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- * «Pro Patches Lite v1.31» *
- * by Eero Räsänen (Email: cseera@uta.fi) *
- *****************************************************
-
-
- What's new in version 1.31 ( compared to v1.30 ) 12-02-95
- =========================================================
-
- 70 of the v1.30 patches are changed and there are 2 new patches.
- Now there is also Windows version of the Patmenu included ( wpatmenu.exe ).
-
- - There were several bugs in the v1.30 of PPLT. I fixed all the
- bug I found. It is useless to list them all here. Mainly the
- bugs related to bad loops and tunings.
-
- - Some people have noted about clicky abd poppy drums. I checked them
- out, but didn't find any problems. However, I made a little fade out
- into end of each drum to make sure that there aren't any volume ramps
- at end of the patches.
-
- - Now the acoustic piano of the MegaEm 3.xx emulation is also changed
- to 80kB small\acpiano.pat patch, so you don't have to suffer any more
- from the terrible original GUS piano !!
-
-
- snare1 - Brighter acoustic snare. Has a good effect to the
- overall sound quality.
-
- [new] acguitar - The patch provided in the v1.30 of PPLT wasn't so
- good as the one in v1.20. So I made a smaller version
- of the v1.20 patch.
-
- odguitar - The patch sounded better without one waveform !
- Now it's smaller and better.
-
- [new] nyguitar - Someone noted that the guitars provided in the
- MaxPats patch set were better. Well I tested
- them and found that the nylon guitar was indeed
- somewhat better. In fact it is a louder version of
- the GUS original nylon guitar.
-
-
- What's new in version 1.30 ( compared to v1.20 ) 11-12-95
- =========================================================
-
- 63 of the v1.20 patches are changed and there are 50 new patches.
- There are also two new midi files and 1 MB version of the patch set
- for MegaEm 3.06b included. Again, due to the changes the patch set
- is now significally smaller. Only 40 KB difference to the original
- GUS patch set !
-
-
- (1) New patches:
-
- 27 NEW DRUM PATCHES FROM KAWAI XD5 PROFESSIONAL DRUM MACHINE with
- the old cymbal rides and TAMBOURINE FROM KURZWEIL K2000.
-
- and also...
-
- small\acpiano- Smaller Acoustic Piano for games. It is used
- automatically with Game Compability mode. May be,
- in the future there will be also other smaller versions
- of large patches in this directory ...
- harmonca - Not very good, but still MUCH better than the original.
- IMHO the original one is the UGLIEST patch of the GUS
- midi set !
- jazzgtr - New jazz guitar. Waves ripped from a real jazz guitar
- riff found in the internet.
- jungle - Nice jungle effect from ProPats III.
- seashore - New seashore patch from ProPats III.
- accordn - At last a proper accordion patch.
- shakazul - A new shakuhachi flute ! Well, it may sound funny
- in some songs, but it's still VERY GOOD !
- clarinet - Brighter and more realistic clarinet.
- clavinet - New clavinet. It isn't so aggressive sounding than
- the original one.
- woodflut - New woodflut. More like the real instrument.
- sawwave - The original sound is very good, just a bit weak.
- So I made it louder.
- acguitar - New, more bright version.
-
-
- Also made better versions of these GUS patches:
- surdo2, castinet, celeste, toms, gtrharm, percorg, synbras1,synbras2,
- and tubebell
-
- (2) Drum patches which I made louder:
- surdo1, woodblk1, woodblk2, clave, tamborin,cymcrsh1,cymcrsh2
-
- (3) Other percussive patches that I made louder:
- timpani, orchit, syntom, taiko
-
- (4) Added mode bass to the sound of these patches:
- bassoon, tuba, pizzcato, church, contraba, cleangtr, distgtr,
- synbass1, acbass, slapbas1, slapbas2, fretless, mutegtr
-
- (5) Made these patches louder:
- vibes, xylophon, hitbrass
-
- (6) Other changes:
- cello - Made it smaller ( 59kB -> 31kB ). Wonder why I didn't
- do this earlier...
- acpiano - The acoustic piano is now much brighter. It also has
- large (about 10 KB) bidirectional loops, which makes
- it sound more spacy.
- bottle - It had a bad envelope.
- xylophon - Made a bit of echo to the sound.
- odguitar - Made it louder and more distorted.
- frenchrn - corrected looping. Due to this the patch is also a bit
- smaller.
- nyguitar - Sounds better now.
-
- All multisampled patches and drums are now panned, which makes midi
- files sound more stereophonic even if the midi file does not contain
- any specific information about the instrument panning.
-
-
- (8) New midi files in the "miditest" directory:
- etude.mid - For demonstrating the new Shakuhachi flute.
- takeawil.mid - Just for entertainment.
-
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-
-
- What was new in version 1.20 ( compared to v1.10 ) 09-17-95
- ===========================================================
-
- 4 of the v1.10 patches are changed and there are 24 new patches.
- Due to the changes the patch set is now slightly smaller.
-
-
- (1) Made these GUS patches more or less better. "Better" is the key word
- here:
-
- mutetrum,pizzcato,contraba,belltree,revcym,santur,tuba,koto, woodblk,
- trumpet, clarinet, trombone, bassoon, altosax, sprnosax.
-
- (2) acpiano - New acoustic piano. It's a smaller version (120 kB) of a
- 750 kB "Steinway piano" patch from Yamaha tx16w !
-
- (3) doo - Made it smaller ( 79kB -> 46kB ). No quality loss.
- shakazul - The fixed version also available from file "ppl11fix.arj"
- startrak,
- atmosphr - The original patches had clicking loops ! They are now
- corrected and I also added some flange effect to the samples
- to make them even better.
- sweeper - new, flanged, sweeper. It reminds me of those Tangerine
- Dream analog synths back 70s'! Well, may be not... ;)
- agogo - Smaller version and also has a bit better sound.
- vibes - All new version from TB Proteus.
- flute - Lowered the sweep delay of the middle wave.
- tenorsax - New version (28kB), made from a 738kB Kurzweil patch.
- barisax - New patch, made from three waves.
- cleangtr - smaller and better version.
-
- (4) snare1 - Changed to enhanced version of GUS Acoustic Snare.
- The SCC1 version was good, but too soft.
-
- (5) patmenu - Fixed a bug in the user interface. If one pressed
- "r" wrong line was highlighted.
-
- (6) Included more midi files. The new midi files are made for solo
- piano. With them you can test the new Acoustic Piano patch:
-
- mephisto.mid , wishupon.mid and fantasi1.mid
-
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-
-
- What was changed in version 1.10 ( compared to v1.00 )
- ======================================================
-
- These changes don't sound to be major ones, but they are...really.
- 46 of the v1.0 patches were changed and there are 3 new patches.
- Changes are listed here:
-
-
- (1) These sounds needed to be made quieter:
- Cabasa, Maracas, Shaker and Basslead
-
- (2) I Discovered a new way to make a sound louder without making it distorted.
- I used that technique to these patches:
- Acbass,Fngrbass,Slapbas1,Slapbas2,Synbass1,Synbass2,Pickbass,
- Fretless,Bottle, Syntom, Timpani, Mutegtr,Shakazul,
- A half of the drum kit.
-
- (3) Other corrections made :
- Aurora - the complete version...
- Halopad,Fantasia,
- Freshair,Unicorn - Better looping and envelope.
- Choir - Changed choir.pat sound so that the first (lowest)
- wave is (also) from original GUS patch because it
- differed too much from the other waves in the patch.
- Thanks goes to Imre "LaLa" Olajos, Jr. who noted me
- about this.
-
- (4) New patches:
- Synbass2 - Much louder version of the GUS original.
- Slapbas2 - " " "
- Shakazul - Louder and better enveloped version of the GUS original.
-
- (5) I'am not sure, if the 1.0 version was MegaEm 2.xx compatible,
- after all. I don't know when the patches got incompatible, but
- it should work now !
-
- (6) If you already haven't collected a library of xxxxx midi files, there
- are now included few midi files in the "miditest" directory.
-
-
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-
-
- Pro Patches Lite v1.31 patches
- ==============================
-
- Here are the patches listed in 12 different cathegories.
- New patches are marked with "[new]" sign. Patches which are
- just changed are marked with "[chg]" sign.
-
-
- PATCH NAME/TYPE NEW SIZE ORIG.SIZE DIFFERENCE NOTES
- =====================================================================
-
- --=Small Piano=--
- small\acpiano.pat 80087 - 65259 = 14828 (***)
-
- --=Regular Pianos=--
- acpiano.pat 118913 - 65259 = 53654 (*)
- britepno.pat 133941 - 72739 = 61202 (*)
- clavinet.pat 4113 - 3443 = 670 [chg]
- epiano1.pat 19971 - 15005 = 4966
- hrpschrd.pat 18133 - 7709 = 10424 [chg]
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 5 295071 - 164155 = 130916
-
- --=Chromatic Percussion=--
- celeste.pat 20199 - 20207 = -8
- santur.pat 43833 - 43833 = 0
- tubebell.pat 18605 - 18637 = -32 [chg]
- vibes.pat 21951 - 21597 = 354
- xylophon.pat 3724 - 19085 = -15361 [chg]
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 5 108312 - 123359 = -15047
-
- --=Organs=--
- accordn.pat 19153 - 19623 = -470 [chg]
- church.pat 23381 - 4609 = 18772 [chg] (**)
- harmonca.pat 15894 - 15301 = 593 [chg]
- percorg.pat 15435 - 15435 = 0
- rockorg.pat 53029 - 60887 = -7858 [chg]
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 5 126892 - 115855 = 11037
-
- --=Guitars=--
- acguitar.pat 43957 - 52581 = -8624 [new]
- cleangtr.pat 33567 - 46027 = -12460
- distgtr.pat 57693 - 38249 = 19444
- gtrharm.pat 9941 - 10173 = -232
- jazzgtr.pat 21555 - 55923 = -34368 [chg]
- mutegtr.pat 33523 - 34577 = -1054 [chg]
- nyguitar.pat 39211 - 39211 = 0 [new]
- odguitar.pat 44325 - 25845 = 18480 [chg]
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 8 283772 - 302586 = -18814
-
- --=Basses=--
- acbass.pat 10151 - 10829 = -678
- fngrbass.pat 31293 - 19797 = 11496 [chg]
- fretless.pat 9689 - 5605 = 4084
- pickbass.pat 33439 - 33213 = 226
- slapbas1.pat 27729 - 56133 = -28404
- slapbas2.pat 41545 - 41581 = -36
- synbass1.pat 10367 - 12627 = -2260
- synbass2.pat 6191 - 6191 = 0
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 8 170404 - 185976 = -15572
-
- --=Strings and Ensemble=--
- cello.pat 31589 - 18741 = 12848 (*)
- choir.pat 58859 - 45353 = 13506 (*)
- contraba.pat 9719 - 9723 = -4 [chg]
- doo.pat 45925 - 17333 = 28592 (*)
- harp.pat 23407 - 23927 = -520
- marcato.pat 110971 - 122881 = -11910
- orchhit.pat 43065 - 28751 = 14314
- pizzcato.pat 39731 - 40173 = -442
- synstr1.pat 30543 - 62763 = -32220
- timpani.pat 39331 - 14473 = 24858
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 10 433140 - 384118 = 49022
-
- --=Brass=--
- frenchrn.pat 46221 - 28635 = 17586 (*)
- hitbrass.pat 65621 - 63369 = 2252
- synbras1.pat 61703 - 61735 = -32
- synbras2.pat 60609 - 60641 = -32
- trombone.pat 26187 - 26187 = 0 [chg]
- trumpet.pat 13621 - 13621 = 0
- tuba.pat 11741 - 11847 = -106
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 7 285703 - 266035 = 19668
-
- --=Reed and Pipes=--
- altosax.pat 11461 - 11711 = -250 [chg]
- barisax.pat 26997 - 21739 = 5258 [chg]
- bassoon.pat 15507 - 16723 = -1216
- bottle.pat 40099 - 25063 = 15036
- clarinet.pat 17575 - 19161 = -1586
- englhorn.pat 24851 - 24675 = 176
- flute.pat 43445 - 12383 = 31062
- shakazul.pat 59089 - 62589 = -3500
- sprnosax.pat 14525 - 14713 = -188 [chg]
- tenorsax.pat 28535 - 17367 = 11168
- woodflut.pat 25419 - 4191 = 21228 (*)
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 11 307503 - 230315 = 77188
-
- --=Synth Lead, Pad and FX=--
- atmosphr.pat 63035 - 63035 = 0
- aurora.pat 23741 - 62503 = -38762
- basslead.pat 21385 - 53389 = -32004
- calliope.pat 41833 - 46303 = -4470
- charang.pat 15477 - 90661 = -75184
- fantasia.pat 42359 - 47229 = -4870
- freshair.pat 47445 - 58307 = -10862
- halopad.pat 68515 - 60291 = 8224
- polysyn.pat 60641 - 60759 = -118
- sawwave.pat 54455 - 54485 = -30 [chg]
- sqrwave.pat 41709 - 30439 = 11270
- startrak.pat 55085 - 55085 = 0
- sweeper.pat 62745 - 62745 = 0
- unicorn.pat 65295 - 60505 = 4790
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 14 663720 - 805736 = -142016
-
- --=Ethnic and Percussive=--
- agogo.pat 17537 - 27727 = -10190 [chg]
- koto.pat 41983 - 42079 = -96
- steeldrm.pat 32815 - 24229 = 8586
- syntom.pat 52837 - 61331 = -8494
- taiko.pat 34135 - 37671 = -3536
- toms.pat 13445 - 13467 = -22
- woodblk.pat 8719 - 7685 = 1034
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 7 201471 - 214189 = -12718
-
- --=Sound Effects=--
- fx-fret.pat 9833 - 27631 = -17798
- helicptr.pat 32977 - 50327 = -17350
- jungle.pat 13136 - 27541 = -14405
- pistol.pat 31149 - 36595 = -5446 [chg]
- revcym.pat 27391 - 27391 = 0
- telephon.pat 4987 - 9157 = -4170
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 6 119473 - 178642 = -59169
-
- --=Drums=--
- agogohi.pat 8241 - 7283 = 958
- agogolo.pat 8399 - 7283 = 1116
- belltree.pat 64103 - 64103 = 0
- bongohi.pat 6543 - 7233 = -690 [chg]
- bongolo.pat 9681 - 9201 = 480 [chg]
- cabasa.pat 3399 - 17203 = -13804 [chg]
- castinet.pat 10129 - 12349 = -2220 [chg]
- claps.pat 16593 - 11719 = 4874 [chg]
- clave.pat 4923 - 5035 = -112
- congahi1.pat 5185 - 8753 = -3568 [chg]
- congahi2.pat 10321 - 9713 = 608 [chg]
- congalo.pat 12465 - 9713 = 2752 [chg]
- cowbell.pat 5561 - 6645 = -1084 [chg]
- cuica1.pat 16867 - 18995 = -2128 [chg]
- cuica2.pat 22721 - 26017 = -3296 [chg]
- cymchina.pat 45393 - 48545 = -3152
- cymcrsh1.pat 62383 - 63353 = -970 [chg]
- cymcrsh2.pat 50579 - 62411 = -11832
- cymride1.pat 43193 - 35655 = 7538 [chg]
- cymride2.pat 16463 - 35655 = -19192 [chg]
- cymsplsh.pat 36913 - 63353 = -26440
- guiro1.pat 4285 - 8561 = -4276 [chg]
- guiro2.pat 19061 - 18821 = 240 [chg]
- highq.pat 6301 - 3945 = 2356 [chg]
- hihatcl.pat 8881 - 9453 = -572 [chg]
- hihatop.pat 24975 - 40417 = -15442 [chg]
- hihatpd.pat 7191 - 3925 = 3266 [chg]
- jingles.pat 36865 - 34219 = 2646 [chg]
- kick1.pat 16175 - 9411 = 6764 [chg]
- kick2.pat 17553 - 10377 = 7176 [chg]
- maracas.pat 10131 - 9433 = 698 [chg]
- metclick.pat 3723 - 539 = 3184 [chg]
- scratch1.pat 8449 - 9091 = -642 [chg]
- scratch2.pat 7913 - 4883 = 3030 [chg]
- shaker.pat 3629 - 6527 = -2898 [chg]
- slap.pat 11889 - 12031 = -142 [chg]
- snare1.pat 27495 - 17417 = 10078 [chg]
- snare2.pat 17489 - 8503 = 8986 [chg]
- stickrim.pat 8715 - 6005 = 2710 [chg]
- sticks.pat 7387 - 8757 = -1370 [chg]
- surdo1.pat 18321 - 19527 = -1206 [chg]
- surdo2.pat 19495 - 19527 = -32 [chg]
- tamborin.pat 15103 - 18219 = -3116 [chg]
- timbaleh.pat 16369 - 10839 = 5530 [chg]
- timbalel.pat 18443 - 19787 = -1344 [chg]
- tomhi1.pat 18001 - 13467 = 4534 [chg] (**)
- tomhi2.pat 18255 - 13455 = 4800 [chg] (**)
- tomlo1.pat 25463 - 13455 = 12008 [chg] (**)
- tomlo2.pat 32193 - 19527 = 12666 [chg] (**)
- tommid1.pat 25165 - 13455 = 11710 [chg] (**)
- tommid2.pat 24269 - 13455 = 10814 [chg] (**)
- triangl1.pat 6215 - 4781 = 1434 [chg]
- triangl2.pat 29373 - 31901 = -2528 [chg]
- whistle1.pat 4391 - 4315 = 76 [chg]
- whistle2.pat 3165 - 2173 = 992 [chg]
- woodblk1.pat 5083 - 5035 = 48 [chg]
- woodblk2.pat 8831 - 7685 = 1146 [chg]
- ---------- --------------- --------
- total 57 996297 - 983135 = 13162
-
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- TOTALS 143 3991758 - 3954101 = 37657
-
- (*) Patch not available in "game compability mode" nor in "megaem 3.xx mode".
- (**) Patch not available in "megaem 3.xx mode".
- (***) Only available in "game compability mode". Replaces a large patch.
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