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From: egg@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS: is it Avail. in AUSTRALIA
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:20:40 CST
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

Does anyone know where one can buy a GUS in australia ?
I have read a bit on the GUS in this group but I cant get a good feel
for what its really like. Some tech info would be appreciated if someone
has it handy.

Also, Does it come with enough tech info to allow you to develop S/W for it
or alternatively is  there a developers kit ?

All replies are appreciated
Themie Gouthas
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From: cohoon@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jim Cohoon)
Subject: pas 16 problem
Originator: cohoon@cad.cs.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:30:41 GMT


I just got a pas 16 card for christmas and installed it.  I try the
PLAY command on the file CHORD.WAV and it works a couple
of time and dies.  I try all combinations of dma and irq possible
and it stays dead.

I turn off the machine, come back later, retry and it works a couple
of times and dies.

This pattern repeats itself, as long as i turn the machine off for
awhile, i can play it a several times before it fails.  For the record
it sounds fine the first couple of times and then gets increasingly
bassier and quieter.  The machine in question is gateway 486 eisa.

Any pointers?

Jim Cohoon

cohoon@virginia.edu
From: johnf@scd.hp.com (John Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS and PAS MIDI BOX?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 19:19:31 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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Simple question:

Is it possible to use a MIDI box from the PAS 16 on the GUS?

Reason:

I have the MIDI box for the PAS and I may be buying a GUS also.


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From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: PlaySam for the GUS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:03:02 GMT

I'm going to be uploading a nice little sample player for the 
Ultrasound.  Be sure to read the dox first and type the 
correct filenames for the samples or you are going to have 
problems.  Play around with the panning.
 
It'll be on archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the 
\pub\pc\msdos\ultrasound\submit directory.
 

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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: GUS kills Windows 386 Enhanced mode!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:39:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.224545.26515@news.columbia.edu> am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:
>
[...]
>
>Incidentally, when I say win does not work, it means that it dumps me back into
>DOS just at the point at which the windows background should appear.
>

Have you tried a complete reinstall of Windows?  I've had win not start up
in enhanced mode for me before, for no apparent reason.  I had to reinstall
it to fix the problem.

Phat.
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From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: PAS16 and KQ VI
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 04:52:20 GMT

My friend just bought Kings Quest VI and he was reading me some specs on
the game.  Supposedly it supports my two sound sourses :  PAS16 and
"general MIDI".  Now, the manual only says that it has PAS support--
not PAS16 or PAS+.  Is my board fully PAS compatible (in stereo) ?
And I would also like to use my SY77 as "general MIDI".  I have the 
PAS16 MIDI Mate, which is *not* MPU401 compatible.
Will my MIDI interface work for this game ?
If so, where can I find out how to setup my Yamaha SY77 ?

Thanks,
Peter V.

PS  If possible, please reply via EMail.  Otherwise, posted responses are
fine.  thanx again.
From: mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:47:57 GMT
Subject: Re: COVOX VS SBPro - Which is Better?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Ft. Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard

Questions about the Covox Sound Master:

1) Can it really do speech recognition?

  a) How hard is it to train the card.

  b) How often does the card goof?

  c) How much of a hit is it on the system performance when you speak?

  d) How much system CPU do you loose the card trying to interpret background
     noice as speech commands?


2) Can the speech recognition macros drive MS Windows 3.1 menu commands?  Or
   is the DOS macro set tied strictly to executing key strokes in DOS?   

3) The literature I have seen says that the card records at 22KHZ and plays
   back at 44KHz.  True?  If so, does that really mean that the 22KHz
   recording only picks up frequencies to 11KHz (per Nyquist)?

4) Does the SoundMaster have the ability to speak ASCII strings sent to it?
   Or is that just a feature of the Covox Speech Thing?
From: jayward@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PlaySam for the GUS
Date: 2 Jan 93 05:26:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6643

mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:

>I'm going to be uploading a nice little sample player for the 
>Ultrasound.  Be sure to read the dox first and type the 
>correct filenames for the samples or you are going to have 
>problems.  Play around with the panning.

Did you write this?  If so, where are you guys getting the info on how
to program this sucker.  Does anyone know of some good tech documentation
available by FTP from somewhere?


          ||  Jay Ward || jayward@rigel.cs.pdx.edu  || 
          ||=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-||
          ||        Portland State University       ||
          ||            Portland, Oregon            ||
From: d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Is the GUS' wavetable synt compatible with EPS-16??
Date: 3 Jan 93 12:36:09 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
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pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre) writes:

>>   Does anyone know what kind of synthesizer the GUS has?
>None? Every posting I have seen imply that it is simply sample
>playback hardware.  
No, it must have some sort of synthesizer. I've been
playing around with the patches, trying to feed them through
a sample player, like Blaster Master, and most patches
sound horrible, so they can't be pure samples.

And also, if the patches were (almost) plain samples,
why have the long header?

>>   I've heard that it's compatible with Ensoniq's EPS-16...
>PROBABLY not ;-) You know what the EPS16 does? 
Nope, I guess not. :-)
It was just something I'd been told, I haven't heard the EPS-16
myself.

>Ensonig Mirage might be close but it is 8bit and has been out of
>production for centuries.
But I'm almost convinced that it's an Ensoniq chip on the card.


>Still interested to know what the GUS patch format is. Am I right if I
>say it is one sample, one loop point and release time?
There has to be more to it. (Or at least I hope there is)
What I really want is some sort of sample -> patch converter,
so that I can use the GUS for F/X, and let my MIDI-keyboards
play the music.

>--
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Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
From: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Is the GUS' wavetable synt compatible with EPS-16??
Date: 3 Jan 93 14:18:46 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

>>No, it must have some sort of synthesizer. I've been
>>playing around with the patches, trying to feed them through
>>a sample player, like Blaster Master, and most patches
>>sound horrible, so they can't be pure samples.

Patches aren't straight samples.  An example of some of the items included in
the patch header are:

* instruments
* voices
* channels
*waveforms
* mastervolume
*layers
* layer_duplicate
* layer_size
* samples
* fractions
* wave_size
* start_loop
* end_loop
* sample_rate
* low-frequency
* high frequency
* root frequency
* tune
* balance
* envelope_rates
* envelope_offsets
*tremolo_sweep
* tremolo_rate
* tremolo depth
* vibrato sweep
* vibrato rate
* vibrato depth

and so on.

Joshua Jensen

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: Re: GUS and TB woes...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:41:00 GMT

gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting) writes:

>s106275@cc.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) writes:


>>In <gting.725194139@sfu.ca> gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting) writes:

>>>Couldn't stop myself when I managed to find a Thunderboard for CAD$50. 
>>>Plunked the thing into my system with the GUS and voila... the answer to
>>>most people's dreams... or is it?

>>It isn't, native gus support would do that...

>>>TB: 220h, IRQ 5
>>>GUS: 240h, MIDI IRQ 5, GF1 IRQ 11, DMA 7.

>>>Result: It WORKS! At least, a few games I tried worked perfectly fine, but 
>>>there were still a few games that balked:

>>Hmm, I wonder what happens when your TB and GUS midi IRQs conflict?
>I think the midi irq is only used for sbos, which might have been one of the
>reasons for this strange behaviour when sbos was run. But I digress. I changed
>the set blaster environment to *A240* (used to be A220) I5 T1 D1 and I've
>managed to get limited success - Summer Challenge now works fine, but 
>Wolf3d would only recognise the TB as an adlib. (This was after running sbos,
>which caused a brief comp freeze, but came back after a while, no prob.)
>Still no luck with Term 2029..

Strange... after running sbos a second time today, everything clicked except 
for Wolf 3d. And I didn't even change anything! Yay! Term 2029, Comanche
all worked flawlessly. Yahoo! (Note: I only had to run and unload sbos ONCE.
After that, everything worked out okay, even after I rebooted)

For those who are interested, my settings are: (in case you want to attempt
making them co-exist)

set ultrasnd=240,7,7,11,5
set ultradir=d:\ultrasnd
set blaster= A240 I5 D1 T1

Thunderboard as above.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: zrsjp01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Peter Jesinger)
Subject: playing a "mulaw" file with soundblaster
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:27:20 GMT


Is there a programm available to play a "mulaw" file with SB PRO?
Or can somebody give me some information on this sound format?

Peter

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Subject: Re: Sound card requirements? HELP!
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:39:18 GMT

misdcc@otago.ac.nz (Chris Hinch) writes:
> Can anyone advise of a ibm pc sound card that meets my requirements...
> 
> 1) 16 bit, 44.? KHz sampling/playback
Yeah! PAS16 and SB 16 does it!!!!!!
> 2) stereo output - must be independently controllable (volume etc)
Yeah! PAS16 and SB 16 can do them too!
> 3) have lots of programming docs available
Yeah! The PAS16's SDK is free! But SB16 ........ not available.
> 4) Can have 2 cards in one pc, indepedent of each other.
Yeah! PAS16 can do that! But SB16 can't.
> 5) cost about 200 US or less?? :-)
Yeah! PAS16 is about US$179.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan)
Subject: Re: Problem with SBPRO
Organization: LESC
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:04:17 GMT

In <1992Dec27.074437.11015@tvnews.tv.tek.com> eric@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Eric F. Dorondo) writes:

>>>	Can someone help me please?  Whenever I booted up my computer,
>>> I would get feed back and as soon as the computer set the volume
>>> and everything, the feedback is amplified and is unbearable. 
>>
>>This message was semi-grunged here, sorta looked like a
>>fight-o-net style message, but I think I managed to recover it
>>?!?
>>
>>My husband is an engineer and is quite unimpressed with the SBP
>>from a hardware point of view.  I still haven't decided as to
>>keep the thing and may well return it.  The software is crude and
>>docs are pathetic.  Unfortunately, at about $120 from egghead it
>>is in my affordable price range, which, it looks like about all
>>that can be said for it 8-).

	The documentation is enough for ME! Maybe you sould get your
    husband to tutor you... 
 
>>
>>My husband gave me a long disertation on inherent problems in the
>>ibm pc design that would directly affect what is going on here,
>>unless it is dealt with for each speed range of processor. 

>It sounds like the SBPro needs a hardware reset, and soon as you access the 
>test-sbp, it sets itself to defaults and becomes quiet.  I too had this problem
>but after a couple of boards I found one that was quiet in my system, (a 
>386dx/25) upon bootup.  I've tried a few boards since (that I was trying to
>install for friends) and they too had feedback and noise until I ran the test
>program.  I talked with a friend just last night that downloaded a bunch of
>junk from CL BBS and he said he got a little patch program that CL says to
>install in your autoexec.bat right after the set volume command that will re-
>set the SBPro hardware that will supposedly do what the test program will do
>to quiet it...

>									-eric

	I have had *NO* problems with my SBPro!!! (w/486-33) 



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From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: PAS vs PAS+ vs PAS16
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 05:03:03 GMT

I have the PAS16 and I was wondering how it is compatible with other PAS's.
For example, I would like to buy KQVI, which supports the PAS.  Does that
mean that I can use my PAS16 in stereo (8 bit of course) ?
Also, do any newer games (specifically KQVI) support the PAS MIDI interface ?
KQVI also supports "general MIDI" so I was wondering if I could use my
Yamaha SY77 throught the PAS 16 MIDI jack.

Thanks,
Peter Volpe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: linda@visix.com (Linda Thomas)
Subject: pas-16 internal cd audio cable?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:19:57 GMT
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA

I have a pas-16.  I also have a texel internal cd-rom (hooked up to an
ultrastor scsi controller). I'm trying to find where I can get a cable to
go from the audio out on the back of the cd-rom to the internal audio in on
the pas.  No such cable came with either the pas-16 or the cd-rom. Any
pointers to where such a cable could be obtained would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

s		-Linda

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Intel: putting the backward into backward compatibility.
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From: mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown)
Subject: Re: On GUS memory (question)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:26:26 GMT

>No way. 44.1KHz *16bit* *stereo* samples consume about 172K memory per
>second. This means you can store slightly under 6sec of CD quality
>sound in 1Meg.
> Petri Jarre

Alright, I haven't had much time to experiment with my GUS yet.  Part of
my problem is that I have a lowly 12-MHz 286 which means I can't use the
MIDI extensions in Windows, thus I can't even try out the new patch manager.

But one thing I noticed was that although I only have 256K on the card, it
has no problem playing an 8-bit 44.1KHz stereo sample that takes up well
over 400K on a hard drive.  So is there some kind of compression going on?
If there is, is this being taken into account in everybody's calculations?

And somebody please write some stuff that doesn't require the Windows MIDI
extensions!  I don't wanna hafta upgrade!

Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter)
Subject: Re: Waveform Table for SB?! Why GUS?
Organization: Acadia University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:11:42 GMT

gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting) writes:

>umeister@hardy.u.washington.edu (Starfleet Command) writes:

>>A recent PC Magazine ad showed the new Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16.
>>Although it relies on FM synthesis, the ad asserts that a daughterboard
>>with a waveform table will become available.  This puts the Sound Blaster
>>on even keel with the GUS as far as music technology (or at least will put).
>>With its ability to compete with the Microsoft Sound System for the 
>>voice-recognition throne, what's the reason to go with the GUS?

>Price? Value for money? More bang for the buck? You get the idea...

Also, what about the fact that the Gravis has 32 (or 16 stereo) digital 
channels, while the SB 16 only has 2 (1 stereo) channel(s).
.
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From: tazzzzz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kevin Dangoor)
Subject: Re: Does the Windows Sound Recorder work with GUS?
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:16:48 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.141250.29187@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rck@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (ron.kukuk) writes:
>Or does GUS work with the Windows Sound Recorder?  I'd like to make some
>wav files, but when I tried recording, all I recorded was nothing.
>
Yep, it does work. You need to run the Mixer app (in the \ultrasnd\windows
directory) and select which input you want to use.

...Kev


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From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Looking for Windows driver for SB-Pro
Date: 30 Dec 1992 09:05:09 GMT
Organization: Labyrinth 7
Distribution: world
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I just installed my SB-Pro today. Maybe conditions in my PC are ideal
or something, but I was very pleasantly surprised that it sounds so
good. Very clear and clean.

Anyhow, what should I use as a driver under Windows? Can I use the SB
1.5 driver that's supplied with the Windows distribution disks, or is
their a SB-Pro 2.0-specific driver I can pick up somewhere? I tried
checking Microsoft's BBS but there's something screwy with their
modem.

Thanks for any help in advance.

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From: janicek@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jana Janicek)
Subject: Re: GUS Programming: The Repost III
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:29:12 GMT

In <1992Dec28.090605.62290@cc.usu.edu> sl8nl@cc.usu.edu writes:

>> -The GUS has addresses ranging from 0 .. 0xfffff
>> -In start voice playing, you specify to use a WORD for BEGIN, START, and END.
>> -How can I fit an address > 0xffff into a word? (1 WORD = 16 bits I assume)

>If you pull out a calculator, you'll see that 10000h = 64k, 20000h =128k, and
>so on.  When you pump the BEGIN, START, and END to the card, you pump the low
>word and then the hi - byte.  Like the following:

>12345h

>2345h is the low word, 1 is the hi-byte.

Thanks for your help, I am familiar with this addressing scheme from the
u_poke/peek examples, but for some reason, they don't seem to be working
as I would expect them with u_start_playing. Here is my source:

//-------------------------------------------------------------------
void u_start_voice(int voice, int mode, unsigned long int begin, unsigned long
                   int start, unsigned long int end)
{
					//Original routine
	outp(Base+0x102, voice);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0xa);
	outpw(Base+0x104, begin >> 7);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0xb);
	outpw(Base+0x104, begin << 9);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x2);
	outpw(Base+0x104, start >> 7);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x3);
	outpw(Base+0x104, start << 9);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x4);
	outpw(Base+0x104, end >> 7);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x5);
	outpw(Base+0x104, end << 9);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x0);
	outp(Base+0x105, mode & 0xfc);

/*						//New modified routine
	outp(Base+0x102, voice);
	outp(Base+0x103, 0xa);
	outpw(Base+0x104, LSW(begin));
	outp(Base+0x103, 0xb);
	outpw(Base+0x104, int(MS24B(begin)));
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x2);
	outpw(Base+0x104, LSW(start));
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x3);
	outpw(Base+0x104, int(MS24B(start)));
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x4);
	outpw(Base+0x104, LSW(end));
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x5);
	outpw(Base+0x104, int(MS24B(end)));
	outp(Base+0x103, 0x0);
	outp(Base+0x105, mode & 0xfc);
*/
}

Neither of the above routines seems to work reliably. One thing I have not
yet tried is to clear the GUS memory before trying to play a patch, but I
don't think this should be neccessary.

Both of the above routines when I try to play the range 0x00 .. 0xffff
seem to play the entire contents of the RAM on board.

One more thing, I set both BEGIN and START to the same value, is this OK.

I normally use a value of 0 for mode.

And one final observation: This is just a guess, but I am finding some
evidence to support this.  Is it true the GUS can play patches only 64K in
length? I have noticed that the Modulator often gives patch too large
errors, and I had a look at the patches in the ULTRASND\MIDI directory,
with the exception of one, all of the patches seem to conviently fit under
65536 bytes (the larger one may be some sort of compound patch??) Am I
just dreaming or is this substanciated?

Once again thanks for your help, and (I tried to play around with those
MIDI patches, I cut off the forst 0x150 bytes which look like a header,
but no results, probably due to my start_voice_playing prob)

Ok, thats long winded enough..