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From: ismith@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Chris Smith)
Subject: Re: MOD -> VOC??
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:38:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.175445.6387@newstand.syr.edu> southern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Southern) writes:
>Hello there. Is there a MOD to VOC utility for the IBM? I am in need of
>such an executable and would be greatly appreciative if anyone knows of
>it's existance.. Thank you.
>
>

   I have been able to create mod sample from .voc format by using a program
called sox. I guess though I have never tried, that you can go the other way.

The program is called, i think, sox4d.zip  It can be found at garbo.uwasa.fi
in the sounds dir. There is mirror of this site at wuarchive.

hope this helps.

Chris

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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: GUS and STARCONTROL 2...anybody???
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:54:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.063700.51030@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
>From: ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG)
>Subject: GUS and STARCONTROL 2...anybody???
>Date: 15 Nov 92 06:37:00 GMT

>To all you GUS owners, StarControl 2 is out and it does support the GUS (
>along with a ton of other cards). SO, anybody get both? I really intersted if
>this card is really worth it. A few demos don't impress me at all. Only
>real-world results matter. Ex: the Strike Commander demo I had (the cinematic
>one) made SC looked fast on a 386SX/16, but all we <=386 owners will know what
>will happen when the game comes out 5 years later... YES, you read my
>mind...-=FOUR-EIGHTY-SIX=-required  for enjoyment... :) Sorry for getting a
>little off track...
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	Is there a demo available on FTP site?  I'd like to see and hear 
before buying.  I too have a GUS.  :)

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From: bjornhk@dhhalden.no (BJORN HAAVARD KLEVEN)
Subject: Re: GUS daily digest problems.
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:50:33 GMT

>1. Has anyone got hold of the 'extra' set of instrument patches that
>   you get for free when sending back the registration card ? 

No, theyr're working on them.

>
>2. If so, are they an improvement on the original set ? (my discs 
>   were marked rev. 1.2)

V.1.21 is, AFAIK, the newest.

>3. Is anyone using the Ultrasound in conjunction with Sequencer
>   software ? If so, which one ? (I have a demo version of Master
>   Trax Pro, which only seems to be able to get a piano sound
>   out of the card. This may be my ignorance of how to set up
>   the Windows driver and midi mapper though).

MIDI mapper is in the works. A lot of Sequencers will support the GUS, also 
in respect to patch-loading.

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From: mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: Can the GUS do sound+MIDI?
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:14:48 GMT

   So, OK, the GUS is a sweet card; I have some of Ensoniq's keyboards (the GUS
uses the Ensoniq chip for its sample playback), so I am sure it sounds good.
   Here's my question. Can one use the GUS to do the Studio Vision sort of 
thing, that is, playback of samled sounds from the computer while sending out
commands over MIDI?  Is there / will there be software to do it?
   While I'm asking questions... is it true you need a daughterboard for 16-bit
sampling?  I think it comes with a MIDI interface (I hope)...

--- Mike
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From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Subject: Does Windows NT support PAS16's SCSI port?
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:31:22 GMT

Hi! I am a PAS16 lover.

I'll upgrade my DOS and Windows to Microsoft Windows NT beta, but someone
tell mt that I need a CD-ROM drive to install Windows NT. Because Windows NT
is not a DOS, so I can't load SCSI driver of PAS16 when Windows NT install
disk starts. Does anyone here know Micorsoft support PAS16's SCSI port?

If yes, does it  support release or beta version ?

All suggestion are welcome.

Last, which CD-ROM I should buy ?

Thank you.
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From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: My PAS+ doesn't work!  Help! _Please read_
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:02:43 GMT
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)

I think it may dut to the incompatibality of your computer. It is time to
change your computer lah!  :-)

If you won't change your computer, I need more information about your 
Hardware. Please tell me what brand of BIOS your computer has, brand and type 
of your super VGA card, type of your HD, and your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat
and what version of DOS you use, and ............ (tell me all of you know)

And I'll try to solve the problem for you....... maybe I can't....  

Last, are you a Chinese ????
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From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard Ultrasound & Star Control 2?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:41:05 GMT

> technology with today's. The UltraSound is the best sounding card
> by far fpr  (for) the game.  BTW - I personally would suggest
> anyone listening to Star  Con with a GUS to plug into a mixer and
> pan both left and right channels  into mono; we really didn't have
> enough time to do much with stereo  placement (although I did do a
> >small< amount of "stereoizing"). 
>     - moddan (Daniel Nicholson, PCkS Associates)
 
Well, I congratulate you.  The music and sound fx is what 
makes this games so awsome.  It's super clear and full of 
life.  What amazes me is that the full potential of the GUS 
hasn't even been exploited yet what you've done is so 
devastatingly good.
 
Are you working on a GUS specific mod player?
 

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From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
Subject: Re: MODEDIT 301 on wuarchive
Organization: OFSA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:32:08 GMT

marc@venus.clearpoint.com (Marc Washburn) requests:

>  Could somebody please upload modedit 301 to wuarchive?  

Okay, I just uploaded it to wuarchive/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS. Let me know,
Marc, if it "unzips" ok...I have never done uploading to an archive
before. Cool, something new!! :) I did set type to binary so I assume
all will be will. You will need lha to unpack it though.

>  I have been eagerly waiting to try both GTS and the MODEDIT programs, but GTS seems to be incomplete and the servers listed as having MODEDIT seem to be real busy (either that or i am using incomplete server names).

GTS appears to be complete still (amazing! it has been almost 24
hours!) You can grab both from wuarchive if you are quick.

Steve

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From: d0np@ganymede.sun.csd.unb.ca (Godzilla)
Subject: Re: GTS better than MODEDIT 3.01 ???
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:32:40 GMT


    I sure would like to be able to try it, however, dispite the fact that I do
have a SVGA card, a Trident, it does not recognise that I do have a SVGA card.
Has anybody else out there found this, anybody know of a way around this.
Does it require to have a VESA compatible card or something, I don't know.

    Another thing to note is that the upload of GTS to saffron.inset.com,
appears to be incomplete, at least the last time I looked.  Some of the files
were zero length.


                                         Mike

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From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS 16 initialization
Date: 21 Nov 1992 10:11:00 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


	I am catching this discussion on the tail end so I don't know
what the outcome may have been, but I have all the low-level docs and
have been solving the same problem myself working with another person
to write a Linux driver for the PAS 16. I can send you code that will
properly initalize the board for basic uses if you like, and can give
you information on what needs to be done and what ports do what. Lemme
know if I can be of any help.

							-Craig
From: dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: TBPRO replacement for PAS+?
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:01:27 CDT
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility

The TrakBlaster Pro application that comes with the ProAudioSpectrum Plus
won't work with the higher DMA channels.  Is there another program that I
could use instead?  Right now I'm using DMA channel 3, and DMA channel 1
is used by the SoundBlaster-compatible section of the PAS+, but my CD-ROM
interface only allows DMA 1 or 3, so I'd like to be able to change the PAS+
if I can.
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From: Nitro of Terra Nova <FrodeT@DHHalden.No>
Subject: mod player in c or pascal code!
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A731102ED10221EB@pc235.dhhalden.no>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 19 Nov 92 08:34:38 GMT
Organization: ODH
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:33:35 GMT

Is there anyone who has a code in c or pacal who plays mod. files???
Pleas E-mail me!!

Nitro of Terra Nova!
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From: ssalter@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (-=[SLS]=-)
Subject: Re: GTS...
Organization: OFSA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:27:57 GMT

crj2@ra.msstate.edu (Charles R. Jones) sez:

>
>I just downloaded GTS and tried to run it....and all it does is say,
>"Svga not found"

What specific board do you have? There are no parameters that I am
aware of that you can set for this in GTS.

Steve
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Subject: speech analysis software for the DT2821 
From: nnguyen@fapse.unige.ch (NGUYEN Noel)
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:56:37 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Hi users.


  I am looking for a speech processing software working with the Data Translation
DT2821 I/O card. I'd like to have a program allowing to edit one or many acoustic
speech signals, to make spectral analyses such as an FFT or an LPC using various
windows (Hamming, Kaiser...), to compute spectrograms and so on. Does someone know
whether such a program exists or not? Any information on that point
would be very helpful.

Noel Nguyen
laboratory of psycholinguistics
Faculty of Psychology
University of Geneva, Switzerland.





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From: tazzzzz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor)
Subject: The GUS will be supported... because:
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:24:03 GMT

I just thought I'd voice my opinion as to why game developers will support
the Gravis UltraSound. First, they are obviously developing these games
using SOME system of device independence (that is, if the game supports
anything other than Sound Blaster). The Roland MT-32 (which is supported
by a large number of games) and LAPC-1 are nothing like the Sound Blaster
and yet the games still produce music on these systems. Since these companies
have device independent systems already, adding support for the GUS is
just a matter of adding a driver (and then they pick up the GUS market,
however big that may be... I wonder how many copies of Star Control II have
sold just because it's the first game with GUS support)

Second, there's General MIDI. General MIDI makes it so that a song played
on one GM instrument will sound roughly the same on any other. The Roland
Sound Canvas is a GM (actually, it's Roland's GS standard which is an
expanded version of GM) sound module/card. This card may get support as
a logical successor to the LAPC-1. Gravis will soon have a set of GM
patches for the GUS (so, once again, it's simply a matter of a driver).

Finally, Windows programs support the GUS already (though an updated driver
may be necessary before the patch switching works as desired).

So, yes, only one or two games support the GUS now... but I don't think the
wait will be as long as some people may surmise before most games support it.
Developers didn't rush out to support the SBPro because it simply didn't offer
enough new capability to make it worthwhile. The new generation of sound boards
(Creative's Wave Blaster (which is a module, not a card), which is GM BTW,
the Roland Sound Canvas, the Multisound, the GUS, the forthcoming card from
Ensoniq, etc) provides much better music capability and are too much to ignore.

...Kev

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From: barr@stein.u.washington.edu (David Barr)
Subject: good mod ftp sites?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:41:10 GMT

What are some good mod ftp sites?  I used to have a copy of savage.mod,
but I can't find it now.  Is it on an ftp site somewhere?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: yu-d@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (Moonrise Programmer)
Subject: Re: Best, moderately priced soundcard..
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:19:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.044531.25292@zooid.guild.org> Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
	<Stuff deleted>
)Last, and I mean by far last, is the Microsoft card. This card is the worse
)thing I have ever seen. It doesn't have anything, it doesn't emulate any
)other cards. What can I say, a typical Microsoft product.
)
)1) TB Multisound (if you want to play games, forget it)
)2) PAS-16 (SCSI and it DOES sound VERY GOOD despite some critics)
)3) Gravis Ultrasound (For a little more I would get the PAS but the GUS is
)   also a very good card)
)4) Sound Blaster Pro (Very popular and supported)
)1000000000) Microsoft Card (This is a complete waste of space in your case)
)
)There are other cards that I didn't mention but this is my list...
)
)Mark K.
)E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
	
	I just want to address the point of the MS Sound Card.  Microsoft's
position is that the card is not aimed at the hobbyist/game market at all.  The
card is for business/media presentation purposes running under windows (of
course).  All the software included with the card is oriented towards just that
purpose (voice command etc...).  Who knows some game manufacturers may support
it anyway but if you want a sound card for games and stuff then the MS Sound
System is not for you.  I got this from talking with a Microsoft Sales Rep.  


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From: crj2@ra.msstate.edu (Charles R. Jones)
Subject: Re: GTS at wuarchive
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:37:18 GMT

In article <19478@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> aspolito@burrito.engr.ucdavis.edu (Anthony S Polito) writes:
>Has anyone else out there managed to get GTS to work with a trident 8900 card?
>For some reason ti does not work for me, which is very dissapointing 
>considering what people keep on commenting about this program.  And for 
>the record, I have a trident 8900 with 1 meg ram, so it should work.


I also have a Trident 8900 (1 meg) and cant get it to work.  I have not 
attempted it yet, but it should be a simple matter of debugging it and
making it skip the svga detection part.

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From: wright@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Ted Wright)
Subject: Re: GUS daily digest problems.
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:16:55 GMT

In article <BxyvB2.19y@micrognosis.co.uk> pcunnell@micrognosis.co.uk (Paul Cunnell) writes:
>From: pcunnell@micrognosis.co.uk (Paul Cunnell)
>Subject: GUS daily digest problems.
>Date: 19 Nov 92 14:09:01 GMT
>
> ... stuff deleted
>While I'm here, there *are* a few questions I have re: the Ultrasound
>card (I bought one a couple of days ago).
>
>1. Has anyone got hold of the 'extra' set of instrument patches that
>   you get for free when sending back the registration card ? 

No, not yet.

>2. If so, are they an improvement on the original set ? (my discs 
>   were marked rev. 1.2)

My disks were marked 1.2, but the programs said 1.1 when they loaded.
I downloaded the 1.21 version from wuarchive, and it fixed a bug where
only one of the drums in the drum patches would play. I did not notice
any improvement in sound other than this.

>3. Is anyone using the Ultrasound in conjunction with Sequencer
>   software ? If so, which one ? (I have a demo version of Master
>   Trax Pro, which only seems to be able to get a piano sound
>   out of the card. This may be my ignorance of how to set up
>   the Windows driver and midi mapper though).

I have tried the GUS with the demo version of Cakewalk Windows and the
beta version of Band-In-A-Box for Windows. Both have a problem loading
patches (i.e., they don't load patches). Gravis claims that this is 
because they are not using the Multimedia Extension patch caching function
calls. Gravis is working on a driver that will make these calls, but I
think that they probably have to be made by the sequencer program.

A workaround until someone fixes this is to save the song as a midi file,
and play the midi file with Media Player. Media Player makes the calls
that load the Ultrasound. After playing it once with media player, you
can go back to the sequencer (until you change instruments, then you 
have to go through this routine again).

>Paul Cunnell (pcunnell@micrognosis.co.uk) 
>Micrognosis, 63 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4N 4UD, UK +44 71 815 5294 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 15 Nov 1992 22:23:04 CST
From: <U56980@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Sound System in stores!
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Nov15.235422.1151@eng.umd.edu>, brymastr@eng.umd.edu (Bryan Lee)
says:
>
>Anyone know when the Microsoft Windows Sound System is supposed
>to hit the stores?  Or has anyone seen it yet?  I heard it won
>a Byte Award of Distinction.

I saw it today at Best Buy.  I can't say what the price on it was though.
I don't know when they got it in or anything.  I just saw the box on the
shelve (of course it was the actual thing and not a dummy box).

Roland Ferreras
  U56980@uicvm.cc.uic.edu
  sixpacker@aol.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard:4164 rec.games.programmer:4800
From: kds@phy.duke.edu (Stokes Kevin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Looking for SB Dev kit
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:26:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard


  I need the SB developers kit right away.  Is it only available from
Creative Labs?  Does anyone know the right phone number for ordering
through them or any other distributor?

                                   -Kevin

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