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- GUS Musician's Digest Fri, 3 Feb 95 14:22 PST Volume 12: Issue 27
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- Today's Topics:
- Bosendorfer *will* play in Windows
- New underground industrial release using GUS
- Why Won't My New Computer Drive My GUS Properly ?
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- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 09:57:38 GMT
- From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
- Subject: Bosendorfer *will* play in Windows
-
- I finally got to the bottom of the non-playing Bosendorfer
- patch (bosen_l) under Windows. Someone said that the problem
- was that the Windows driver reserved some space for playing
- WAVs, which didn't leave enough room for loading this nearly
- 1 Meg patch.
-
- Obviously, specifying "Load patches as 8-bit" solves it at the
- expense of quality.
-
- I now find that if you set the DMA buffer sizes small enough
- in driver setup (and set the Fixed option in the latest drivers),
- then the amount of reserved GUS RAM is reduced so that the
- patch will load. For example, it fits with the Playback buffer
- at 4096 Fixed, and the Record buffer at 512 Fixed. With these
- settings, PatchMan reports 1016K free with no patches loaded
- on a 1024K GUS - presumably two playback buffers of 4096 bytes
- reserved (two so one can be loaded while the other plays).
- Setting the Playback buffer too small (512) gives very
- 'scratchy' WAV playback on my machine.
-
- The bosen_l patch has 8 samples, and assuming that no sample
- can span a 256K boundary, there are limited ways that the
- samples can fit (2 in each 256K block). Perhaps re-ordering the
- samples in the patch file might help too, depending on the algorithm
- for allocating a block of memory on the GUS.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 00:29:42 -0500 (EST)
- From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
- Subject: New underground industrial release using GUS
-
- Hi there all. The new album from my industrial project, Angst, is being
- released today. The name of the album is _The Null Hypothesis_, and a
- 1MB GUS with 16-bit daughtercard was the only sampler used on the album.
- (In fact, save occasional use of a Yamaha QY-10 tone module and a cheesy
- FM synth on one track, it's the only electronic sound source.) Quite a
- few people ordered Angst's previous work, _Strain_, last year--so i
- though i'd go ahead and post the announcement on this list as well.
- Unlike _Strain_, this is a professionally duplicated release, down to the
- shrink-wrap . . . the announcement follows.
-
- OD OOOD OOOOOD OOOOD OOOOD OOOD OOOD OOOOD OOOOD OOOD
- OOD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OO OD OD
- OD OD OD OOOOD OOOO OD OD OD OOOOD OO OD OOD
- OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OD OO OD OD
- OD OOOD OD OD OD OOOOD OOOD OOOD OD OD OOOOD OOOD
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- 137 Records
- P.O. Box 204963
- New Haven, CT 06520-4963
- for information, email 137.records@yale.edu
- http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~cmpilato/137.records/137.records.html
-
- NEW RELEASE: ANGST - THE NULL HYPOTHESIS
-
- Angst is a one-man industrial project out of New Haven, CT. Run
- harsh percussion, distorted guitars, percolating synths, judicious
- samples, and vocal harmonies into solid songwriting structures and
- you've got a good picture of Angst's sound.
-
- The new album is _The Null Hypothesis_, thirteen tracks clocking
- in at just under 45 minutes, professionally duplicated and packaged
- on chrome cassette. If you're into inventive industrial music
- along the lines of NiN, Machines of Loving Grace, Circle of Dust,
- Mortal, etc., _The Null Hypothesis_ is your cup of tea. To hear
- some sound clips from the album in Sun .au format, point your
- World Wide Web browser to the address listed above.
-
- Angst's _The Null Hypothesis_ can be ordered by sending $5.00
- cash, check, or money order to:
-
- 137 Records
- P.O. Box 204963 Yale Station
- New Haven, CT 06520-4963
-
- ******************************************************************
- _VERY IMPORTANT_: If you pay by check, please make the check
- payable to _Matthew M. Nordan_, _not_ to 137 Records. We're a bit
- too low-budget to have our own bank account . . . thanks!
- ******************************************************************
-
- For more information on 137 Records, get the info file by mailing
- to 137.records@yale.edu. To access our World Wibe Web site, point
- your Web browser to:
-
- http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~cmpilato/137.records/137.records.html
-
- Quantities are limited. Check it out. 2/3/95
-
- []. .[] | ]\/[atthe]/\[ ]\/[. ]\[orda]\[ | support underground music. email
- [][|][] | mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu | for information on 137 Records.
- [] V [] | matthew.nordan@yale.edu | angst, portrait of souls, etc
- [] [] | all praise to Yaweh | K2000: there is no substitute
-
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- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 95 11:30:20 GMT
- From: Jason Nunn <Jason@yngminds.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Why Won't My New Computer Drive My GUS Properly ?
- Message-ID: <54@yngminds.demon.co.uk>
-
- I have just upgraded my trusty 386DX40 computer to an all singing, all
- dancing 486DX4 100 with PCI. My GUS, an original non-max with 1MB 70ns
- RAM has started to play up. When samples are downloaded to the GUS,
- they are periodically corrupted causing horrible sounds from my
- speakers, this happens under DOS and Windows.
-
- The worst problem I have is under Wing Commander III, sometimes the
- patch loader by Gravis locks, and everytime I enter flight mode, after
- about a minute, the sound dies and then the game locks.
-
- I have tried changing the ISA bus speed from 7.168MHz to 8.25MHz to
- 11MHz, but the problem remains. I do not have any interrupt
- or DMA conflicts so what is happening ?? It is driving me crazy.
-
- Can anybody help me - or is anybody else having this trouble ?
-
- Jason Nunn
-
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