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- GUS Musician's Digest Wed, 12 Oct 94 12:15 PST Volume 9: Issue 5
-
- Today's Topics:
- A less interesting problem with the new drivers from Gravis
- CD ROM daughterboard? (2 msgs)
- GUS Musician's Digest V9 #4 (2 msgs)
- Interesting problem with the new drivers from Gravis
- MPB082.ZIP ???
- Overwhelming response to Angst post . . .
-
- 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.
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-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 16:17:39 EDT
- From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 11-Oct-1994 1617" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: A less interesting problem with the new drivers from Gravis
-
- Might as well bring this up here, even though it has been mentioned on
- comp.sys....
-
- Once I finally got the GUS043 driver installed, I noticed the now-famous
- "beep" sound at the end of "Ta-da" when Windows starts up. I've not noticed
- it anywhere else. However, I now do notice some note dropouts. I think it
- may actually be some notes not starting.
-
- Try playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto which is in Compuserve's MIDI forum,
- for example. (You'll also notice if you play the solo part as both organ and
- as a clarinet that the clarinet patch is still not very good. I'm talking
- about intonation as much as anything here.)
-
- Burns
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 16:07:03 EDT
- From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 11-Oct-1994 1607" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: CD ROM daughterboard?
-
- >I am considering adding a CD ROM player to my computer. Most of the
- >offerings I've seen in shop include an interface card for the CD ROM
- >player. I also own a GUS. Is there a reason to buy a daughterbord
- >CD ROM interface for the GUS instead of using an interface that comes
- >with a CD ROM player, e.g., because of availability of IRQ's or
- >DMA channels? Any comments appreciated,
-
- There are only a few reasons you might want to do this (in order of
- decreasing importance):
-
- 1) You don't have enough slots in your computer
-
- 2) It is cheaper (i.e. you have to pay more to buy the interface than you
- do to buy the daughterboard, or you have a GUS MAX or another card that has
- the CD interface built in with no extra cost.
-
- 3) You don't want to bother fiddling with finding an audio cable to connect
- the CD out to the sound card in.
-
- There are no savings in IRQs or anything.
-
- Burns
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 10:27:09 GMT
- From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: CD ROM daughterboard?
-
- >Is there a reason to buy a daughterbord
- >CD ROM interface for the GUS instead of using an interface that comes
- >with a CD ROM player, e.g., because of availability of IRQ's or
- >DMA channels?
-
- Not very music-related, but the general Digest is too long to read!
- I see very little benefit in the daughterboard - the only one is that
- it saves a slot (assuming that it does not foul a card in the adjacent
- slot). It is no more or less likely to use IRQs and DMAs than a separate
- card, and in the case of a SCSI interface, is likely to be unsuitable
- for chaining fast hard disks as well as the CD-drive. Also, it obviously
- cannot be used without a GUS. The audio signal will still have to be led
- from the CD to the GUS via a separate cable.
-
- To the person getting no CD sound from their GUS: Old GUS do not have
- mixer control over CD-audio-in (always on). Is your cable wired
- correctly? I seem to remember that the 4 GUS pins go LGGR (getting
- L and R correct is left as an exercise!).
-
- Clarke Brunt
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 15:20:23 -0500 (EST)
- From: efinkler@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu (Big Daddy Ed)
- Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V9 #4
-
- > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- > From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
- > Subject: Interested in hearing the GUS is musical action?
- >
- > Hi there. I'm an industrial musician here in New Haven, CT; my recording
- > project is called Angst. Last March i put out a collection of songs on
- > my ittybittyunderground record label, 137 Records. At the time i had no
- > 16-bit DB and limited recording equipment. I am now working on recording
- > a new album in 16-bit glory with phat effect processors and such.
- >
- > If you're interested in getting a copy of Angst's _Strain_ (the project
- > released last semester), email 137.records@yale.edu for our info file.
- > Angst's music is a good example of how the GUS can be used as a backbone
- > for electronic music, and it's the only GUS-centric underground release i
- > know of.
-
- I'll be putting a track completely created on a 1meg GUS on the Arts Industria
- "The Art Of Brutality" CD comp. The song is called "Rip", and is pulled from
- over an hour's worth of material I've created for my solo project (Bubblegum
- Crisis). The only other instrument I use is a DR-660 drum machine.
- -Ed Finkler
- Arts Industria
- efinkler@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 15:23:09 -0700 (MST)
- From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
- Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V9 #4
-
- > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:24:06 +0100 (MET)
- > From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
- > Subject: Memory on GUS
- >
- > > From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
- > > Subject: RAM limitations; music scanning software
- > >
- > > 2. What would happen if one were to extend the DRAM capacity of the
- > > existing GUS by either physical expansion of slots, or putting in DRAMs
- > > larger than those specified?
- >
- > The real memory limitation is in the GF1 chip, that only addresses
- > 1 MB. The best thing that could happen if you somehow "connected"
- > more RAM is that parts of the memory would be physically represented
- > in more than one chip :)
-
- Well, there's always the ole bank switching technique - but that would require
- a change to the program :-(. BTW, the program (ie, firmware) is stored
- in an external ROM, right? Or is it onboard the GF1? It would seem
- not too farfetched for someone to hack a different version of the
- firmware and implement some nifty new stuff like using PC ram to emulate
- GUS ram or doing that bank switching thing, etc.
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 16:13:57 EDT
- From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 11-Oct-1994 1614" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Interesting problem with the new drivers from Gravis
-
- Hi and thanks for resurrecting the digest, Vince!
-
- A few weeks ago, I tried to install GUS0043 the updated GUS driver. I had a
- problem which is apparently common: the system whined that there was already
- a driver installed (even though I thought I had uninstalled it). I was
- pressed for time and everything seemed to work, so I forgot about it for a
- couple weeks.
-
- This weekend, I noticed that my floppies were working find from DOS, but were
- total trash from Windows (or from a DOS shell under windows). If I tried to
- read a floppy, the directory was junk. If I tried to write, not only did the
- write fail, but it also trashed the directory so I could not read it even in
- DOS.
-
- I finally decided I had a bad controller, and resigned myself to replacing my
- old moldy RLL disks with IDE (to get a new controller), but then the next
- day, I remembered the GUS driver. I fixed it up (I guess I had uninstalled
- only the MIDI part and not the WAV part??) and BOOM! the floppy problem was
- fixed too.
-
-
- Weird, huh? I only relate this to save other people trouble if they have the
- same problem.
-
- Burns
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 15:37:45 -0400 (EDT)
- From: al2032@csc.albany.edu
- Subject: MPB082.ZIP ???
-
- ..some time ago i jotted a note to myself to get /submit/mpb082.zip
- but now i can't find it, don't remember what it's supposed to be, and
- don't know if it's been superceded by an update...can anyone help me
- out on this one??? ...thanks...
- -allen
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 21:03:17 -0400 (EDT)
- From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
- Subject: Overwhelming response to Angst post . . .
-
- Geez, i got close to twenty requests for 137 info today. I didn't
- realize that the GUS music-making community had that kind of interest.
- Thanks . . . someone asked if the releases are available on CD; it's only
- on cassette (that bit of info isn't in the file.)
-
- Once again the address is 137.records@yale.edu
-
- ]\/[atthew ]\/[. ]\[ordan []. .[] Support underground music! Email
- [][|][] for information about 137 Records.
- mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu [] V []
- matthew.nordan@yale.edu [] [] Yawheh, Yeshua, Elohim, forever
-
- ------------------------------
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