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From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: New SoundBlaster Card
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:14:14 GMT


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!

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From: raphe@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Raphe Berry III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Sbpro Sound Supression
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:25:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.44602
Reply-To: raphe@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Raphe Berry III)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley


I have a SoundBlaster Pro, and I mainly use it for games.
I love it, except for that fact it makes background noise.
Can anyone think of a way of suppressing the noise?
I have thought of a couple of ways here they are:

--Making a gaussian surface around the board. That is 
  puting an aluminum or metal plate around the board.

--PUtting a choke on the speaker line.

Any Ideas would be apreciate

Raphe Berry III


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From: marrevola@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Controlling mix-amp functions of sbpro from win3.
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:03:38 GMT
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D

Does any body know how to control amp-mix functions of audio inputs in a sbpro
from a Windows application?
We'd pefer to do this with with MCI commands under MDK, but all suggestions are
welcome.

This is a very interesting news group, but I think that a SBPRO PROblems group
is necessary, or not?

Best Regards for everybody...

manolo@taf.fundesco.es
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: rry@tachyon.att.com (Raghu Yadavalli,4F516,6091)
Subject: Re: Gravis card release date 8/17???
Reply-To: rry@tachyon.att.com
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:58:43 GMT
Originator: rry@tachyon

From article <1992Aug19.012905.19823@wam.umd.edu>, by ys@wam.umd.edu:
> OK, we all know that their announced date of 8/17 has passed. So what's the
> situation now? Are we still waiting or have they postponed the date again?
> Somone post here if they actually get a full release product in their
> hands, no beta or protype deal...
> Still wonder if this is going to go the route of the Adlib Gold.....hmmm...

I called them yesterday (wed 8/19).  They said the board will be
released early to middle of next week.  In other words, it will
NOT go out this week!

Also, for those looking to connect their MIDI gear to the
UltraSound, the MIDI connectors won't be available until
October, just like the 16-bit recording hardware.

Raghu Yadavalli
raghu.yadavalli@att.com
From: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: ModPlay Assembly Module for SB-Pro
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:04:14 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Aug18.145633.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>, heath_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
> Hi there! I'm sorry if this question has already been asked and answered, 
> but...   
>   
> Does anyone have the assembly information needed for the SB-Pro in
> ModPlay 2.19B? I would really like to use ModPlay in stereo, as it is the  
> most accurate player I have.     
> Hope someone can help,

Have you tried looking at the WOWII module player by Jan Ole Suhr?

Josh
From: scc@bnr.co.uk (Stephen Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Adlib Soundcard Programming
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:17:57 GMT
Reply-To: scc@bnr.co.uk (Stephen Cross)
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB

Has anybody got any info on programming the Adlib Soundcard in either
C, C++, Pascal or as a last resort assembler.  If so could you post 
it here or mail me direct.

Also does anybody know of any good PD software that can be used to
write music for the Adlib card.

Cheers in advance.

Steve.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: timchan@bnr.ca (Timmy Chan)
Subject: Gravis Ultrasound WaveTable Synthesis
Reply-To: timchan@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:08:54 GMT

It appears the long-awaited August 17 delivery date has arrived!

Since many of you will be soon getting your card, can you
enlighten us with some info on Ultrasound's Wave Table
Synthesis?  From what I hear, the card does it's 'synthesis' by
using the attack phase of an actual digital sample to create the
various sounds.  This sounds a lot like digital samplers (like
Roland's S-series stuff) which costs THOUSANDS!  Can it be that
a $250 card ($150 for the Ultrasound, $100 for the 16-bit
daughter board) can do what a $3000+ 16-bit sampler can do???

I'm also interested about the Sound Blaster compatability issue.
Is it really compatible?  (Seems like a diffcult undertaking,
since the Ultrasound would probably need some kind of algorithm
to map FM synth programming to an actual digital sample-based
sound ... ???)

I'm considering purchasing this card, but am a bit skeptical 
about it's claims.  If you get hold of the card, please post
some info on the card's Wave Table Synthesis.

Thanks.

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   Ottawa, Ontario
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From: gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com (Gavin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Problem with windows driver (PAS16)
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:42:43 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Xxdate: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:39:08 GMT
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In article <92232.103908AXH113@psuvm.psu.edu> *MaintainerMisgNet*,
AXH113@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I just received my PAS16 and the DOS drivers and softwares are running
>flawlessly. Here are my problem.
>
>1. I have NDW running with my windows, and I bypass the first problem
>   by changing the shell from NDW.EXE to PROGMAN.EXE.
>
>2. I removed all the MediaVision related drivers, and install
>   the drivers provided by MediaVision. When installation was done,
>   I restarted windows and I get the error msgs " Cannot find version
>   2.0 or later, VMD286.DRV "
>
>3. Please help me. Reply directly of post it. Thanks.

I had the same problem when I installed PC-Tools for Windows V7.0 (I
needed the B/U program before doing a Windows NT install).  Evidently,
PC-Tools (and probably NDW) replaces the VMD driver with one more
optimized for doing tape/floppy backups or some strange thing.  The fix
is to re-install Windows.  I did that, and the only thing I had to do was
reset my MIDI driver entries.  On second thought, I may have had to
re-install the PAS-16 Windows drivers after the Windows install.  Try it
out and post your results.

If it works, we should have it added to the PAS-16 FAQ.

--- Gavin
Visualize Whirled Peas!
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From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: Wolfenstein on PAS-16 (WAS: Re: Help with PAS-16 needed )
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:40:10 GMT
X-Posted-From: connection.prospect.com
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nrh@philabs.philips.com (Nikolaus R. Haus) writes:
>
>I have this same problem. I have found that if I turn the digitized sound off
>(leaving the music and sound effects), the gunshots stick a lot longer. They
>still dissapear when I get into a situation where there is lots of shooting
>going on all at once, but then I just hit F4 ESC and they come back.
>

I also had this problem with Wolf3D.  The problem completely went away when
I added this line to AUTOEXEC.BAT:

	SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3

>
>-nik
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From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Music - notation/scoring
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:11:10 GMT

Hello Jim!

Friday August 07 1992 17:26, Jim Aites wrote:

 JA> From: aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites)

 JA> A good friend of mine (without internet access) has a SoundBlaster, but
 JA> hates the criptic notation they used.  Is there anything available that
 JA> will allow 'normal' musical scoring, editing, printing, and playing of the
 JA> MIDI stuff?

Muzika for Windows is quite decent. On SIMTEL20, I believe, it's
PD1:<MSDOS.MUSIC>, filename MUZPAK1.ZIP. Think that was it. Might have been
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/music.

I was chatting to the author in Israel last night, and he says print doesn't
work, which I've noticed. It also only runs under Win 3.x. However, it does do
midi .mid file output. [untested here]


Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch)
Subject: SB Pro/Gravis/PAS-16: Fundamental question
Organization: University of Delaware - What state is that in?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:00:45 GMT

Do any of the SB Pro emulators actually *improve* on SB Pro soundtracks?

For instance, since the PAS-16 is a 44.1Khz/16bit machine, one would
think that even the emulative SB soundbank would sound *better* than
an actually SB.  Or, does it emulate SB's thinness as well?

Also, about Gravis' Ultrasound:

Since it is only a sample-playback unit, how does it emulate SB?
Does it have the entire SB patch set in ROM as waveforms?

Also, has any manufacturer thought about adding some DSPs to these units?
Y'know, adding some el cheapo reverb/chorus effects to a 4-op FM synth
will do absolute WONDERS to the final sound!
And, as far as maintaining compatibility... no problem.  Just default
to a small room reverb with 10% chorus to "thicken" up the sound.  
Now you'd have *better-than* SB Pro emulation!  

Any takers?


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From: jonas.fogelberg@udac.uu.se (Jonas Fogelberg)
Subject: Gravis company profile, IRQ settings etc?
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala University, Sweden
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:47:48 GMT


Can someone answer the following questions?

1. Is there a company profile on Gravis? How long has this company been
   around, and what have they done previously in the area of sound boards?
   Since Adlib went out of business recently, it is quite interesting
   to know who you are buying from...

2. Which interrupts (IRQ), DMA channels and I/O addresse are selectable on 
   this card?

Jonas.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani)
Subject: Pocket Recorder for PAS16 in Windows
Organization: Dept. Of Psychology,  Queen's University,  Kingston
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:45:51 GMT

I am having problems running the Pocket Recorder in Windows.
The Error I get is :- Protected Mode error at some address.
(Can't remember what). Has anybody else had a similiar problem?
What do I have to do to fix this? I am running it on a 286/12 Mhz
with 2Mb of extended memory.
TIA.
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e-mail:   tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca
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Kingston, Ontario.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: robinson@sml.cs.psu.edu (Andrew Robinson)
Subject: Win Drivers for SB 2.0?
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:06:38 GMT

I would like to obtain a copy of the SoundBlaster 2.0 driver for Windows.
Could somebody possibly either make it available via ftp or mail me a 
uuencoded copy?  Thanks.

     -- Andy
robinson@cs.psu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: hillm@inmos.co.uk (Mark Hill)
Subject: Re: SB Pro Questions: Interrupts, versions
Reply-To: hillm@inmos.co.uk (Mark Hill)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:28:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.093803.17657@dircon.co.uk> sys0002@dircon.co.uk (Julian Hayward) writes:
>
>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?
>

This is a question about the SoundBlaster Pro. Are there two versions, and
if so, what is the difference and how do you tell the difference (via
software, looking at the board, looking at the packaging etc.)?

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: s106275@ee.tut.fi (Saari Anssi)
Subject: Re: .mod files..
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Date: 23 Aug 92 09:40:37 GMT


In <7900@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> jong@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Jong Y. Lee) writes:

>Hi netters!
>Can anyone tell me a *good* ftp site with a bunch of .mod files?  I've
>been playing only .wav and .voc files, and now finally I realized the power
>of .mod files!  I'm especially looking for .mod version of pop/rock musics.
>Thanks in advance!

saffron.inset.com and wuarchive.wustl.edu in /systems/amiga

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From: tima@hls.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Microsoft's Soundcard
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:04:40 GMT



Good afternoon,

I just read an article which stated that Microsoft is going to start selling
a soundcard near the end of this year. The article stated that it is a
"16 bit card with it's own dsp chip".

Does anyone have any more info ?

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: ys@wam.umd.edu ()
Subject: Gravis card release date 8/17???
Keywords: soundblaster
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:29:05 GMT

OK, we all know that their announced date of 8/17 has passed. So what's the
situation now? Are we still waiting or have they postponed the date again?
Somone post here if they actually get a full release product in their
hands, no beta or protype deal...
Still wonder if this is going to go the route of the Adlib Gold.....hmmm...
From: gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com (Gavin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Help with PAS-16 needed
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:08:54 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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X-Xxdate: Fri, 14 Aug 92 09:07:38 GMT
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In article <1992Aug14.124758.16797@philabs.philips.com> Nikolaus R. Haus,
nrh@philabs.philips.com writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.150621.19606@minnow.sp.unisys.com> ron@minnow.UUCP
(Ron 
>Burns) writes:
>>In article <65616@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt3017a@prism.gatech.EDU (Guy Elden
Jr.) writes:
>>>
>>>   Also, (probably a quest. for the games group, but oh well), if
anyone could
>>>help me get my card to work with Castle Wolfenstein, I'd be most
appreciative.
>>>I have it set up for soundblaster mode, using the default IRQ and DMA
(I-5 D-1
>>>, and can get some sound effects from guards at the very beginning,
but then
>>>I hear nothing from then, not even gunshots.
>>
>>I had this exact same problem.  I have a BUS Mouse which was set to use
>>interrupt 5.  This is the int. that the SB mode uses.  They don't seem
to 
>>share the interrupt well.  
>>
>I have this same problem. I have found that if I turn the digitized
sound off
>(leaving the music and sound effects), the gunshots stick a lot longer.
They
>still dissapear when I get into a situation where there is lots of
shooting
>going on all at once, but then I just hit F4 ESC and they come back.
>-nik

I had the same problem until I added the SET BLASTER= statement in my
AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  THe parameters can be found in the PAS FAQ (a fine,
fine, document :), or I'll post it here on Monday.

--- Gavin
From: jczhelp@tamuts.tamu.edu (John Zurawski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: MOD to VOC??
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:28:45 GMT
Organization: ~/lib/organization

In article <1992Aug19.225101.19182@newstand.syr.edu> jjimenez@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Julio Jimenez) writes:
>Hello. I'm sure this has been answered before so I apologize for this question,
>but is there a utility to convert .MOD to .VOC? I have an XT with a SB and I
>have yet to find a .MOD player that can play them smoothly. A conversion 
>program would be great! 
>
>

A .MOD file consists of patterns, effect information, and the raw
samples.  If such a conversion program did exist, the .VOC format is
not capabable of retaining that information, so you would just end
up with the samples repeated over and over again with the various
effects applied.  You would have a .VOC file that would be several megs
long even for the smallest .MOD files.
From: gt3017a@prism.gatech.EDU (Guy Elden Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS-16...
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:42:02 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <GLZ5UBW@zelator.in-berlin.de> leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
>what kind of Modplayer comes with the PAS 16 ?
>
>Does it play Mods in 16 bit 44 Khz stereo ?
>
>How does it sound ?
>
>Is it a DOS Modplayer or already a win3.1 Modplayer ?
>
>Has somebody heard of WINMOD10.ARJ or *.ZIP the new win3.1 modplayer ?
>

   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....




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
Subject: Re: Is it necessary to buy SB/SDK for programming SB/Adlib?
Organization: OFSA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:32:59 GMT

cs8023@ee21.ncu.edu.tw (ee76536) musically asks:

>Hi, all sound-board-experts:

not an expert...just a wannabe.

>I heard that if a programmer wanna program SB, he/she needs to buy SDK
>for SB, is it true? Is there any documents/books/packages available?
>best regards,

Nope, untrue, anthony. There is a lot of source floating about for
programming the soundblaster. One source is the Soundblaster Freedom
Project..SBF . There are a lot of talented people out there writing
good code. Usually, the docs suk though. *shrug* I am making progress
slowly with C and ASM in programming the SB. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Subject: Re: Gravis:  EA says September release...
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
Distribution: world,local
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 17:40:46 GMT


In article <BswGJu.1px@ais.org>, impster@ais.org (Charles Budensiek) writes:
|> If it won't be released until Sept., then why would EA send out a flier
|> thing with a deal on it for the Ultrasound? Don't they know that delaying
|> shipments would seriously piss people off? <namely me, as I was planning to
|> order one this week from that particular flier.>

Many companies have found from experience that once they really do
ship, people completely forget.  Sure, it costs them a few customers
who were waiting, but most of their sales will come from people who
don't even know that this card exists, and many from people who've never
even thought about PC sound cards.

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From: anm@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Andreas Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Where to buy a PAS-16 (FAX-NUMBER)
Date: 15 Aug 92 21:22:50 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg

Hi,
I'm looking for a low price offer of the PAS-16.
Some hints?

Thanks in advance
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