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- The GUS Musician's Digest Tuesday, 23 May 1995 Volume 15 : Number 015
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- Today's Topics:
- header3d
- Problem with Roland e16 and GUS/MIDI
- GUS Max as a mult-bank synth
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- From: stephen@cbr.dit.csiro.au (Stephen Barrass)
- Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 17:47:21 +1000
- Subject: header3d
-
- some weird stuff has happened with the 3d stuff over the past few
- software releases - with different utilites and demos coming and mostly going...
-
- in the 2.06 disks there was a focal point utility for creating 3d soundfiles
- called fp3d.exe plus some documentation about how to do it...in that doc
- it mentioned another utility which you attached a 3d header to the file with
- called header3d, only its not in the discs.
-
- Does anyone know where to get this from - or some other more recent way
- of making 3d soundfiles from samples ?
-
- stephen
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- From: Dave Haynie <dave.haynie@scala.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 95 12:40:31 EST
- Subject: Problem with Roland e16 and GUS/MIDI
-
- >derek@sdt.com (Derek Lane) wrote:
-
- >The e16 plays fine by itself, and runs through the demo great! I've loaded
- >the Miracle Piano Software version 1.05 (I think) and it loads without any
- >errors.
- >
- >Now I hook up the e16 to the Gravis MIDI box, and connect the MIDI box
- >to the GUS MIDI port.
- >
- >Then I turn the keyboard on, computer on, get to the DOS prompt, and run
- >the miracle program, the program just hangs and locks up the computer.
-
- I tried setting up the Miracle Piano Software with a GUS Max awhile ago, to no
- avail. The main problem is that, if you want to use an external MIDI device for
- input or output, the Miracle wants it to look exactly like a Roland MPU-401
- port. Nothing I've tried so far for the GUS emulates this closely enough to
- make the Miracle happy.
-
- The last one I tried was MegaEm 3.03, which didn't lock up, but didn't actually
- work either. The Miracle could output just fine to GUS synth using one of the
- emulations (Roland SoundCanvas I think), but anything that went out the MIDI
- port was totally garbled. And I got no keyboard input whatsoever. I sent a bug
- report to Gravis.
-
- -Dave
-
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- From: Dave Haynie <dave.haynie@scala.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 95 12:47:25 EST
- Subject: GUS Max as a mult-bank synth
-
- I'm been driving myself nuts trying to get the GUS Max to work as a synth box
- with multiple banks. My primary synth is a Roland JV-880. I have some fairly
- good patches for the GUS, but I want to keep the basic General MIDI around too,
- because the Roland isn't GM-compatible. With around 20MB or more of GUS
- patches (did lots of downloading just recently), the GUS makes a nice backup,
- when I don't have just the right patch for the Roland.
-
- Which brings me to banking. I'm driving this with Cakewalk Pro 3.01, which does
- a great job flipping banks on the Roland, so I figured it would do likewise on
- the GUS. But no dice, the GUS ignores the bank entirely, so far anyhow. I can
- manually select a bank with the patch manager, but that doesn't cut it if I'm
- trying to use multiple custom banks in the same song. Is this a flaw in the GUS
- MIDI support, or am I missing something. I'm using 3.5-something GUS software,
- if that's any help.
-
- Thanks in advance for any pointers.
-
- -Dave
-
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