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From: wity@iastate.edu (Senopati Pamungkas)
Subject: Re: Multimedia not need Soundcard
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:53:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.032924.22345@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>With only $200 dollars you should get 3D superlative sound quality with 660 
>Mbyte capacity. Who needs hard-disks? You do not need GUS 3D card, wave blaster,               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>to get 3D sound. Just record the sound on the CD. You do not need high speed
>CD drives. Imagine even the slowest SCSI CDrom drives at 0.5 access time is
>acceptable. How fast do you think we speak? How long is the interval for a
>music changeover can we tolerate? In fact the interval is good for us to have
>a rest.

Get real!  CD-ROM is for read only, and it is damned sloow!
The fastest CD-ROM drive is about 200 ms, but it is about 10 ms for hard-disk!

>Who needs sound cards? If you want to do everthing yourself but how many of
>us can do that? You need good quality microphones, you need good quality
>preamplifiers(not the ones provided by cheap sound cards) to record music 
>quality recordings. 

One CD can only hold about 70 minutes of audio, most COOL games have soundtrack
more than one hour.  They need soundcards, or it won't fit on one CD.
Even "7th Guest" needs two CDs, 'cause it contains lots of data/animations.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: mzeytin@gauss.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Mehmet Zeytinoglu)
Subject: 16-bit sound file formats
Keywords: 16-bit sound samples, sample format conversion
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:00:04 GMT

I am interested in working with 16-bit stereo sound samples.  In order to use
these samples in other programs for analysis and other signal processing
operations, I need to access sound samples which are in a signed or unsigned
2 byte format,i.e. simple linear representation of sample amplitudes.
To be more specific about this point, let say the sample amplitudes are
in the range [-32767, 32767] are to be represented ina 2-byte 2's complement
representation such that the smallest positive amplitude will be 
0x0000 , the next one 0x0001, the maximum positive signal amplitude will be 
0x7fff, the smallest negative amplitude will be 0xffff.

Does any one of the MS-Windows sound editing, recording, processing programs 
allow you to write the recorded sound samples in a signed/unsigned 2-byte
format?  Does anybody have any experience with such a sound sample
transformation?   If there is such a program does it work with all 16-bit sound
cards or with only a specific one?

Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated.

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From: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Subject: Re: Covox, parallel port sound
Reply-To: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:52:44 GMT


In a previous article, egrayver@cco.caltech.edu (Eugene Grayver) says:

>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


HOW TO MAKE A DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTERS WITH RESISTORS
---------------------------------------------------------
 
You need one plug for your amp, one for your parallel port and 9 20k and 
9 10K resistors.  Use 1% resistors if possible  and 20k sound much better 
than 22k.
 
   25    2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    <-  DB25 Pin #
   GND   D0    D1    D2    D3    D4    D5    D6    D7   <-  Signal Name
   |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     
   |     R2    R2    R2    R2    R2    R2    R2    R2
   |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
   |     |_R1__|_R1__|_R1__|_R1__|_R1__|_R1__|_R1__|_R1___C1______ +
   |     |                                              |
   |     R2                                             R1    TO AMP
   |_____|______________________________________________|_________ - 
 
R1 = 10Kohm 1%          R2 = 20Kohm 1%          C1 = 100nF
 
Thanks to Harry Stox for the above circuit.  Again, make sure all the 0v 
lines are connected together.  The 100nF capacitor may not be needed, 
try removing it if this circuit sounds poor.
 
This schematic was inspired from HARDWARE.DOC (c) Mark J Cox
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: wchiang@engws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Wei Chiang)
Subject: Anything good about SB-16?
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:02:50 GMT

I've heard nothing but bad things about the SB-16 lately here on the net.
Unfortunately, I have an SB-16 sitting here right next to me.  I haven't
been able to test the board because I don't have a computer but I've had
it for 3-weeks.  The company I ordered it from gave me a 30-day return
policy so I have to know whether or not there is anybody who has a SB-16
that works properly.  CL refuses to admit that there is anything wrong
with the board and therefore, after speaking to a guy at tech support,
my dealer basically thinks I'm a liar.  I want to know if there's a shot
in the world that my SB-16 will function properly because I might be able
to work out a deal with the vendor I bought it from.  Thanks a lot.

Also, if you have been having problems, what are they?
From: kfilipps@dgim.doc.ca (Ken Filipps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: LPT DAC Information Required
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:24:00 GMT
Organization: Communications Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Can anyone tell me where I could get some information on how to build the LPT
DAC Soundplayer.  Please Email any responses.

Thanks
Ken	<kfilipps@clark.dgim.doc.ca>
From: dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Gusmod
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:17:12 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: cezanne.cc.utexas.edu

>It got...um, shall we say, stuck.  Should be finished soon.  I'm trying to
>eliminate the popping right now.
>
>Joshua Jensen
>

I have sometimes noticed that after I run GUSMOD that I cannot load Windows
without the system freezing up.  And then I usually have to power down and up
again to get things working again.  (a reboot usually won't do it.)  If you 
haven't released the new GUSMOD yet, could you please look into this?

Dan.

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From: jtk@netcom.com (Jane Valencia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Computer Shopper Review...bad news for SBPro
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:35:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

copley-devon@cs.yale.edu (Devon Copley) writes:

>....  What (supposedly) is happening
>in the SBPro is that, due to some sort of inadequacies in the circuitry,
>its frequency response rolls off at 2.6 kHz.

I remember reading that the reason this happens is that the SBPro doesn't
allow you to change the low-pass filter frequency.  This simplified some
circuitry and allowed them to lower the cost, but because of the Nyquist
theorem it means that many of your sampling rates will give you inferior
results.

Cards like the PAS, PAS+, and PAS-16 have a software-selectable sample
rate and cutoff frequency.  When you choose a sample rate through the
Windows driver, it sets the filter to match the rate.  If you just bang
the hardware yourself under DOS, you will have to make sure to set it for
yourself.

					Andy Valencia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.music,alt.emusic,rec.music.synth
From: marc@csi.on.ca (Marc Sherman)
Subject: GUS FTP Archive?
Reply-To: msherman@zeus.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: Carp Systems International
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:16:06 GMT

Does the FTP archive for the GUS at archive.epas.utoronto.ca have a
mail server?  If so, could someone please mail me the address and the
instructions for requesting a file?  FTP doesn't seem to be working
from my site today...

Thanks!

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From: co005@vd.seqeb.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Looking for SB-SOUND.COM for SB Pro
Date: 28 Jan 93 09:19:38 +1000
Organization: South East Queensland Electricity Board

I am just having a look at ACCU music system. I have a SB Pro card.
ACCU tells me that I need to load SB-SOUND.COM to play the music but
I can find no trace of this with my SB software.

Does anyone know where it comes from ?

Thanks,
	Chris Oldham (bsd_chris@seqeb.gov.au)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: norm@bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil)
Subject: MAXOK not working with GUS
Reply-To: norm@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:07:32 GMT

After recently getting my GUS card, I decided to try out the Maximum OverKill
(Commanche) demo I downloaded but no matter what the option, I can't get any
music or sound.  I have run the setup program (or whatever it was) and chose
both SoundBlaster and AdLib but neither will work.

Anybody got the MAXOK demo to work with a GUS?

Thanks,
  Norm.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS-16: Beware/ NAW. .
From: djlewis@ualr.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:33:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

In article <4097@hpwala.wal.hp.com>, mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:
> In article <93015.161020DXR8@psuvm.psu.edu> DXR8@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>Keath, I had the same problems you did.  Got the same crap from the tech
>>support that it would be a week (I bought mine long before Christmas) before
>>they could call back.  Took it back, wasted way more time then I should have.
>>Anyways, they should rename this group:
>>
>>comp.sys.ibm.pas16.gus.it.don't.work.right.with.this.or.it.don't.work.right.
>>with.that.but.I.own.one.and.it's.the.BEST!
>>
>>Flame on....  I bought a crappy SB and the damn thing works with everything.
> 
> Well, I'm glad that I'm not the only one who has had problem after
> problem with the PAS-16!  I've had to put up with its low-quality
> manual, installation hassles (hours, not minutes!), to Windows
> incompatibilites, poor software, and poor customer support on CompuServe
> (unanswered messages) and by phone (callbacks days later).
> Fortunately--after several months customer support-- everything works.
> 
> Hindsight is 20/20, but if I had it to do over again, I would have
> followed your lead and taken back (while I still had my sanity) and
> bought a SoundBlaster.
> 
> Listen, folks, I'm glad everything was a piece of cake for you, but it
> was NOT that way with me!
> 
> P.S.:  If anyone wants to buy this "great" sound card from me, I am
> willing to sell it at a loss!  Please make an offer.
> 
> --
> Michael B. Williams
> Hewlett-Packard Company
> Medical Products Group
> Waltham, MA 02254                    Prodigy: Dumped it
> (617) 290-3734                       CompuServe: 73667,3264
> mikew@hpwarga.wal.hp.com             America Online: Mike W99
ON THE GOOD SIDE. ..
	I ordered my PAS8 to PAS16 upgrade last year (september I think) and it
came in about two weeks. It installed easily but after 1-week it developed a
popping noise. I have been an electronics tech for 28 years and new it was the
audio output transistors in one channel only BUT, I called MediaVision and got
a reply next day. They insisted I use the usual /t:xx flag in mvsound.sys so I 
did. To no avail. I called back and they replied within a day and gave me a
return authorization number and off it went. In two weeks I had my replacement
PAS16 card (new). . . Considering how busy they were after the PAS16 offer hit
and the season and the fact that California is not a rocks throw away I feel
the service was very good.
	My two cents worth,
Don Lewis
<djlewis@ualr.edu>
<djlewis@spider.ualr.edu>

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From: wity@iastate.edu (Senopati Pamungkas)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Sound System
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:18:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.170609.7521@netcom.com> jturley@netcom.com (Jim Turley) writes:
>Does anyone have any comments on the Microsoft Sound Systems.
>
>I picked one up on spec and installed it in 10 minutes.  No IRQs,
>No DMA, no conflicts with the zillion other cards I have in the system.
>
>If the install is any indication, the Sound System is great.

Microsoft SS is not for gaming, it's not even SB compatible.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: 861033h@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael S. Hogan)
Subject: Re: Sound via parallel port
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:06:43 GMT

yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu) writes:

>In article <19900@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Magee) writes:
>>try the Port Blaster from Creative Labs
>>Bobby Magee
>>Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca
>>

>Has this been released already?

Apparently so.  My favorite dealer up here in Canada has it listed at
$192CAN...

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From: doug@asns.tredydev.Unisys.COM (Doug Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS16 and Falcon 3.0
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:51:42 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Tredyffrin, PA

Whenever I run Falcon 3.0 any digital audio comes out sounding like popping and
static.  I can get all the music from the game with no problem but all the 
AWACS and wingmen messages sound like static.  Also the opening demo when the 
F16s are chasing each other also just gives static.  When I slow down my 
computer (Its a 386 DX 40 MHz) to 20 MHz, I get the digitized sounds but then
the game plays too slow.  I can also disable my 64K cache but once again the 
game plays too slow.  I tried playing around with my CMOS options and also
slowing down the BUS speed but this does no good.

I called Spectrum Holobyte support (takes forever to get through) and they 
said that the problem is that Falcon was written for Soundblaster version
1.5.  They said that since the ProAudio Spectrum 16 card has Soundblaster 1.0 
hardware that is why I'm having this problem.  The support guy suggested I 
call Media Vision and ask if they can upgrade me to version 1.5 either through
hardware or software and then let him know what they say.

Now, I'm having a lot of trouble buying this.  Why would a company
write a game that would exclude all Soundblaster version 1.0 owners?  
None of my other soundblaster compatible games suffer from this problem -
they all work fine (including Wing Commander II).

Is anybody out there familiar with this problem?  Any suggestions?
From: mtrachsel@sgcl1.unisg.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Keyboard and SBPro... How?
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:54:28 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

forgot anything?

I just got a YAMAHA PSS-790 keyboard and I want to use it
as midi-outputdevice and maybe later also to record.But the
problems already start now. I connect the midi-cable to the
joystickport of my soundblaster pro and the in and out cabel
to the keyboard. Then I choose sbp2 Ext MIDI form the midimapper
of the controlpanel and start the mediaplayer with a midi-file.
I turn the keyboard to Midi-recieve-CH/Clock and start the
mediaplayer and ... nothing! No sound from the sbp synthesizer nor
the keyboard. So my question is: What I might have forget?!
I tried already to switch the cable from in to out, I tried
all available midi configuration from the controlpanel. What else?

Please get me some hints what I've done wrong.

Thank's a lot.
Markus

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: kaustell@viikki.Helsinki.FI (KIM OLAVI KAUSTELL (MATEK))
Subject: Re: New WinJammer uploaded to epas
Organization: University of Helsinki, Fac.Agric.For.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:36:43 GMT

In article <3984@mdavcr.mda.ca> bs@mdavcr.uucp (Bruce Sharpe) writes:

>I have uploaded the latest version of WinJammer (v2.24) to 
>  klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36)
>  /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit/wjmr224.zip
>This version fixes a few problems that were v2.23 (the first version to
>support the GUS). Shareware.
...

Is there any possibility this zipped file in epas is corrupted? I downloaded 
it twice (yes, with the bin option) and tried to unzip it with different 
versions of unzippers. Other zipped files that I downloaded extracted OK.

With regards, 

                        -= Kim Kaustell =-
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From: oshea@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Buying GUS, need input
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:00:13 GMT

Hello Everyone-

  I am planning on purchasing a GUS.  I heard that Gravis is giving software
with it now.  What software is it? Is this the best way to make sure
I'm getting the latest model?

  Thanks in advance,
      Dan O.

Note: I posted a message similar to this this morning, but it dissapeared.
Does this happen often?
From: mbenson@sytex.com (Michael Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: ASL Cyber Audio Card - So
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:58:30 EST
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JL>On pg 4 of INFOWORLD Direct (not INFOWORLD) there is an ad for a
  >sound card that I had not seen before.  It features:

JL>        - Wave Table synthesis
  >        - 32 simultaneous stereo voices
  >        - 16 MIDI channels
  >        - 1 MB on board ROM with 128 sampled instruments
  >        - 16 bit record and playback at 44 kHz, 22 kHz, & 11 kHz
  >        - SB compatible


In the next month or two you will see MANY MANY new brands of sound
cards because of propagation of sound chips.

Remember when the high end video cards were Video 7, Everex, etc?  Most
high end video card companies loss a lot of market share because of the
propagation of cheap video chips.  How much is a super vga card now? $53
for an average card, and $170 for one that has a co processor and does
16 million colors.  Hmmm...

The same thing is going to happen with the sound card market.  Genoa,
Diamond, and many other electronics companies are going to come out with
sound card based upon high quality inexpensive chips.  The price on
sound cards are going to plummet.

I sure would hate to own stock in a one of the major sound card
companies a month or so from now...  The competition is going to be
fierce.  It's like when the clones entered the PC market.  Look what
happened to IBM.

Michael

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: MED files?
X-To: T
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:35:00 GMT

From kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla)
>Considering how poor the PC with an SBPro is at duplicating regular old
>4-channel MODs, I'd think doing an 8-channel MED file would be pretty
>awful.  Maybe the 4-channel versions, though.... Oh yeah, MED also
>supports 12 tracks of MIDI (you pick the channel).  The program on the
>Amiga lets you save in MOD format, I think, so maybe you should track
>down someone with an AMiga to try and convert the better MED modules
>into MODs.

    I think that you'd do better trying to translate them into 669's.


    Anyone up for a GUS MED player? ;-)

    (I'm still waiting for my GUS STM payer... <sigh>..)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: MediaVision Fusion CD Impressions (and OS/2)?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:15:59 GMT

Quick Electronics is offering the MediaVision Fusion CD (not 16)
package for $399.  (Quick can be reached at 800-800-5500).  (Good price?)

This package apparently includes the NEC CDR-25 portable, external,
SCSI CD-ROM drive, Pro Audio Spectrum Plus, speakers, Compton's
Encyclopedia with Atlas and Dictionary, Wing Commander II w/Speech
Pak, Carmen Sandiego Deluxe, and Ultima Underworld.

Does anyone have anything to say about this package, pro or con?  On
the surface it looks like it might be a fairly good choice for OS/2 2.1,
at least if the Media Vision drivers emerge from beta.  But I'd like
assessments on that as well.  (Do audio CDs play?  Do both MMPM/2 and
Win-OS/2 3.1 multimedia extensions work well?)

Thanks.




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From: ssumbarn@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (M. J. Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: SB Midi
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:53:03 GMT
Reply-To: ssumbarn@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., University of Reading

Hi.

I built a midi interface for the SB as detailed in the Babini book "more advanced midi projects". This uses a 6N139 opto-isolator (easy to get hold of from Maplin here in the UK). However, the interface is very unreliable. I've been testing it with WinJammer (the only sequencer I have), and usually when I try to record it fails to do anything. If it does work, however, it records everything properly. Midi out works fine but then that's the easy bit!

Has anyone else run across similar problems?

Mike.
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