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- GUS Musician's Digest Wed, 2 Nov 94 11:44 PST Volume 10: Issue 2
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- Today's Topics:
- GUS Musician's Digest V10 #1
- MIDI box, serial connection
- MPU401 on GUS
- propats3 is now available by anonymous ftp
- serial midi interface continued
-
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- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 14:05:37
- From: jdawes@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (John Dawes)
- Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V10 #1
- Message-ID: <jdawes.38.000E186F@sdcc13.ucsd.edu>
-
- I'm having trouble logging onto the temporary ftp site for propats3...Is
- anyone else? Can you give me the platform you're running on? My SLIP
- software can get kind of picky!
-
- Thanks
- John.
-
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- John Dawes
- Music Technology / Computer Science
- jdawes@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
- Handle Head Messiah
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- Date: 2 Nov 94 09:49:00 MET
- From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
- Subject: Re: MIDI box, serial connection
-
- > I just bought a Kawai KC20 synthesizer. Besides standard MIDI
- >connections, it also has a serial port interface. Does connecting this
- >to a computer require special software for the computer to recognize MIDI
- >data transmitted via a serial port? Does MidiSoft recognize this
- interface? Any other programs that do?
-
- Windows programs use a MIDI driver to access the MIDI port. So you need
- a special MIDI driver for a normal PC serial port to connect to KC20.
- It should come from KAWAI directly, didn't it ? You surely can't connect
- the serial cable to GUS or so, since MIDI uses speed of 31.25 kbaud, and
- RS232 standard serial port uses 19.2 or 38.4 kbaud. Ask at KAWAI for a
- Windows driver. Could you let me know if you get it or not ? I'm considering
- buying KC20 as well.
-
- Martin Grecner
-
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-
- Date: 2 Nov 94 09:50:00 MET
- From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
- Subject: MPU401 on GUS
-
- I asked this already on general digest and got no response.
- Is there a program available that emulates MPU401 interface under DOS
- with GUS ? Thank you.
-
- Martin Grecner
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 17:05:57 -0600 (CST)
- From: Antonio Guia <guia@cc.UManitoba.CA>
- Subject: propats3 is now available by anonymous ftp
-
- Ok, i'm convinced that enough people want to get propats 3, and i've
- convinced the computer services here that this is the case. My computer
- has over-run with ftp requests yesterday and today (poor little pc).
-
- I've placed propats3 disks 1-19 and will be putting the recent gus disks
- and maybe a few other goodies that i've found helpful (sorry, i'm a
- windows user) into a gus directory on ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca reachable by
- anonymous ftp.
-
- Site: ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca
- directory: pub/gus/
- files: pp3-1.zip thru pp3.19.zip, and gus356a.zip thru gus356f.zip (to
- come later)
-
- login anonymous, and send e-mail address as password.
-
- This is not a permanent location and may disappear in a few weeks, but you
- should all have access to it for at least a month or so...
-
- enjoy!
-
- also, could someone pls e-mail me an attatchment of piano2???.zip (windows
- keyboard driver to use the 101 keyboard as a midi input device). Thanks.
-
- -tg (tone!)
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 12:09:41 +0100 (MET)
- From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
- Subject: serial midi interface continued
-
- > Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 09:58:05 GMT
- > From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
- > Subject: Re: MIDI box, serial connection
- >
- > Wonder if gus-music will bounce my attempt today? Not surprising there
- > weren't many contributions in today's Digest.
- I experienced something similar...
-
- > Unless someone else knows, you ought to find out from Kawai exactly
- > what their serial interface expects. The MIDI signals that come
- > out of the GUS game port are essentially the same as from a
- > serial port (except of course that the pin-outs are different, after
- > all this is meant to be a game port). The MIDI box converts these
- > signals to the 'current-loop' signals expected by MIDI devices.
- > This implies perhaps that you could connect the Kawai straight to the
- > game port without a MIDI box, so long as you had a suitable cable.
-
- I own a Yamaha TG100 general midi module, which also has a serial port
- interface. The serial interface of the Yamaha really is an RS232
- type of interface, and can be plugged (with the proper cable) into a
- serial port of a computer, operating at 38400 baud, this means that you
- can use it without any specific midi interface, like that of the GUS.
- (Regular midi baud rate is 31200, I believe, but this baud rate is not
- present on the serial interfaces of most IBM compatibles.)
-
- > As for Windows software, MidiSoft and the other applications talk
- > to device driver software, not direct to the hardware. The
- > device driver for the GUS MIDI port is called ultmport.drv. To
- > get the apps to talk to one of the standard COM ports, you would
- > need a MIDI device driver which did this - I've no idea whether
- > this is available.
-
- I know that for the TG100 there are serial port windows drivers
- available. I don't have them myself, because at the time I needed to
- install things I didn't know about them, and hooked up the module via
- its regular midi connection and the GUS midi port. I heard the windows
- drivers for the TG100 should be available from ftp sites in a file
- named `tg100.zip' or something like that.
-
- I suspect that the serial interface of the Kawai could be the same as
- that of the TG100. This would mean that you should check what kind of
- cable you need to connect your Kawai to a RS232 type connector, and look
- up the tg100.zip file. Then you could connect your Kawai to a serial
- port of your computer, and save the GUS midi port for something else.
-
- I would be interested to know if it works.
-
- Eric Meijer
-
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