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From: rikardur@rhi.hi.is (Rikhardur Egilsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Problem installing new SB drivers 4 windows
Keywords: problem
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:20:13 GMT

I just got the latest? (about 09/92) drivers from somewhere 
(maby snake.mcs.kent.edu) I don't quite recall where from exacly.
It was a ZIP file that came apart normaly (i.e. with no warnings.) 
I tried to follow the Instructions that came with it (i.e. exept for putting
a label on the floppy marked copyright and all that stuff).
Installing the new MidiMapper was a snap no problems there, then I tried
to install the sbp20wav.drv (through windows of course)
windows axclaimed: the driver already exists do you want to continue
using the existing one or install a new one? (or something like that).
I clicked on [new], the floppy whirred for a seq and obwiously somewthing
was read from it.
Then came : Driver error: There was a error reading the driver. The driver
probably does not exist. (WHAT !)
I checked the text file that windows uses to display options for installing
drivers (the one that was in the ZIP file) and sure enough the filename
was right.
I then tried copying the driver to the \windows\system directory and changed
the system.ini file myself.  Then I started windows and, surprise, no intro
sound (I have a engine starting sound), I went back to the drivers menu and
clicked on the drivers name, I got the same error msg. : Error reading
probably does not exist ! [gosh]
What am I doing wrong ?
Sombody ?
Anybody?
Heeeeelp !

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From: gt3017a@prism.gatech.EDU (Guy Elden Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS and GS2000
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:25:45 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <rdippold.726431235@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>
>It might help on these requests to let us know which version of SBOS
>you are using.  I don't have GS2000, for instance, but F15 III sounds
>just fine with SBOS 1.22.

   ooops, forgot about that... I'm using SBOS v1.22


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From: jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch)
Subject: INFO NEEDED: soundcard software
Organization: University of Delaware - What state is that in?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:35:31 GMT

Can anyone advise me in what shareware software is available
to take advantage of my soundblaster card?
ie: recording/editing/mod playing/fm editors/sb sequencing

ANY info appreciated!

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From: wolfe@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Music for Star Control 2...
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:29:22 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

Anyone know where I could find the MOD's or sound effects from Star Control 2?
	Wolfe
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From: ittschir@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Tim Tschirner)
Subject: Re: pas 16 drivers
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:29:26 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <1993Jan9.064542.6059@athena.mit.edu>, merklin@athena.mit.edu (Jimmy Y Kwon) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan1.3445.4515@dosgate> "john lorenc" <john.lorenc@canrem.com> writes:
|> >
|> >NG>Anyone know the status of new drivers for the PAS?  Is there
|> >NG>any way to FTP the latest, or must I dial their BBS (Long distance!)
|> >NG>to download them?
|> >
|> >You can try Compuserve - GO MEDIAVISION for the latest Windows v 1.44 
|> >drivers - WIN144.ZIP
|> >
|> >john.lorenc@canrem.com
|> 
|> 
|> Can someone upload this to an ftp site?
|> 
|> -Jimmy
|> merklin@au-bon-pain.lcs.mit.edu
|> 
There are already on the PAS ftp site (ftp.uwp.edu) in pub/msdos/proaudio as
PASW144.ARJ.

Tim

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From: pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre)
Subject: Re: Wavetable synthesis (was Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1993Jan6.004942.13207@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 06 Jan 93 14:35:36 GMT

>
>In article <1993Jan6.004942.13207@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>   In article <PJA.92Dec30180404@lk-hp-11.hut.fi>, I write:
>   |> Like "wavetable synthesis", which has been around for a long time. It
>   |> is called sample playback.
>
>   I'm not sure I agree with this definition.
>
>   I thought that wavetable synthesis involved storing single cycles (or,
>
>   Also, sample playback usually implies more than just using samples as
>   wave sources for a synthesizer.

This is what I meant. Gravis uses sample playback but calls it
wavetable synthesis. But I don't think sample playback implies
anything more than playing back samples.


>   some level of multi-sampling, whereas the method used in the Roland
>   D-series and the Kawai K1/K4 uses single samples across the
>   keyboard.

K4 uses multisampling. Take some choir sample (wave 191) and you can
hear the discontinuities between every D-D#.

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From: waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg)
Subject: RE: WILL THESE RAM CHIPS
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:22:55 GMT

In article <6240.22.uupcb@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, terry.walter@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Terry Walter)  writes:
|> well, I have not played with the GUS, but I bought my PAS 16 in MAY '92.
|> and well, I wanted the full meal deal...  If you are going to use the
|> 44.1K 16bit, sampling, and the SCSI/CD interface great get the pas 16,
|> but if you are not get the GUS then (if that is your second choice).  I
|> hate having to upgrade and upgrade. if you upgrade the GUS to the
|> goodies that the PAS 16 has, the GUS costs more!
|> 
|> your choice!
|>                                                                                                  

Upgrading your PAS16 to the goodies the GUS has, is impossible! :-)

Jerry
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From: ulmer@tardis.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Richard Ulmer)
Subject: Re: GUS w/UW2
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:16:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.224722.10922@wam.umd.edu>, adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
|> 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?
|> 

According to an interview with Looking Glass in the latest GameBytes they
removed the speech during the introduction.


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From: cowles@convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: GUS - 32 channel STEREO!
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:30:54 GMT
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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,
>mixed into one channel or the other, or both.  "32 channels" or "16
>stereo channels" implies that you could hook up 32 speakers, and have
>a different sound coming from each one.  Heck, I'd be happy to find
>an inexpensive sound card with just four channels!
>
>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.
>
>		-Ed Hall
>		edhall@rand.org

I think that 'channel' is being used in its midi-specific meaning here, and
as such is perfectly correct.
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Gravis UltraSound 3D!
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:53:23 GMT

gilmour@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Jeffrey R. Gilmour) writes:
>How much is the GUS with 512K RAM?

It cost me $26 to upgrade from 256K to 1 Meg.  So 512K would probably
cost about $9.  
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From: svaldez@ocf.berkeley.edu (Steve Valdez)
Subject: Best $ on TB Multisound?
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:54:57 GMT
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   Ok, I've decided to take the plunge and get a Turtle Beach Multisound
   -- I've heard that they've slashed the list to ~ $600 yet all the 
   lame retailers around here still have them at $750-$800.  {

   Can someone point me to a inexpensive source (mail-order?) for
   the multisound?  -- can you get the optional midi cable from 
   dealers or do you have to go directly through TB or is it something
   that I can put together myself?  Is the MIDI interface MPU-401
   compatible or does it even matter?

   svaldez@ocf.berkeley.edu
   svaldez@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
From: belas@comb1.comb.umd.edu (BOB AT COMB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Female voice on SBPRO?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 07:50 EST
Organization: University of Maryland, Center of Marine Biotechnology
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	Anyone using the Soundblaster Pro know how to change the 'male' to
a 'female' voice when using SBTalk?  I can't seem to find anything in the
manual.  Thanks for the help.



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From: Peter.P.N.Nauta@KONBIB.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Cheap PC sound card: driver?
Date: 4 Jan 1993 15:51:18 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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Dear netters,

Information on cheap sound card design in return for information 
----------------------------------------------------------------

We are developing a cheap sound card ($20) for own use, and are
looking for any information or an implementation of the Disney
Sound Source driver, which we believe will work with our system.

It's a digitized (sampled) 8 bits Digital-to-analog sound system,
similar to COVOX.

If you use a sound card using the Disney Sound Source standard,
or know more about it, or can tell us where to ask, look for (FTP
sites) drivers, standards, dealers, people with the knowledge to
write a driver, please let us know.  

If you can help us, we'll give you some info on how to build this
card, which already works with some games and software packages,
like the games KICKBOX and STUNTDRIVE.  We hope that if we can
acquire a driver like the Disney Sound Source's, many more
applications and games wil work with our system.

You can respond directly by e-mail to the adress mentioned below,
as I am not subscribed to it.  If useful info pops up, I'll
distribute it to this list.

Thanks in advance

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From: sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com (James Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Problem with PAS-16 and Star controll 2
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:32:35 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com


In article <1993Jan4.211548.4201@arizona.edu>, PAULR@hacks.arizona.edu (Paul Richards) writes:
|> In <gothic.726186605@mits> gothic@mits.mdata.fi writes:
|> 
|> > I have a problem with PAS-16 and Star controll 2. I just don't get any
|> > sound from PAS. The game mutes the soundcard and I'll have to reboot pc
|> > to get it work again.
|> 
|> I never could get the Spectrum option to work correctly, but I DID get the
|> Soundblaster support to work.  It still sounds great.  You'll need to make sure
|> that you load it with the /s:sblaster option, for otherwise it'll default to
|> the 'Spectrum and not give a tweet.  Anyone else get the 'Spectrum to work with
|> this game?
Spectrum option is trying to use the old card which is different from the
PAS-16. Soundblaster is the only option available to you. You do need to
make sure that the SBLASTER environment variable is set correctly since the
default is to use the sound blaster at the wrong IRQ. I talked to SC ][ tech
support and he said they were working on PAS-16 support, but I thought I saw
something on the net yesterday that they had put that on hold due to
non-support from MV.
|> 
|>      Paul Richards
|>      paulr@hacks.arizona.edu
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From: dp@hydra.carleton.CA (Dave Perry VE3IFB)
Subject: GUS midi port trashes SBOS
Organization: O.A.R.C. Packet Working Group at Carleton University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:35:03 GMT

It seems that any time the midi input is active, and sbos is loaded,
my computer hangs. I tried it with sbos 1.20 and 1.23.  Anyone else
observe this behaviour?

Dave Perry

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From: wang@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Thomas Wang)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:36:27 GMT
Subject: Re: 669 Uploads!
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:

>I hope that whoever develops a new MOD-like music format for the GUS
>makes more efficient use of samples.  After listening to the samples
>in MODs and 669 files, I find that they are all excessively sampled.
>We don't need to sample an entire note, from beginning to end, to
>reproduce it on the GUS.  If we take a look at the MIDI patches for
>the GUS, they contain only small snippets of samples lasting for less
>than a second and, yet, still sound exceptionally clear and realistic
>when processed by the card.  The same economy must be enforced if we
>are to see 32-channel mods that fit into 1 Meg of RAM.

Good point.  In addition, the format should allow the use of existing
general midi patches to further save space.  Perhaps the format should be
a kind of encapsulated midi, which allow user defined instruments to be
included in the song itself.

>Phat.

 -Thomas Wang           (Everything is an object.)           wang@cup.hp.com
From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: .MOD to .MID converter wanted.
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:06:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.212823.17764@sfu.ca> mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:
>From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
>Subject: Re: .MOD to .MID converter wanted.
>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.


	Maybe I'm _deeply_ wrong but let's imagine this....  You take the 
MOD file, extract the samples, convert the MOD music information into a MIDI 
format, create a configuration file with the names of the samples in it.  
Now, do we have a converted MOD file into MIDI format?  
	The MIDI file doesn't carry its own samples like the MOD but why can'
t we create a configuration file while ripping the MOD's samples so the MIDI 
file would use the samples for patches.  Is it a crazy idea?  Is it possible?
Please, someone, answer me.... :-)
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From: ctdonath@mothra.syr.EDU (Carl T. Donath)
Subject: Re: What's a good setup for MIDI editing on PC?
In-reply-to: nrh@philabs.philips.com's message of Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:53:04 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:30:43 EST

For MIDI and music composition, see rec.music.synth and comp.music.
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Curiosity about what low-level things GUS can do
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:41:50 GMT

I'm crossposting this to comp.sys.apple2 since I have heard that the
chip used in the Gravis Ultrasound is the same (or very similar) to
the one used to generate the great Apple //gs sound.  For those Apple
// users, we're wondering just what the heck the capabilities of the
Ensoniq chip are... what does it do besides sample playback?
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From: stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart)
Subject: Re: SB 4.0 problems
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:28:13 GMT

M.Schmeil (mhs@fokus.gmd.de) wrote:
: so i bought this SB 4.0. compatibility and price were the main-reasons.

4.0?  I haven't heard of that.  How does that compare with the 2.0/Pro/16/etc.?

: the program-disk #2 was empty. btw. as i checked it with the *headphones* i 
: heard `the machine working', eg. the HD when it reads. reminds me to the good
: old VIC20 or C64 datasette, i guess you know what i mean.

I have the disks for the SB 2.0.  I can mail you a copy of what I have (if you
know exactly what your disk #2 was supposed to have on it, that could eliminate
some redundant file transfers) send me a mail message.

As for the computer noise, I answered a similar question a bit back.  The
solution I found was to "shield" my SB with another card.  My reccomendation is
to (if possible) put your SB in the last slot in your computer (that way it's
farthest away from everything else), and put a "quiet" card right next to it,
between it and everything else (some good choices might be mouse cards, com
ports, modems, etc.  Watch out for disk controllers and video cards.)  You
might need to experiment a bit to see what works best, but this cleared up my
problems almost entirely.

-alex
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From: victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng)
Subject: OPTi+PAS-16=error?
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:06:00 GMT
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Date Entered: 01-09-93 22:01
Do OPTi chipsets have any known conflicts with the PAS-16?  I've run out
of configurations to choose from so it's either my chipset or my sound
card is defective.

Thanks
Vic
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