Ultrasound Daily Digest Wed, 1 Sep 93 Volume 5: Issue 31 Today's Topics: Anarchists on epas How do I connect ?? MusicTime/Trax Syndicate with SBOS --- trash the /iio option Thoughts on Austrailian GUS review Ultrasound Daily Digest V5 #30 Voice Recognition with GUS Windows Midimap Windows MIDI Mapper file Wing Commander Acad. w/GUS 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: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 00:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion) Subject: Anarchists on epas Message-ID: <9309010450.AA28115@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> There seems to be a few nasty people who go on epas and delete stuff... Anyway, i did reupload the TR727 and TR808 and touch tones to archive.epas. I have put ANASYN3 too... These are full of nice analog sounds. To really appreciate them it is better to play then in pair. In my case, i have tried playing them with the SCI in unison (6 simultaneous notes) slightly detuned and it does give body to the sound. Arp_reso and prophet and odissey will give good results even with single layering. I'll have to dig up my archives to find ANASYN2 that has been deleted also from epas. 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: Tue, 31 Aug 93 15:14:05 MESZ From: SGREENWO@MHS.novell.de (Scott Greenwood) Subject: How do I connect ?? Message-ID: <5119573B019D4FD9@MHS.novell.de> Hi, Sorry but can anyone explain how to subscribe to the GUS-SDK-DIGEST, I have been trying for a week but all I get is my mail returned HOST UNKNOWN I am trying to use the address Gus-SDK-request%itchy@dsd.es.com and have also tried Gus-SDK-request@dsd.es.com Can you please help??? Scott. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 05:50:58 PDT From: deraud@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com (Robert Lee DeRaud) Subject: MusicTime/Trax Message-ID: <9308311250.AA17041@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com> >From: CWSMART@delphi.com >Subject: Trax for Windows on Ultrasound Board >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. Sigh...the MusicTime/Trax package from Passport is not patch-caching aware in its current incarnation. Most unfortunate, since it is lightyears beyond the MidiSoft stuff and quite a bit cheaper than WinCake (at least it was when I bought it :-) ). I've gotten word from Passport about upgrading MusicTime to Encore but no indication yet if patch-caching is implemented or not: watch this space! [BTW, considering all the space wasted (:-)) on verbose lists of SBOS (in)compatabilities and switch settings for games, maybe the patch-awareness of sundry music software deserves its own list in the FAQ...assuming it's not there already, of course.] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 12:00:41 -0400 From: mchen@sol4.cse.psu.edu (Michael Chen) Subject: Syndicate with SBOS --- trash the /iio option Message-ID: <9308311600.AA02693@sol4.cse.psu.edu> All you have to do to get Syndicate to work is to nuke the /iio option in the little batch file (and make sure the /iirq setting is right). I suppose it does some probing which screws up something. After that, all is well. -- Mike P.S. This is with SBOS 2.0B8. I don't use 9 or 10 because they crashed a few things that I don't remember. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 17:27:25 -0700 From: Eric N. Liao Subject: Thoughts on Austrailian GUS review Message-ID: <199309010027.AA14200@aerospace.aero.org> Thought I might add that the article is basically correct. When I bought the GUS, I didn't realize the the software limitations it would have for so long. It's been a year now, and you can still count all the games out there with GUS native support, on two hands. I know you can use Miles/DIGPAK drivers. I know about MEGAEM, but sorry, I don't consider them native mode support. Miles/DIGPAK comes closest What I want is a game with 32 digital sound channels, like the nox advertises. Zone 66 was the only game that really showed off any of the GUS potential. Finally, "technical minefield" may sound a bit harsh, but generally, that's a pretty clever (accurate) term. I can tell, the author of the article assumes most of his reader-audience are "average Joe" users. They plug in a card and expect it to work with no hassles. The GUS hasn't reached that point yet. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 14:32:54 EDT From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 31-Aug-1993 1434" Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V5 #30 Message-ID: <9308311832.AA13322@us2rmc.bb.dec.com> Phat Tran says: > - 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. Has anyone actually bought Cakewalk Pro/Win 2.0 and seen for themselves that Patch Caching works? I don't need any of the other new features, but I guess I will spend the money for the upgrade, but ONLY if it really helps me with GUS. Thanks... Burns ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 09:29:41 +0200 From: CRTGRA01@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA Subject: Voice Recognition with GUS Message-ID: <01H2E28RD0768WWM5W@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA> Hello all, I am aware that this subject has already been brought up but I seem to have missed the final verdict: What (shareware) software is currently available to do this task in DOS or Windows? As this is an old discussion, could anyone please possible e-mail me a list of sites and filenames of programs that would fit the bill. Many thanks in advance, Grant Carter crtgra01@uctvax.uct.ac.za ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 12:13:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Rowin Subject: Windows Midimap Message-ID: <199308311913.AA10532@halcyon.com> As usual I tracked things down after looking around -- midimap.cfg in /system is where the config files were. I simply swapped it with the Ultrasound midimap file that is from the install disks... Amazingly everything works without any problems! I get clear MIDI playing, MODUS does mods on the GUS, and I still keep the PAS-16 as the wave sampler/player. Slightly less than perfect -- I can't select the GUS to play samples (unless I do some tinkering with the startup files). But since windows doesn't allow multiple multimedia selection very easily (something that they should improve soon), I'll take this setup for now. I was wrote back that it wouldn't work (the PAS-16 and GUS in windows) but this is working great. ==> Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 11:09:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Rowin Subject: Windows MIDI Mapper file Message-ID: <199308311809.AA02957@halcyon.com> I'm trying to track down the file(s) windows uses under MIDI Mapper. The GUS mapping stuff isn't showing up under the mapper, so I was trying to track down the source. Course I am trying to do a bit strange of a procedure -- use a PAS-16 alongside the GUS. So far it works great as long as DMAs and IRQs are not conflicting. Under Windows, I can use MODUS to play on the GUS while keeping the nice mixer controls of the PAS-16... I have the GUS playing into the PAS-16, which has a good mixer control area (a bit noisy though). My goal now is to get the MIDI of the GUS to work, I'm basically using the PAS-16 for wave audio and the GUS for MIDI. Drivers lists the GUS stuff installed, now all I need is for the MIDI Mapper to have the Ultrasound maps laid out so patch caching takes place. Any help's appreciated.. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 23:23:21 EDT From: Matthew Spewak Subject: Wing Commander Acad. w/GUS Message-ID: <9309010323.AA09595@lambada.oit.unc.edu> Origin's latest, Wing Commander Acadamy has .adv drivers for the game. I attempted to copy over with GUS adv drivers, run ultramid -c , and then the game, but it locks. It says: Loading Wing Commander Acad and just sits there. With SBOS it loads for less then 1 second until the game starts to pop up, but sounds HORRIBLE with sbos. On a last note... Bio Menace, from Apogee, which was slated as supporting the gus, does not. Although, sounds fair with sbos. -MS ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V5 #31 *************************************