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- The GUS Programmer's Digest Friday, 16 June 1995 Volume 20 : Number 010
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- Today's Topics:
- Is it my imagination...
- Re: SBOS pro; GUS .rol player
- Samplitude Demo Location
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- From: klingler@rt66.com (Dave Klingler)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 01:27:56 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Is it my imagination...
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- Hi, everyone. I'm new to this group, so please accept my apologies if I'm
- asking a silly question, but are all the GUS ftp sites screwed up?
-
- I'm thinking about writing a NeXTStep driver for the GUS, so I need some
- basic hardware information on getting the board up and running. None of the
- ftp sites I've accessed, including the Gravis site in Toronto, seem to even
- have the files they list in their indexes. Am I missing something?
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- If anyone has a good set of hardware specs and some nice instructions on
- programming the GUS, please send them or the location of an ftp site or BBS
- to me (klingler@rt66.com). I'd sure appreciate it. Right now I just have
- to guess...
-
- Thanks!
- Dave
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- From: Harry C Pulley IV <hcpiv@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:00:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: SBOS pro; GUS .rol player
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- You'll notice that maxsbos, for the most part, does what you ask. Most
- standard FM instruments are translated properly to patches corresponding
- to that instrument. As long as the FM music sticks to the standard .bnk
- file instruments then the song sounds quite good. As soon as you go off
- and start using weird instruments or sound FX then maxsbos doesn't always
- do that great a job at translation. I think it is pretty amazing that
- Gravis was able to write a decent emulator at all; I tried to write some
- .rol players back when I had an Adlib card (and so did everyone else) and
- it is very complicated to write, especially compared to writing stuff for
- the GUS with all the example code and SDKs kicking around.
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- For FM music I still, for the most part, prefer a real SB, which is why I
- have one in my box. For some songs that play entirely by the rules
- maxsbos sounds better. Even when maxsbos does choose all the right
- patches the songs often sound _wrong_ to my ears. A keyboard with GM is
- often the same way. If it doesn't use wavetable patches like the GUS
- does then you can often get a really neat sound out of an instrument that
- isn't really very realistic. I often end up wanting to sample the
- keyboard instrument on the GUS and use it since it is a neat, synthy
- sound. Even the OPL3 and OPL4 cards sometimes sound better as an OPL2
- for some old FM tunes since they don't sound quite right with the
- advanced operators. My SB clone has an OPL3 but only the software that
- came with it uses it. All standard SB/Adlib stuff uses it as an OPL2.
- Some PAS software will use the OPL3 but most detects the fact that it is
- not really talking to a PAS and fails.
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- I've wanted for some time to port a .rol player to the GUS. Maybe I'll
- do it soon, since I have Adlib source code. Has anyone else attempted
- this? If so then I would enjoy hearing from you. Even if you never
- completed it, I would like to know of any pitfalls to avoid or any other
- advice you can offer.
-
- Harry
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- From: Daevid Vincent <dae51d@matrix.roc.servtech.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 05:55:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Samplitude Demo Location
-
- Ok, I finally found a place to put the SAMPLTDE.ZIP demo.
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- anonymous ftp:
- ftp.servtech.com /pub/users/dae51d/sampltde.zip
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- or via WWW:
- http://www.servtech.com/public/dae51d/
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