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From: Corey.Roome@mixcom.mixcom.com (Corey.Roome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Head Disk drive w/ SB Pro
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:33:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.

In <16e15hINNc0o@network.ucsd.edu> cti@weber.ucsd.edu (CTI acct) writes:

>We have a Dell 325P with a Sound Blaster Pro

>The machine works great, a real workhorse.  It has 8 MB memory and
>the Dell 212 MB hard drive, all Dell hardware.  We have a SB Pro
>card in it, and when the hard drive is accessed, you can hear it
>through your headphones really clearly.  NOT the floppy, BTW.
>Anybody have any idea why/what a cure might be?

I used to have a SBPRO, but I got rid of it for that reason, and MANY others.
The SBPRO is NOT shielded from interference.  When I turned up my volume real
loud, I got alot of noise from my hard drive as well.  I guess hard drives
put out interference.  Anyway, I also noticed recording problems.  Some days,
I could digitize music really well, while on others, the music came out
sounding garbled.

I had version 1 of the SBPRO.  Again, the soundcard is not shielded from
interference.  I'm not sure if SBPRO v.2 fixed this problem.

One thing I can suggest, though, is the Pro Audio Spectrum Plus or 16.  Both
cards are shielded from interference and you'll never hear that annoying
hard disk sound again.  The PAS Plus is about the same price as the SBPRO.
I recommend you take back your SBPRO and trade in for a PAS Plus, or 16.
If you don't need to record 16 bit audio, then just get the PAS Plus.  It
IS capable of playing 16 bit audio, just not recording it.

As far as I know, there is NO way to shield the SBPRO from interference.
If you are sick of that noise, then upgrade.  You'll get a TRUE SCSI
controller, not some proprietary controller that was previously passed off as
being SCSI.  You get nice control of mixing, volume, stereo enhance, bass
boost, and many other things as well.  I seriously recommend the upgrade.

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From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Latest version of PAS-16 RECFILE/PLAYFILE?
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:02:56 GMT

Hello Graham!

Sunday August 02 1992 06:15, Graham K Johnson wrote:

 GJ> MediaVision BBS.  However, after it taking almost twice as long to get
 GJ> as the BBS said it would, it came out bad (PKUNZIP says it doesn't
 GJ> know how to 'handle' it).

Sounds like they've used PKZIP 1.93a alpha.. Get a copy of PKUNZIP from the same
package (pkzip193.exe) and you should be able to unpack it. Also try PAK.

Regards,
Hamish


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From: jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com (Justin Masters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,alt.cd-rom
Subject: different Disney Sound Card question
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:29:54 GMT
Reply-To: jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com (Justin Masters)
Organization: Development Tools Operation, Intel Corp., Hillsboro  OR


I recently bought Mixed Up Mother Goose from Sierra On-line 
software company.  I only have a Disney Sound card.
I've bought the MPC CD-ROM version. 

I've tried following the directions on the disk for
running it, and also making a boot disk to run it.

Basically my problems are these:

Sound doesn't come out of the Disney Sound Source in
the opening screen, nor in the bedroom when you poke on
various objects.  I still don't get any Sound Card sound.
When the goose finally lands, the hand that was where
the mouse pointer was, disappears, and I have no control
over anything else.  

I've been on the phone with their technicians for a long
time the last week, and they can't seem to pinpoint it.

Has anybody else had this problem?
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From: ptran@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: PAS-16...
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:27:35 GMT

In article <65805@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt3017a@prism.gatech.EDU (Guy Elden Jr.) writes:
>   It comes with Trackblaster Pro, and can play up to 44.1khz stereo mods... 4
>tracks. It sounds very good, to put it lightly, which is really the only reason
>I'm still holding on to this card. If the Gravis does mods (and I suppose it
>does, since its SB compat), then Ill probably sell my card and go for the
>Gravis... main reason being FM synth simply can't cut it for the kinds of songs
>I plan to write... mainly ones with lots of electronic and synthesized samples
>and drums and all kinds of stuff....

The Gravis seems built for 32 channel mods!  Imagine!

Phat.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: sys0002@dircon.co.uk (Julian Hayward)
Subject: SB Pro Questions: Interrupts, versions
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 09:38:03 GMT


I currently own a Soundblaster v1.5 and i am thinking about 
purchasing a full Multimedia Kit with a Soundblaster Pro.
 
I'm going with the SB Pro instead of the PAS because of the 
price difference and wider support. My SB v1.5 has frequently 
given me problems (crashes and hanging) and the support line 
have been useless and unfriendly.

Can anyone answer the following questions about the SB Pro Multimedia 
kit:
 
1)  What interrupts can it use? Hopefully more than the SB. 
    Does it need only one interrupt for everything?
 
2)  People have said that I should ask for V2 as it includes 
    the newer chips - which sound better but may not work with 
    some SB emulations. Does the multimedia packaging clarify 
    which card is enclosed, where should I tell the sellers 
    to look for this?

3)  The Panasonic drive has a non-standard SCSI interface. Could 
    I buy a non-standard interface card if I ever want to transfer
    this internal drive to a computer with no Soundblaster Pro?

Thanks in advance,

Julian.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Gavin Adams <gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Some update info on the MediaVision 16 Multimedia Upgrade (PAS-16)
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6AE7879D603BA10@rodan.jdola.lanl.gov>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 12 Aug 92 08:12:41 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:13:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.013846.8836@tc.fluke.COM> Jeff Meyer,
moriarty@tc.fluke.COM writes:
>Anyway, there were a few things in the MultiMedia package that I though
>folks might like to know about, particularly changes to the MediaVision
>hardware/software setup:

What version of the drivers are they shipping?

--- Gavin
(trying to get his .sig to work)
From: dec_fouts@mec.ohio.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: New SoundBlaster Card
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:25:03 GMT
Organization: Metrop. Educ. Council, Columbus, OH

In article <1992Aug14.171414.1493@wam.umd.edu>, mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
> Has anyone heard or seen anything about a SoundBlaster Pro that has the  
> full functionality, except for the MIDI connections.  I've seen it for  
> sale at EGGHEAD for $159.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 			mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu is
> 
> 			     Marc Meltzer
> 		      President of The Meltz Inc
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

	Marc,

	The SoundBlaster Pro with MIDI cables and such... The repackaged
	SoundBlaster Pro "basic" is sold with out MIDI. Same card, BUT
	if you want the MIDI stuff later.... It's about $80.00.


	Terry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: reznick@acf3.NYU.EDU (Daniel Reznick)
Subject: Speakers/Ultrasound
Organization: New York University
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:14:00 GMT

Can anyone give me recomendations on what to look for in a pair of
speakers for use with a soundcard.  I have ordered a Gravis Ultrasound,
aand I want to buy speakers tso that I can use it right when I get it.
Gravis claims (as of today, 8-14) that it IS going to be released on
August 17th.  

Daniel Reznick
reznick@acf3.nyu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: s1070627@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Brett Paterson)
Subject: VOC2WAV is....
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:55:12 GMT


Just for all those people who keep asking about VOC2WAV.ZIP

it is at :       FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU
      in :       /pub/pc/win3/sounds

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From: johnson@cps.msu.edu (Graham K. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS16 - TBPRO
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:52:07 GMT
Reply-To: johnson@cps.msu.edu (Graham K. Johnson)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: johnson@indian.cps.msu.edu

In article <1992Aug20.185054.19906@col.hp.com> jjh@col.hp.com (Jeff Haeffele-x3570) writes:
>ccaardp@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Robert D Price) writes:
>> 
>>  I recently bought a Proaudio Spectrum 16, bundled with it is a program called
>> TBPRO(an Amiga module player). I am really interested in this program, but it
>> doesn't work. The problem is when you select a module to play it goes into the
>> graphics screen, but then freexes. Does anybody know why??
>> thanx
>
>Sounds like a DMA channel conflict with some other card.

No, I think it is because you have a slow computer that can't handle
the graphics.  Use the setup program to turn them off.  Better yet,
READ THE MANUAL because it would have told you this and everything
else you need to know.
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From: wanderer@athena.mit.edu (Opus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Wing Commander doesn't work! :(
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:07:02 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I just got a Roland SCC-1, and tried to use it for music with Wing
Commander 2.. However, the game starts up correctly, and always crashes
after I do "Start New Game", or "View Storyline".. with the view
storyline, it gives a high-pitched squeak and freezes the computer in
that, so I have to use the reset button (ctrl-alt-delete doesn't even
work..) Has anyone else had this problem??
From: IO20081@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (robert eric beckwith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: MCA soundcard options ?
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:47:27 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

What is available for Soundcards for Micro Channel Systems?
Any opinions or reviews?
Anything upcoming?
thanks, I would like to get one soon............robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Subject: New SB Pro?
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:52:11 GMT

Isn't Creative Labs supposed to be coming out with a NEW version of SB Pro 
sometime this year?  I've been gone for awhile so what's the story on it?
Expected price, features, availability date, etc.

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: russell@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Russell Sparkes)
Subject: Where can I get Trak Info?
Organization: BHP, Newcastle, Australia
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:27:17 GMT

I have heard of a program called trak info, which can differentiate between
mod, nst, and stm files (or something like that) where can I find it?
   russell
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From: frsdav04@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: HELP: INFORMATION REQUIRED
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:50:00 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

Hi

Could anybody tell me how good the Thunderboard is in
comparison with say the SoundBlaster card.If money is an 
limiting factor which would be the better board to buy.

Any Information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

You can email me to save bandwidth.
FRSDAV@UCTVAX.UCT.AC.ZA

DVAID

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: impster@ais.org (Charles Budensiek)
Subject: No delays reported when I ordered an Ultrasound from EA
Organization: UMCC
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:01:36 GMT


Welp, I rodered a Gravis Ultrasound from Electronic Arts about 15 minutes
ago and they did not report that the shipment would be late or anything. 

So, if all goes well, I should be making quite happy sounds on my computer
in 2-4 dworking days and be able to give a decent report on the Ultrasound.
Provided, of course, someone doesn't get one before me. :)

impster@ais.org

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
Subject: graphics+sound synchronisation with DOS+win3.1
Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 15:20:18 GMT
Summary: mm
Keywords: mm


Hi,

do you know of any VOC or WAV player under DOS, that can play these
sound files in the background and still allows some graphics program
to run in the foreground ? I'm thinking about a slideshow with VPIC or
another graphics application with scolling fonts
and having a description voice file in
the background.
I currently use VPLAY, which came with my SB-Pro, but there are still
some limits..

Any ideas how to synchronize ? maybe under win3.1 ?

waaplay.zip, the win3.1 animator player only allows me flicks and
still pics, but I want to show also other graphics programs for a
presentation ! (and still it is too slow with big sized SVGA  FLIs)

I can use the SB Pro win3.1 Chatterbox-Wav-player, which plays Wav
after Wav, but there is no synchronizing feature with a DOS-Fullscreen
task or is there any way to get it synchronized ?


I want one scroller demo with a special Voc or WAV sample, then, when
the Voice sample is ended, it should go to the next scroller graphics
demo and start the next sound sample with it.

So I need a background sample player, which gives an Escape command
to the foreground graphics application, when the sound sample is over.
Then the next scroller demo can be started via batch..

Anybody used WINBATCH ? Maybe it would work with this utility ?
Any ideas ?

Any package you could recommend ?

Best regards Stefan Hartmann.

Please email the answer directly to me, cause in this moment I don't
have time to scan the newsgroups.

email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler)
Subject: Re: ATI Stereo FX card
Organization: Aztec Information Management
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:43:58 GMT

"William A. Nagy" <wn0a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>In message <36696@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, 
> miliu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (zaphod beeblebrox) writes:
>>
>>I've read that the ATI Stereo F/X is SB Pro compatible.  Anyone have
>>more info. on that?

I have the ATI VGA Stereo/FX, which is a Stereo FX and VGA Wonder XL rolled
into one. I don't believe this is SB Pro compatible, only SB 1.5 and maybe
SB 2. Certainly, it doesn't work with the Windows SB Pro driver, only the
regular SB driver.

BTW, this card comes with the MIDI expansion box, and it is a great buy for
the money. I just can't get X windows to work with it (in anything other than
vanilla VGA mode, which isn't worth it anyway). If anyone else has succeeded
at this, I would be interested to hear (although this should really go in
comp.windows.x or comp.ibm.pc.hardware).


-- 
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Software Systems Engineer/Student  | that which is soft conquers the hard."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: SB Pro Card for Unix
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:16:22 GMT

rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:

>thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes:

>>daves@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Dave Stow) writes:

>>>I have a SB Pro card inside a Compaq 386, and I want to write/get hold
>>>of a device driver for it so I can control it from SVR4.

>>I maintain a Unix driver/app suite for the old, moldy SB
>>that runs under Unix V.3 & V.4.  steveh@ucsd.edu wrote an
>>maintains a separate suite for the SB Pro that runs under
>>the BSD-flavored Unixes.  Mine will work, but you may want
>>to hack in features from Steve's as you want them.  His
>>stuff includes more cleanly designed ioctl()'s and some
>>X windows control software.

>For a time I used Lance's stuff under SVR4.  Its pretty simple
>to get working there.  But I've dumped my home computer for
>the time being, so I'm not active in that area anymore.

>Steve's driver has more features than Lance's, and it would be
>super excellent to merge the code.  I believe that with careful
>coding, one could make the two drivers essentially compatible.

A Linux version wouldn't go astray either!!


-- 
Anthony Rumble
aka SmilieZ
"Anything is possible.. If there is enuf money in it"
From: karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Playing WAVs on Win 3.1 quickly?
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:22:03 GMT

In <92232.155328MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu (Matthew E. Bernold) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.142829.24202@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>,
>stangel@sparc3.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) says:
>>
>>In <5229@krafla.rhi.hi.is> karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen) writes:
>>
>>>here is a program that should do the trick:
>>
>>sould uuencode the program (PLAY.EXE) and post it here?  Thanks much!
>>
>>Mike Stangel
>>Poor College Kid w/o MSC++ 7.0

>Another request for someone to compile, uuencode, and post this program!

I'll compile and post it to this group tomorrow(friday).  If anyone
has any objections to posting an executable then please elm me and I'll
try to find a suitable FTP site instead.

PS.	PLEASE PLEASE DON'T ELM ME ASKING FOR THE PROGRAM.
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From: aestens@epx.cis.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Ultrasound Answers from Gravis
Date: 15 Aug 92 16:35:48 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

Yes, Gravis has finally answered a few of the questions that I started 
collecting from you nearly two weeks ago.  For all of you who posted questions
or e-mailed them to me...I have relayed them all to Gravis via America Online.
So far, they've answered a few of them, and I'm posting those answers here.
If/when they answer the rest, I'll relay them also.  However, we will 
probably (hopefully?) have the actual board by then.

Enjoy!
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Subj:  Playback 8 or 16
Date:  92-07-31 21:39:19 EDT
From:  Adv Gravis

Yes we will be shipping with windows 3.1 extensions,
and the card will play back either 8 or 16 bit recorded sample
rates from 2 to 44.1 kHz in mono or stereo.

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Subj:  Questions...
Date:  92-08-14 00:36:47 EDT
From:  Adv Gravis

*****
>COMPATIBILITY PLUS:  Compatibility is your assurance that UltraSound
>will work with existing Soundblaster and Adlib files.  Plus indicates
>that drivers for the UltraSound will provide better quality than those
>designed for other board

As far as I know, such emulation programming such as that provided by the
Gravis drivers should require a 386 and above. Am I correct? Would 286 users
be able to run the compatibility drivers 100% as well?

Question (1):   Will work on a 286?? YES! But we recommend a 386!!

*****
>And yes, 16 bit recording is coming as well.  Right now however, the card
>is shipping as an 8 bit recorder.  16 bit will be available shortly!!

How much will it cost ? And, what about the SCSI module ? Can one use it
with hard disks too (and not only CD-ROM) ? What's the max. throughput ?

When will the hardware upgrades for 16-bit recording, MIDI, and the like be
available and shipping? 

Quesiton (2):   Cost for 16 bit??  Under $100.00

*****
I have a Gravis question...
I read that it has 32 digital audio voices... Was that correct?

I assume that means I can record, oh say, Kasmir by Led Zeppelin.
Then i could record Give it Away by the Chilli Peppers and I could play
them both back at the same time!?!  Right?  If this is so, I'm sold.

Question (3):   32 DAV'S???  YES

Question (4):   You can mix the songs, so yes you could theorectically
listen to both at the same time if mixed together on the master reel.
You can also play and record simultaneously.


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Subj:  Release Date
Date:  92-08-14 00:37:41 EDT
From:  Adv Gravis

Release Date is from August 17 - August 21, 1992.



  Alan S. Estenson..............aka Mycroft Holmes                    
  Aerospace Engineering....Aestens@epx.cis.umn.edu                    
  University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology                    
 => Cheop's law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
From: kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Where to buy a PAS-16 (FAX-NUMBER)
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:58:52 GMT
Organization: ZOOiD BBS

anm@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Andreas Mueller) writes:
>Hi,
>I'm looking for a low price offer of the PAS-16.
>Some hints?
>
>Thanks in advance
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