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- GUS Musician's Digest Wed, 26 Oct 94 11:34 PST Volume 9: Issue 20
-
- Today's Topics:
- FAQ Maintainer?
- Managing Patch Banks
- MIDI Cabling
- ProPats
-
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- - 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, 25 Oct 1994 17:48:25 -0400 (EDT)
- From: David A Denis <denis@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Subject: FAQ Maintainer?
-
- Dear GUSers,
- Does anyone know if the FAQ is currently being maintained? I heard
- the maintainer was unavailable. If not, I would like to volunteer for the
- job. I can't say I know the GUS inside and out, but I know if pretty well, and have had mine for over 2
- years. I would like to update the Glist and make it part of the FAQ also.
- I have read the FAQ over and found it heavy on hardware technicallity,
- but short on practicality in some areas. Any help would be appreciated.
-
- Dave
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- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 15:37:00 MDT
- From: Thomas Day <ThomasD@tps.com>
- Subject: Managing Patch Banks
-
- I just installed the new (gus0043.zip) GUS utilities,
- including the Patch/Bank Manager program. In a silly
- effort to organize my patch files, I decided to add
- a BANK0 directory to my \ultrasnd\midi directory and
- move the BANK0 files to that location.
-
- The problem is that I can't get my patch manager to
- default to the new subdirectory and file designations.
- Any suggestions?
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 15:33:17 -0500
- From: "Kent Williams" <cadsi.com!kent@elvis.cadsi.com>
- Subject: MIDI Cabling
-
- GUS Tech support told me that you could use a GUS MIDI cable on a Sound Blaster,
- but you couldn't use a Soundblaster MIDI cable on a GUS Max, because "we adhere
- to the standard, and they don't."
-
- Is it me or does this sound like a load of malarkey? In the first place,
- has ANYONE besides Creative Labs defined a standard for connecting a MIDI
- In/Out pair to a game port? And how could they be wiring a cable that connects
- to 5 pins on the game port such that the GUS cable could work both places,
- but the Soundblaster only work on the Soundblaster?
-
- Has anyone tried using the Soundblaster Cable? Does it work?
-
- OK, I'm done with my Andy Rooney imitation.
-
- --
- Kent Williams -- kent@gilligan.cadsi.com
- Look in the mail header for all sorts of vital information about me.
- I once decorated my apartment entirely in ten foot salad forks!!
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 14:15:13 EDT
- From: ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen)
- Subject: ProPats
-
- christian@birdy.ping.de (Christian 'Kiki' Schmitz) wrote:
-
- > In the last time I always hear about some patches called propats or
- > something like that. Are these patches entirely better than the patches
- > from gravis. So, is it worth downloading ?
-
- In my own words from Spring '94 (thoughtfully saved by Paul Cunnel)
-
- For those of you who haven't heard of Propats - the following from
- Bill Allen sums it up:
-
- >Propats are a collection of large (very large) patches that can
- >be used in place of the ones that are supplied with the GUS. These
- >patches have obviously been lovingly put together by someone who
- >cares more about the sound of music than the practicality of the fact
- >that the GUS has only 1meg of memory. Most of the propats use .25 to
- >.5 meg, thus leaving room for 2 or 3 instruments. By contrast the
- >typical patches supplied with the GUS are 10k-60k. The supplied
- >patches are acceptable in a wide variety of uses, but for real music
- >they tend to be lame - listen to the Grand Piano. The initial hit
- >sounds OK, but the decay is awful - it shoulds like a $30 casio.
- >The propat version of Grand Piano sounds just like a GP from low
- >notes to high - it's amazing.
- >
- >I know that I speak for most in the Music digest when I state that
- >these propats are the best reason around to get a GUS with more
- >memory.
- >ballen@ejv.com (Bill Allen)
-
- Bill
-
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