Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 31 Aug 93 Volume 5: Issue 30 Today's Topics: Article response!!!! GUS review in Australian mag OS/2 and NT drivers Rules of Engagement 2 and the GUS. Simultaneous recording/playback works!!! Trax for Windows on Ultrasound Board 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, 30 Aug 1993 15:15:32 +0501 (EDT) From: Gunnar Swanson Subject: Article response!!!! Message-ID: Hello to my fellow GUSers down under, I read your article and I thought that it was really pretty good. It told the "truth" about the GUS that it is a great board but that it is some what handicapped. I do not know about you all but when I buy a product I want it to work properly from the get go. The GUS does not do this. The comment about the card being a techno minefield is entirely accurate. If I had not had access to the Internet I would have been sunk, many do not have this luxury. I thought the article was critical but fair, rather than it being biased, I felt you the reader who is devoted to the GUS was biased in your interpretation of the article. gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu Gunnar Swanson end. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 13:59:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Phat H Tran Subject: GUS review in Australian mag Message-ID: Some comments about that GUS review: - Patch caching need not be a manual task. There are many patch caching aware apps (eg. WinJammer 2.24, Cakewalk Pro 2.0, Media Player, PowerChords, Recording Session) that will automatically load up the correct patches as the user needs them. - Only the 30 or so patches for a particular piece of music need be cached at any one time. No need to load up all 192 GM instruments. - Evidently, many people disagree about the GUS being inadequate for MIDI musicians as there are many musicians using the GUS as an inexpensive sampling synth. > > P.S.S Oh yea.....Has anyone got Syndicate to work with sbos v2.08 ?? > Any version of SBOS should work if you set up the GUS for port 220h and SB IRQ 7 and just run main.exe instead of synd.bat. If you set your SB IRQ to something other than 7, run main.exe with the /iirq switch. For example, if you have the SB IRQ on 5 like I have it, then run main.exe with /iirq5. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 08:42:06 EST From: "Robinhood" Subject: OS/2 and NT drivers Message-ID: <31328.mtl1@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu> Gravis, Don't you think that it is time to release drivers to these 2 operating systems? People have been waiting for these for a long while and almost all other vendors are providing NT and OS/2 drivers (even the newer Diamond Sonic and Maestro/16). I am not using NT or OS/2 but I am seriously considering it. My GUS is the only piece of hardware that kept me from them. The quality of GUS is hard to give up. But if people have to wait much longer, I think you are going to lose big time. Newer boards will already have these drivers bundled. Well, maybe it's time to look at some new soundcards............. Robinhood ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 15:24:52 +0501 (EDT) From: Gunnar Swanson Subject: Rules of Engagement 2 and the GUS. Message-ID: Well folks I finally got the dope on Rules of Engagement 2 (ROE2) and the GUS, It seems that ROE2 will work with the GUS via the Miles Drivers and that you must have Ultramid.exe running to run the game. Though this ain't real clear at first :-t. It has its own patches but no native GUS support. Impressions Software will send out the drivers as well as an upgrade of the game (v1.05) for free. To contact them write to, Impressions Software Inc Suite 0234 222 Third St Cambridge, MA 02142 or Compuserve 71333,463@compuserve.com GEnie IMPRESSIONS Prodigy BCFP34A The game is a one of Grand Tactical thinking and there is not too much beyond that. There is a nice campaign editor and ship builder built in. It is sort of like Carriers at War (in space) but is not a Reach for the Stars. They say they will be coming out with a strategic version of the game but that it won't be ready for some time. Check it out if you like a board game type feel to your war games. All for now Happy GUSing Gunnar Swanson gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu end. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 17:02:30 -0400 From: davidm@opl.com (David MacMahon) Subject: Simultaneous recording/playback works!!! Message-ID: <9308302102.AA19426@ottawa.opl.com> I have (finally) successfully managed to get my GUS to record data and playback those same data after a delay. The delay can be so short that you can't notice it, or it can be as long as the GUS' memory/sample rate will accommodate. If you would like to try this program, please e-mail me. If there is enough interest in my program, I will upload the executeable to epas. DISCLAIMER: Right now the program is in very rudimentary form, is not incredibly user friendly, and has no documentation (yet). For these reasons it is not very useful, but it does demonstrate (quite well) that such a feat is well within the realm of the GUS and the low level SDK. (These reasons are also why I will only upload the executable and not the source.) If you would like to read about some of the technical issues involved, get a copy of today's "GUS Programmer's Digest", I think it will be V3 #11. The digests are archived on archive.epas.utoronto.ca. The file you will want is /pub/pc/ultrasound/sdk-digest/vol-3/11. If you can't (repeat: "can't", NOT "didn't") get the file from the archive, e-mail me and I will forward you a copy. Dave David MacMahon Systems Administrator davidm@opl.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 23:35:35 -0400 (EDT) From: CWSMART@delphi.com Subject: Trax for Windows on Ultrasound Board Message-ID: <01H2DHLWW7LE90NZSW@delphi.com> Looking for help in configuring the Trax software to use ultrasound GUS sound board. I have it completely installed and operating without error except the no sound is generated through the sound board. Has anyone the solution to this problem. Appreciate any help. ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V5 #30 *************************************