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- GUS Musician's Digest Fri, 28 Oct 94 11:47 PST Volume 9: Issue 22
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- Today's Topics:
- About SoundBlaster cables and Angst tapes
- GUS Midi controllers and Bank Switching
- Looking for help on SysEx (II) and MIDI cable
- Pro Pats 3
- ProPats 3.0
- Propats Location
- UltraMAX and MIDI sample loading
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- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 16:08:20 -0400 (EDT)
- From: "Matthew M. Nordan @ 137" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
- Subject: About SoundBlaster cables and Angst tapes
-
- I have been using a Pro Audio Spectrum MIDI Cable (their cutesy name for
- it is the "MIDI Mate") for well over a year now with no problems. I'm
- using a very cheesy Yamaha PSS-680 FM synth to control it. (You know,
- non-velocity-sensitive, itty-bitty-Radio-Shack-looking keys?)
-
- Second, to those who ordered Angst tapes from 137, they'll be in the mail
- by Saturday. My hellish week of midterms is over . . .
-
- ]\/[atthew ]\/[. ]\[ordan []. .[] Support underground music! Email
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- matthew.nordan@yale.edu [] [] Yawheh, Yeshua, Elohim, forever
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- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 09:04:49 EDT
- From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
- Subject: GUS Midi controllers and Bank Switching
-
- I had posted this a couple days back to gus-general - this is a more appropriate
- forum. Sorry about the crosspost. I have also made some changes in the text.
- I'd appreciate any comments on this, especially on proposal 3.
-
-
- Albert Pauw asked in a previous digest:
-
- >> And how about bankswitching? The bankmanager can do it. As far
- >> as I can check it doesn't use the GS standard of Roland (which
- >> is becomming a widely accepted one). Using controller #0 plus
- >> the usual Program Change. Would be nice to have a similar bank
- >> switching scheme and bank management. Bank 1 (Roland counts
- >> from 1-128) is the General MIDI bank, and Bank 128 is the MT-32
- >> bank.
-
- What I have found is that the current windows drivers DO support
- bankswitching , but do not support incremental patch loading,
- thus only one bank may be specified (with fallback to bank 0 for
- patches not in the specified bank). The melodic/drum banks are
- specified via the wBank argument of midiOutCachePatches and the
- wPatch argument of midiOutCacheDrumPatches, not by direct interpretation
- of controllers 0/32 nor by interpretation of a channel 10 program change.
- Thus, for example, a sequencer could call midiOutCachePatches with a bank
- of 128 (127?) to get a MT-32 mapping if someone wrote the correct mapping
- into ultrasnd.ini.
-
- The problem is that a sequencer needs to know what bank to request.
- If, for example, I ask for bank 128 on channel 1, but don't specify
- a bank for channel 2 (or specify a different bank number), what should
- the sequencer assume? Even within a single channel, what should the
- sequencer assume if the bank is changed in the middle of a piece?
-
- Proposal:
- 1) The "correct" solution would be for Gravis/Forte to implement incremental
- patch loading (i.e. not to treat a MIDI_CACHE_BESTFIT as a clear and
- reload, but rather as an append), so that patches from multiple banks
- could be loaded.
- 2) An expedient would be for sequencers to assume that the first non-zero bank
- encountered for melodics becomes the "controlling" bank, and to map this into
- the wBank argument of the midiOutCachePatches call. (Similar logic for
- channel 10 drums). For the GUS, both controllers 0 and 32 are used - a general
- sequencer might want a user-settable option to switch between 0/32, 0 only,
- and 32 only mappings (might be needed for bank switching for non-GUS cards).
- 3) Sequencer authors incorporate the bank arguments. On an interim basis
- (until proposal 1 is done, and I have no idea if Gravis even plans to do #1 -
- any comment from Gravis) the bank arguments could be set either by
- using the expedient suggested in proposal 2, a sequencer setup screen
- allowing input of bank arguments, or a sequencer specific string or sysex.
- Any opinions here? Any sequencer authors willing to implement something
- like this?
-
- Ivan Strom
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 10:24:01 +0100
- From: A.PAUW@ELSEVIER.nl
- Subject: Looking for help on SysEx (II) and MIDI cable
-
- >> I asked Roland, but somehow I get the feeling costumer service is
- >> not common anymore: I had no reply whatsoever. And my dealer can't
- >> help me either.
-
- I guess I was just too hasty. The day I send in this message I
- received nice reply from Roland. Sorry guys.
-
- By the way. Lots of people are talking about the midi cables. I
- use one from a SoundBlaster clone (don't recall the brand) and
- this works perfectly too! I also bought a nice interface/cable
- from a company which has put a file about this in the info directory on
- epas ultrasound somewhere. It has two leds on top, a green and a
- red one. Build $19 and as a kit $13 (I think). It should arrive any
- day now. If someone wants more info I can also give the (e-mail)
- address. It's much much cheaper than Gravis' cable.
-
- Oh yeah, if I have a cable, why another one? Well I have two
- midi ports (one GUS, one SB).
-
- Albert Pauw
- a.pauw@elsevier.nl
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 17:16:48 -0400
- From: Christopher McKillop <cdmckill@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
- Subject: Pro Pats 3
-
-
- Hello...
-
- Several people have asked, and no one has answered with a true
- responce... WHERE ARE ProPats 3???? I looked on epas and orst in both
- the submit and sound/patches/files and in the 00Index.ALL, there is not a
- mention of a Pro Pat 3....Could some kind soul take the time to dump them
- on epas sometime??? Or point me to a site that has them, thanks...
-
- Chris
-
- ><><><><><><><> Christopher McKillop, Computer Engineering <><><><><><><><>
- University Of Waterloo "then it occured to me as he
- cdmckill@novice.uwaterloo.ca - School drove away, D = R x T...."
- cmckillo@fox.nstn.ns.ca - Home -The Pixies
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-
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 11:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
- From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
- Subject: ProPats 3.0
-
- Someone suggested that we should get these now since there won't be
- another full release....
-
- So where are they? :-)
-
- Kevin
-
- p.s. I checked archive.orst.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 09:11:14 GMT
- From: csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net (Paul Cunnell)
- Subject: Re: Propats Location
-
- To anyone looking for Propats version 3 - I found them on:
- archive.orst.edu, in directory pub/packages/gravis/submit.
- They are called pp3-01.zip through pp3-19.zip
- (yup, 19 zip files). I don't know whether anybody is
- likely to clean up the submit area, in which case they
- would probably move to:
- pub/packages/gravis/sound/patches/files
-
- Paul.
-
- --
- Paul Cunnell CSFB FOS (csfb1!csfp.co.uk!pcunnell@uunet.uu.net) +44 71 516 2946
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 11:26 GMT+0100
- From: RTHI@btma74.se.bel.alcatel.be
- Subject: UltraMAX and MIDI sample loading
-
- Hi all,
-
- I've just got myself a brand new MAX, only to find out that my old ultrasound
- sounds a lot better than this MAX:-(
-
- What's the problem...
-
- After playing some midi files the sounds get worse. When I then check the
- instruments in the patch manager and play patch 48 (string ensemble) I hear a
- mixture of string AND a DRUM sound. So when a midi file uses 48 I also hear the
- ticks made by the drum:-(. Sometimes the same effect happens with other
- instruments e.g. piano/drum.
-
- When I unload and then upload the patch it sound great again.
-
- Conclusion, after playing some midi files the patch loading gets corrupted.
-
- Can somebody give me any ideas to solve this problem or give me some pointers
- as to what can cause this problem?
-
-
- Thanks
-
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- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 08:58:47 +0100
- From: mr@nit.be (Marc Resibois)
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