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From: marc@csi.on.ca (Marc Sherman)
Subject: GUS Patch Management
Reply-To: msherman@zeus.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: Carp Systems International
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:45:16 GMT

I've got two questions about the GUS' patches:

1) Can patches be loaded using Windows 3.1 MCI commands?  If so, what
is the command syntax?  Cakewalk Pro for Windows supports embedded MCI
events in a sequence, which would allow patches to be loaded on an as
needed basis.

2) Are there any patch editors available, either from Gravis or on the
net?  If so, can a standard .WAV file be converted to a patch format
at all?

Thanks for any info/answers...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: simon@guk.auspost.com.au (Simon Carter)
Subject: Re: Unreal hangs after WV (SB2) - Help!
Organization: Australia Post
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:48:41 GMT

(Sorry I keep posting my own follow ups!)

After trying out both suggestions mentioned in the previous
article, I found that I only needed to disable the mouse driver
to get it to run successfully. Unfortunately, it crashes at
the very end (after reverting to text mode), but this is not
that much of a problem.

Simon
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From: poy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Poy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: a hissing sb16
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:48:38 GMT
Reply-To: poy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stephen Poy)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

i read recently on a posting that this person bought a new sb16
that hissed.  he sent it back and they told him there was a hardware
problem that wouldnt be fixed for months.

is there a consensus on this or what ?

im considering to buy one - please e-mail me or better post if you
are one of those out there with this problem.
From: drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu (Derek Suzuki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: CD-audio cable for GUS
Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:54:06 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.berkeley.edu

	I am going to be buying a Texel CD-ROM soon and wish to hook
the audio outputs to my GUS.  I have seen the pinout for the connector
but have little experience with a soldering iron.  What exactly am I
going to have to do to make the connection?

Derek Suzuki
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

From: degood@hpavla.lf.hp.com (John DeGood)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:51:12 GMT
Subject: Re: KidPix and GUS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard, tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:

> A friend purchased a GUS and cannot get it to work properly with
> his KidPix program. He tried tech support and they weren't much
> help.

The Windows version of KidPix works fine with the 1.22 GUS drivers.
Maybe your friend can trade his DOS KidPix version for the Windows one.

My biggest problem with the GUS Windows drivers -- besides applications
not supporting patch caching :-) -- is that with the 1.22 drivers
"Alphabet Blocks" from Sierra-On Line hangs within several minutes
of use.  With the 1.21 drivers it didn't work at all.

John DeGood  degood@lf.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site (Wilmington, Delaware)
From: ccfac@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Multisound compatibilities
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:01:03 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

In article <C1A4Fp.6J2@cup.hp.com>, staggers@cup.hp.com (Ken Staggers) writes:
> Simple question:  is the multisound board ad-lib and sound blaster
> compatible?
>
> --Ken

Simple answer: No

A bit more detail: The Multisound board is really meant for professional
                   uses (ie. not really a game sound board).  However, I
                   don't see why some Windows games wouldn't work.
                   ;-)

Cheers

Francis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: umhaugh0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bruce A. Haugh)
Subject: Re: Roland's new card?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:08:43 GMT

In <19663.2b63bd68@levels.unisa.edu.au> ccfac@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:

>Read your message concerning to good things about the MultiSound.  Indeed
>it is a top notch card.  If they had dropped their price earlier, I would
>have one sitting in my system.  Instead, the Roland fell into my price
>range (SCC-1 that is), This is a great card and for me, it is more than I
>can handle.  I'm new in the world of midi and am no great artist or player.
>I'm not good at sight reading either :-( , but I know how to play a jazzed
>up Mary had a little Lamb ;-)

>Seriously, you mention Roland had a new prototype card called the T??-10?
>Something like that...  Do you have more info on it.  I like to hear about
>it.


Roland is supposedly making (or is probably on the verge of release) a new
16-bit card.  There's no mentio of the price but I'd imagine it will be 
somewhere around the neighborhood of the Turtle Beach price tag and most
likely will be THE best card on the market hands-down.  This, ofcourse, is
just a guess.  But I believe it will be.

Bruce
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: My theory on GUS clicking
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:02:38 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <C1Fzz9.C6u@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> chuckie@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Gunn, C Stephen) writes:
>I posted about a week ago that I have been exposed to the Ensoniq 5505 as
>it is also the chip used in the apple IIgs. The Ensoniq Sound Chip has a 
>bug when you pair oscilators to play via Swap Mode. (This is by far the
>most popular method to play the digitized sounds.)

This is what i tought at first when i got the technical note, but this mode
is not needed for the DOC II and so it is not the problem. There was also
another problem (that i talked about in my other post) but i just got email
saying it was corrected. So the problem is the enveloppe.

The DOC II is much more sophisticated than the original DOC chip as found
on the Apple II gs. In it's oem form, it is labelled:
ICS1614 9225 204409 which is a better version than what can be found on the
audiomaster. (Remember, i did bring this up in may 92 and everybody said i
was an heretic, that it couldn't be an Ensoniq DOC II chip as found in
EPS16+ keyboards?)

>From what everone describes, when you are playing a patch, you are using
>the FM synth.. However when playing digitized data, you have to set up
>two oscillators to play different parts, and contine putting the rest
>of the sound into the dedicated Sound memory. The only way to avoid this

No FM synth here.

>converter when it swaps from oscillator to the other. Another work around
>is to make sure that when the Ensoniq is going to swap, have a value in
>the digitized sound that is close to 128. This means that you have to

You are close to the answer, but it's not for the good reason. In mod files,
you load all the samples in the GUS memory. You playback each sample on
a different channel (4 used for mod files), and the problem arise at the
end of the sample. See my other post.

>somewhat engineer your instruments and be careful where they swap, and
>what size of resolution you set for each of the oscillators. But if you
>are writing a demo or something that wants awesome sound, it is worth
>the time to avoid the clicks.

Just do a release on the 0.005 second at the end.

>However, for just general sound files, there is not much that can be done
>about the anomality. People in the Apple IIgs world have been living with
>it for about 6 years now.. Ensoniq is aware of the problem, but last I knew
>had no plans to fix the problem since it is minor (in their eyes)

I dont seem to get that on my EPS-16+ 8). The DOC II is much improved over the
old DOC I.

Ciao,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: news@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: re: IRQ7? Was: UNREAL
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:55:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.141659.22378@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> awalsh@mta.ca (Andrew Walsh) writes:
>How  does one get a sound card into IRQ7 mode? Is there a parameter
>or a dip switch or what? I REALLY want to get it to work.
>

You could start the separate parts of unreal by typing unreal p?, where the question mark
represents the part to be played (1-9). If you do this you donot need to change your interrupt
setting.
	Otherwise you will have to change the interrupt on the print-board and in your
setup.


-- Pieter J. Mosterman
"The problem of the real world always seeming to provide counter-examples
to a theory was discussed. They felt perhaps the best approach here was
to hope that some higher level process may be able to help by choosing the
appropriate model(..)" A.G. Cohn on the Commonsense Summer (Hobbs et al.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: dhumphre@comanche.ess.harris.com (David Humphreys)
Subject: Re: Daretro demo and OS/2
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:30:47 GMT
Reply-To: dhumphre@comanche.ess.harris.com
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division

In article 727721686@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu, rwyckoff@cardinal.sc107.wesleyan.edu (Catullus) writes:
>	Can anyone confirm or deny whether Daretro will actually cause your 
>OS/2 system to stop booting, as was stated in a post a day or two ago?  I'm 
>not going to run it if there's a chance it will, but maybe the problem was 
>just a one-of-a-kind type of thing.
>				


Well, first of all, Daretro uses 386 protected mode, but it is NOT a DPMI
program so it will not run under OS/2 period.  But, if you do try to run it,
it will bring up a message saying that the system is already in protected mode
and therefore cannot run and will ask you if you want to try a clean boot.  The
dangerous part of this is that is replaces your config.sys thinking that your
running under DOS (This is stupid even under real DOS, what happens if my command.com
is not in my root directory).  Once it kills your OS/2 config.sys, then of course
OS/2 will not boot anymore and you'll have to go and boot off the OS/2 install
disks.

Therefore, if you do try to run it under OS/2, answer NO to the question
about performing a clean boot.

David Humphreys


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: apollo@ee.ualberta.ca (Apollo Wong)
Subject: GUS: Various patch info wanted.
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:30:58 GMT

Hi,

Does anybody know what can I subsitute (within the limited set of patches
we have for the GUS) for the following?

pathch # 15, 22, 23, 24, 64, 84, 85, 88, 94, 95, 97, 105, 108, 115, 117, 119
and 124?

Apollo Wong
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: PAS16 Beta Drivers available on Compuserve
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:30:12 GMT

Yes, Virginia, there is an mvos2.zip file on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
As soon as you get your PAS16 working with OS/2 programs, would
you send me your config.sys file, please.  I can only get the mixer
working, so far.  I would like to use the play-WAV utility, but it
says "Error opening device Digital Audio" or something.

Thanks.
Meir

In article <1993Jan21.193813.1@ualr.edu> djlewis@ualr.edu writes:
>In article <uTLNXB1w165w@knex.via.mind.ORG>, Gess Shankar <gess@knex.via.mind.ORG> writes:
>> mpearson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Matthew Pearson) writes:
>> 
>>> Someone mentioned the following..
>>> 
>>> 1. There are PAS-16 -beta- drivers for OS2 out there.. if so WHERE ARE
>>> THEY!! I WANT EM!!!!
>>> 
>> They are available on Compu$erve. GO MULTIVEN - Multimedia vendor forum,
>> Lib 12 (Media Vision). Here is the abstract from the library, posted
>> without permission...
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>                          File Info for MVOS2.ZIP
>> 
>> Section: Media Vision          Contributer: 75300,2772         Size: 86180
>> Submitted: 16-Jan-93            Type: Binary                Accesses:    95
>> Title: BETA OS/2 drivers for PAS 16 and CDPC XL
>>  Keys: IBM OS 2 2.1 BETA DRIVERS MMPM OS2 SCSI AUDIO
>> 
>> This file contains Media Vision's OS/2 BETA drivers.  These drivers
>> require OS/2 2.1 BETA.  These drivers require advanced knowledge of OS/2
>> and aren't for use by beginners.  Any questions should be sent to
>> CompuServe address 75300,2772 or via FAX to (510) 226-2582.  Beta software
>> should not be used for mission critical purposes. . Note: Do *NOT* contact
>> Media Vision technical support with questions concerning these drivers.
>> Contact Ken Nicholson at 75300,2772. 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> On the Internet, Ken' address will be: 75300.2772@compuserve.COM
>> 
>> GeSS
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>> 
>If someone gets the beta pas16 files would they mind putting them on
>wuarchive.wustl.edu or oak.oakland.edu or some other accessable place?
>Thanks,
>Don Lewis
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>


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: icarus@ing.puc.cl (Eduardo Jimenez)
Subject: PAS16 and B17 flying....HEEELP!
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:15:40 GMT

 hello, i just installed b17 flying fortress, with the option for sound
blaster, but I got no sound, I have tried changing the dma and irq but no
sound...if somebody has solved this problem, please help me....
 Thanks in advance.

ICARUS@MALLOCO.ING.PUC.CL

Eduardo J. Aleuy.
From: egrayver@cco.caltech.edu (Eugene Grayver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Covox, parallel port sound
Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:34:41 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
Keywords: sound, covox

Hey!  I hear a LOT about various DAC(?)s that are supposed to give decent
quality sound over the parallel port.  I even have one description of
how to make one.  However, it is very concise to the point of total 
uselesness.  Please tell me how to build one of those things.  I am quite
profficient with electronics circuits.  Thanks, please reply by e-mail
egrayver@punisher.cco.caltech.edu
From: cs170501@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Someone Interesting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: WJMR224.ZIP CRC ERRORS
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:10:25 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


    Are you sure that you didn't forget to type 'binary' first?  I got this
file and didn't get errors.....course...there could be an infamous vax on the
net between you and it...messing things up a bit for you :)



Matt
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: doogie@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeff House)
Subject: Just for the record
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:57:23 GMT



Okay... Just for the record, please fill this out, and I'll post a
summary:


CARD	RETAIL	BEST DEALER	DEALER PHONE	DEALER PRICE
====	======	===========	============	============

SB

SBPRO

SBPRO16

GUS

GUS3D

PAS-16




NOW:
List features that you know of of each, and note the one you would buy
RIGHT NOW if you were to choose one, and cost wasn't important.

CARD	FEATURES
====	=============================================================
SB

SBPRO

SBPRO16

GUS

GUS3D

PAS-16




REPLY to this, and I'll post a summary, including percentages, etc for
the cards... This should help to answer a LOT of posts I've been reading
lately.


Thanks!
____________________________________________________________________________
    Jeff House                     "I am nobody telling everybody about
 house@dg-rtp.dg.com                somebody that can save anybody."
 doogie@catt.ncsu.edu 			 wjhouse@eos.ncsu.edu
From: ccfac@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Roland's new card?
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:14:00 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

Read your message concerning to good things about the MultiSound.  Indeed
it is a top notch card.  If they had dropped their price earlier, I would
have one sitting in my system.  Instead, the Roland fell into my price
range (SCC-1 that is), This is a great card and for me, it is more than I
can handle.  I'm new in the world of midi and am no great artist or player.
I'm not good at sight reading either :-( , but I know how to play a jazzed
up Mary had a little Lamb ;-)

Seriously, you mention Roland had a new prototype card called the T??-10?
Something like that...  Do you have more info on it.  I like to hear about
it.

Thanks

Francis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for GUSMOD
X-To: SL8NL@CC.USU.EDU
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:48:00 GMT

From sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
>Actually, the numbers range from 0-15, with 7 being the center (don't ask me
>why...).  Already implemented in 1.2.

    Really?  Cool.  Already a step ahead of me.

>GUSMOD IS correct.  I promise.  Tested it against an Amiga, unless of course,
>the Amiga speakers were flipped.  Here's the strategy:  Channels 1 and 4 come
>out the left, 2 and 3 out the right

    Hmm.. Ok.  I thought it might be something like 1l 2r 3l 4r, but I guess
that makes sense as well.


    Is there a plan to make a STM player?  Maybe one based on the GUSMOD
code?  Since I do all of my composing in STM, an STM player would be really
handy (Since I do my own samples (and I like USS8!), and ST's tuning
feature is REALLY handy, but everything sounds like crap when I convert it
to a MOD)).

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From: ma90jjw@brunel.ac.uk (Justin Whitton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Renessance Demo DARETRO
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:11:52 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Sorry if this has been said before, as I usually just skim this newsgroup.

Is the demo available on an ftp site? and if so, where?

Please email replies/flames to ma90jjw@brunel.ac.uk


Justin Whitton

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Phone:	+(44) (0)81-573-1603 (I know it doesn't match the address)

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From: pfeifer@lf.hp.com (Mark Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS Install Disks 1.22 and Patchman.exe
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:39:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpscit.1jud8aINN8a
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

Daniel M. Coleman (dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone who had downloaded the utl-122x.zip drivers from epas had any luck
: with Patch Manager?  I keep getting these annoying messages that Patch
: Manager, or one of it's files can't be found.  

I think it's mising BWCC.DLL.  You can get it from the GUS00xx file that
contains the Patch Manager.

						Mark
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From: calvin@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB employee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: SB for sale
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:56:32 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: WSHB, Herald Broadcasting Syn., Inc., Cypress Creek, SC, USA


	Well I went out and decided to upgrade my SB v1.5 to a SB 16.
  So here is the deal I have this:

  Sound Blaster Version 1.5
  all included software
  all documents
  box
  and even the registration card

  For this:

  70.00 dollars

  	I will pay shipping by UPS Ground.  If you are interested
  e-mail me and we will get it to you.  Oh yeah the sound card is
  only about two months old.



-- 
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kamikazi"calvin"                I'd have no luck at all! 
>From a warped mind comes a warped product.
These are not my employers opinions.  In fact I don't know if there mine!
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS vs. LAPC-1 stuff....
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:07:12 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1k6sriINNntn@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> starr-daniel@yale.edu (Daniel Starr) writes:
>
>I have an LAPC-1, while I keep hearing about the GUS.
>Can anyone tell me from experience:  in native mode, how does the GUS sound
>compared to the LAPC-1 (or SCC-1)?  If it's as good or better, how does it

Better than LAPC-1 with actual patches and better/equivalent/less than SCC1
depending on the patches. So with the new patches coming i would say it
should be better. Anyway it is better since you can always change any patch
that doesn't fit the bill.

>arrange to be half the price?  If it's not, why/how is it better than a

There are only 2 expensive chips for playback: the GF1 (a modified Ensoniq
DOC II chip) and a stereo DAC. The GF1 does all the work and sends the
final serial stream to the DAC. For recording they cut corners by putting
an 8 bit ADC. The option board has a 16 bit ADC. But then the Rolands dont
have recording capabilities nor digital channels for audio.

>boring Sound Blaster Pro?

Sound quality is far better. It totally free the CPU of sound processing.
It has real sounds, not 2 or 4 op FM. It has 16 bit DACs. A good example
is that Play669 runs fine on a 286 while you would need a 486-66 to achieve
the same sampling rate with a SoundBlaster (and you still dont get the same
sound quality. By far.)

Ciao,
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