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From: baseball@catch-the-fever.scd.ucar.edu (Gregg Walters)
Subject: Re: PAS-Plus SCSI and SB Quality?
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:34:03 GMT

In Article: 5518 of comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,
pti4378@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Patrick) wrote >>

>> I would like to purchase a soundcard.  I am not interested in much more than
>> regular Soundblaster level functionality.  I would, however, like to use
>> it as a CD-ROM interface in the future.  I do not want to deal with the SBPro
>> proprietary interface.
>>
>> Is the SCSI interface standard and good enough to use to run a SCSI
>> CD-ROM drive and a SCSI Hard drive?

Three months ago I got a SBPro 2.0 Basic under the assumption that I could get
a compatible external CD-ROM drive.  WRONG...ALMOST  CompUSA (Denver) told me
Saturday that Creative Labs has discontinued the external drive.  So I figured
I either had to buy a complete multi-media kit (two by MediaVision, one was
the Fusion CD16 for $1099 and the other a Media Vision with a multi-spin CD-ROM
drive for $1199) which is just too much for me, or forget the idea.

I tried the cheesy $399 Fusion CD (MediaVision) multi-media kit.  The card
and the CD-ROM interface card must be mounted physically parallel in adjacent
slots.  That's because you have to connect the two with a 5-line ribbon cable
that is an astonishing 4 inches long.  16 inches would let me put the interface
card in an unused 8-bit slot.  In my box that meant taking 2 of 3 16-bit slots
and I was already using two.  I jury-rigged an open-case setup just to test it,
and I thought the sound was SH*T.  When I returned the kit to the dealer they
tried to tell me I could get a longer cable - 12 inches.  Enough already ...

Then I found a NEC CDR-36 CD-ROM drive at Bizmart for $499.  It came with a SCSI
interface card (8-bit slot), a headphone jack, Grolier's Encyclopedia, and two
other reference type CDs.  When I set things up, on a hunch I decided to run a
line from the headphone jack to the SBPro line in.  HEY! It works.  THIS IS NOT
DOCUMENTED IN THE KIT'S MANUALS.  I get the soundbites from the Grolier's, and
I can play music CDs - even while system sounds, or the SBPro Dr. SBaitso
applet are running.  The SCSI interface has 2 SCSI ports one external (with my
line to the CD-ROM drive) and one internal.  I'm not sure if the both can be
used simultaneously, but the documentation does say that you can daisy chain
your peripherals on this thing - just need to setup unique IRQs for each device,
etc.
 

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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:22:04 GMT
Organization: Universite de Moncton

In article <Bz7C5v.51G@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca (Yuri Lee) writes:
>From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca (Yuri Lee)
>Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
>Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:27:31 GMT


>Well, again, it's very confusiong whether GUS has 32 stereo voices or not.
>I'd expect it does although the box say 16 stereo because PLAYMIDI uses 20
>stereo channels, I believe.                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Where did you get that information?  did you see that when you enter
'PLAYMIDI -udebug <filename.mid>'?
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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: Need correct Ultrasound ftp
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:40:53 GMT

In article <markus.320.724285991@clement.info.umoncton.ca> markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN) writes:
>From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
>Subject: Re: Need correct Ultrasound ftp
>Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:33:11 GMT

>In article <1gccb8INN7e6@parsifal.umkc.edu> rleberle@sparc2.cstp.umkc.edu (Rainer Leberle) writes:
>>Subject: Re: Need correct Ultrasound ftp
>>From: rleberle@sparc2.cstp.umkc.edu (Rainer Leberle)
>>Date: 12 Dec 1992 09:45:12 GMT

>>In article <Bywnzr.2Hx@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> zonnevel@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (B.J.Zonneveld.tel-015-622622) writes:
>>>
>>>I tried the following ftp adresses and got unknown host on all of them:
>>> epas.utoronto.ca
>>> epas.utoronto.edu
>>> epas.utoronto.ca.edu
>>> epas.utoronto.edu.ca
>>>
>>>Why doesn't this work???
>>>
>>It's epas.utoronto.ca [128.100.160.1]
>>There probably something whith your DNS screwed up.
>>Try ftp 128.100.160.1

>        The address changed.  Now it's archive.epas.utoronto.ca

	You can also use klingon.epas.utoronto.ca since archive seem not to 
work anymore.
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From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Where can I get MediaVision PAS software?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 22:20:14 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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I have a PAS+ card, but not the software like the wave editor, prospeak (the
text to speech program), etc.  I cannot connect for some unfathomable reason
to the Mediavision BBS.  I have looked at uwp.edu, and it has some
Mediavision PAS files, but not, as far as I could tell, the basic utilities
that come with the card.  Can anyone tell me where I might find these
utilities?

Thanks for your help!

Dave Cole
dcole@ua.d.umn.edu


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From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:53:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.164820.538@mfltd.co.uk> sts@mfltd.co.uk writes:
>In article <If=oh_u00WBL81hJgV@andrew.cmu.edu>, Philip Andrew Nemec <blackdiamond+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>|> Okay - here are some specs from the developer's toolkit...
>|> 
>|> * 8 or 16 bit playback.  Stereo and Monophonic.
>|> * 8 it recording.  Stereo and Monophonic.
>|> * Playback and recording rates up to 441.1 kHz.
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^
>                                  Wow!! All we need now is a couple
>                                  of gigs of memory to store the samples in !

Err.  Not really.  441.1 kHz = 44.11 MHz.  Little power of 10 thing there.

Since this is a wavetable card, how hard would it be to make samples of 
all the allophones (phenomes, whatever) which make up language and put them
together to do synthetic speech?

I've run software on the Commodore 64 and Mac which speak text as it appears 
on the screen (C64 using a Currah Voice Messenger), but the speech was
extremely robotic.

I want more flexibility than simple playback of digitized speech, but I 
want to approach the quality of it.

-Coyt
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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: GUS questions
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 09:48:19 GMT

In article <1h166kINNr07@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bz528@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joseph W. Maruschek) writes:
>
>In a previous article, ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) says:
>
>>In article <BzByFM.n5@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> zonnevel@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (B.J.Zonneveld.tel-015-622622) writes:
>>>
>>>  I am very happy with the card but I want to hear some more asskicking midi-
>>>  files using 16-bit samples and stereo! Anyone got any of these or know where
>>>  to get em?
>>
>>They already exist, but since the current Windows GUS drivers can only do 
>>8-bit, mono, you will need to play them with Playmidi in DOS.
>
>Really?  Isn't that 8-bit limit imposed on digital recording?  I would
>think that the MIDI playback would use the same 16-bit samples that
>playmidi does.  However, I have heard that the MIDI driver only supports
>12-note polyphony, and it appears that playmidi only supports 20-voice
>polyphony.  ARRGH!

The 8-bit is enforced on recording and wave playback, but I think the
MIDIs are played using the 16-bit patches.  They are indeed played in only
mono with the Windows drivers, though.  I've also noticed that the 
Windows MIDI driver is much less polyphonic than playmidi, which doesn't
even give 32-voice polyphony.  Gravis better be releasing new drivers and
other software to take advantage of the GUS soon.

Phat.
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From: swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg (Sir Launcelot Du Lac)
Subject: Re: I tot SB16 was out !\
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:28:55 GMT

isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE) writes:

Well met Flat Top,
: 
: Gee... just went to a local exhibition, here in the home of Creative
: technology.... to think the SB16 is out all over the world and Creative
: insists that all stocks are in the US and etc. and they dun have any for
: sale in Singapore.... YET. ! Geee...... talk about neglecting roots.

But..but..it was released at Comtech '92!!!  Didst thou not see it? 
Anyway, I've brought one home :):)

: i took a listen to it and it seems quite impressive.... the sounds are
: not as noisy as my present Sbpro.... and the digitised speech from a WC

The SB16 was noiseless when I powered on, unlike the SB Pro.


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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: GUS v. PAS-16
Keywords: help .....
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:02:42 GMT

In article <Bz7x5r.AJu@ns1.nodak.edu> jorgense@plains.NoDak.edu (Lee A. Jorgensen) writes:
>Ok ... I've looked at soundcards for the past few months and
>I've decided on either a PAS-16 that I can get locally, or
>a GUS through mail-order.
>
>The biggest drawback that I have, is that I cannot get the GUS
>locally, nor can I see what it comes with.  I know that the
>PAS-16 can support up to two joysticks, SCSI compat., etc.
>
>What does the GUS offer in the way of hardware 'accessories'
>like the above?  I do know that you can get daughterboards
>for SCSI, and 16-bit sampling.
>

The only non-audio part of the basic GUS is the speed-compensating
game port.  You can plug in two joysticks with a Y-connector, though
the manual says that you need to get the cable from Gravis since the
joystick port also has pins for MIDI.

The rest of the package is just a bunch of software to amuse yourself
until more GUS support from other companies appear.  Specifically
they are
	- MIDI players (for DOS and drivers for Windows)
	- SBOS emulation software
	- USS8 recording program
	- misc demoes and MIDI files

>Also, could someone send me 'all' of the GUS-related info (ie.
>GUS-FAQ, Gamelist ... etc.) .. or where can I find it? (I do have ftp)
>

archive.epas.utoronto.ca is a GUS archive that you may want to check
out.

>Any installation/horror stories also welcome.
>

As long as you don't have an OPTi chipset, you should be fine.

Phat.
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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:06:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.063319.6042@cs.hope.edu> turkstra@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Screwtape) writes:
>From article <BzC3A3.GpF@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>, by ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran):
>
>> BTW, anybody considering implementing temporal displacements between
>> the left and right channels to reproduce "truer" stereo?
>> 
>> Phat.
>Is the GUS hardware sophisticated enough to implement temporal 
>displacement?  Also, I don't see how this method would produce 
>a "truer" stereo than 32 voices playing (16L - 16R).  The only cool
>stuff I've seen done with this is in surround sound, which is 
>impossible with the GUS. Unless we could program it to send 16 voices 
>out of the line out and 16 different ones out of amp out! Hmmmm. :) 

Since our ears are a head's width apart, a sound coming from the side will
reach one ear before the other.  That's an important cue that helps us
determine from where a sound originated.  If we set one voice to the right
and another to the left, and if we can drive each voice independently,
then, instead of just adjusting the volume for the channels, we can also
add in a delay for one of the channels.  I don't know if the timing
resolution of the GUS is fine enough to allow for delays that are no longer
than the time it takes sound to traverse about a foot.

Phat.
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From: b_goodwin@saar.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: PAS-16: Midi interface question?
Reply-To: b_goodwin@saar.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:26:08 GMT


In article <1992Dec11.215249.2397@mr.med.ge.com>, laufen@deer (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534) writes:
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|>Subject: PAS-16: Midi interface question?
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|>Has anyone used the PAS-16 with a MIDI interface?
|>
|>I have been using mine with a homemade interface and I hear some
|>digital noise comming through on the left side.  Any midi commands
|>(keyboard press/release) cause a slight 'click' to be heard.
|>
|>Has any one else had this problem using Media-vision's overpriced
|>Midi-Mate (tm) ?  Do they do some magic to reduce the crosstalk from
|>the digital to the analog section?
|>
|>MV tech support is most useless on this matter.
|>
|>--
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|>GE - Medical Systems    
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I have been using the MIDI kit from my SB on the PAS16 and it works great!

Brad Goodwin
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From: c60a-lj@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Rasputin)
Subject: Can I buy a GUS????
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:36:22 GMT


Well, I'm gettign ready to buy a GUS, but after reading the countless posts
about problems with OPTI chipsets, how do I find out if I have the kind of
board that doesn't work with a GUS????
From: fbruno@ysw526 (F. Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: OPTI Help!
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:44:29 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Sanders
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Hi, I've been reading alot about the Opti Chipset problems. I am having
problems which may be due to my Opti chipset. I need to get a new mother-
board, but it must be one which can take 16 1-meg simms. The only ones I've
seen which can do that are Opti's. So I guess what my question is, What is
the chipset revision or whatever I should look for if I am going to buy a
new MB?
				Thanks,`
				Frank
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From: y70q@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (LAM)
Subject: What is the tel. no. of GUS BBS?
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:45:03 GMT

Can anyone tell me the tel. no. of GUS BBS?
From: luga@irit.irit.fr (Herve LUGA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: informations about soundcards
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:42:13 GMT
Organization: IRIT-UPS, Toulouse, France


	I want any information about soundcards programming
		 (waves playing, adlib mode,...)

		thanks

	email : luga@irit.irit.fr
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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: Sierra GUS Support
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:42:44 GMT

In article <85096@ut-emx.uucp> captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
>From: captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
>Subject: Re: Sierra GUS Support
>Date: 10 Dec 92 08:54:13 GMT

>Well, Dan, on the GUS box it clearly shows, in a table, that the GUS has
>32 "Digital Audio Voices", and 16 "Stereo Digital Voices", so which Ad.Grav.
>info is correct?  I know there are several other errors on my box...
> 

	When I first heard of the Gravis Ultrasound, it was in the Sound 
Newsletter.  I don't know if that newsletter is still published.  Anyways, 
they saud that the GUS will have 32 voices (mono) or 16 voices (stereo).
	Also, I read _a lot_ of reviews about the board (one of them was 
from Gravis) and they _all_ said that the GUS has 32 voices in mono mode or 
16 in stereo mode.  Same kind of info found on the GUS box.  If you request 
'card-review' from the request address at the Gravis Ultrasound Daily 
Digest, you'll also see the same info.
	Now, who's right?  Who's wrong?  From my own personnal opinion, the 
GUS has 32 voices (mono) or 16 voices (stereo).  Flame me if you want.  But 
that's what Gravis told me in two messages.

	Bran: Forgot to say that this message is for Dan.  Sorry if your 
name is here.  I took your message to respond. :-)  

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|---------------------------------------------+  which I leave is too small |
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From: tpearson@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Trevor Pearson)
Subject: Re: Where can I get a GUS in Australia?
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:43:57 GMT

arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) writes:
> Does anyone know where I can source a Gravis UltraSound
> card in Australia???
> 
>
I don't know about Sydney, but Ozzie discount software in Melbourne has
a stack of them. Last week they were asking $289. Will come down I
thought, this week they want $325. Not bad considering they are less
than $200 AUD RRP in Canada. Probably cheaper to ship one from the
US.
 
> -- 
> Anthony Rumble
> aka SmilieZ
> "Anything is possible.. If there is enuf money in it"
From: bradshaw@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Linux drivers for PAS16 released... how about Os/2?
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:33:48 GMT
Organization: Purdue University


Well, some wonderful PAS16 drivers are now available for Linux and even
though they are ALPHA I have nothing but praise for them. Is there anyone
who knows Os/2 2.0 who could implement drivers now? The problem no longer
appears to be information from MediaVision!

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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: MIDI Editor
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:57:47 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.020226.1331@rose.com> francisco.perez@rose.com (francisco perez) writes:
>
>Date Entered: 12-14-92 20:47
>Anyone know of a good shareware MIDI editor I can use for the GUS to modify
>and/or create MID files?  I don't have a MIDI interface of any sort.  I'm
>just simply looking for an editor which will let me create MIDs by keying
>in the notes through my computer keyboard, and then play them back on the
>GUS.

If you have Windows, there's WinJammer.  

Phat.
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: When will multichannel get equal time?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:06:50 GMT

NETOPRBL@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (Christopher Lane) writes:
>What the title says.
>Why is it that every sound card company out there (except for Soundblaster)
>completely alienates PS/2 users? (please avoid such flame-bait as "ps/2's

Who buys the most PS/2s?  Businesses.  That's not a great market for,
say, a Soundblaster, except for simple sample/playback cards.  It's
the same thing Mac users are complaining about when they ask why
company X no longer ports their software to Macs.


>And why in gods name charge double the price for them?

They can't sell as many of them and need to recoup their investment
costs.  And isn't it true that PS/2 cards need to support "soft
jumpers" rather than physical jumpers, which costs extra (I could be
wrong on this one, soft jumpers may just be an option)?  In addition,
many MIS departments aren't as sensitive to cost as individual owners.
And, of course, because PS/2 owners _want_ cards and there aren't as
many out there, they can charge more and still make more money.

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