GUS Musician's Digest Thu, 9 Mar 95 12:47 PST Volume 13: Issue 9 Today's Topics: GUSMAX: MIDI In not working GUS Musician's Digest V13 #8 Help! GUS stuttering! Software for my Roland D10 Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 8 Mar 95 14:38:58 EDT From: John Griggs/MSL Subject: GUSMAX: MIDI In not working Greetings fellow GUSsers, I sent originally sent this to Gravis a few weeks ago (both tech@gravis.com and tech1@gravis.com) and got no response (If you're reading this, Gravis people - non-existent tech support is NOT A GOOD THING). I hope someone on the digest can help. Once upon a time I owned a 486DX/33 computer with a regular Ultrasound (with 1M RAM) and the Gravis MIDI adapter and an old Yamaha DX9 synth that I used happily to mess around with MIDI in windows. Then I upgraded my mother board to a DX2/66 and suddenly the MIDI in port stopped working under Windows. The adapter LEDs still indicated traffic coming in, but the driver didn't work. I tried upgrading the software and changing my configuration, but all to no avail. Then I sold my GUS to a buddy and bought myself a MAX, thinking that this might fix things, but alas there was still no joy, even after some more software upgrades and further experimentation with my configuration. So, in a nutshell, my problem is that MIDI in doesn't work on my system under windows. The DOS-based Midifier program also doesn't work, but I don't really care much about that at the moment. Everything else works fine: MIDI out works, playing MIDI files works, digital audio works, games seem fine (Myst, 7th Guest, The Even More Incredible Machine, Arena) and even the MIDI in seems to work OK under Linux (at least I see input when I cat /dev/sequencer - I don't yet have a program to deal with MIDI streams under Linux). I have lent the synth, cables and MIDI adapter to a friend with an Ultrasound and a similar system and everything seems to work fine for him, so its not a buggy cable, adapter or synth. I have rearranged my IRQs and DMA channels (both on the MAX and on the rest of the system) with no luck. I have tried using a different I/O-IDE card: no luck. I have even booted MS-DOS 5 with a minimal setup from floppy disk and tried it under that without any apparent change (I usually run Novell DOS-7). My system details are: 486DX2 66MHz 256K cache VLB Motherboard (Generic - ALI Chipset): BIOS: AMIBIOS, American Megatrends Inc, 04/01/94 BIOS Date: 08/08/93 (From MSD.EXE) 16MB RAM (70 ns - 30 pin SIMMs) Hard Disks: 216MB Maxtor IDE (IBM Boot Manager, DOS & Windows) 340MB Quantum IDE (Linux) Floppy Disks: A: - 3 1/2 " HD (1.4MB) B: - 5 1/4 " HD (1.2MB) ATI Graphics Expression Mach 64 VLB Video Card: BIOS Part No: 113-27802-100 Mitsumi Doublespin CD-ROM (using the Mitsumi adapter card, NOT the GUSMAX interface): Base Address: 300h IRQ: 10 DMA Channel: 5 Winbond MIO2050 VESA IDE CARD: IDE IRQ: 14 I/O Addresses: 1F0h-1F7h Floppy Address: 3F0h-3F7h Floppy IRQ: 6 COM1: 3F8h (G-Vox guitar adapter) IRQ 3 COM2: 2F8h (P.C. Logic 14.4 fax/modem - external) IRQ 4 LPT1: disabled Game Port: disabled Logitech Mouseman 3 button Busmouse: IRQ: 5 Driver version: 6.04 Gravis Ultrasound Max: RAM: 1MB (installed by dealer) Base Address: 220h Playback DMA: 6 (buffer = 4096) Record DMA: 7 (buffer = 4096) SoundBlaster DMA: 1 GF1 IRQ: 11 MIDI IRQ: 7 16 bit Base: 32Ch Serial Number: K112875 Hardware Revision: 1.8 CDROM: disabled Operating Systems: OS/2 2.1 (Boot Manager only) Novell DOS 7 / Microsoft Windows 3.1 Slackware Linux Gravis Software: ULTRINIT.EXE version: 2.25 Disk Set version: 3.56 Bonus Disk Set version: 1.6 Window Drivers version: 5.47 MIDI Software: PowerChords Pro v2.0.03 Various Linux utilities I have looked at the FAQ and tried everything that I can think of (ie. removing hardware and software, reconfiguring the MAX, reconfiguring my system, using MS-DOS and combinations of these approaches) to fix this to no avail. I even compiled some MIDI monitoring programs from old Charles Petzold columns in PC Magazine, but they show no data coming in on the Ultrasound port (they do report incoming data from the G-Vox, when it is installed). Please let me know if you have _any_ ideas that I may not have tried yet - I'm desperate. MIDI in is the primary reason I have a soundboard and I'll be pretty disappointed if I can't get it going after spending so much on it (computer, GUSMAX, MIDI adapter, software, etc. - not to mention the time investment). I plan to download the 3.59 software in the next few days and try that, but I've been through several software versions already, so I'm not holding my breath. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, John Griggs Software Engineer /\ /\ John Griggs - jcgriggs@microstar.com \/ \/ Computer /\ /\ Aided Microstar Software Ltd. Phone: +1 613 727-5696 \/ \/ Document 34 Colonnade Road North Fax: +1 613 727-9491 /\ /\ Engineering Nepean Ontario Can/US: 1 800 267-9975 \/ \/ CANADA K2E 7J6 Info: cade@microstar.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 09:43:37 -0300 From: avillena@dcc.uchile.cl (Agustin Antonio Villena Moya) Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V13 #8 unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Mar 95 10:35:41 MST From: Stuart Yoshida Subject: Help! GUS stuttering! HELP! I'm appealing to all you GUS'ers: For some unknown reason, my GUS has started "stuttering" when I use it as the Wave Output device. Here's my configuration: GUS with 1MB RAM (board v 2.4, I believe) GUS 16-bit daughter board Turtle Beach Monterey (Tahiti + Rio) v5.50 Windows Drivers (problem existed before updating) MS-Windows for Workgroups v3.11 QEMM v7.5 Hyperdisk v4.7 So far, I've experienced the problem in these configurations: * 32BFA/32BDA enabled * 32BFA/32BDA disabled * Turtle Beach Monterey drivers enabled * Turtle Beach Monterey drivers disabled * GUS input buffer set to 0 * GUS input buffer set to 512 * GUS input buffer set to 1024 * GUS input buffer set to 4096 The "stuttering" can be described as the endless looping of a "sound byte," which seems to correspond to the size of the input buffer that I specify. If I set the input buffer to 0 (zero length), it will stutter with a very small chunk of sound data (which produces a "chirping" sound). BTW, the Wavetable portion works just fine when I use it to play MIDI files. The frustrating part is that at one point I had the GUS Wave Output working just fine. And then something changed, and I'm at a loss to figure out what it was that changed! Any help, suggestions, comments, ideas, etc. would be appreciated! -- Stuart Yoshida Internet: yoshida@fc.hp.com Voice: (303) 229-2324 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 22:10:53 -0800 (PST) From: Loren Kling (that's me) Subject: Software for my Roland D10 Does anybody know of sites that I can get Roland stuff, in particular, for my D10 keyboard? 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