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From: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Attn: Gravis Programmers
Date: 26 Dec 92 20:58:01 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

OK, Gravis Programmers only!

This is what we've been waiting for.  A module player for the Gravis.  I've
spent the past week hacking away at it and killed MOST of the bugs.  There are
still some that linger, but I'm not sure why...or where.  I'm burned out on
this project right now.  

The source code for the Protracker player came directly from my PPS player for
SB/SBPro.  It SHOULD have smoothly converted over.  Listen, and you'll hear odd
notes every so often.  I've got to get this working within two weeks,
so...proposition time.

If any GUS programmers want to help with this project, email me and I'll send
you the source.  Full source code will be in the completedarchive when it is
finished.

Take care
Joshua Jensen

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From: janicek@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jana Janicek)
Subject: DRAM10B.ARJ Gravis Ultrasound Dram Tester Beta
Keywords: gravis ultrasound dram
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 02:07:34 GMT

	DRAM10B.ARJ has been posted on wuarchive.wustl.edu pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS 
and EPAS (128.100.160.36) pub/pc/ultrasound/submit.

	This is a Dram testing program for the Gravis Ultrasound. This is
only a Beta Test version. If anyone wishes to help test it, they would be
greatly appreciated.

	Send all feedback to : janicek@ccu.umanitoba.ca

-Enjoy
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:5731 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:2451
From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: MS-Windows and Roland SCC-1
Date: 24 Dec 92 03:57:31 GMT
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland

I have my SCC-1 set up at the default location of 0x330, IRQ 2(? from memory?)
and it works fine with Windows 3.1.  I play MIDI data through it all
the time.

					Jordan
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From: warb@faatcrl (Dan Warburton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS-16 Midi MPU-401
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:11:39 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Pomona, NJ	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.faa.gov
Summary: none
Keywords: question

I have just ordered the PAS-16 Sound Card. The midi hook up is an additional
$90.00. I was told it was MPU-401, then told there are a couple of versions
of this MPU-401. Does the PAS-16 Midi work with Cakewalk? What's the story
on multiple versions of the MPU-401? Any cheap sources for that midi add
on? Thanks.

Just post I'll catch it here.
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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Windows & GUS Probs
Date: 4 Jan 1993 02:03:34 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <C09IzM.Koq@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
>...
>Your problem is that you are using files from the old 1.1 disks with
>the new drivers.  The 1.21 disks contains new patch maps and patches
>that the new Windows drivers requires.  You will *need* the 1.21
>installation disks before you can use the new Windows drivers. 
>
>Phat.


As a little addition to Phat's correct answer....
you can ftp the new install disks from the ftp sites....

archive.epas.utoronto.ca under directory pub/pc/ultrasound/gravis-disks
OR
wuarchive.wustl.edu under directory systems/msdos/ultrasound/gravis-disks

The other Gravis releases are under .../ultrasound/soundutil
with the names gus00*.*

Thomas.

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From: dp@hydra.carleton.CA (Dave Perry VE3IFB)
Subject: Re: GUS Programming: The Repost III
Organization: O.A.R.C. Packet Working Group at Carleton University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:17:47 GMT

In article <C00Cop.LDH@ccu.umanitoba.ca> janicek@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jana Janicek) writes:

(lots of stuff deleted)

>
>And one final observation: This is just a guess, but I am finding some
>evidence to support this.  Is it true the GUS can play patches only 64K in
>length? I have noticed that the Modulator often gives patch too large
>errors, and I had a look at the patches in the ULTRASND\MIDI directory,
>with the exception of one, all of the patches seem to conviently fit under
>65536 bytes (the larger one may be some sort of compound patch??) Am I
>just dreaming or is this substanciated?
>

Just guessing, but could this be related to the fact that pc's have
trouble doing DMA across a 64K boundary (in 8 bit mode)? Maybe the
samples have to fit in a DMA page.

Dave

ps - thanks for dram.exe - I upgraded my memory, testing before and after
and got the expected results.


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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Player 669 for GUS.
Date: 29 Dec 92 05:30:04 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

Martin was having trouble uploading to Epas, so he sent me Player 669
for the GUS and a 669 file, both of which I've uploaded to Epas.  The
player is called p669gu0.arj, and the 669 files is crystals.zip.

If Martin's reading this, can you please send me a few more 669 files?
I'll upload them to Epas as well.

Crystals.669 sounded really good for 8-bit audio.

Phat.
From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS16 OPL3 FM Questions
Date: 27 Dec 1992 09:50:21 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I have two questions about programming the OPL3 chips on the Pro Audio
Spectrum 16 card (I presume that this relates to any card with a Yamaha
OPL3 and not just the PAS16).  If anyone could help me with these
questions, I would greatly appreciate it (see, not EVERYONE is working
on programming the GUS :)

1) What does the Channel/Connection Select Register (04h) on the right
   half of the OPL3 do?  The toolkit says that when the chip is in OPL3
   mode, this register controls how the individual channels are connected
   together in 4-operator modes, but it doesn't further explain how this works.
   How are the channels laid out in 4-operator mode in both melody and
   percussion modes (i.e. what operators correlate to the 6 channels)?  
   How does register 04h select/connect them?  I don't understand the 
   explanation in the PAS Toolkit Reference.

2) What does setting the OPL3 mode do?  (By setting Bit 0 of Register 05h
   on the chip).  On page 8-9 of the Developer's Toolkit Reference, it
   is mentioned that the PAS FM synthesizer supports two sound modes,
   mono and stereo.  Upon perusing the 3812A.ASM file of the Toolkit, it
   seems to indicate that this bit toggles stereo/mono FM output.  (Yes,
   I am aware that the port addresses 0x388/0x389 are the left channel
   and addresses 0x38A/0x38B are the right channel, but I'm wondering
   what hardware function does this stereo/mono toggle).  Does setting
   Bit 0 of Register 5 also enable 4-operator mode?  If not what does?
   Does this mean that 2-operator mode is mono only and 4-operator is
   stereo?  The Toolkit isn't very clear whether OPL3 mode is 4-operator
   only or it can also work with 2-operator (with 2-operator being
   able to use the 8 different waveshapes of the OPL3).  If OPL3 mode
   can be 2-op and 4-op, how is this mode toggled?  As far as I can
   understand, OPL3 mode is 4-operator stereo only...and 2-operator mode 
   is mono only.
From: captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: New Gravis software solves several problems
Date: 31 Dec 92 07:23:07 GMT
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services

In article <1992Dec31.012825.10072@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> fisher@nodename.dec.com writes:
>
>Finally, the patch manager is neat.  It lets you see what is loaded in GUS
>memory, and even better, you can play each patch individually.  They are really
>pretty darn good with only a few exceptions.  Plus "Orchestra strings" and
>"String Pizzacato" seem to be reversed.  And "Helicoptor" is more like "Mack
>Truck".  But hey, compared to FM, it is great!

I've noticed what may be a serious problem with the GUS, that is quite 
apparent when using the patch manager.  If you load a patch, and then 
play it on the little keyboard with the mouse, and you just hold the 
mouse button down while moving from key to key (sustain note 1, goto 
note 2 & sustain, back to note 1) there is some TERRIBLE clicking &
popping that occurs at each note change.

Does anyone know what is happening here?  I hope this isn't some defect
in the design of the GUS.  It's sounded so good up to now, but with this
kind of noise, the card is all but worthless for producing music.



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From: victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng)
Subject: Which is better,  1/2
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:46:51 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 12-30-92 16:44
W(> |> o  "100% SB compatible"
W(>        ^^^^
W(> Make that 99.9%

Eh?  From my experience, it's more like 85-90% because for some
programs, the slow down is SO tremendous that it's better to kill off SB
emulation.

Vic
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From: dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson)
Subject: Microprose supports GUS?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 03:21:45 GMT

Is there any truth to the rumour that Microprose is supporting the GUS
in native mode?  I had also heard that they were going to release a
driver for World Circuit which is already on the market.

Fingers crossed,

-- 

Darran Edmundson
dedmunds@sfu.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: janicek@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jana Janicek)
Subject: Re: GUS Programming: The Repost III
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:22:31 GMT

	I have come to another area of uncertainty in my quest for GUS
programmingdom.  This new problem concerns the start voice playing routine.

My whole problem revolves around this:

-The GUS has addresses ranging from 0 .. 0xfffff
-In start voice playing, you specify to use a WORD for BEGIN, START, and END.
-How can I fit an address > 0xffff into a word? (1 WORD = 16 bits I assume)

I believe that this has something to do with the way you are shifting the
words around. Am I right / close?

I have had mixed results with my start voice routine, sometimes works,
sometimes doesent..

Could you please explain if you are not too terribly busy. Thanks..

BTW, my next project is a demo program for the GUS that does special FX
with patches, ie) panning, mixing, etc, etc..
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From: tld@moon.base.bellcore.com (Terry Davidson)
Subject: Re: 669 files
Reply-To: tld@cosmos.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:05:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.102438.17788@sfu.ca>, mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:
|> Thanks to PHAT and Gab my uploading problem is fixed.  I
|> have uploaded about 7 669 files to the ftp site
|> archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the \pub\pc\ultrasound\submit
|> directory.
|> 
|> The following files are 669 music modules which can be played 
|> with p669gu0.arj.
|>  

OK - (1) what are `669' music modules?  (2) what does p669gu0.arj support?
     SB? PAS16? GUS? (3) Stereo?
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From: ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko)
Subject: Re: Will these RAM chips work on my GUS?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:09:18 GMT


 I was wondering what the approximate price would be for the 16-bit daughter
card that is supposed to be coming out with the GUS?

I was considering buying the PAS16 because of the 16bit-44.1 khz sampling rate.
However, the GUS caught me eye. I am now considering holding off the high end

of sampling for the higher quality of sound generation.
From: csc@pilot.njin.net (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:09:25 GMT
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY

pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre) writes:

|   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.

|Like "wavetable synthesis", which has been around for a long time. It
|is called sample playback.

It's not just sample playback. It's using samples as input to a
frobnicator that makes things really interesting. Ensoniq
"synthesizers" have been doing this for a while with great success.

Sean
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From: knepley@CS.ColoState.EDU (Ranseus (Jim Knepley))
Subject: Re: The Gus.. Power Monger
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 00:52:52 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

In article <1993Jan3.171740.9843@ac.dal.ca> scoh@ac.dal.ca writes:
>I have a gravis Ultrasound.. And I am trying to play powermonger... Does
>anyone know which switches to use to get it to work with sound and sound
>effex? I would appreciate it!

Using version 1.20 of SBOS, I didn't have to use any switches at all, it
worked fine.

>Also has anyone made an Ultimate List yet of games and options for
>Sbos version 1.23?
>If they could could ya post it up?

Please don't.  If we're gonna' make a list, let's make one (or rather add
to the already existing one) for version 1.20 until there's another
NON-BETA release of SBOS.  It's futile to make a list for software that'll
be outdated in a month or two.

Another happy GUS owner,
  Jim
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From: vikki@precipice.chi.il.us (Victoria Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Problem with SBPRO
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 11:12:01 CST
Organization: Welch Research, McHenry IL, USA

dweldy@digirolamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Dennis E Weldy) writes:
seto@ll.mit.edu (Seton Seto) writes:

>	Can someone help me please?  Whenever I booted up my computer,
> I would get feed back and as soon as the computer set the volume
> and everything, the feedback is amplified and is unbearable.  The
> one way I did fix it was to go and use the TEST-SBP.EXE and after
> going through all the tests, the feedback would disappear.  I
> called tech support and they said exchange the card.  I did and
> the problem persists.  Anybody experience this before?  Thanks.

This message was semi-grunged here, sorta looked like a
fight-o-net style message, but I think I managed to recover it
?!?

We have already gone through one card as you described above the
new one doesn't do it quite so badly, but it still does it.  The
drivers, etc., that came with the replacement card are the same
as the stuff that came with the original.

My husband is an engineer and is quite unimpressed with the SBP
from a hardware point of view.  I still haven't decided as to
keep the thing and may well return it.  The software is crude and
docs are pathetic.  Unfortunately, at about $120 from egghead it
is in my affordable price range, which, it looks like about all
that can be said for it 8-).

My husband gave me a long disertation on inherent problems in the
ibm pc design that would directly affect what is going on here,
unless it is dealt with for each speed range of processor.  From
what I can gather from all this, a solution for a 6 Mhz AT would
be useless on a 486/50 and a solution for the 486/50 would make a
6 Mhz at too slow to use.  From what I have seen of the software
for the SBP, I doubt that CL has anyone there who has any
expertise in this class of hardware.

I am about to the point of forgetting sound for the pc and
getting a mac or just playing around with the MPU401 and the
synth.  It seems that the options here are affordable and very
poor quality or totally "non-standard" and bloody expensive.

If anyone has any comments to me on this, you might want to do it
via email as I think my news feed is going away at the first of
the year.

Take care, Vikki.
==============================================================================
* Vikki Welch, Sysadmin, Welch Research (vikki@precipice.chi.il.us) WV9K     *
* Disclaimer standard,  You mean someone actually *cares* about my opinions? *
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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: GUS: Help playing MIDI files
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:09:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.182311.6263@netcom.com> gnome@netcom.com (Andy Perrine) writes:
>: 
>That was the first thing a tried.  The DRAM tester indicates that I do
>infact have 1 meg installed, and all the banks tested out okay.
>The error message I typically get is "Load patch tommid failed -6" or something
>like that.  This happens with some of those demo00##.mid files I got
>off of epas.utoronto.edu.
>

A -6 error?  I know that a -7 error means that there isn't enough RAM on
the GUS for the patches, but I've never seen a -6 error before.  Do a
dir *.pat in your patch directory and see that you have 130 patches there.
I don't know what could be your problem.  Are all you RAM chips 100ns or
faster?

Phat.
From: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS Programming: The Repost III
Date: 28 Dec 92 09:06:05 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

> -The GUS has addresses ranging from 0 .. 0xfffff
> -In start voice playing, you specify to use a WORD for BEGIN, START, and END.
> -How can I fit an address > 0xffff into a word? (1 WORD = 16 bits I assume)

If you pull out a calculator, you'll see that 10000h = 64k, 20000h =128k, and
so on.  When you pump the BEGIN, START, and END to the card, you pump the low
word and then the hi - byte.  Like the following:

12345h

2345h is the low word, 1 is the hi-byte.

Joshua Jensen

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From: gnome@netcom.com (Andy Perrine)
Subject: Re: GUS: Help playing MIDI files
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:23:11 GMT

Phat H Tran (ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan1.035907.3670@netcom.com> gnome@netcom.com (Andy Perrine) writes:
: >I upgraded my GUS to 1 meg, but I still can't play a lot of the
: >
[deleted]
: >-Andy
: >
: >gnome@netcom.netcom.com
: >---
: 
: 1 Meg is enough for any MIDI file I've come across.  Most songs use more
: than 256k but less than 512k.  I can't remember one that uses more than 512k
: for the patches.  Your RAM chips may be bad or inserted in improperly.
: Download DRAM (a DRAM tester for the GUS) to test out your card.
: 
: Phat.
: 
That was the first thing a tried.  The DRAM tester indicates that I do
infact have 1 meg installed, and all the banks tested out okay.
The error message I typically get is "Load patch tommid failed -6" or something
like that.  This happens with some of those demo00##.mid files I got
off of epas.utoronto.edu.

-Andy

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From: primus@netcom.com (Robert keng)
Subject: Turtle Beach Multisound: Specs and misc info needed....
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:08:01 GMT

Hi all:

		I am doing this for a friend. I need detailed specs on the 
Turtle Beach Multisound, especially:

1. It's capabilities.
2. Compatibility (i.e. General MIDI, GS, MPU401, etc....)
3. Price.

		Also, he needs to know a place where he could purchase one.
If you (the reader) has some to sell, e-mail me also. He will also consider
used ones, although he prefers a new one. Thanx in advance.....


-Rob

primus
primus@netcom.com


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From: pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre)
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Dec22.145009.14303@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
	<PJA.92Dec29104803@lk-hp-12.hut.fi> <4123@randvax.rand.org>
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:04:04 GMT

In article <4123@randvax.rand.org> edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
   Um, unless someone changed the definition of "channel", the GUS has only
   two, through which it can play up to 32 digital samples simultaneously,

OK, should have used "polyphony". 32 (16) voice polyphonic stereo
operation. 


   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.

Like "wavetable synthesis", which has been around for a long time. It
is called sample playback.


BTW. Did anyone get my point, which was that stereo operation as
described in the original posting looks like you can either:

a) pan mono samples in arbitrary positions and get 32 voice polyphony

b) use true stereo samples and get 16 voice polyphony (GUS does this,
doesn't it?)


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