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From: gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Wave Blaster?!?
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:26:04 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <wfIGG0O00iV3A4Ats3@andrew.cmu.edu> kc3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Wengcheong Cheng) writes:

>>Wave Blaster, a daughter-board for the 16 ASP geared toward 
>>the professional audio market is expected at the end of the first
>>quarter of 1993, Creative Labs said. Wave Blaster will add 32-
>>voice wave-table synthesis technology and is exclusively
>>licensed from E-mu Systems.
>> 
>>The Sound Blaster 16 ASP is retail priced at $349.95. The Wave
>>Blaster is expected to be retail priced at $249.

>OK, what I'd like to know is that since the Wave Blaster seems to be
>using wave-table sysnthesis too, wouldn't it sound as good as the GUS?

No. It'll sound better. *MUCH* better. The Waveblaster uses the EMU Proteus
XR/1 chipset- which is the "same" chipset as in the Turtle Beach Multisound- 
by far the best sounding card on the market. The biggest difference between
the two chipsets is that the one used in the WB is more up to date with later
ROM samples, etc. It'll sound even better than the MS, from what I've heard.

The catch is that the above retail price ($250) is likely the only price you'll
be able to get it at. EMU is forbidding CL from releasing the WB to the retail
market, since they don't want their chipset "devalued" (how stupid), so you'll
have to order it direct from CL at the list price. CL doesn't like it, it knows
its users won't like it, and it knows it'll get blamed for it, but its out
of their control- EMU has the rights to the chipset and can tell CL what to do
in this case.

>Would it be worth the wait and the price if there was the possibility of
>better compatibility with existing and future games...? Perhaps Creative

Definitely worth the wait IMNSHO. The WB is sure to get industry support, since

A) Its from CL.
B) The Proteus chipset is much more designer friendly than the GUS.

>can do a better job at emulating it's FM synthesis with the WT synthesis
>on the WB...? As I see it now, the GUS will mostly be emulating FM

The WB will *NOT* do FM synthesis at all. The WB is an add-on card to the SB-16,
so the SB-16 will handle any FM or straight digital stuff (ie- the DAC on the
SB-16 will be used for recording/playing VOC files, but the WB will be used
for all wave stuff, esp. MIDI files).

>-->ARGH! ALL THESE SOUNDCARDS ARE DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!<--

Welcome to the club.

Oh, and BTW- the WB has 4 megs of ROM, just like the MultiSound.
         Tom Sorensen
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From: jtb5@po.CWRU.Edu (Justin T. Ballard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS+(Making it SB compatible)
Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:11:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I don't normally read this group but I have problem. I have a 
friend with a ProAudio Spectrum Plus soundcard. It works fine for
everything. The problem is that there are some pieces of software
which only work with soundblaster. We would like to get the card
doing that. Can we do this or am I nuts? E-mail me back! Thanks in
advance.

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From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam)
Subject: Dynamic Filtering?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:55:24 GMT

Would anyone please explain the term "Dynamic Filtering" which both the
PAS16 and SB16 claim to feature? Is it some kind of shielding technique?


Regards,
Savio Lam.

email: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk
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From: mbaden@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Matthew L Baden)
Subject: Soundcard Recommendations
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:00:43 GMT


I will be purchasing a Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V soon and am debating
between soundcards.
Keep in mind that the soundcard will be mostly used for games.
I am looking at the GUS or the SB-Pro II and I have a few questions.
My decision will most likely come directly from the response I get so
the more responses the better. :)

1) Exactly how bad is the slowdown with the GUS running SBOS???
   I assume that I will be running SBOS most of the time and am
   wondering how much a factor slowdown is.  Is it significent?
   Will things be more choppy?

2) Is it possible to use both cards at the same time?

3) The GUS joystick port says it will "compansate" up to 50MHz.
   How does this affect a 66MHz machine?  Can you use a joystick fine
   on a 66MHz?  What about the joystick port on the SB-Pro II?

4) When ordering the GUS, which version should I make sure it is? 2.4?
   Should I wait for any reason on a newer version?

It seems that the GUS is the soundcard of the future but if it's not
directly supported yet, I want to be SURE that I can play games like
Comanche, F-15 III, Wolfenstein, and Ultima 7 with no troubles.
Do games like this work 100% in SBOS?
Do they slow down much on a 66MHz?

Finally, which card do you recommend?

All comments are welcome!
Thanks, I appreciate it.

      -Matthew Baden
From: aeb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Ann E. Boughner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Using music in programs, PLEASE HELP!
Date: 12 Jan 1993 23:58:01 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: aeb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Ann E. Boughner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


  First, let me say that I am posting this for somebody else, but PLEASE
respond to the given E-Mail address.  The question is, "Is there any code that
people have designed to play music files with good quality floating around on
an FTP site?  And if there is, where and what's the name of it?"  MOD and 669
files would be the most preferable files to be able to play (eventhough I'm
sure that 669 code is hard to come by).

			Anyways, Thanks and PLEASE RESPOND AND HELP!

-- 
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From: Orakel@sarpih.no (Jens Kr. Kirkeb)
Subject: Re: GUS news
Organization: stfold Ingenirhyskole
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:42:48 GMT

In article <1iseopINNsst@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko) writes:
>Does anyone know where I can get some of these demos that supposedly have
>great graphics and sound? An ftp site?

Try FTP.UWP.EDU in /pub/msdos/demos (I think..)

Jens Kr. Kirkeboe / Twilight Zone
From: ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS news
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:37:13 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

Does anyone know where I can get some of these demos that supposedly have
great graphics and sound? An ftp site?

Thanks in advance...


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From: francisco.perez@rose.com (francisco perez)
Subject: Can't get'em...
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:45:34 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 01-04-93 10:40
T(>>Your problem is that you are using files from the old 1.1 disks with
T(>>the new drivers.  The 1.21 disks contains new patch maps and patches
T(>>that the new Windows drivers requires.  You will *need* the 1.21
T(>>installation disks before you can use the new Windows drivers.
T(>>
T(>>Phat.

T(>As a little addition to Phat's correct answer....
T(>you can ftp the new install disks from the ftp sites....

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

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

I've tried "ftp archive.epas.utoronto.ca", and "ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu" and
I get an "Unknown Host" message.  I've also tried "ftp 128.100.160.36" and
then I get an "Unreachable Host" message.  I guess I'll just have to make do
with v1.1 install disks for a bit longer until Gravis does the mailout,
since I can't afford to download all those files from the Gravis BBS at
2400 bps.

By the way, is the 699 player on the Gravis BBS as well?
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From: cpp3717@ucs.usl.edu (Patin Christopher P)
Subject: Soundblaster 16 & Daughtercard
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:15:14 GMT

Does anybody know if Creative Labs sells the SB 16 & the daughter card together?
And if so where?
Thanks in advance

Chris Patin

From: Norman.Yen@f7050.n153.z1.ship.wimsey.bc.ca (Norman Yen)
Sender: UUCP@ship.wimsey.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: CURIOSITY ABOUT WHAT LOW-LEVEL THINGS 
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 09:38:16 -0800


 > For more information, refer to the "Ultradox" (low-level register 
 > information) found on epas (128.100.160.36).  Though Tran and Jensen
 > weren't able to decipher everything, they've done an admirable job
 > figuring out the basics of the hardware.  I've asked Gravis why they

They did a pretty good job. But I think there routines do initialize the
voices doesn't quite work 100%. I've had some problems trying to get the
higher voices to work properly. I think it's somewhere after the 10th voice
that I begin getting some strange problems. The voices do not stop at the end
where they are suppose to and the tend to play the samples in DRAM with noise.
Got any suggestions?
From: dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: SB 16 ASP woes
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:48:42 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <107370012@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke) writes:
>Michael, 
>
>Can you tell us the hardware revision of your card?  That incormation
>could help some of the rest of us not buy the un-modified version.

Well, I'm Daniel, his brother.  I don't remember the revision number because
we sent it back.  Since it's not wise to publicly announce serial numbers,
I'll just say its somewhere below 2000, but not far below.  The techie
was not specific in mentioning what cards were affected, or if it was just
the fact that the card was running in a very fast machine (66mhz).  I'll keep
you posted as I learn more....

							Daniel
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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:26:34 GMT
Organization: RAND

In article <1993Jan4.094355@cs.utwente.nl> waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg) writes:
>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,
>
>Channel does, in this case, not mean 'left' or 'right'. In the synth. business
>the word channel usually refers to an instrument. If a card has 16 channels, then
>that means it can play 16 different instruments at the same time.

No, in the synth business these would be refered to as "timbres," not
"channels."  The operative word would be "multi-timbral," not "multi-
channel."  But I suspect that saying "16 simultaneous stereo timbres"
would leave a lot of folks with blank looks.  A lot of them wouldn't
even know how to pronounce the word [roughly like "timber"].

The most egregious misuse of a technical term that I know of is Roland's
term "partial" to refer to a voice component, since the term has already
been in use for over a century to refer to one of the sine-wave components
of a waveform (and a Roland "partial" can have many of these partials).
Another misuse is "polytonal"--a musical term--instead of "polyphonic" to
refer to more than one simultaneous voice.  But I've never heard of
"channel" being refered to in this way.  As close as you'll get is
a MIDI channel, which is something else again.

The GUS is 16 (or 32) voice multi-timbral and 16 (or 32) voice polyphonic,
but it is only two-channel.  This may all sound pedantic, but sloppiness
in using these terms can lead to confusion (such as the speculation in
this newsgroup that the GUS had 32 D/A converters).

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
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From: pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre)
Subject: Re: Is the GUS' wavetable synt compatible with EPS-16??
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<d2henan.726064569@dtek.chalmers.se>
	<Jan03.173821.24836@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
	<1993Jan3.141846.62411@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 06 Jan 93 14:40:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.141846.62411@cc.usu.edu> sl8nl@cc.usu.edu writes:
>
>   Patches aren't straight samples.  An example of some of the items
>   included in the patch header are:
>
>   * envelope_rates * envelope_offsets *tremolo_sweep * tremolo_rate *
>   tremolo depth * vibrato sweep * vibrato rate * vibrato depth
>
>   and so on.

Could you give us more details about the GUS patch structure?

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From: ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Demo problems
Date: 12 Jan 1993 13:54:04 -0500
Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

Has anyone gotten their GUS card to work with Crystal Demo or Putrefaction?
These are Eurodemos....
From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Novice trying to get latest GUS drivers
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:38:16 GMT

Hi,

I just got my low-end '486 machine Friday, and my GUS should
arrive today.  I'm hoping to start out with the latest drivers,
but looking through the mail and postings I don't see what
files I need. I have Windows 3.1 and hear the new driver is
good, but what file is it?  I don't see any drivers in
the GUS ftp site, but I see some patch files (e.g.,
accrdenon.arj, anasyn.arj).

Thanks for any help!  I know almost nothing about Windows
and am just trying to set up my machine so I can have
decent sound for childrens' educational programs and a
few games.  I have tried to look on the mail digest stuff
but I don't see any ultra-simple ``getting started'' info
like I need.
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From: ronr@ateami2.EBay.Sun.COM (RON RICHARDSON - SUN MICROSYSTEMS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Orchid Sound Producer/Pro
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:28:08 GMT
Reply-To: ronr@ateami2.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ateami2.ebay.sun.com

I may have missed the tread on this but I have a friend who's ready
to buy the Orchid SPP.  Has anyone used this?  How's it compare 
to the SB-Pro?  Thanks!

Ron Richardson

In article 3J4@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca, ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
|In article <C0JIx2.4CA@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> csd25@keele.ac.uk (C.M. Yearsley) writes:
|[...]
|>
|>At the moment the choice seems to be Orchid or GUS and I don't like what I've
|>heard of speed loss under GUS. How bad is it? I'd rather have the best
|>performance from my software than the soundcard, if I have to sacrifice
|>something.
|
|The speed loss only occurs when using the GUS's SB emulation TSR.  In its
|native mode, the GUS does not cause a performance penalty.  In fact,
|because of its wavetable chip, the GUS can take care of a lot of the
|processing when playing music that relies on sampled sounds, such as
|MODs.  In a game that uses MOD music, such as Star Control II, machines
|with the GUS run the game much faster than machines with only SBs or
|SBPros.
|
|Is the Orchid a wavetable/wavesample card?  If not, it will sound *much*
|inferior to the GUS.
|
|Phat.
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From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: .MOD to .MID converter wanted.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:28:23 GMT

> As the subject states, I'm looking for either the source or
> pointers to a .MOD to .MID converter for the IBM PC.  Something
> that extracts the samples from a .MOD file would be appreciated
> also.
 
I don't see how this could be done.  MID's contain all the music
stuffs etc. as well as what instruments the music is to be
played on.  MOD's contain music stuffs, as well as their own
samples to be used to play the musics.  The MID's don't contain
the samples, that's to be handled by your MIDI output device so
I could perhaps see the music being converted but there is no
way you could find out substitute MIDI instruments for samples
contained in a MOD.  MOD's can contain speech and basically
any sound.  MID's can't.

There are programs available that let you rip samples from MOD
files but I can't recall any specific program names right now.

Laterszzz!

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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: Some GUS problems...
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:04:37 GMT

In article <1inv56INNb4s@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko) writes:
>Has anyone had any problems with SBOS v1.23?
>I haven't gotten anywhere with it. Unreal does not work. The mod players
>don't work. Even those that worked with SBOS v1.20.
>ANd suggestions?
>

I'm using SBOS 1.23, and it's working fine for me.  What sort of problems
do you have?  How are you using it (with the .sys or .exe files)?

Phat.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: GUS w/UW2
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:47:22 GMT

Has anyone had any trouble using GUS with Ultima Underworld II?  UW I works
perfectly for me...speech and all, but UW II doesn't seem to have any speech
with SBOS (tried a bunch of options...probably not all combinations though).
The digitized effects work nicely, as does the music...just the speech at
the Introduction - I get writing instead of speech.  Anyone?

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From: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Subject: Re: NEW TRUE digital sound capture card
Reply-To: aa339@Freenet.carleton.ca (Etienne Tasse)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:49:43 GMT


In a previous article, ctdonath@mothra.syr.EDU (Carl T. Donath) says:

>In article <93005.065428U28709@uicvm.uic.edu> <U28709@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>
>   I have developed a PC-card that captures audio data comforming
>   to the AES/EBU and S/PDIF format. This output is available
>   from home and professional CD and DAT players. I am thinking
>   about marketing this card (I call it DEar), but I am not sure
>   there is enough interest to justify the effort.  If you are
>   interested, please send me E-Mail with the following
>   information:
>
>I've been thinking of doing the same thing. Getting it manufactured and
>distributed is the biggest problem.
>

- Using it with a FlOptical
- Using it with Sony's Mini Rewritable Disks
- Using it with a CD Burner to make home CD's.

- On-the-fly Sound processing : extracting Surround, L-R difference, voice 
  karaoke(!?)
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From: peterl@progress.COM (Peter Lauterbach)
Subject: PAS-16 and Falcon 3 woes !
Summary: Falcon3 sounds very weak on the PAS-16.
Keywords: PAS,falcon ,f3
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:21:54 GMT

Greetings,

	I am having some problems with Falcon3 and my PAS-16 board.
My configuration is as follows:

	Compudyne 486 33MHz with 16MB memory
	Media Vision ProAudio Spectrum PAS-16 default jumpers and IRQs
	Adaptec 1542B and Maxtor SCSI drive
	IDE controller and Maxtor IDE drive
	Thrustmaster Flight Controller
	Falcon 3.0d
	DOS 5.00
	Falcon OFT 3.01
	QEMM 6.02
I have even pulled all the boards BUT the PAS-16 from the machine !!!!

The basic problem is that while F3 runs well on the machine, the sound
leaves much to be desired. I have configured F3 to use a SoundBlaster
board. The music and radio messages come out ok, but the engine sounds,and
missile growls come out as little, how do you say, pfft sounds.  Even when
engaging the AB at all levels.  Also, the sound while flying is very noisy,
with some whine in the background. Is this how it's SUPPOSED to sound ?

	I have tried a few a few sol'ns that I have seen on the net:
	1) setting env variable BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3
	2) turning off the CPU cache from the BIOS
	3) doing a PAS SET SB TO 80, (or 100)
	4) upgrading to Falcon OFT 3.01

	I suppose the last is the most frustrating, cause after spending
over $100 on software, and loading F3 OFT on my machine, the sound is still
as weak !!

	There seems to be a lot of "try this, try that",  but no one has
said, "This is how it works, and why".  ANY information you can shed on the 
topic of how F3 works with a PAS-16 in SB mode, would be very helpful.
Please reply by email to the address below, and I'll summarize. Thx.

					Regards,
					Peter
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From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:21:47 GMT

> The GUS is 16 (or 32) voice multi-timbral and 16 (or 32) voice
> polyphonic, but it is only two-channel.  This may all sound
> pedantic, but sloppiness in using these terms can lead to confusion
> (such as the speculation in this newsgroup that the GUS had 32 D/A
> converters).
 
I'm not too keen on all this technical music jazz but if the 
word "channels" implies that a speaker can be hooked up to 
each one, can anyone tell me why the Amiga's Paula chip is 
called a four-channel digital chip?  I've never seen an Amiga 
with a speaker hooked up to each individual channel.

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