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- GUS Musician's Digest Thu, 24 Feb 94 3:26 Volume 5: Issue 22
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- Today's Topics:
- 16 bit recording option s
- All Notes Off
- gravis.exe rip!
- mpb06 problem
- The Answer; Re: mpb06 problem
-
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- - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
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- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 12:54:11
- From: john.smith@gravis.com
- Subject: 16 bit recording option s
-
- 16 Bit Recording Option Shipping
- -------------------------------
- The UltraSound 16 Bit recording option is now shipping!
-
- You may order this product directly from us for $99.95US or $129.95Can
- plus shipping. To order call (604)431-5020.
-
- This option card will only work an UltraSound V2.2, V2.4, and V3.4.
-
- Here is a copy of the 16 Bit brochure.
-
- C'ya
-
- John
-
- Advanced
- G R A V I S
- Computer Technology Ltd.
-
- Tel: (604)431-5020 Head Office U.S. Distribution
- Fax: (604)431-5155 #101, 3750 North Fraser Way 1790 Midway Lane
- Tech: (604)431-1807 Burnaby, BC, Canada Bellingham, WA, USA
- BBS: (604)431-5927 V5J 5E9 98226
-
-
- UltraSound - 16-bit Recording Option
- ====================================
-
- Step Up to 16-bit Recording with the Gravis 16-bit Recording Option
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Add to the fun and excitement of your Gravis UltraSound board with the
- 16-bit Recording Option, and turn your home computer into a recording
- studio.
-
- The 16-bit recording option offers these remarkable features:
-
- - Connects *piggyback* to your UltraSound card and does not occupy
- any additional expansion slots
- - Lets you record and playback up to 48 kHz (DAT quality)
- - Supports hardware compressions including ADPCM, ALAW, MULAW
- - Hardware mixing and volume control made easy
-
- To take advantage of the recording capabilities, the 16-bit Recording
- Option includes the following software:
-
- USS16 - A radical multi-track recording studio for DOS, that lets you
- edit, mix, play and record music while adding effects such as fade,
- echo, reverb and more.
-
- Windows Mixer - Enables you to adjust the volume of the left and right
- channels for the line in, line out, and CD in. You can also adjust
- the MIDI and WAV volumes as well as the microphone input.
-
- Patch Maker - The beauty of the UltraSound is that the instrument
- patches are stored in RAM. Patch Maker grants you an artistic license
- to edit or modify existing patches. Should you become really daring,
- you can even create brand-new patches that demonstrate your creative
- and totally imaginative personality. The patches you create are
- limited only to the boundaries of your imagination!
-
- The 16-bit Recording Option is covered by our 1 Year "No-Nonsense"
- Warranty. With its low suggested retail price, durable construction
- and superior workmanship, the 16-Bit Recording Option is a *must have*
- addition for anyone interested in having even more fun with the Gravis
- UltraSound card!
-
- ---
- ~ QMPro 1.51 ~ ... Drop your carrier ... we have you surrounded!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 20:42:00 -0500
- From: colin.buckley@canrem.com (Colin Buckley)
- Subject: All Notes Off
-
- What is the MIDI message to ensure all notes are off? This is for General
- Midi compliant devices. Currently, I loop through all 16 channels, sending
- note offs from note 0 to 127 with a volume of zero. However, it takes
- upto a second for this to complete. There has to be an easier way.
-
- Thanks alot.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 17:26:18 AST
- From: Craig Galbraith <J5OA@UNB.CA>
- Subject: gravis.exe rip!
-
- Hey all!
-
- I would like to get those awesome, crisp sounding hi hats out of
- that Triton Demo for the GUS. Anybody out there have a file that can
- rip the samples outta that sucker? Or can anybody tell me where to
- get such a file? any help would be very appreciated!
-
- e-mail me at j5oa@unbsj.ca or post it to the digest
- thanks Craig Galbraith
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 06:46:03 -0800 (PST)
- From: jtcapps@netcom.com (John T. Capps)
- Subject: Re: mpb06 problem
-
- Jari Kivela wrote:
- >I tried the mpb06 patch banker, but I can't get it to work. I have it in
- >my path, but it doesn't help. When I start it, it draws the main
- >windows and then it gives me an GPF (in module MPB.EXE). All I
- >can do is to close it and after that my mouse pointer disappears and
- >I have to restart windows. In my friends computer it sometimes
- >works and sometimes doesn't. Is there a special windows setup I
- >should use to get it to work or should I just forget it (and perhaps
- >wait for another version)? Btw. is there another similar program
- >available?
-
- The only time I've gotten GPFs from MIDI Patch Browser was
- when my ultrasnd.ini file was screwed up. It's likely that your
- ultrasnd.ini has a strange (non-standard) format, for whatever reason.
- If it isn't obvious by inspection, do this: Back it up, then copy a
- "basic" (only one bank) ultrasnd.ini to your c:\ultrasnd directory, and
- try running it. It should work. You'll have to inspect your original
- ultrasnd.ini closely to figure out where the error is.
- Incidentally, a reference to a patch which doesn't exist is not
- considered an error by MPB. (i.e. 2=gigglesnort, where "gigglesnort"
- doesn't exist, won't give an error). On the whole, MPB has fairly good
- error-trapping.
- Hope this helps!
-
- John
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 10:23:06 +0100
- From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se
- Subject: The Answer; Re: mpb06 problem
-
- To all of you having problems with GPF and mpb v0.6;
-
- The problems due to a bit of sloppy programming (or rather too-fast -one-in-
- too-little-time; I only made mpb 'cause; 1) I got fed up with the Gravis Patch
- Browser, 2) I wanted too learn programming under Windows (so it's sort of an
- advanced win_HelloWorld())...)).
-
- What happens is;
- * mpb finds an ultrasound device, checks a table and see's that it should
- use the file ULTRA206.INS
- * In that file there's a INCLUDE=\whatever\ULTRASND.INI wich is read for
- instrument name info...
- * I didn't think there would be more than 128 banks to put samples in...
- * Then along comes Patchmaker Lite; it uses Bank no 1024 to temporarely tell
- the Windows drivers where and what sounds to load (that's why Pmaker Lite is
- sometimes so slow when editing large patches, when modifying a patch it must
- first save it to disk, edit ULTRASND.INI, tell the drivers to reload the
- patch and then it can play it... or something like that anyway, strange thing
- is, when editing loop-points and such, it seems as it's done some other way)
- * It sometimes 'forgets' tyo clean up ULTRASND.INI after it's done; so when
- trying to read a Bank >= 128 mpb06 gets a GPF...
-
- I've know this for quite, some time and it's fixed (along with some nifty
- improvements) in mpb 0.7, wich I've forgotten to release... and I can't now
- 'cause I messed things up when switching to BC++ 4.0, anyway, I'm a bit
- overloaded with school-work at the moment but I'll give mpb a major overhaul
- during the Easter holiday; perhaps I'll throw in the ability to load _any_
- patch file from anywhere on disk...
-
- Anyway, too use mpb06 until mpb08 is release, just edit ULTRASND.INI and remove
- all banks >= 128 before running mpb.
- If anyone still gets GPF after doing that, let me know...
-
- / F. Markus J.
- / <f93-maj@nada.kth.se>
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