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- GUS Musician's Digest Wed, 1 Mar 95 11:53 PST Volume 13: Issue 1
-
- Today's Topics:
- Computer Music bibliography
- Midas MOD player
- MIDAS Windows MOD player
- Midi files/software archives on the Internet
- Newbie-ish Patch Cache Question
- reply: MIDAS
- WinMIDAS problems
- Wmidas
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 01:11:16 +0100
- From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
- Subject: Computer Music bibliography
-
- There is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic
- music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring
- some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject.
- NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people.
-
- The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl
- [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from
- mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the
- mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used.
- The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers
- archives around the world, in music/midi/bibliography.
-
- Version: $Id: bibliography,v 1.25 1994/09/08 12:24:00 piet Exp $
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 00:58:10 -0500 (EST)
- From: Buddy <cs3mh3dn@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Subject: Midas MOD player
-
- > Subject: MIDAS Windows MOD player
- >
- > I recently got the MIDAS Windows MOD player. It looks like a pretty cool
- > program. It plays MODS and S3M's in windows. Has anyone got this program to
- > work with the GUS. It says it has GUS support, but I am unable to get it to
- > work.
- > Thanks
- > Steven Wiercinski
-
- I haven't used the MOD player yet but I have used the MIDAS drivers. I
- assume that you have to have the drivers installed in Windoze in order
- for the MOD player to work since the drivers came out before the MOD
- player did.....
-
- Just a guess......
-
- What's the name of the MOD player? Is it on EPAS?
-
- Kevin
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 21:47:58 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Harry C Pulley <hpulley@uoguelph.ca>
- Subject: Re: MIDAS Windows MOD player
-
- > I recently got the MIDAS Windows MOD player. It looks like a pretty cool
- > program. It plays MODS and S3M's in windows. Has anyone got this program to
- > work with the GUS. It says it has GUS support, but I am unable to get it to
- > work.
- > Thanks
- > Steven Wiercinski
- > wiercin2@student.msu.edu
-
- MIDAS works great for me. Did you run the setup program? Once you have
- done that you can simply use Media Player or any other MCI device to play
- MOD or .S3M files.
-
- Note also that it can only play up to 8-voice files. Any files with more
- than that will give an error on the MCI device. Also, some files with
- the .MOD or .S3M extension are actually other formats which MIDAS cannot
- handle.
-
- What actual problems are you having?
-
- Harry
-
- <:-{} hpulley@uoguelph.ca |This message released|It takes all kinds,
- \ Harry C. Pulley, IV |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own.
- ---------------------------------+---------------------|This thought in mind,
- Real programmers don't drink Zima.|Gravis Ultrasound Max|I walk alone.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 01:11:15 +0100
- From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
- Subject: Midi files/software archives on the Internet
-
- There is a list of ftp and mail server archives with MIDI documentation,
- programs and music on the Internet. Also enclosed is a list of MIDI and
- electronic music related mailing lists.
-
- The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl
- [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/archives or by mail from
- mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the
- mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used.
- The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers
- archives around the world, in music/midi/archives.
-
- Version: $Id: archives,v 1.121 1995/02/24 14:44:20 piet Exp $
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 12:05:08 GMT
- From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Newbie-ish Patch Cache Question
-
- >Q: What would prevent someone from writing a Driver or inbetween program
- >(like MidiMapper) that would make the Gus load the patch on the Patch
- >select command.
- >It seems the current setting - assumes that the patches are preloaded.
- > Why not just have some sort of PatchCache Daemon running that traps
- >the "change patch" message and sends the appropriate command to the GUS.
- >This would make all sequencers work and seems to be a more universal solution.
-
- I think that writing it would be very easy. The trouble is that loading
- a patch (at least if you use the MidiOutCachePatches windows call)
- causes a lengthy pause, and may well also turn all notes off.
- I'm not sure whether this is intrinsic to the way a patch is
- loaded onto the GUS (presumably using DMA, but I know little
- about this), or whether it is just the behaviour of the GUS Windows
- driver.
-
- I have also never been sure whether MidiOutCachePatches reloads
- the entire patch set, or whether there is a way of just adding
- one patch to the current set.
-
- At some point, the GUS memory will fill up, and the software would
- have to take some decision about which patch to unload to make
- space.
-
- I once wrote a little program which just read MIDI input from my
- (music) keyboard and fed it to the GUS, caching patches according
- to any program change received. This wasn't too bad for just
- playing from a keyboard, but the pause would be unacceptable in
- the middle of a .MID.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 15:02:47 CST
- From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu>
- Subject: reply: MIDAS
-
- to the person asking about midas. The Ultrasound option is always grayed
- out (no idea why). What it does is plays the MOD file at an _extremely
- low_ volume level. I've only once gotten it to come up by resetting the
- gus mixer. But as of yet have not been able to replicate the incident.
- maybe we should ask the author?
- -jim
- --
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu
-
- The University of Tulsa - I vote "no confidence."
-
- "I don't care if it rains or freezes/As long as I've got my plastic jesus/
- Sitting on the dashboard of my car."
- ______________________________________________________________________________
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 22:23:42 -0600
- From: lala@interaccess.com (Imre Olajos)
- Subject: Re: WinMIDAS problems
-
- HI,
-
- > I reccently got the MIDAS Windows MOD player. It looks like a pretty cool
- >program. It plays MODS and S3M's in windows. Has anyone got this program to
- >work with the GUS. It says it has GUS support, but I am unable to get it to
- >work.
- > Thanks
- > Steven Wiercinski
- > wiercin2@student.msu.edu
-
- Yes, I do. When You go to the Media Player in Windows, select the
- Device/Midas MCI Player, and a setup screen should pop up. If that doesn't
- work, double-click on a MOD to bring up the Media Player, than select
- Device/Configure, and the same setup screen should come up. Over here all You
- have to do is to select Gravis UltraSound and voila!
-
- But I suppose You have a more serious problem with it, so please contact me in
- email if that's the case.
-
- BTW, I think WinMIDAS is fantastic with native GUS support. Around 2 months
- ago I was told by the author that they are working on full module (S3M, ULT,
- FAR, MTM, etc.) support. That would be awesome! And on top of all this,
- WinMIDAS lets 2 GUS-channels free for digital stuff (like WAV!), so I don't
- loose any system sounds! (Unlike under other MOD-players that utilize the
- 2 standard Windows digital-channels - except MODus.)
-
- Imre OLAJOS, Jr. (LaLa of TranSByte)
- lala@interaccess.com ___ __o
- U.S.A. (Chicago suburbs) ___ _-\<,_
- Tel/fax/modem: 1 (708) 691-1622 ___ (_)/ (_)
- _-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~-_-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 00:07:55 +7400 (EET)
- From: Saari Anssi <s106275@cs.tut.fi>
- Subject: Wmidas
-
- >
- >
- >GUS Musician's Digest Tue, 28 Feb 95 11:31 PST Volume 12: Issue 46
- >
- >Today's Topics:
- > MIDAS Windows MOD player
- > Newbie-ish Patch Cache Question
- >
- >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, 27 Feb 1995 23:49:34 -0500 (EST)
- >From: "Steven Matthew Wiercinski" <wiercin2@student.msu.edu>
- >Subject: MIDAS Windows MOD player
- >
- > I recently got the MIDAS Windows MOD player. It looks like a pretty cool
- >program. It plays MODS and S3M's in windows. Has anyone got this program to
- >work with the GUS. It says it has GUS support, but I am unable to get it to
- >work.
-
- It would greatly help if you explained what you tried and what the result
- was. I simply installed the driver and started playing mods with the Media
- Player.
-
- Anssi
-
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