Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 13 Apr 1993 Volume 3 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: A new patch archive.epas & midimon Bloody PlayMidi FTP site archive.epas.utoronto.ca GUS vs. PAS16 invalid sboslib.sbs error message ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST UltraSound SDK. Wanted: Potential OS/2 device driver writers 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. *** HEY!!! *** Before you ask a question, *** READ THE FAQ ***. It's available on the request server and the ftp sites, or check the newsgroup archives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:33:02 -0400 (EDT) From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion) Subject: A new patch Message-ID: <9304130133.AA03214@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> Remember accrdeon.pat? It was noisy, off key, bad looping and bad release. It was a beta version with one sample. I have redone it after finally mastering all the patch format (including the new parameters of v.1.10). If you want to be surprised, go download it. It's on archive.epas.utoronto.ca in pub/pc/ultrasound/submit under filename: accrdeon.arj The old version in pub/pc/ultrasound/sounds/patches/files should be removed. (Anasyn1 should also be removed because they are buggy... I will redo them. Keep in mind that they were done back in november...) Anyway, back to accrdeon: it is noise free, no "ultraclick", include 2 good accordian samples with wind sound. It is much better than the included accordn.pat. Everything is very close to a real accordian (well the loop is a bit flat, but since i'm still editing with hexadecimal, it'll stay like that for now. It is much better anyway than accordn). More patches on the way, but i want your feedback! At one point i had about 40 patches but erased them all because i was not satisfied. You want 16 bit without noise and click free patches and that's what you'll get. For percussions i have a problem: to which key do i assign them? Also, for patch which are not replacements for Gravis patches, how will they be included in ultrasnd.ini? Last, all people who were interested in developping a patch editor, contact me asap. I know that two people from sweden were interested (one beeing Lars Ljungberg) and some from the US (Michael Chen and others). I have sent some stuff to several of you, but i have not seen much feedback, so i think a mail reflector would be in order... Dave? A list for programmers only? 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: Mon, 12 Apr 93 16:54:29 WET DST From: dp@hydra.carleton.CA (Dave Perry VE3IFB) Subject: Re: archive.epas & midimon Message-ID: <9304122054.AA00242@hydra.carleton.CA> The "archive" name works for me - maybe something is amiss with your mailer or domain name server. Midimon didn't work for me either. No window, no nuthin'. Thats the other reason I wrote miditest :-) Dave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:42:34 -0700 (MST) From: BENI@PYROS.HACKS.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Bloody PlayMidi Message-ID: <930412164234.20403e03@PYROS.HACKS.ARIZONA.EDU> I have PlayMidi 4.03 - And it works quite well. For one piece, at least.. then when it exits the graphics mode back to the blue screen, it locks up. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, Ben Iten beni@hacks.arizona.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 9:29:58 PDT From: roberts@brahms.amd.com (Dave Roberts) Subject: Re: FTP site archive.epas.utoronto.ca Message-ID: <9304121630.AA08668@angelo.amd.com> To those who have the power to correct this sort of thing: I'm a user who doesn't have FTP access so I use DEC's FTPmail to get files. Recently, I've noticed that archive.epas.utoronto.ca seems to have dropped of the face of the Internet. In particular, whenever the DEC mailserver tries a domain name lookup on it, it fails. I usually end up snarfing my files off wuarchive instead. Of course, I can't get the recent submit stuff. If anybody who shepards the epas archive would like to look into this, all of us lowly FTPmail users would be very grateful. I'm not sure what's wrong, but if somebody wants a transcript of what the DEC server spits back, I'd be glad to provide it. Dave Roberts Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Network Products Division david.roberts@amd.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 10:53:58 PDT From: thrilla@spectrx.Saigon.COM (Stephan Suhocki) Subject: GUS vs. PAS16 Message-ID: I just bought a PAS16, but after reading about the GUS, I am having second thoughts.. Does anyone have a comparison sheet between these 2? Also, is the GUS fully AdLib and SB compatible? -- thrilla@spectrx.saigon.com (Stephan Suhocki) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Silicon Valley, Ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:14:43 MST From: "Dave Bakken" Subject: invalid sboslib.sbs error message Message-ID: <199304122314.AA20817@centennial.cs.arizona.edu> I installed the new five 2.01 disks Saturday, and they seem to work wonderfully. Then I installed the SBOS 2.04 files as directed, i.e., by unzipping them into my ultrasnd/sbos directory. (OK, I had to copy ultrainit.sys up to the ultrasnd directory, because there was an old one there. This may not have been necessary, since it was the same size and thus probably the same thing.) After I installed SBOS 2.04 like this I get the following error messages when SBOS is fired up: Invalid (c:\ultrasound\sbos\sboslib.sbs) SBOS patch library Error on load of patch library(C:\ultrasound/sbos/sboslib.sbos) I don't get the audio ``Ultrasound installed'' message like usual, but perhaps it is working since playmidi seems to work fine after this. Oh, yes, I don't know if this is related, but when the following line in config.sys: DEVICE=C:\...\ultrainit.sys ULTRASOUND=... is processed, it spits out the message Ultra Sound initialized to 1.02. Now, maybe this is OK, but the version is supposed to be 2.01 (or 2.02). I did delete my old ultrasound directory before installing the new one. Does any one know why I might be getting this message and, more importantly, how to fix or at least further diagnose it? Thanks for any help! Dave P.S. As an aside, I found it interesting that the install program modified my autoexec.bat file to call sbos.bat, even though I later fire up windows. I commented this line out since it seemed unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Unless I'm missing something here, the Gravis folks might want to have their install software scan the autoexec.bat file and try to see if it fires up windows before inserting the sbos.bat file. It may well hurt nothing with the new version, though. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 07:56:25 From: brian.simpson@t8000.cuc.ab.ca Subject: ULTRASOUND DAILY DIGEST Message-ID: <9304120756.A5658wk@t8000.cuc.ab.ca> Hello all, Can some one please tell me how I can FTP files from the FTPmail-server located in the GUS archives? Thanks brian.simpson@t8000.cuc.ab.ca ------------------------------ Date: 12 Apr 93 19:24:06 U From: "zz Paul Murgatroyd" Subject: UltraSound SDK. Message-ID: <9304120917.AA28407@kirk.bu.oz.au> I am interested in finding out if there is an SDK for the GUS. I have very little experience with C, but would like to get a GUS SDK for C anyway. Most of my programming experience is with Turbo Pascal, so if there is a GUS SDK written in Turbo Pascal, that would be the best choice for me. We are using Modula-2 for our course work at Uni, but I won't hold my breath for any Modula-2 libraries, since although Modula-2 is *supposedly* the successor to Pascal, I am am yet to discover one shred of evidence to support this claim. Anyways, if anyone can help me locate an SDK (for Turbo Pascal, C, or both), I would much appreciate it. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Apr 1993 10:38:47 -0500 (EST) From: DEATH BEFORE DISCO Subject: Wanted: Potential OS/2 device driver writers Message-ID: <01GWX5NYC32690OPY6@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> I am interested in getting together (over Internet) to write a device driver for our beloved GUS. Anybody SERIOUSLY interested in doing this should E-Mail me. I will have access to a GUS sdk as well as an OS/2 sdk. Don't look any further into this. I will not have the time to start this until summer. I also don't know how to program in C yet. But after programming in LISP, I think I could do anything. Jeff ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V3 #13 *************************************