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From: joseph@aludra.usc.edu (Jeff Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: 669 stuff
Date: 31 Dec 1992 19:25:21 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Okay,

	I just put up COMPO669.ARJ in the submit directory of epas.
It is the original 669 player/composer for SoundBlaster and
SoundBlaster Pro by Tran.  It requires a 386 and 2 meg of RAM to run.
Also included with it is a demo file.  I have posted it separately as
HARDWIRE.ZIP if you don't want to download the whole archive to get
the song.  Have fun!

---
Jeff Lawson
joseph@aludra.usc.edu
From: cgd@ecmwf.co.uk (Dick Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Which OPTi chipset works with GUS?
Keywords: OPTi GUS
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:20:37 GMT
Organization: ECMWF

I have an OPTi-based motherboard in my 486-DX33 (mini board; 
no external cache; but I can't read the support chip IDs without
dismantling the whole thing) and *absolutely* no problems with the GUS
board
compatibility at all - don't even need switches on SBOS for most of
my games etc.

It screws up my dark-ages SCSI controller if I run SETUP tho' - unless I
run SBOS or PLAYMIDI or FLIDEMO first...?  And, I haven;t sorted out
the windows midi player yet.  But, generally - A-OK.

Does anyone know if the GUS should be able to achieve LAPC
compatibility?
The MPU401 features appear to be OK, so is there more to this than meets
the eye?

			cheers
			Dick D.
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From: moore@hostname.austin.ibm.com (Mark Moore)
Subject: Re: Serial Port Interface
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53:29 GMT
Reply-To: moore@hostname.austin.ibm.com (Mark Moore)
Organization: IBM Austin

In article <Bz2BLq.3nv@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, msherman@cyclops (Marc
Sherman) states:
>
> Hi.  I was wondering if anyone knew of a device which plugs into a
> standard RS/232 port on a pc and provides MPU compatible MIDI (through
> a device driver, of course), as well as .WAV compatible sample
> playing.  Is a device of this description available?  I'm thinking of
> getting a laptop for my next computer, but would still need sound
> capabilities for my studio...
> 
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | msherman@zeus.uwaterloo.ca | Marc Sherman ----------- PVI Productions |
> +----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
> 

Well, for playing sound and MOD files, without buying a sound card, I would
recommend building or buying a parallel port D/A device.  There are plans 
for building one included with MODPLAY documentation and in most electronics
text books.  If you would rather buy one, take a look at A BETTER WAY's Sound
Critter or COVOX's Speech Thing.  The Speech Thing is about $70 to $90 and 
lets you do pass-through printing. The Sound Critter is about $15 and does 
not allow pass-through access to your printer (you have to unplug it to print).

Speech Things are sold in many SW/HW stores.  Sound Critter can be ordered 
from A Better Way at (512)836-5936.

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From: mckee@smiley.mitre.org (Hugh McKee)
Subject: Sampling options for PC
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:48:46 GMT

During a comparison of PAS-16 and GUS, Phat H. Tran noted:

>From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
>
>The pro-quality 16-bit recording daughtercard is purportedly going to
>cost in the $100+ range.  Note that I said "pro-quality".  I don't know
>if a simpler 16-bit sampler will be available.  I, myself, have no
>need of 16-bit sampling, so I haven't investigated this matter very
>thoroughly.

There will always be a tradeoff among sampling rate, accuracy, and file size.  
It would be nice if designers would allow users select between 8- vs. 16-bit 
accuracy and 22 vs. 44 KHz sampling rate.  Is there (will there) be any such 
soundcard for the PC?
From: zhang@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Where can I find GUS card?
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:39:28 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Would someone send me a list of mail order place for Gravis 
UltraSound(GUS) card please?  And stores in KANSAS CITY area
that carry the GUS card if you know any.


Thank you!
ZHANG@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu

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From: d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Is the GUS' wavetable synt compatible with EPS-16??
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:18:09 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
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Does anyone know what kind of synthesizer the GUS has?

I've heard that it's compatible with Ensoniq's EPS-16...
If it's compatible with a 'normal' synthesizer/keyboard,
there should be a lot of patches available, right?
Or at least patches that can be converted to GUS format
without too much trouble.

Well, if anyone knows (Hi Gravis!), please mail or write to this
group.

Thanks in advance,

Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Gateway 486DX2-66 and GUS
Date: 29 Dec 92 07:33:27 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

I just got a GUS for Christmas.  It is a GREAT sounding board...there
are no buzzes, pops, or clicks coming out of it like on the Sound Blaster.
Sound Blaster emulation is pretty amusing, though...it does work, but
it's not perfect.  Personally, I don't care...I can wait for native GUS
support over the pathetic whoops and tin whistles of low-quality FM
synthesis.

The problem, though, is that the board I have seems to cause memory parity
errors.  The specific error I get is "I/O card parity interrupt 0436:018E"
while I'm in DOS, with the option of "clearing the NMI" or "reboot the
system".   If I'm in Windows, the whole system goes down.  The system lockup
is accompanied by a small click from my speakers.  What could be causing this?
The GUS is revision 2.2, and the problem occurs even if I have NONE of the
GUS software installed (including drivers in Windows).  I took the GUS
out, and my problems seem to have gone away.  *sigh*  I'm more sad than
mad...I want this board to work in my system.

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From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS: SBOS vr 1.22
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:37:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: yetti.1618
Distribution: world
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science

Hello,

I'm buying the GUS today, and I keep hearing about the new driver for emulating
the SoundBlaster. The version everyone talks about is 1.22, is it available
via anonymous ftp? WHere?

-- Frank Pikelner
frank@cs.yorku.ca

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From: tazzzzz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor)
Subject: Now available for FTP for your GUS
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:33:26 GMT

Howdy! After a quick call to the Gravis BBS (sure, it's long distance...
but I just had to have the patch manager!), I've placed the new driver
and Patch Manager programs up on epas.

The files are /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/gus0012.zip and patchmgr.zip

You need the gus0012.zip driver set to use the Patch Manager. (It's not
like you wouldn't normally want those drivers: stereo support, 44.1kHz
recording, a new mixer program that lets you change MIDI volume).

The Patch Manager is nifty. You can load and unload patches at will and
try them out with on screen keyboards. As people mentioned before, it also
has a graph of how much free memory the GUS has. It sounds like the disk
set that we get with the General MIDI patches is going to work out to
be quite an update over the disks we all got with our GUS boards. But,
you can have most of the new features now! Download away!

...Kev

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From: Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Magee)
Subject: Re: Please help- card/soft. to read text to blind persons
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:23:49 GMT

Have a chat with my mom.  She's not on E-mail and lives in a different city
from me.  Her name is Maggie Magee, voice (604) 384-6765.  She is the
inventor and patent holder of a device called Boswell.

Boswell is designed for the hard of hearing!  What it does is take input from
an operator using a stenographer style keyboard and converts it to screen
text in real time.  It alsoi does real time close captioning.

For your application, it will also take the input (which can be ASCII) and
vocalize in a lovely digitized voice.  There are many Optical Character
Recognition systems, quite cheap, that will convert the text to ASCII.

Kerzweil corporation also makes a device to convert text to speech, buty It
is prohibitively expensive ( or it was last year ) and as fgar as I know the
speech is synthesized. Sytnesized is ok for short bursts of speech, but
incredibly annoying at any length.

Hope this helps 8^)

-Bobby-

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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: Pops (was Re: New Gravis software solves several problems)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:50:13 GMT

In article <1i08usINNjee@agate.berkeley.edu> joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung) writes:
>kludge@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kludge) writes:
>>>captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
>>  No, not a pop... just nothing.  I tried hitting a key rapidly several
>>times and got a BaBaBaBaBaaaaah.  No pops.  (Sorry for the pathetic ASCII
>>sound effect there :)
>
>Hmm, I think Mr. Muffin (the original poster) meant clicking on
>a key, holding the key down, and moving the mouse up and down the
>keyboard, which, by the way, gives a wonderful whale-like effect
>with the Gunshot patch on the lower range.  "Whales, Mr. Spock?" :)
>
>How come it seems that the GUS can't handle more than a small bunch
>of these sustained notes on one channel without dropping the older
>ones ala FIFO?
>

It can, but the software likes to do things its own way.  The Windows
MIDI driver is only 12-voice polyphonic.  Playmidi for DOS is 20-voice
polyphonic.  Neither is using the GUS's 32-voice polyphony capability.

The pops have nothing to do with polyphony but how the Windows driver
likes to cut-off notes in mid-sustain.  Playmidi doesn't have this
problem.

Phat.
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From: jbennett@netcom.com (Joseph Bennett)
Subject: Thunderboard and SUN Microphone
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:19:05 GMT

I'm having a problem with FEEDBACK (and is it ever LOUD!).  Anyway, I 
purchased a Thunderboard and have been very happy with it, with the 
exception that the microphone that I originally bought was lousy at 
best.

A friend gave me a powered microphone from a Sun workstation and it
does work (and real well) if I turn off the speakers that I have 
connected to my PC.  If I don't turn off the speakers, then I hear
feedback (and so does the rest of the neighborhood).  I have tried
moving the mic and the speakers to no avail.

If anyone has any ideas on what I can do, please let me know via
e-mail.  Thanks in advance.

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From: ST32373@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU
Subject: Best .MOD type file format?
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:00:52 CST

I work at the radio station here on campus and am considering putting together
some tapes of digital music, etc. I have a SB 1.5 (not the best, I know) and wa
s wondering what type of file format has the best sound in the MOD genre. Or is
 it just whatever rate the author sampled it at? The ones I have are alright bu
t some are scratchy. Any help out there? Thanx in advance.
 
 
 
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From: hjf@athena.inesc.pt (Henrique Jorge Fonseca)
Subject: Opinion of Sound Galaxy NX Pro
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, Lisboa, PORTUGAL.
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:11:37 GMT


Hi,

	I plan on buying a SoundBlaster Pro board. The store I went to
had another board called "Sound Galaxy NX Pro", that stated to be
fully SoundBlaster Pro II compatible, along with Adlib and Convex
compatability.

	As anyone heard of this board? Is it really fully SoundBlaster
Pro II compatible? Are there any know problems in using this board?

	Thank you for any answer,

		Henrique Fonseca

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Bjorn.T.Mykland@tmlh.no (Bjorn Tore Mykland)
Subject: Media Vision FTP-site??
Organization: Telemark College of Education
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:26:25 GMT


Is there anybody out there who knows the name of the FTP-site to find Pro 
Audio Spectrums latest news?

Pleas E-Mail me!

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From: pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: On GUS memory (question)
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:12:18 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

In article <85986@ut-emx.uucp> captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
   information, so based on that hypothesis one could have 23 1sec. CD-quality 
   samples in a 1Meg GUS.

No way. 44.1KHz *16bit* *stereo* samples consume about 172K memory per
second. This means you can store slightly under 6sec of CD quality
sound in 1Meg. 

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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Date: 30 Dec 92 00:55:33 GMT
Organization: RAND

Um, unless someone changed the definition of "channel", the GUS has only
two, through which it can play up to 32 digital samples simultaneously,
mixed into one channel or the other, or both.  "32 channels" or "16
stereo channels" implies that you could hook up 32 speakers, and have
a different sound coming from each one.  Heck, I'd be happy to find
an inexpensive sound card with just four channels!

Of course, you can argue that "channel" can mean anything Gravis wants
it to mean.  But the meaning I'm using here has been in use more than
half a century in the world of electronic sound.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 ASP; first impressions
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:47:26 GMT
Reply-To: arentzis@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation
Originator: smintz@sedona


In article <1992Dec30.184154.22225@netcom.com>, wongi@netcom.com (Isaac Wong) writes:
> 
> They claim you can download your own program/algorithm onto the board, could
> you please tell us something about that? Things like what processor is that on
> board? what kind of code does one download? does one need a compiler/assembler?
> how much program and/or data memory is available on board.
> 
The manual says they chip is for stuff like voice recogition, and stuff like
that, and since thier BBS doesn't have an area for the sb16, and since I just
got the board, I really haven't been able to fully explore this feature, though,
I have already found a voice recognizer, from Japan (shareware) that, all I had
to do with DL and it patched right into my board...though how to get it out...I
haven't figured out yet...!! :)

The higher end stuff (voice rec, 44.1 rec, and wave creation, the board more
that lives up to press, it is the sb, and sbpro compatibility that is lacking,
not so much that is won't do it (it will!!) but the quality of output leaves much
to be desired, it either gives a very tinny response with sbpro music, or gives
alot of static on one of it's channels....hopefully this is a first rev bug, as
creative labs claim, if all features, and compablity issues come on line, with
 the next revision, the sb-16 will assure CL lead in the sound card market for
 years to come!!
Stephen
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From: linet2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lord Eugster)
Subject: Request info on suitable sound board
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:59:30 GMT

    I do not normally read this newsgroup, so please MAIL responses :)
 
    I will be upgrading from an IBM PS/2 Microchannel to an ISA based 486.
I have a Microchannel MPU-IMC (the MPU-401 Microchannel board from Roland)
connected to an MT-32 Sound Module.

I desire SoundBlaster compabilities for use with games.  Do games which
support Roland + SoundBlaster use the Soundblaster's MIDI port and protocols,
or do they use the MPU-401 MIDI protocols?  Assuming the latter, is there
a sound board with SoundBlaster compatibility AND a MPU-401 MIDI port?

MPU-401 compat is a must in any case.  Other MIDI protocols are not
acceptable.

All "serious" composition works will be using the Roland, so recording
abilities are not a priority.  The only use for SoundBlaster is for games.
Is there a cheaper alternative instead of buying a SoundBlaster and an
ISA MPU-401?

Thanks,
Eugene
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: SBOS v1.23beta released
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:00:42 GMT

Just found the latest SBOS beta release on the Gravis BBS. I don't have much
time to upload it to epas yet, but will do so later this evening if nobody
beats me to it. :) (at 2400, the 185k file still takes 15 minutes to u/l.. :( )

From my brief experiments with this new sbos, it sounds better, though a 
few people on the bbs claimed that v1.22 is still better... It uses a whole
new set of *.sbs patches and this time the sbosdrv is loaded as a device 
driver. It's supposed to work with unreal, and testing with Ultima 7 showed
a HUGE gain in speed over the previous two versions. Still slightly slower
than on a regular SB, but heck, at least U7 is PLAYABLE on my 386/25 now...
The digitised voices sound a bit softer also...

Also tried Fate of Atlantis, and it seems to sound better. Could be psycho-
logical though :) (euphoria at finally being able to play U7 at an acceptable
speed again.. ;)

Oh yeah, the file is called GUS0009.ZIP...

Happy GUSsing!
Gab.
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From: timp@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Tim Posney)
Subject: CD rom and SBPRO
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:15:51 GMT

I have a sbpro/cdrom and they both work well, but I want to be able
to use the cd rom from linux. To do this I need to know how the interface
works, does anyone have the details and can tell me ?

Is there a required development pack required from creative labs or what?

thanks in advance tim
From: gary.maddox@u2u.lonestar.org (Gary Maddox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: RE: GUS AND PAS MIDI BOX?
Date: 25 Dec 92 09:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: gary.maddox@u2u.lonestar.org (Gary Maddox)
Organization: USER-TO-USER PCBoard (214)492-6565 (USR DS v32bis)

-> Yes. I believe the GUS needs a SB compatible midi-box and as far as I
-> know, the PAS MIDI box _is_ SB compatible.
===
The GUS requires a slightly different MIDI adapter. The output works but
the input is different. The level of the SB adapter box is slightly too
high for the GUS. I wouldn't use it. There is a mod available from
Gravis that will fix the problem. It requires a resistor in line.
From: lizakre@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu (Rob Lizak Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Turbo C SDK stuff (PAS-16)
Date: 27 Dec 92 15:05:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: sol.1992Dec27.160725.26022
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
X-Posted-From: snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I downloaded the SDK for Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and Borland/Turbo C.  I have
been trying to assemble the 3812A.ASM file for the longest time with Turbo
Assembler with no luck.  Has anyone out there gotten this baby to assemble into
an object module.  I get tons of errors flying up my screen!  (Undefined symbol
@@, multiply defined symbol @@, etc).  I thought maybe I had a corrupt copy of
the SDK, so I redownloaded, but the same problems occured.  Can anyone clue me
in?

Thanks!
Rob Lizak Jr.

lizakre@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu
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