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From: mholmes@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mark Holmes)
Subject: GUS and Wizardry 7
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:22:22 GMT

Has anyone gotten the "sound effects" in the game wizardry to work?  The
Music plays fine but whenever a sound effect is to be heard the game just
slows down... i.e. the mouse doesn't respond for a brief moment and no sound
is heard... which seems strange to me since the sound effects are coposed of
SND files which the gus plays quite nicely when not in the game.  Any help
would be appreciated. Thanks.

                                              Mark

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From: cnap34@uk.ac.strath.ccsun ("G.C.McGregor", Electrical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: sb_sound.com ?
Keywords: Im a fairly new owner of soundblaster V2.0 and I've seen
	some software for it that seems to need a program sb_sound.com
	run before it will work. Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of
	this as I cant find it anywhere on ftp....
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:22:00 GMT
Reply-To: cnap34@uk.ac.strath.ccsun
Organization: Strathclyde University Sun Workstations.


	Thanks in advance,
        		Gordon McGregor
 	
	( answer by email please, to cnap34@ccsun.strath.ac.uk)

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From: brent@cco.caltech.edu (Brent R. Eubanks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS vs. PAS 16
Date: 10 Jan 1993 03:00:23 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

I am in the market for a sound card to replace my aging SB.  How does
the GUS stack up against the PAS 16?

Specifically:

1) Which one does better emulation of SB sound effects.
2) When one is better for digitalizing and manipulating sound files?
3) Does PAS 16 have a native mode (beyond the SB emulation) like GUS
does?  (I haven't been able to get a straight answer on this one.)
4) If PAS 16 does have a native mode, which one (PAS 16 or GUS) is
more frequently and commonly supported?
5) I am running OS/2 2.0 (will be v 2.1 when it is released).  Which
card gives better support?  Do either of them have OS/2 drivers out
yet?  Are any likely to be forthcomming?
6) Does either card have compatibility problems with OS/2?

Thanks for the help.

Please reply to my mailbox (but also post a copy for the information
of others).


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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS or SB16?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:20:20 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <1993Jan7.014133.737%yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw> yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935) writes:
>Summerize.
>   Buy Pro Audio Spectrum 16 instead of GUS or SB16.
>
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Ignore this posting everyone.
He obviously wants to start a flame war or something.
The original poster asked about the GUS or SB16 .
PAS 16 wasn't even mentioned in this thread.
So not only can he not "summarize" what anything about PAS 16 from this 
thread, he's probably intentionally giving the wrong answer to promote 
a flame war of sorts.
So just ignore him. Don't even bother to reply to this.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Subject: Re: OPL3 or OPL2?
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:48:59 GMT

kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:
> 1) I was indicated that the new SoundBlaster Pro cards are shipping with the
>    OPL-3 chip-set. To my knowledge it had the OPL-2 chip-set and was actually
>    a mono card. Does this mean that the new SoundBlaster Pros (Note: Not the 
>    SB Pro 16) are the equivalent to the PAS-16 since it uses the Yamaha OPL-3?
Yes! The SB Pro II is use OPL3(YMF 262) FM chip, the same as PAS16.

> 2) There have been numerous reports that the SoundBlaster line of cards are
>    having problems with fast machines (50 Mhz and up). Does anyone know why
>    EXACTLY they at times freeze the machine, stop or have any other problems
>    with high-frequency machines?
Yes! SB16 has some problem at faster machine(because of bus clock being not 
standard). But the same problem may occurr in PAS16. The problem just depend
on your machine. Not the sound card.
Besides, SB16 still has some problems in digital voice, sometime it plays hisss
instead of real voice.

So buy PAS16 instead od SB16 lah!

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From: d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Audio Barn specs (fact)
Date: 10 Jan 93 10:34:23 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

mparker@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Fluro) writes:

>For those interested heres the specs on the Genoa Audio Barn
>This card is relased in Australia in Jan, Feb 1993 but only on
>order from ditributor....

It has great specs, but what about the price??

Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: 669 Uploads!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:29:06 GMT

> >SOLDEST1.ARJ
> 
>    [more stuff deleted]
>
>         That file didn't make it.  Could you upload it again?
>         Those 669 files are excellent!!  
 
No...uh...I mean yes...uh...well maybe sometime this week.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Magee)
Subject: GUS news re: 3D
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:16:23 GMT

Here is the verbatim text of the news release filed with the Securities
Commission and the Stock Exchanges.

"ADVANCED GRAVIS COMPUTER TECH LTD
Fri 8 Jan 93

Mr. timothy Zier reports:
The company has entered into a license agreement to produce and sell a
software product called Focal Point 3D Audio for the IBM PC.  Under the
license agreement Gravis has acquired an exclusive license to the product for
one year, subject to the payment by Gravis of minimum royalties, and
non-exclusive license for a further four years.

Focal Point 3D Audio is the basis for Gravis UltraSound 3D for the IBM PC,
and is the next step in the evolution of the Gravis Ultrasound card.  It
places the computer user in the middle of an audio environment for immersive
virtual reality audio.

Utilizing Focal Point technology, Ultrasound 3D processes the audio signal
through a technique called convolution, where new right and left binaural
audio signals are generated that create a wraparound sound effect to the
human ear.  The sound signal is actually a stereo signal shaped
electronically to make the listener hear the sound as three-dimensional and
in the correct location - a psychoacoustic effect that can be manipulated in
real time.

The company hopes to begin shipping Gravis UltraSound 3D by the end of the
first quarter of 1993 for US$249 complete with 512K of memory.  Gravis
UltraSound 3D will ship utilities for creating and manipulating 3D audio.
Independent software developers will be required to create new sound tracks
for their products to provide UltraSound users with 3D audio."

That's the scoop!  Do with it what you will. 8^)

Bobby Magee
International Portfolio Management
Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca
From: pfeifer@lf.hp.com (Mark Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: FTP site for Digitized Sound
Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:23:51 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
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I'm looking for some sound effects - typewriter sounds, beeps, clicks, etc.
I'm not looking for music or dialog snippets.  Are there any anon ftp sites
that have this kind of info?  Almost any format would be ok, but the sounds
will end up in .WAV format.  

Thanks for any help.

						Mark

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From: bs@mdavcr.mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: WinJammer for GUS uploaded to epas
Date: 10 Jan 93 14:25:39 GMT
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC, Canada  V6V 2J3

In article <1ioiccINN17e@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:

>HHmm... what do you mean it supports the Ultrasound ...
>... You mean this version of WinJammer loads patches?

That's exactly what I mean.  You open a MIDI file and play it and you get
music - WinJammer automatically loads the necessary patches for you.

Bruce Sharpe

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: weiningb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Weininger)
Subject: SBPRO+MIDI
Originator: weiningb@hphalle6j.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:31:11 GMT


Hello,

who knows somthing about SB PRO 4.0 (CPS) + MIDI ?

Ciao
  Bernhard  (weiningb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:6183 comp.music:5944
From: mtressle@bsu-cs.bsu.edu ( Eat Me.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music
Subject: Re: Software for the Roland SCC-1 ?
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:47:48 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana

umhaugh0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bruce A. Haugh) writes:
> In <C0FxzG.DMq@waterloo.hp.com> chuckm@canada.hp.com (Chuck Munro) writes:
> 
	Looks like Roland is selling a bunch of these. I bought mine Saturday.

> >I "bit the bullet" and purchased software for my SCC-1 (just last week).
> >My choices were Band-in-a-Box, Musicator/GS and Cakewalk for Windows.
> >This stuff is _not_ cheap, but it sure works well.
> >Chuck.
> 
	I second the Cakewalk for Windows. See Below

> If you are familiar with music notation I'd reccomend BalladeGS which is
> made by Dynaware and is specific to the SCC-1.  It is an excellent
> piece of sequencing software.

	SCC-1 specific software seems like a good thing. Some of the sounds
on the SCC-1 are a little hard to get at, but I've found that with a bit of
work under Cakewalk, you can set it all up right and get to them pretty well.
Plus, Cakewalk is a breeze to work with. I'm pretty new to all this, but all
other sequencers don't seem to make as much sense. Of course, I've only seen
2 others. A friend has made some SCC-1/SC-5(? SOund Canvas) specific changes
for the wincake.ini file to make things real simple to use. He's also written
a few CAL bits for added effect. (CAL is the scripting language in Cakewalk
that helps add your own effects. You can make your own echo, fade out parts,
and about any other added effects). SO, WHAT I'm offering is this: Is there 
interest for some of these things, and, if so, where can I put these so 
they can be ftp'ed? I know there is a cakewalk ftp site somewhere, so I guess
that would be the logical place. If someone knows how I should go about this, 
please let me know.


> 
> Bruce
> umhaugh0@ccu.umanitoba.ca
> Miles Wanna-be............................................................



mike
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From: ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Novice trying to get latest GUS drivers
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:40:46 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

All the lastest drivers for windows and the new versions of SBOS are
located at archive.epas.utoronto.ca  
Hope this helps
From: graham@cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Arnold Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Date: 4 Jan 1993 19:07:18 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelady.cs.utexas.edu

I agree - WE NEED OS/2 DRIVERS FOR THE GUS!!!!!!
Gravis said they "had plans" for such drivers, but seems unwilling to provide
any sort of approximate date...





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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: scham_ta@slab.unt.edu (Linda Schamber's TA)
Subject: Help with soundcards
Organization: School of Library & Info Sci, UNT
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:49:16 GMT

I am new to this group, so if this has been covered ad nauseum, I 
apologize.  I currently own a plain vanilla Soundblaster and wish to upgrade 
to another board.  I have been thinking in terms of anything from a SBPro to 
one of the Rolands to the GUS but do not know which way to go.  I will be 
using this mainly for games, .wav file for windows and such.  As such, could 
anyone answer the following questions:

1.  Is the SBPro substantially different in terms of the sound it produces?  
    By that I mean will the sounds in a game be different with the pro 
    than with the regular board?

2.  I have heard the Roland LAPC-1.  It is wonderful for music but how does 
    it work on sound effects?  How does the MT-32 stack up in comparison, if 
    a comparison can be made.  How does manufacturer support stack up for 
    either of the Roland Boards?

3.  I have just heard of the GUS as of yesterday from this board.  I gather 
    that manufacturer support is somewhat lacking at this point.  Is this 
    likely to change in the future?  Do different manufacturers issue 
    patches for their games to make them compatible with the GUS?  I also 
    gather that the card will emulate the SB.  Does this include speech?

4.  Given the current market, what is the best choice for a sound board 
    today?

Again, if all this has been covered in a FAQ or elsewhere, I apologize and 
just delete this post.  Any input would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in 
advance.

Robert Barker
barkerb@slab.unt.edu
From: kkobayas@husc8.harvard.edu (Ken Kobayashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: High-end sound card choice
Keywords: SCC-1 ROLAND TURTLE BEACH MULTISOUND WAVE BLASTER
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:27:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc.kkobayas.726888443


    I currently have a SoundBlaster Pro, and I'm planning to upgrade it to
something with better MIDI sound.  I have three cards I'm considering -
Turtle Beach Multisound, Roland SCC-1, and the (hopefully) upcoming Wave
Blaster from Creative Labs.  Can anyone give me any advice on this?  I
heard the demo CD for MultiSound and I was quite impressed with it.  I
heard that SCC-1 doesn't sound quite as good, but otherwise it has all the
capabilities I need (just MIDI synth).  Another advantage of MultiSound
will be that it offers more control - SCC-1 is fixed to GM sound setting. I
probably won't wait for the WaveBlaster - MultiSound seems to be better and
has a comparable price (and it's already available). 
    I only do PC multimedia stuff yet, but want to move onto more advanced
PC music.  I would also appreciate some advice in selecting a sequencing
kind of program that is easy enough to use for a non-keyboard player.  (I
only play violin - I assume they don't have a MIDI violin out yet :)


- K E N
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music
From: stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold)
Subject: Software for the Roland SCC-1 ?
Organization: Sinus Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:31:46 GMT

Hi !

I'm looking for some PD-/Shareware-Sequencing/Editor-Software for the SCC-1.

When I bought my SCC-1 there was only one program, chkscc, which came with
the card. But I've heard that now there are some other programs delivered
with the card.

If you have any hints where to get these programs for the SCC-1, please
post or mail.

Thank you in advance,
Stefan


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From: cgd@ecmwf.co.uk (Dick Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS and RAMDRIVE compatibility
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:13:42 GMT
Organization: ECMWF

Just for the benefit of anyone else who might be struggling:  there
appears to be
a conflict between the GUS Windows drivers and RAMDRIVE.SYS under some
circumstances.  I just spent about 4 hours getting everything to work
after
installing DOS 5, and this conflict was the problem.

Only manifested with a HUGE ram drive (I was using 12 megs and 1024
files), the
result is that Windows believes the GUS stuff is not installed - all
.WAV playing
functions are grayed out, and a message like 'Your current MIDI
configuration
refers to a MIDI device which is not installed' when trying to use the
MIDI player.

All was well again when I shrank the RAM  drive.

				regards

				Dick Dixon

P.S.

Is it usual to have to copy all the .PAT files to \WINDOWS directory? 
And, does
anyone else get 'tuba.pat is corrupt' when starting?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Subject: Re: MOD player for big mods? (over 700k)
Reply-To: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:24:37 GMT


In a previous article, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) says:

>Well, talking about GUS. My neighbour did something I didn't even think
>of considering. He hooked up his CD player to the GUS and recorded a
>whole song using playfile. It ended up to be a good many megabyte .snd
>file and I of course ask what the heck he was going to do with something
>like that. Your extended memory size isn't even big enough for this file
>(he had 4 Meg ram and the file was something like 8 meg). But then he
>grinned, ran playfile on this monster and it played just fine! I guess
>playfile doens't load the whole thing into memory then. :)
>
>Thomas.

Even a SoundBlaster can do that, using double-buffering and DMA:

While the SB is playing a part of the file in a memory buffer, the CPU is
reading the disk and retrieving the next part of the file into another 
memory buffer.

when the first part is done, the SB and CPU exchange buffers and continue
reading/playing . And so on, and so on ........

BUFFER A     BUFFER B
--------     --------
SB           CPU
CPU          SB
SB           CPU
...          ..
..           ...
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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: SB vs PAS vs GUS vs Turtle vs . . .
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:14:46 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA


I'm about to order a new PC (probably a Gateway 2000 DX266V), and I
can't quite decide what soundcard to put in it.  I anticipate doing
quite a lot of my own programming for the card (both digitised sound
and midi/synthesizer), not just using it with turnkey packages.
As I understand it, the pros and cons of the various cards are:

Turtle Beach:   great synth., but no digitized sound in or out.

GUS:            cheaper than the turtle beach.

PAS-16:         Works with practically any CD drive (including the
                new NEC and Sony double-speed units), and has real
                (albeit rather slow) SCSI usable with other devices.

SB Pro 16 ASP:  Obviously the best as far as compatibility goes, so
                will do best as a sound device for games (not that
                I'd use my system for playing games, of course :-).
                The optional waveblaster add-on provides synthesizer
                sounds almost as good as those on the Turtle Beach.

It seems to me that my best all-round choice would be the SB+WB, but
I still have reservations.  I don't really want to buy a soundcard
that restricts my choice of CD-ROM drives, and I have been told that
the SB uses a proprietary format for digitised sound (and that the
specs on the format are *not* available to the general public).

If anyone has any advice for me on which card to buy, or can point
out any errors I have made above, or can give me information on any
other devices (such as the Roland LAPC or Sound Canvas), I can be
reached at johnf@apollo.hp.com for the next few days.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: ipacs@solomon.technet.sg (IPACS PTE LTD)
Subject: Re: Gravis UltraSound 3D!
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:07:57 GMT

Jay Wilbur (jwilbur@iat.holonet.net) wrote:
: I've seen it and it seems to work well.  Of course the 3d effects work
: much better if you are in the sweet spot.  Headphones were used for the
: demo at the Gravis booth...I was impressed.

: Good News: I was told that there is no board upgrade for the 3d stuff....it's
: all in the driver!

OK, just called Gravis and a rep told me they're looking at the end of the
first quarter for release.  He doesn't know about the actual specs... ie we
STILL don't know if it's hardware or software (*sigh*).  But there
definitely is a place for upgrading for GUS owners... he was emphatic about
that.

Can't wait, especially since this morning I ordered a GUS :).

PS.  I *STILL* like my SB v1.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard