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From: james@sol1.poly-east-london.ac.uk (James Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS-16 pricing still circa $280
Date: 3 Sep 1992 08:32:46 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

> tld@moon.base.bellcore.com (Terry Davidson)
> Subject: Re: ***PAS-16 forsale or trade***
........
> |> > Yes, the list price has been cut.  Comstor at (800)959-9590
> |> > is advertising the PAS 16 for $179.
> |> 
> |> Let's see, a used PAS 16 for $190 or a new one for $179.  Which one to get,
> |> which one to get.  hmmmmmmm.
> 
> Ok, netters - I called them, and:  Comstor's price is *DEALER* pricing.... 
> So... if you have your FED/STATE tax ID, you *can* get it for
> 179+shipping ...  8*)

How does that leave me, outside of the US?  Waiting for the Gravis "next week" 
Ultrasound, I do believe.

Pah!  And there I was getting all excited that I could afford a nice sound card
to make trance tapes with.

There isnt another sound card that has better sampling than a SBpro but costs
less than a PAS-16 is there?

james@sol1.pel.ac.uk
It makes a feature out of a pizza, its really wild with rice
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From: emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo)
Subject: Problem with MIDI on SB Pro
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 01:16:19 GMT

Yesterday, the MIDI interface on my SoundBlaster PRO card seems to have
developed a fault.  Two days before that it was working fine.

The problem is, the MIDI OUT line on the interface has stopped working
properly.  i.e. I can't play midi data back to the synth from the computer.
It seems to be spasmodic, sending the data very occasionally.  During playback
of a bit of music, I might get 1 or 2 notes out of 50 or so.

The MIDI IN line still works fine (I can still record MIDI data from the
synth) and the rest of the SoundBlaster card seems to work find, it's just
the MIDI OUT line.

Has anybody got an idea what the problem is and how to fix it??

Thanx in advance.

Evan McLean
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            emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au ] | society that believes God is
   { Sometimes answers to Evan McLean }    | dead and Elvis is Alive?
From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Need pinouts for SoundBlaster 1.5 MIDI port
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:30:50 GMT
Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France

In article <emm.715211878@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>, emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo) writes:
%% robert@hektar.welly.gen.nz (Robert Ruthven) writes:
%% >In article <6r+yp-l@rpi.edu> sorenj@marcus.its.rpi.edu writes:
%% > > What is the ground for MIDI?  (or, rather, loop return since it is a
%% > > current loop and not a voltage level...)

The current circulates between pins 4 and 5.
You connect the "4" pin with the other "4" pin,
and the "5" pin with another "5" pin. The "5"
cable is the loop return; the current circulates
from pin "4" to pin "5".

There is no reason to connect any other pin.
A 5mA current doesn't need any shielding.
I use simple power cords for my MIDI cables
(not too thick, otherwise they couldn't enter
into the MIDI plug).

%% Maybe a little diagram such as the one below might be of use to eliminate
%% all mis-understanding of pin numbering etc.
%% 
%%           3
%%        2  o  4
%%         o   o
%%       1 o   o 5

Please do not re-invent the wheel, wrongly. The DIN norm
imposes a numbering scheme on those pins, which is naturally
derived from 3-pin (mono) connector numbering. So the pins
4 and 5 are where you have put 2 and 4.

You can get the proper numbers by simply looking at the connectors
before soldering them.

-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: jons@tellus.unik.no (Jon von Tetzchner Stephenson )
Subject: PC Sequencer
Organization: Universitetsstudiene paa Kjeller (UNIK), University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 08:58:49 GMT

I am looking for a PC sequencer, preferably running under Windows or OS/2.

I would like a easy to use, but powerful sequencer sporting:

	Editing of all MIDI data (also insertion of CCs and SysExs).
	Support of Soundblaster Pro sound + MIDI port.
	Support of Roland GS or at least General MIDI standards.
	Easy looping, cut, paste, etc.
	Multiple sequences.
	Extract from sequences.
	etc.

Oh, and it should preferably be cheap.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jon.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Subject: Creative Labs SB 16
Originator: smintz@alamo
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:28:23 GMT


Looks like the sb 16 release date has been moved up, it now has a release date
for the end of this month!!
Stephen
From: boltr@nic.cerf.net (Rory Bolt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: SoundBlaster 2.0 & Windows 3.1
Keywords: 486-50, Windows 3.1, SoundBlaster 2.0
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:41:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.2582
Distribution: usa
Organization: CERFnet

Hello,
	I downloaded the latest software patches for the 486-50 and
the new windows 3.1 drivers from the Creative Labs BBS yesterday. The
new versions of TEST-SBC.EXE and FMORGAN.EXE fixed the problems with
my 486-50 and I am very greatful for the pointers I got from this
group.
	I am hoping that someone can help me with my remaining 
problems:

	1) When I followed the instructions for installing the new
windows 3.1 drivers, the midi player worked but the wave player
would not. It appeared as though the wave device driver was not 
found. I was only able to get the wave device recognized by re-
installing the SoundBlaster 1.5 driver.

	2) I have been unsuccessful in attempts to record sounds. I
have used both the microphone from a cassette recorder and the 
microphone from a Macintosh; perhaps these are the wrong type of
microphones. Does anyone know if these were inappropriate microphones?
Is it possible that there is another 486-50 related bug in recording?

Thanks!
	Rory
From: gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Stacker 2.00 with Soundblaster
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:51:16 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


I am having trouble getting Wing Commander 2 to run on my computer.
A friend of mine has mentioned that Stacker sometimes screws up the 
soundblaster.  Is there anything I can do?  I am not using the hardware
version of Stacker, just the software.

Is there a fix for this?

Please reply by email.


Thanks,


Dave
-- 
gt4719b@prism.gatech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: dgold@laurel.math.umass.edu (Dan Goldwater)
Subject: Cakewalk for WINdows info.
Followup-To: cakewalk questions
Keywords: cakewalk
Organization: Statistical Consulting Center, UMass @ Amherst
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:31:47 GMT

cakewalk for windows supports ALL soundcards with windows drivers,
because it uses the standard windows sound drivers, unlike many other
(extremely annoying and aggravating) sound programs for windows that
require their own special drivers.  so go out and buy it (cakewalk).
the windows version is absolutely amazing.  
and i dont work for the cakewalk people. or even know them.
dgold@laurel.math.umass.edu
From: miliu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (zaphod beeblebrox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Answers from Gravis
Date: 29 Aug 92 09:19:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <BtnE0z.KwK@cs.psu.edu> mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen) writes:
>   But if it takes $33 1 meg SIMMs, then that's okay...

Around San Diego, you can get 1x9-53ns 3-chip simms for $24.20.

			Zaphod
From: blave@netcom.com (David W. Blevins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Cakewalk for Windows.
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:10:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

The price for the basic Cakewalk is the same as it's always been - $150 list.
Cakewalk Pro is $250; it adds things like 43/50 line VGA support, SMPTE
synchronization capabilities (for those who want to score film or video),
the Cakewalk Application Language for writing MIDI manipulation macros and
the like, higher resolution timebase selections (up to 480 ppq, while the
basic CW is 120 ppq), and other stuff that I can't remember.  The latest
incarnation is CW for Windows which I have but am not using at the current
time; the use interface is WAY different than the DOS-based versions which
I'm very productive with.  A video scoring friend of mine loves the 
Windows version though, and he's a much heavier user of CW.  I believe this
version is $349 list.  

Street prices for the basic CW are about $100; I've seen CW Pro for $189.

I've been using CW since version 1.1; it's now at 4.0 (DOS version) and
they have made significant improvements with every release.  I highly 
recommend it.  However, if you're one of those folks who must have 
notational entry/printing, CW is probably not for you.  (The Windows
version has a rudimentary note viewer but it has quite a ways to go yet,
like most notational s/w.)  Also, if you like putting together very
structured music (ie. bar/bar/chorus/repeat as necessary), Texture is
another package that is set up more like a pattern-based drum machine.
Cakewalk is more of a Linear type of paradigm...  ($0.50 please.)

Cheers,
blave@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: Re: request for SBDOS10
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:57:35 GMT

   Can you send to me too?

--- Mike
--
_____________________________________________________________________________
| Michael Chen			| From the depths of our most lucid horrors |
|				| spring our fond hopes and pure desires... |
| mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu	| except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92  |
\_______________________________\___________________________________________|
From: lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Gravis Ultrasound to Ready to Ship late 8/27!
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:31:57 GMT
Reply-To: lair@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I got off the phone with Gravis about 10 minutes ago, and they
stated that the only thing holding up the Ultrasound is one 
piece of software which is expected in this afternoon (8/27).

They should still need to put the boxes together, and so forth,
but I got the impression that there would be Ultrasounds going
out the door tomorrow.

Finally.



Scott.



-- 
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lair@midway.uchicago.edu  |  		   - Nigel on his 64-bit computer
The University of Chicago |  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: Ensoniq sound card?
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:32:10 GMT

   I read in Keyboard magazine that Ensoniq was making a soundboard similar to
the Multisound that was to be due out in early 1993 or so... anyone know what's
up with this?
--
_____________________________________________________________________________
| Michael Chen			| From the depths of our most lucid horrors |
|				| spring our fond hopes and pure desires... |
| mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu	| except what comes from HELL! :-) 7/23/92  |
\_______________________________\___________________________________________|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: robinson@sml.cs.psu.edu (Andrew Robinson)
Subject: Re: MOD utilities found!
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:19:37 GMT

WinMOD is available by ftp from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It is located in the
pub/pc/win3/uploads directory (unless it has been moved).  The filename is
winmod10.zip.

     -- Andy
robinson@cs.psu.edu
From: martin.brown@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Martin Brown) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: .xmi file format
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: martin.brown@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Martin Brown) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241

>From: m91mfr@tdb.uu.se (Mikael Fredriksson)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
>Subject: .xmi file format
>Message-ID: <1992Aug31.095706.167@tdb.uu.se>
>Date: 31 Aug 92 09:57:06 GMT

>Hi, in the game Ultima Underworld there are some midi-files called
>.xmi. Does anyone know if it is possible to play / edit these files and
>which program I need to do it. Or... Is it possible to convert them to
>'ordinary' .mid files?

>I don't have a soundblaster / soundcard myself so I am posting this for
>a friend of mine.

>Thanks de Micke


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>smail: Blomdahls vaeg 3, III ;  S - 756 49 Uppsala ; SWEDEN
>voice: +46 18 401481

.xmi files are created by midpak (  The Audio Solution ) I know of no way to
decompress them back to .mid files

Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo)
Subject: Re: Need pinouts for SoundBlaster 1.5 MIDI port
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:57:58 GMT

robert@hektar.welly.gen.nz (Robert Ruthven) writes:
>In article <6r+yp-l@rpi.edu> sorenj@marcus.its.rpi.edu writes:
> > What is the ground for MIDI?  (or, rather, loop return since it is a
> > current loop and not a voltage level...)  I would also appreciate any 
> > help in wiring the MIDI connectors...
>Pins 4 and 5 are tied to ground, pins 1 and 9 are tied to +5VDC.

So if you were going to make your own, 5 pin midi cables (say, some extention
cables for the MIDI adapter whose cables are rediculously short, which pin
would you use for the sheilding.

Maybe a little diagram such as the one below might be of use to eliminate
all mis-understanding of pin numbering etc.

          3
       2  o  4
        o   o
      1 o   o 5

Were this is looking at the face of an ordinary 5 pin DIM plug used on most
standard MIDI cables that I've seen and on the SBPRO MIDI interface to boot.
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            emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au ] | society that believes God is
   { Sometimes answers to Evan McLean }    | dead and Elvis is Alive?
From: jthornto@ee.ubc.ca (Johan Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Advanced Gravis Ultrasound... I like it!
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:03:29 GMT
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering

Well, I got my Ultrasound yesterday (I'm a software developer) and I thought
you guys might want to hear about it... 

I'll tell ya what the non-disclusure agreement allows me to tell.

The hardware is top notch.  Extremely clean sound; I found no trace
of power supply hum or computer noise.  The demos that came with it are
ok, but in my opinion sparse.  The best demo is the midi-play, which
plays standard .mid files.  It loads the sounds into the on-board RAM,
and then plays them.  It's similar to playing mod files, except that
there's a larger emphasis on loops in the waveforms.  The 16-bit samples
were by and large good-sounding, but a few were noisy.

The hardware _is_ completed, as other people have mentioned on the net.
The software is what's holding them up still.  I expect there will be
some more delays before they ship a final, bug-free version.

As far as compatibility goes, I got all my ad-lib games to work fine,
and most of the SB games.  There are several modes in the SB emulator,
so it might be I didn't try hard enough to get it to work.

The FM emulation is actually waveforms being played back, so the sounds
aren't the same, but they sound clearer.  "Not the same, but better"
it says in the manual.

I also got Chuck Yeager's Combat, the special Ultrasound version.  Nice.
Great sound-track, and lots of hints from Chuck when you're flying.  If
you try to land, he'll tell you "Lower your landing gear", and stuff
like that.

Anyways, that's all for now.

l8r.

-- 
Johan Thornton
(but my friends call me jthornto@ee.ubc.ca)
From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Advanced Gravis Ultrasound... I like it!
Date: 30 Aug 1992 10:53:53 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

jthornto@ee.ubc.ca (Johan Thornton) writes:

>As far as compatibility goes, I got all my ad-lib games to work fine,
>and most of the SB games.  There are several modes in the SB emulator,
>so it might be I didn't try hard enough to get it to work.

   Hmmm, in that case, what do you guys think the chances of this
thing coexisting with a real soundblaster are?

-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "I live like I type - Fast, and with a lot of mistakes"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: jandrews@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: Re: PAS/PAS-16 prices?
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
 <1992Aug24.182334.1696@bradley.bradley.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 15:11:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.182334.1696@bradley.bradley.edu> guru@camelot.bradl
y.edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:
>I wrote:
>
>-} 	Yes, the list price has been cut.  Comstor at (800)959-9590
>-} is advertising the PAS 16 for $179.
>
>	The real number is (800)955-9590.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>``written by a drunken insane pathological liar''        guru@stasi.brad
ey.edu



Do they have an international number, or will the (800)955-9590 number work
from britain?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: SICK FLICKS
From: nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:53:53 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University
Keywords: Unknown

 Does anyone know where I can get more SICK FLICKS(tm). I friend of mine, showed
me one of Bart Simpson putting his tongue through a electronic whisker. It
was so funny that I had to watch it another 4 times!. Coupled with
the fact that it comes with full Moththonic, stink-powder, sound blaster backup,
it's really worth putting in your autoexec.bat file (if I do say so myself!).

  So It would really appreciated, if anyone knows.

:Bye

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                                 DARWIN, NT

                         nunn@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au
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From: bdmccorm@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bob McCormick)
Subject: Re: Disney Sound Card question
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:52:34 GMT

tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) writes:

>Hi,
>	I have built a D/A convertor that works fine with some programs,
>like Screem Tracker, which I presume dosen't check for the Sound Source.
>However, other programs like Wolf-3D won't work.

>	I have been trying to figure out the way softwares recognize
>presence of Disney Sound Source, that is the one connects to the printer
>port. So far I haven't find any thing. 

>	Is there any guru out there who can help me. It is much
>appreciated.

>-- 
>========================================================================
=====
>Tooraj Enayati     Melbourne     Australia     tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.
du.au
>Monash University       Robotic and Digital Technology       (Graduate/A
umni)
>========================================================================
=====
Try looking in your local library for the Sept/Oct '91 and Nov/Dec '91 
issues of a magazine called Midnight Engineering.  The first issue I listed
has a article on programming for the Sound Source and the second one has
a follow up that corrects a couple of error's in the first article.  I 
would assume that it should tell you almost everything you'd want to know
about the Sound Source.  I can't say for sure as I don't have the first 
article, I've only got the second one with the corrrections.
From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: .NOT file converter wanted (and other things)
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:50:56 GMT

Saturday August 29 1992 23:49, Iain Odlin wrote:

 IO>   So, my questions are two:  Does anyone know of any other 'Sheet music'
 IO> in-  terface music programs (for any format -- and how many times have you
 IO> seen  this question on this news.group? ;)?  And does anyone know if
 IO> there's a  .NOT to .ROL (or .CMF) converter out there?  I'd tend to doubt
 IO> it, but it  doesn't hurt to ask.

I recommend Muzika. It's not yet the most advanced program, but it's good.
(Unfortunately?) it only runs under Windows (and OS/2). The print function is
broken, but it will write .MIDi files. I believe it's in the PD1:<MSDOS.SOUND>
directory on SIMTEL20 as MUZPAK1.ZIP, else search archie for it. I like it,
personally, and the author is available for Internet TALK sometimes (I had a
chat to him once).

I also have a DOS text based one called COMPOZ which is kinda simple, weird, but
writes .CMF files. If you MAIL me, I'll send you details on how to get it thru
the fileserver here, though please search archie for COMPOZ.whatever first.


Regards,
Hamish


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From: gkirikos@epas.utoronto.ca (George Kirikos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Gravis, Gravis, and more Gravis.
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:16:37 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS

In article <1992Aug28.013828.18535@bnr.ca> tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist) writes:
>Re: Will Gravis ever deliver?
>
>I don't think we'll see Gravis go the way of Adlib.  After all, they
>don't just make sound cards, they also make one of the best analog
>joy-sticks on the market (IMHO).  They're making a card, it will come,
>maybe a bit late, but if it's quality is anything like their joystick,
>it'll be worth the wait.
>

Another thing about Advanced Gravis is that LOGITECH owns about 45% of
the company, with warrants outstanding to raise their stake to 65%.
Gravis definitely has the financial backing to release the Ultrasound.