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- The GUS Musician's Digest Saturday, 6 January 1996 Volume 20 : Number 004
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- Today's Topics:
- Re: MIDI port and Win95
- Re: Win95/GUS MIDI Adapter
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- From: Tuomas Koskela <Tuomas.Koskela@oulu.fi>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:42:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: MIDI port and Win95
-
- > In fact I get no reference to the MIDI output port anywhere.
- > If anyone out there is seeing what I am not, please let me know. Do I need
- > to install ultmport.drv. If so how? Win.ini, sys.ini, registry?
- >Milton, I am sorry to say but at one point my Roland E86 Keyboard was
- longing to talk
- >to Cubase. However, no joy. No outboard MIDI with the W95 GUS drivers.
- >I went back to the Win 3.11. drivers and now everything is working again.
- >I have some communication going about it with Kris (from Gravis).
- >I suggest to make your K2000 happy again, install the Win 3.11. drivers again.
-
- You may install those Win95 drivers again; I have an answer to this problem.
- I had excatly the same problem, and the help came from one of the
- comp.soundcard newsgroups:
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- 1. Make sure you still have ULTMPORT.DRV in \windows\system\ subdir.
- 2. Add the following to the [drivers] section of the system.ini file:
- midi1=ultmport.drv
- 3. Save it and reboot Win95.
-
- And that's it. I was very reliefed when at last Win95 and GUS midi port was
- working together. Bad thing is that the midi port driver is still the old
- 16-bit driver, and secondly Gravis in a way bit cheated us on this midi
- thing; new drivers supposed to have _all_ the functionality of the old
- drivers. Even Gravis' technical support was a bit confused on this. Maybe on
- the new update...?
-
- Tuomas Koskela
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- e:mail: Tuomas.Koskela@oulu.fi
- WWW: http://phoenix.oulu.fi/~tkoskela/koo.html
- Phone: 358-81-5531341 (work) / 358-81-5545805 (home)
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- Post: Tuomas Koskela
- University of Oulu
- Department of Physical Sciences
- Linnanmaa
- FIN-90570 OULU FINLAND
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- From: Clarke Brunt <clarke@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 11:49:23 GMT
- Subject: Re: Win95/GUS MIDI Adapter
-
- From: pvh@icl.nl (Pieter van Horssen)
- >I am sorry to say but at one point my Roland E86 Keyboard was longing
- >to talk to Cubase. However, no joy. No outboard MIDI with the W95 GUS drivers.
- >I went back to the Win 3.11. drivers and now everything is working again. I
- >have some communication going about it with Kris (from Gravis).
- >
- >I suggest to make your K2000 happy again, install the Win 3.11. drivers again.
-
- I seem to be posting this rather a lot since I found out...
-
- It appears that you are supposed to still use the old ultmport.drv
- driver alongside the new Win95 drivers to access the MIDI port -
- it should still be in \windows\system. This means that you
- end up using grvsultr.vxd (Win95), ultrasnd.drv (Win95), and
- ultmport.drv (Win3.1). You don't use grvsultr.386.
-
- Unfortunately the Gravis Win95 install script fails to set it up,
- so you have to go into SYSTEM.INI and add midi1=ultmport.drv
- (after the line which goes midi='something else'). If you have
- other MIDI devices, you may need midi2= midi3= etc.
-
- It then works, but I still get an occasional Win95 total hang
- when I first access the MIDI port (just the same as I used
- to get with the Win3.1 drivers under Win95). Kris at Gravis
- has not been able to suggest anything other than "Maybe an
- NMI problem" (but it used to work fine under Win3.1), or
- "try different DMAs or IRQs".
-
- - --
- Clarke Brunt (CCB), Principal Software Engineer, Laser-Scan Ltd, Science Park,
- Milton Rd, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 4FY, England. Tel: (+44) (0)1223 420414; Fax: 420044
- Email: clarke@lsl.co.uk
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