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From: esuze@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr I A Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Which MIDI card to buy for a 286/DOS box?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:02:34 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <1992Nov5.121329.2901@fel.tno.nl> qb7g6@fel.tno.nl (Maarten Landzaat) writes:
>
>I heard rumors that some are bad, like the soundblaster.
>Can you recommend any cards?
>
>I believe I saw a list of all available cards somewhere on the net.
>If some kind soul has this list somewhere around, would he please send
>it to me?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Any reaction is appreciated.
>Bye,
>--
>Maarten J. Landzaat (analyst/programmer, bass player, Atari/midi freak)

Yeah, likewise... :)

a bit of background:
I'm currently doing my final year project in Engineering Electronics, and for
some reason which in the sober light of deadline seems quite unfathomable i
elected to build a complex sample-based MIDI-controlled synthesiser (using the
SGS M114 chip, for anyone that's interested). Well, to drive it, i'm hoping to
use system exclusive messages and sample data dumps and the like, so i need a
computer to act as a controller, so i need some form of MIDI card. I
believe the Roland LAPC-1 is in some way "standard", so i was going to use
this, but now i'm not so sure.
What other MIDI cards are there?
Do there exist other cards which are LAPC-1 compatible?
How much do they cost (UK prices, pref. :-) )
What about support software, (they must be able to cope with sysex
messages, etc)? (my department will buy a MIDI card for my use, but i doubt if
i could swing more than #50-100 for the necessary software - and that's
only because my tutor likes spending money! - i.e. any shareware available?
where from?)

i know these questions make me look as though i know absolutely nothing about
anything to do with pcmusic, but then that is only because it is entirely
the case.

any information would begreatly appreciated. please post or e-mail or whatever

a million thanks

Ian Alexander
From: terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Terry Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS 16 SCSI
Date: 4 Nov 92 19:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Terry Walter)
Organization: Outland BBS  UUPCB  403-475-9588

Has anyone used the SCSI port for a CD or a SCSI drive?  And how well
did it run?

at the same time, are there drivers for the PAS 16 to be able to use a
GIG SCSI DRIVE?  (jeopardy theme song ..) DU DU DU, DIT DIT DIT DUM DUM
DUM. :)
From: m88paba@mtek.chalmers.se (Patrik Backander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: HELP! Problems with SoundB 2.0!
Date: 5 Nov 92 12:44:38 GMT
Reply-To: m88paba@mtek.chalmers.se
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWEDEN

Hi there,
I bought a SB 2.0 this spring and it has been working OK for games, windows and
more until I tried to ues some downloaded shareware programs that when I set them to
SoundBlaster they do not sound anything but if I set them to AdLib they make sounds
but not very good ones. 

Is there such big differences between the 1.5 and the 2.0?
Anyone had the same problem?

PLEASE, E-mail back to me or post to this group if you know something about this!
T H A N X ! !

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From: jhsiung@Sun4.IS (Jack Hsiung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Help: PAS problem with Sequencer
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:17:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: nic.1992Nov9.091749.3113
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona

This is a question for people with PAS sound cards.
I'm having problems playing .SNG from the Sequencer and wonder
if there's a fix.

The problem is that playing a song that has a piano (program 0)
and some other instrument, certain notes of the piano will eventually
be changed into what sounds like another intrument, something
like the bright accoustic piano but not quite.

I've been able to reproduce the problem by setting up 2 tracks with
piano (0) in track 1 and program 2 in track 2. Both tracks are
on port 2. Track 1 is set to channel 1 and track 2 to channel 2.
Track 1 has 6 notes stack on top of one another so they are played
together.  Track 2 only has 1 note.  The pitch of the notes
doesn't matter.

I played track 2 first while muting track 1. After it finished,
I played track 1 while muting 2. Then I went to the editor screen
to check the sound of each note in track 1. At least one of the
notes got changed.

I couldn't find the problem if track 1 was playing anything other
than program 0.

My setup is:
386-25
PAS-16
devicehigh c:\pas16\mvsound.sys D:3 Q:7

I used the older drivers and those from the SDK with the same result.

Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

Thanks in advance for your help.
-- 
Jack Hsiung
cvetp035@csupomona.edu
jhsiung@sun4.is.csupomona.edu
From: krw1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Kevin Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: multisound (turtle beach)
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:31:00 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <Ieyk5He00WB6I6vEtW@andrew.cmu.edu>, na0s+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Nicolas Alejandro Arauz) writes:
>Does anyone know if it's possible to make the multisound
>SoundBlaster/Adlib compatible?  I don't really want to give up use of
>all the other programs I have that are SB/Adlib.  But I am intrigued by
>the new low price and its superior sound quality.  Thanks!

The only way to support full SB sound would be to include the Yamaha
FM chip set, and the MultiSound doesn't.  It's not likely that the MS
will support any SB compatibility anytime soon, though they've been
toying with some ideas.

-- 

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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS-16 SCSI Port and Hard drives?
Keywords: PAS-16 SCSI Hard drive
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:02:48 GMT
Organization: RAND

In article <c60a-lj.720907405@danube.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-lj@danube.Berkeley.EDU (LAB ASSISTANT) writes:
>aaahh... but is this SCSI port really of adequate quality to run a hard drive
>by today's standards?  I've heard that a hard drive hooked up to the SCSI in 
>the PAS 16 will run painfully slow. Since a good SCSI adapter like an ADAPTEC
>usually sells for around $150-$200, I find hard to believe that PAS supplies
>a SCSI device capabale of more than just a CD-rom...

Well, the answer to your question is "sort of." The PAS will do SCSI
transfers at 690KB/s, which is quite a bit faster than even a double-speed
CD-ROM drive, but pretty anemic by hard-disk standards.  Since there is
no ROM, you can't boot from a drive connected to it, and you'll have to
pay extra to get a device driver.  690KB/s is about the speed of an RLL
drive with an ST-506 interface.  That's "good enough" for many purposes,
but if you want to get everything you can out of SCSI, get an Adaptec
1542B or other bus-mastering SCSI controller.  If you want to boot off
your SCSI drive, get a controller with on-board ROM (like the Adaptec).

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: jtk@netcom.com (Jane Valencia)
Subject: Re: Pro Audio Spectrum FAQL ver 1.1
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:14:54 GMT

nrh@philabs.philips.com (Nikolaus R. Haus) writes:

>>I have read that the compatibility of the PAS-16 to other sound boards is
>>done with adding TSR's to MS-DOS which I can't, obviously, use.

I've been in touch with MV, and here's the dope:

The PAS-16 is like two cards in one--SB and PAS16 audio sections, both
of which can be run on demand--even simultaneously.

The PAS+ emulates both SB and PAS in hardware.  However, as a lower
cost card, some of the hardware is shared between the two modes.  So
you have to switch the card from SB to PAS and back--only one can be
active at a time.  When it in in SB mode, though, it is a HARDWARE
emulation.

					Andy Valencia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: jyanowitz@hamp.hampshire.edu
Subject: Note Generation with PAS-16?
Organization: Hampshire College
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:31:51 GMT

A fwe questions:

1) Do C libraries exist for outputing NOTES (or HZ) to PAS-16
(or the numerous things it's equivalent to)/do people have them?
There are many libraries for dealing wiht samples, but I want to
send notes to the board (hopefully more than one at a time)
OR
2) a program that will play one (or, prefarbly, more) tracks of
notes FROM A TEXT FILE (or know the code for outputting to a file).

Basically, I'm working on a program to generate fractal music and I want to
play it (I hope to generate multi-track music).  So if people have ideas
on how I can output it, please let me know.

thanks, 
-- 
Jason
jyanowitz@hamp.hampshire.edu
My PGP 2.0 key is available on request and/or my fingering my account.
I'm collecting keys, please email me yours.  Thanks... <End .sig>
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From: bjornhk@dhhalden.no (BJORN HAAVARD KLEVEN)
Subject: Re: Many a questions concerning the Gravis
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:28:48 GMT

>1.)  Is the GUS *completely* compatible with the Adlib and Soundblaster?
>     What about the SB Pro?

The SBOS driver, which makes it compatible with the Ad Lib and Sound 
Blaster (not the pro) is under continous development. The current version, 1.
2 is - as far as I know - not 100% compatible. That is: a lot of 
programmers (game programmers mostly) have done some 'dirty' programming in 
their applications to push the SB's performance to the limit. That's the 
apps which are causing problems with the SBOS. 


>2.)  Say I'm into messing around with .MOD files.  Is there a Modplayer
>     and/or editor which allows the playback of a .MOD in stereo?

SBOS works with several .mod players/editor, but not in stereo. There will 
come a .MOD player/editor soon tailored specifically for the GUS, using it 
to it's full potential.

>3.)  What type of support can I expect for the GUS concerning Windows 3.1
>     and OS/2 2.0?

A Windows 3.1 driver is included, although this isn't very complete. A patch 
loader for windows is almost finished (as I understand), and a new Windows 
driver is in the Works. Gravis is also working on an OS/2 driver, AFIK

>4.)  Lastly, say I want to go out and buy a Gravis RIGHT NOW.  Where do 
>     they sell them and how much are they?  Would a place like CompUSA
>     or Egghead carry it?

The board is supposedly out to all distributors now, so their retailers 
should get it pretty soon. This includes all the large mail order companies (
like Telemart, CompuClassics etc.)

>
>I'm sick of having to deal with a gayish Adlib card.  Time to move up to
>something fancier.  Thanks,

Definitively! 

    -=* Bjorn :: bjornhk@sofus.dhhalden.no
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From: lu-chien-ping@cs.yale.edu (Chien-Ping Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Help! -- My PAS-16 is noisy
Date: 9 Nov 1992 10:20:40 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: category.systemsz.cs.yale.edu


After I installed my PAS-16 card, some scratchy noises keep coming out 
of PAS-16's stereo out port, but when I heard from CD-ROM dirve's headset
jack, there is no such noise. I checked the manual, and found that the noises
may come from the oscillator on the motherboard. I followed the instructions
on the manual which suggests I put T:1 to the end of MVSOUND.SYS to use hte
on-board oscillator. However, nothing changed. Noises still coming out.
Can anybody, especially PAS-16 owners, on the net give me soem help?

--CP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: GUS Beginner Questions
Reply-To: fisher@decwin.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:56:37 GMT


I posted something like this several days ago, but it seems to have
disappeared,
both in the news feed and in my local directory, so I am re-writing it! 
Sorry
if some of you received both.

Gravis Ultrasound Questions:

1.  I gather that the GUS is sort of a sample player, but with the samples
stored in RAM that is writable from the PC.  Ok...how do they deal with:

	1a.  MIDI patch change commands?  (Does the application have to load
		the GUS RAM itself?  Not too nice if it is just a standard MIDI
		application that knows nothing about such things

	1b.  Attacks?  (Is there a separate RAM area for the attack for a
		particular sound that does not get looped back on?)

2.  What MIDI commands are supported?

3.  What sort of sysex commands are there?

4.  Does the GUS synth have some sort of semi-standard programming interface? 
In other words, could I expect Cakewalk or some other DOS program to have a
driver to run the synth without having to use the Sound Blaster TSR?

5.  Does the GUS synth conform to General Midi?

6.  Does someone have some specs they can post?

I guess that is enough for now.  If someone can answer all these, feel free
to them as the basis for a FAQ.

Thanks!

Burns
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Turtle Beach Hurricane a Motorola DSP 56001
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:01:13 GMT

I have read in "PC Week" that the Multisound by Turtlebeach uses the
Hurricane processor which is based on the Motorola DSP 56001. Does anybody
know if it is the exact Motorola DSP 56001 or is it a modified Motorola DSP?
If it is a modified DSP, what are the changes? Thanks...

Mark K.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: jeremiah@cuug.ab.ca (Jerry Jeremiah 290-8941)
Subject: Re: Archive Utilities
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:19:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct29.183108.22982@mksol.dseg.ti.com> rgast@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Ron Gast 952-2120) writes:
>I ran across some files on 'wuarchive.wustl.edu' that have an extension '.arj'. Anyone have
>an idea on how to de-archive these types of files.
>
>Thanks,
>Ron
>
>
Use archie to find arj220.zip (I think that's the latest version)  If not I
can uuencode the executable and mail it to you.

>>Jerry
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:37:03 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Nov4.002929.21723@tamsun.tamu.edu> mjs7529@tamsun.tamu.edu (Michael J Stumpf) writes:
>Few thoughts:  Everybody is so quick to tout the GUS because it has limited
                                         ^^^^

Perhaps you chould get a dictionary and look up the definition of 'tout'...


>SB support--somewhat less quality, and requiring a driver.. 
>
>But think about it when (if) some third party or Gravis themselves get an MT32
>driver, or when software companies start supporting it.  
>
>I believe it will be no less than incredible then..  
>
>Face it, this card has GREAT potential.
>
>-- 
>
>First things first, but not necessarily in that order.            -Doctor Who
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From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Unreal demo...where?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:56:48 GMT

Can somone tell me where I can find the Unreal demo & others like it?

Thanks.
From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS 16 & TERMINATOR 2029
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:32:21 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <1992Nov10.162524.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> jybarb01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:

>I get the same problem with my PAS 16?  Is there a cure.  I get lazer fire
>untill I blow something up and then it is down to only making rocket and
>explosions sounds?  

I have the same problem on a Soundblaster 1.0 board.
-- 
==============================================================================
Pat Gleason                       | "And the men who hold high places must be 
pgleason@ncratl.atlantaga.ncr.com | the ones who start, to mold a new reality, 
     LOUD MUSIC = GOOD CODE       | closer to the heart..."  RUSH
From: 85257@novell1.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Thomaskaysernachrichtentechnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: searching for convert-prg .voc --> .wav
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:48:11 GMT
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim

Hello,
 
i am searching for a program wich can convert voc-files to wav-files.
can anybody tell me where i can find those programs ?
i am also interested to programing the sound-blaster-card, for example
with turbo-pascal.
You can answer to my e-mail adress: 85257@NOVELL1.RZ.FHT-MANNHEIM.DE

 thank you
From: diamond@forever.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS-16 Hissssssssssssssss!
Keywords: PAS-16
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:18:03 GMT
Reply-To: diamond@forever.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: SunSoft, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: forever

After much interrupt and DMA juggling, I've finally gotten the PAS-16
working in my system with some sharing of IRQs.  Thanks to everybody
who wrote in with suggestions, many of which were very helpful.  I'll
summarize the setup story in a separate message.

However, now that the card is installed I have a different problem:
hiss.  I hooked a pair of "digital" Sony headphones to the PAS-16
output jack, and as soon as the MVSOUND device driver loads, I get a
lot of hiss on both channels, even with no audio source.  When I play
something, say a selection from Multimedia Beethoven, the hiss is less
noticeable, but still very much present.  Also, if I plug the
headphones directly into the CDROM drive, hiss is still present, although
perhaps not as much.

I don't get this amount of hiss from an audio CD drive, is this normal
for a CDROM system or is there something I can try to reduce it?

--Steve Diamond
SunSoft, Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave, M/S MTV08-221, Mountain View, CA 94043
uucp: steve.diamond@Eng.Sun.COM              The opinions expressed are my own.
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From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
Subject: Re: SB Pro questions
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:30:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.191021.4453@athena.mit.edu> cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
>In article <1992Nov12.030737.44663@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqposh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>also, the new SB Pro is the SB Pro 2 (this is what you would buy new),
>there was previously an SB Pro 1 (which i have) which used twin mono
>FM chips instead of the current OPL-3.


I would caution that if you are buying from a "corner store" which doesn't
turn over stock very fast (or maybe a distributor who got a deal and
is trying to make a fast buck), you will still find some of the
"SB Pro 1" cards around.  At least that's my experience out here on
the sparsely populated "real east coast."  My experience is that the 
SB Pro 2 comes in a box that lists "OPL..." as one of the features,
and the SB Pro 1 box does not list "OPL..."

dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
From: s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: FTP site for CMF files
Date: 10 Nov 92 14:20:24 GMT
Reply-To: s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan)
Organization: Technion

Is there any FTP site holding CMF files? VOCs?

Thanks,

Yaniv Golan

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From: mccarty@netcom.com (Michael K McCarty)
Subject: Re: PAS-16 SDK owner seeked
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 08:36:02 GMT

pete@mips.fidata.fi (Petri Helenius) writes:

>  I'd like to know how much printed documentation the PAS-16 Software
>Development kit contains. Please mail me some brief explanation of the
>contents. I haven't been able to get the answer from media vision.

The software is available from their BBS (510) 770-0968.

The PAS SDK kit contains:
   A very large Reference Manual which has chapters on:
      Ch 1: Introduction
      Ch 2: Installing the PAS Toolkit
      Ch 3: Common Function Calls and Hardware Registers
      Ch 4: PCM Programming Essentials
      Ch 5: High-Level PCM Function Call Reference
      Ch 6: Low-Level PCM Function Call Reference
      Ch 7: PCM Hardware Register Functions
      Ch 8: FM Synth Programming Essentials
      Ch 9: Low-Level FM Synth Function Call Reference
      Ch 10: FM Synth Hardware I/O Ports
      Ch 11: Standard FM Synth Register Functions
      Ch 12: Enhanced FM Synth Reguster Functions
      Ch 13: MIDI Programming Essentials
      Ch 14: Low-Level MIDI Function Call Refernece
      Ch 15: MIDI Hardware Registers
      Ch 16: CD-ROM Programming Essentials
      Ch 17: High-Level CD-ROM Function Call Reference
      Ch 18: Low-Level CD-ROM Function Call Reference
      Ch 19: Microsoft CD-ROM Extension Function Call Reference
      Ch 20: Mixer Programming Essentials
      Ch 21: Command Line Mixer Interface
      Ch 22: Low-Level Mixer Function Call Reference
      Appendix A: FM Hardware Register Charts and Tables
      Appendix B: CD-ROM Data Structures and Definitions
      Appendix C: Programming the PC's Interrupt Controller and DMA Channels
      Appendix D: Relocating Pro Audio Spectrum I/O Addresses
      Appendix E: Pro Audio Spectrum Utility Programs
      Appendix F: INT 2F Function Calls

I own all the other Developer Kits for all the rest of the sound borads,
(GUS/Adlib Gold/SB/SBPro/SCC-1) and the PAS Toolkit is the best.
Try getting it from their BBS.  If you are unable to connect there then
leave me mail and I will pass around.

 Mike



>Pete
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