@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (JAGATIC JASON ) Message-Id: <9301221452.AA08693@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> Subject: GUSDAC Problems To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have had problems when trying to use GUSDAC on my Machine. I am using a 33mhz 386 machine with 5 megs of ram. The Problem is that, when I try to load GUSDAC itself, everything works fine, but when I try to load either mp4to4 or mp4to2 (with the same parameters as GUSDAC) it freezes up on me and I must then reboot my whole system. Can anyone help me out with this problem. Thanks. jagati1@server.uwindsor.ca ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:05:50 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Henning Message-Id: <9301220906.AA12412@hackes.dtek.chalmers.se> Subject: How to get DuneII to work To: Ultrasound Daily Digest About DuneII : It works on my machine, here is my setup: SET ULTRASND=3D220,7,7,11,3 C:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT SET ULTRADIR=3DC:\ULTRASND SET BLASTER=3DA220 I3 D1 T1 I get both sound/speech and music. I have 2 megs of EMS memory and 5 megs XMS. -- Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se Student of Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden "Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin The Paranoid Android ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:16:48 CST From: John Riedl Message-Id: <9301221616.AA09212@hannibal.cs.umn.edu> Subject: MIDI interface problems? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi everyone. A friend helped me build the MIDI interface for the Gravis UltraSound described on the epas archive, and it works fine when I'm using it. The joystick works just like before, and both MIDI in and out now work to my keyboard from WinJammer. (Yes, I do have problems with the general protection fault in WinJammer.) Disaster occurs when I'm *not* using the interface. If I leave my keyboard plugged in to the MIDI in of the interface when I'm running SBOS, and I touch even a single key on the keyboard, my computer locks up. I have to use the hardware reboot button to get it to respond. The problem occurs even if I'm not running a game that uses SBOS; the computer freezes at the C> prompt. Two questions: 1) Do others who have built the interface have this problem? Is there a fix? 2) Are there any hardware experts who can speculate as to what kind of mistake in building the interface could lead to this sort of behaviour? Thanks, John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:53:10 -0500 From: marc@csi.on.ca (Marc Sherman) Message-Id: <9301221553.AA103662@cod.csi.on.ca> Subject: Missing Left Channel To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I just bought a new GUS yesterday, and on plugging it in, I was only getting output from the right channel; the left speaker/earphone was dead. This happened using both the line out and the amp out. It also happened using all modes: both demo batch files, all the various player programs that come with the software, USS8, the Win3.1 drivers, and SBOS running various games. I tried a number of IRQ/DMA combinations, and while some obviously didn't work at all, none of them solved the missing output problem. The output I did get from the right speaker was just the right channel, not a mono mix of both channels; setting the right volume to 0 and the left to 100 in USS8 resulted in no output (well, very low output, in the right speaker; it seems that USS8 does not actually go to _0_ volume...) I suspect a hardware problem, and will contact the store I bought it at regarding a board swap. Anyone ever have a similar experiance? Please reply directly to the address listed below; I only just subscribed to this list, and will probably not receive mail to it for a few days. -- Marc Sherman - 3A? SD Eng. | Gemutlich, gemutlich, GEMUTLICH! msherman@zeus.uwaterloo.ca | Die Welt ist gemutlich mit die Kasewaffe! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:24:03 -0500 (EST) From: Philip Andrew Nemec Message-Id: Subject: OS/2 support To: Ultrasound Daily Digest The ability to get Windows sounds is another aspect of OS/2 support that I'd consider pretty necessary! ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:13:38 GMT From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) Message-Id: <1jnan2INNgju@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Subject: Survey: Ultrasound ftp site directory structure To: Ultrasound Daily Digest GRAVIS ULTRASOUND FTP SITES NEWS ========================================================================== Ftp Site: archive.epas.utornto.ca Directory: pub/pc/ultrasound wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a question concerning the current structure of our ftp site which I'd like to get some feedback from all our users out there. As it is right now, we have the directory "gravis-disks" for all the Gravis Install Disks releases, while the individual fixes/patches (gus00*.*) are stored under the "soundutil" directory. Now I have been asked in the past why this is so. Why don't we put all the Gravis releases into one directory and call it "gravis-rel" or some such (install disks, fixes, and all). I guess the reason is the fixes and patches are a temporary thing where when Gravis is satisfied with the patches, they come out with a new package of install disks with those patches (eg. 1.21 disks from before, and 1.22 install disks now, which are basically the files we have individually as the gus00*.* files under "soundutil" but all bundled into one neat and tidy install disk release package). So what I want to get feedback on is.... how do you all like the arrangement as is? Should we create or rename some directories and place all the Gravis files together? Comments? Thomas. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:51 GMT From: Andy Phillips Message-Id: <9301221409.AA20562@orca.es.com> Subject: UART and MPU-401 ?? To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I'm thinking about buying a GUS so that I can input data from my MIDI- compatible Yamaha electric piano into a sequencer/notator running on my PC, and then play back arrangments on the GUS (and maybe the piana too). I've been told by Dave Ingles that the MIDI interface on the GUS is only UART 6850 standard, not MPU401. If this is going to be a problem, I suppose I could fork out an extra 100 pounds for a proper MIDI card as well as the GUS, but I'd rather keep costs down to a minimum. Please forgive me if there is a FAQ file on this somewhere, but I have a couple of questions: 1) What are the limitations of UART 6850 as opposed to MPU401? 2) Are these limitations likely to be a problem with the setup I have in mind? Thanks in advance P.S. The January edition of the British electronic music magazine "Sound on Sound" promises a full review of the GUS "soon". Andy Phillips (PHILLIPSA@LARS.AFRC.AC.UK) Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:46:08 -0500 (EST) From: Morgan Stair Message-Id: Subject: ultima7 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest On Thu, 21 Jan 1993, Michael J Stumpf wrote: > Apologies if this has been posted and missed, but how did any of you guys > get Ultima 7 to work? I read in the general listing that you use sbos 1.23, > and I did that.. but, the digital speech comes out ofor only a split > second and then dies.. > > The manual said if this happened it was an irq conflict, but that was for > a genuine sb.. > > My computer is a 486/33, never had a problem with any other ultrasound tool > except the dram tester. (reports bank 3 and 4 or just 4 bad) Bare system, > except himem.sys and dos being high, and of course sbos 1.23. > > Whoever got this working, please let me know how you did, if you used the > device driver in conjunction with the tsr (as the included text file implies) > or what.. > > Thanks, > > Mike. > > ------------------------------ Sorry to say, that I just use SBOSv1.23 and everything works fine. I have a 486/33 too. My only suggestion is use IRQ7 for whatever IRQ is the lower one... GF1/MIDI/I can't keep them straight. That's the soundblaster's IRQ number. I can't get SoundBlaster speach to work with Might and Magic 4, even though everyone else apparently can. I have no other discernable problems with SBOS. Looks like SBOS is getting better, but it's far from perfect! Morgan ************************************************************************* * W. Morgan Stair Phone: (617) 552-8783 * * Boston College FAX: (617) 552-8778 * * Institute for Space Research Email: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu * * 4 Alfred Circle * * Bedford MA 01730 * ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:44:36 +0200 From: Shmuel Gazit Message-Id: <9301220944.AA01182@ccsg.tau.ac.il> Subject: Walkman's mics To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi guys, I have two microphones (stereophonic) which I got with two of my walkmans, Sony, and Aiwa. Does anybody know if they can be used with the card ? thanks /Shmulik. ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #20 ******************************