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- The GUS Musician's Digest Sunday, 3 December 1995 Volume 18 : Number 021
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- Today's Topics:
- DAT
- Re:Midi port problems
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- From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 10:17:57 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: DAT
-
- This is slightly off the main topic for this list, but since I would like
- to tape my 'masterpieces' the way they sound directly from the MAX, I
- wonder if anyone could offer source & cost about an adequate DAT unit,
- preferably dual, toward the lower end of the price scale. I've seen
- single tape units at around $600, going way up from there.
-
- Thanks, Emory Menefee
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-
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- From: Reinout Wijnveen <rwijnveen@gww.nl>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 13:01:45 -0800
- Subject: Re:Midi port problems
-
- At 00:06 1-12-95 -0800, Tuomas Koskela <Tuomas.Koskela@oulu.fi>wrote:
- >Subject: MIDI-port problems
- >
- > Hi everybody.
- >
- > I got a serious problem with my GUS Midi Adaptor. I'm using GUS as a
- >midi interface with Cubase for Windows. Couple of days ago I bought a new
- >motherboard (120 MHz Intel Zappa) and new video card (miroVIDEO20SV). Now
- >I'm getting _a lot_ of dropping note-ons and note-offs while playing my
- >master keyboard and using Cubase's midi-thru echoing the signals to my
- >synths (nothing unusual with the setup here). Playing is nowadays
- >practically impossible. About every second midimessage is more or less
- >delayed or completely lost. There has been similar problems with my old
- >motherboard (486 DX2/66 clone) too, but since getting the new one this has
- >gone beyond acceptable level.
- > (...)
- >Tuomas Koskela
- >
- Hi Tuomas,
-
- Your problem rings somekind of bell to me, however my configuration is
- different. I'd like to present my story here. I hope it gives you a broader
- view on the problem.
- I'm using the GUS Max itself to make and play midisongs. Whenever I play
- third party songs everything is OK. But when I make my own songs i get -
- after some editing - "jumping and dropping" notes: I mean notes that are
- played very loud or silent, or maybe not played at all.
- I'm still trying to locate this problem. I saved the songs with the jumping
- and dropping notes, and played them back with various programs: Session,
- Powerchords, Winjammer, Windows mediaplayer, Soundstation and some others. I
- found NO influence on the problem.
- I also upgraded my GUS-software several times, again no influence!
-
- Because your problem increased by changing your motherboard, I think you
- should NOT suspect your MIDI-cable or external stuff in the FIRST place.
- Let's try to LOCATE your problem. Take another (= a patchcaching) sequencer
- program (session as delivered with the GUS will do in this case) and use
- your GUS as the soundmodule! Is the problem still there? In this case you
- might have the same sort of problem as I!
- In this case it must be located between the software and the GUS MIDI-port.
- I have in mind the following chain:
- Sequencer program -> Windows drivers -> (BIOS?) -> ISA BUS -> GUS card ->
- GUS MIDI Port
- If anyone has corrections or additions to this chain please drop us a line!
-
- If the problem in your case is located somewhere else, you can of course
- extend the chain to reflect your external configuration.
- I will now continue describing the search i'm doing in my case.
- Now we have to try to find out which parts of the chain have it's role in
- the problem.
- I tried different sequencer programs, and different drivers: no effect.
- However i must say: at first the majority of wrong notes were "dropping"
- notes, nowadays i've merely "jumping" notes. Until now i've not been able to
- trace this: there have been so many changes to my system: adding lots of
- software, adding expansion-cards (a scanner, a TV tuner, a multi IO-card to
- replace the on board I/O, later replaced by a Side Jr. pro, I blew the audio
- output of two GUS cards due to a "leaking" power supply), new harddisks, a
- CD ROM, a tapestreamer.
- At this time it's almost impossible for me to find out what actually
- influences the problem. But i still have some work to do: I'd like to borrow
- a GUS for a couple of weeks to test is thoroughly, I should remove all my
- expansion-cards except of the GUS and test again, to see what's going on on
- de ISA bus. I could try to borrow another VGA-card and see what happens: if
- your old VGA-card was a PCI-bus or an ISA-bus type you could already test
- this yourself.
- The last thing i can think of at this time is trying my configuration with
- another motherboard!
-
- Another point is that a friend of mine just bought a new system: P90, GUS
- 1MB, Intel zappa 8MB, Diamond stealth VGA and 1,6 GB western Digital. (Oops,
- another Zappa)
- This guy is also a musician. Unfortunately he is reconstructing his house at
- this time, but as soon as he's finished that, we will use this system in the
- studio he's building now!
- The configuration will be: the GUS, an external keyboard, and an external
- "soundmodule". Probably we will learn some more about this "dropping and
- jumping notes" problem!
- It will certain take some time, but if you're interested in our experiences
- you can keep in touch, by email or by this list!
-
- Finally i'd like to ask everyone reading this list to post their experiences
- concerning this fenomenon!
- And you Tuomas: please mail me or post something in this mailing list if you
- manage to do something (good or bad) to your problem: it might be of interest.
-
- Greetings and success to all,
-
- Reinout
- rwijnveen@gww.nl
-
- I must say: I subscribed to this list two days ago and dropped immediatly
- into a (for me) very interesting discussion.
-
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