The GUS Musician's Digest Friday, 26 May 1995 Volume 15 : Number 018 Today's Topics: Howling Dogs Howling Dog Systems Patch CD Volume 2 Midisoft software GUS for sale GUSMax for sale RE: GUS and updated drivers (&Win 95) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (Vince P Thomas) Date: Thu, 25 May 95 10:12:20 +0000 Subject: Howling Dogs > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Howling Dog Systems UltraSound Power Patch CD-ROM is now available for > only $99.95 US plus $5 shipping (North America, $10 elsewhere) and INCLUDES > ALL 10 PATCH SETS listed above. > - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > In the US and Canada: Call 1-800-267-HOWL to order. Is that "Call 1-800-267 and howl to order"? Is there something wrong with their telephone 8) Sorry couldn't resist. Vince Thomas ------------------------------ From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@compuserve.com> Date: 25 May 95 08:36:15 EDT Subject: Howling Dog Systems Patch CD Volume 2 Due to a number of requests, here's info on the Volume 2 patch CD-ROM: - -> Until July 31/95 you can order *both* UltraSound Power Patch CD-ROMs (a - -> total of 80 MB of patches) for only $129.95 US! Please add $5.00 shipping. Howling Dog Systems Pure Energy UltraSound Power Patch CD-ROM Volume 2 ************************* * All Howling Patch Set * ************************* We have had our ears opened to the genius that is Jason Fitzpatrick. And so, we have declared the start of a new tradition - the selection of the patches that will be included in the 'All Howling Patch Set'. These are the best, neatest, most fun, excellent, sounds that we came across in our meticulous auditioning, cataloging, and tweaking process. GUITARS HOOKEY Excellent fat slap bass sound, not too too much click, lots of tone. STRINGS HORA_STR Reservations for 1 at the Bates motel... SYNTHS\ATMOS MAGNETIC Wow! Amazing Atmosphere patch. Great depth and detail. Ominous. GALAXIS Incredible soft pluck resolving into a beautiful tone. SYNTHS\LEAD MATERIAL Unbelievable attack, mid changes, end chord. Mountains of potential. SYNTHS\BASS SINISTER Awesome Dr. Sinister patch. SYNTHS\VOX\ INNAVOX Incredible blend of judgement day winds and imagination choir FARELITE Airy, with 5th and other overtones subtly creating ringing effect SYNTHS\PADS\ MELLOW Gorgeous and haunting, echo like decay, very beautiful. ALL_LOVE Very complex with more than a dozen elements. A one note love_in. \VOX\VOXFX BREATHIN Deep, airy and beautiful. Try multiple pitches, played together. And now the patch listings... D:\PURE\BRASS The realistic brass and sax sounds you've been looking for! BRASBLAS Brass Blast. Short, clean and clear. BBRASLOW Nice multisampled solo brass patch. Bright and realistic. SAXUAL Tenor patch, a nice mid afternoon jazz sound with some reverb. SOULYSAX Clean solo sax, very listenable, multisampled. D:\PURE\BREAKS\INDUST These industrial dance loops have piles of unique sounds in them used in carefully crafted rhythms with plenty of synco-funkification to get you moving. DOWNTUB1 and DOWNTUB2 work nicely together, and the others have so much going for them that they stand on their own to let you get on with soloing and otherwise excersising your techno-chopz. DOWNTUB1 Dark atmosphere in this loop, with strong bass note, nice sweep. DOWNTUB2 Up a full tone, more added intensity from its partner, DOWNTUB1. DP_BEATS Funky electro synth bass with chord syncopation and snare sound. FUNKMACK Airy tech loop with some funk for ya. SPEEDING A personal favorite - Wiley C hits the dance clubs! TEK_MACH Groove on with this techno loop. Lots to inspire you here. D:\PURE\BREAKS\LIVE Live Recorded Drum Loops This is an incredible set of patches featuring live-recorded drumming (and a couple other special treats) giving you the feel and the sound of a live drummer that is sooo hard to achieve with out piles of MIDI tweeking and racks of signal processing gear. The reverb level and atmosphere of most of these loops are carefully matched, meaning you can switch from one loop to the other to create a drum track. There are piles of stock and standard drum riffs that you need to have in your collection, along with the various fills, cymbal crashes, kick drum / cymbal end hits etc. that you need. KEEPMOV1 A nice trio of loops, with progressively more detail and intensity. KEEPMOV2 KEEPMOV3 50S_TOM This'll make you want to Swing, Swing, Swing! COOKIN Basic riff. DUBBALUP Adds that latin ting on the ride cymbal bell. KICKIN Little bit of funky sting with nice cymbal ride. OLDSTYLE Garage groove. ROLLIN Snare roll with tom hit. Beautifully looped. WORN_GRV Novelty loop incorporating scratchy record pops and clicks. 2_BAR_LP This one's two bars long with a high hat joiner at the end of bar 2. KIK_CYM Kick drum and crash cymbal. MEGAFILL Snare roll and tom drum fill. SNR_FILL Super Syncopated break. TOM_FILL Tom drum fill. TOMFILL2 The standard run-down-the-toms fill. SNR_KIK Snare drum and kick drum rim-shot type fill. TOM_COW Fill featuring alternating toms and cowbell. HAT_LOOP Hi Hat loop. HAT_SNR Hi Hat loop with snare accent at end of bar. BONGO_LP Congo Bongo loop. Close and tight. GLA_DRUM Hand drumming. HIHATS A trio of hihat loops. HHATROLL HHAT_OC CYMB_END Nice cymbal crash. Variations with different beats... BASELESS FUNKEY_1 FUNKEY_2 JAM_ON_1 JAM_ON_2 BOUNCE STROLIN WAR_TOMS D:\PURE\BREAKS\DANCE Dance Drum Loops Here's a variety of dance drum loops and breaks. There are many different sounds here but all have that urban backbeat to them. 707STUTR Do the TR707 Strut - Funky HUM_BB1 Two homeboy human beatbox type loops HUM_BB2 COMPTON 2 Bar Downtown shuffle DOPIN A little faster and meaner in this pair of loops DOPIN2 IMPEACH Nice electronic snare in this boppin loop RUFF A little cultured noize for the bass drum in this one AHONE More techno - steady bass, but lots of syncofunk action BAD_EFEC The overused flange sweep permeates this baby - but it soundz good! JUSTIFY Hyper funk - fast and tight LOADED Nice drum sounds in this tight groove TWILIGHT Fast, scratchin, and dancin HOUSEBT2 Agogo-go! ROKIN Hard 2/2 loop GOGO_LP Snare tuned 'bout a mile high JUSTICE Steady middle groove REBEL Nice use of gated sounds - not too simple, in the pocket CUT_UP Low down dirty beat with sweeping synth line overlaid HOODS Drum machine heaven - gotta have that sampled handclap! MOMENTUM Walks the tightrope between rock and that swingin funk MARDIGRA Hihat features in this synthdrummy loop RIP_SOUL Nice deep verb on this locked groove. TIGHT909 909 BD pounds it out D:\PURE\BREAKS\POP ROK_REVB Who needs an outboard reverb with these dead-on drum beats? HARDSNAR ROK-REVB and HARDSNAR are loaded with the perfect sweetening. ORDERLY Drum machine sounds used in this complex rock beat. D:\PURE\DRUMS\ACOKIT This is a nice alternate acoustic drum kit. There is a Power Chords Kit file provided in the \KITS subdirectory called ACOKIT.KIT to let you access these drum sounds from Power Chords more easily. Patches in the Kit include: KICK_1 SNARE_1 SNARE_3 CONGA_SD CRASH_2 HHAT_CD2 RIDE_3 HHAT_OP3 HHAT_OP1 RIDE_1 SIDESTIK TOM1L TOM1M TOM1H TOM2L TOM2M TOM2H CRASH1 CYMBAL_1 DOME_1 HHAT_OC1 HHAT_OP2 KICK_2 RIDE_2 SNARE_2 TOM_1A TOM_2A TOM_3A D:\PURE\DRUMS\TECHKIT Techno kit with lots of variety and a couple of 'effecty' type patches with a bit more meat on 'em than your standard perc patch (namely TEK_EFEK and TIPPLE). There's a Power Chords Kit file already set up for you in the KITS subdirectory. Just start up Power Chords, Select the Techkit drum bank, and then load in the TECHKIT.KIT Kit file (MIDI, Drum Kits). AIR_BOX ANVIL_1 ANVIL_2 CLAPHAT DIST_HH2 DIST_KIK DIST_KK2 DIST_SN2 HHAT KICK_1 KWIP METHIT SCRAPE TEK_EFEK TIPPLE DIST_TMM DIST_TML DIST_TMH LOWMET DDEEP D:\PURE\GUITARS Some terrific multi_sampled guitars and guitar effects. If you want to turn sustain off of these patches, you could edit them using Gravis' Patchmaker Lite. EL_GTR_S Nice clean multi-sampled electric. No sustain on decay. EL_GTR_L Large electric with fade out sustain. HOOKEY Fat slap bass sound, no click, gobs of rich tone. NYLONGTR Clean multi-sampled nylon string guitar with sustain. NILON Reverby plucked nylon string sound. GRUNGE_1 Fry fuzz tone on this 1 bar loop which will send you to Nirvana... DUODIST Two dissonant distorted guitar notes alternate. GR_LNG_1 Beautifully sustained super fuzz open fifth chord. DLYCHORD Harmonic strum with digital delay on it. Deep. PICK_DLY Picked muted string sound with d-delay. D:\PURE\VOX\SCIFI Some cool vocal sci-fi patches to put you in orbit. These would be good for Hardcastle too, if he ever gets into a futurismo bent. WALKLITE Processed voice "Walk into the light" PLAYTONE Processed voice "Play the five tones" FUTRFANT Processed voice "Your future lies within the..." OPENMIND Processed voice (flange, delay) "Open your mind". Ooh hoo! D:\PURE\VOX\VOXFX All sorts of interesting vocal effects, many of which have a good pitch component so you could use them as melodic patches. Get creative! BREATHIN Deep, airy and beautiful. Try multiple pitches, played together. DIGI_HUH Very melodic, snappy sound. HYPER Yoove lost... that Hy-per breeth-ing. Oh oh that Hy-per Bre-ee-thing DIGI_OOH Tunable, quick small ooh sound. PIPEBLOW Sound of blowing in a pipe. Try this patch down low - its wild. EYEUH Single pitch, EYeuh. Play it. DIGIBURP Give me some digi-bicarb please. DIGIBASS Could pass for a synth bass. VOCO_LP1 Two very interesting looped vocal effects. VOCO_LP2 DDL_VOX Delayed synth-like vocal sound. Ready for 50's Sci-fi. COUGH Yes, its a cough. HUGH Grunt. VOXFXLP1 Three looped vox effects with lots of rhythm to them. They would make VOXFXLP2 a good background rhythm for an interesting composition. VOXFXLP3 D:\PURE\KEYS\PIANO GPIANO4 Eight multi-samples make up this huge, full-range, smooth grand 560K! MID_PNO1 A more manageble sized piano - set up for the middle note ranges. D:\PURE\KEYS\HARPSI Five great harpsichord sounds, including a couple of synth harpsichords. HARPSI1 Wonderful job sampling this instrument. A large well balanced sample. HARPSI2 A brighter version of the instrument. HARPSI3 Smaller harpsichord using a single sample. SYNHPSI1 Two synthesized harpsichords. SYNHPSI2 D:\PURE\NEWAGE\ORIENT CHIBALL1 Airy bell tone, beautiful, mondo atmosphere. Instant mood generator! CHIBALL2 More clangy smooth tone to this bell patch. CHIBALL3 Bright ringy bell sounds. WINDCHM1 Twinkly fast wind chime. WINDCHM2 Twinkly fast wind chime. D:\PURE\EFFECTS\PROPLANE FLY_1 Single engine prop plane flying. Bright. FLY_2 Single engine prop plane flying. REVV_UP Single engine prop plane reving up and falling and reving up and... START_UP Single engine prop plane ignition, catch and then idle. D:\PURE\EFFECTS\TECHEFEX There's a whole bunch of techno sound FX in this group. There are quite a few very interesting loops as well. DHS_FX_1 What it sounds like in Data's head when someone belts him. DHS_FX_2 A more rhythmic and effecty version of above. Neet. DICHROME Two synth chords. MACH_ONE Rhythm loop of white noise, far away tech hits. OLD_LAZR Old laser shoot/sweep down. Quite long for a laser. Earlier model. TECHSTOP Thump and sweep down. BIOSPHER Background eerie hummm. SCANNER Blippy looping scanner sound. OLD_VNY1 Tween tracks pops and clicks. How I miss those ceramic cartridges. OLD_VNY2 "" OLD_VNY3 "" OLD_VNY4 "" SCRSTAB1 Two part. Single hit (Dum) is on C6, roll and hit (Ba-da-Dum) on C4. TRANSFM1 Wild rhythm loop of FM radio. Start on 2nd quarter note, 126bpm. TRANSFM2 Wild rhythm loop made from ? FM sounds in triplets or 3/4. WIKKY_SC Another spin of the FM dial. SNARE_SC Short snare loop made of found sound scratches. SCRSTAB2 Scratch stab. SNRSCRLP Looping 1,2 snare from LP scratch. D:\PURE\EFFECTS\INDUSTRY AIR_RELS Air being released pressure. ALARM_1 Electro whizzer 'can't ignore' alarm. Gets the missus out of bed. ALARM_2 Buzzer alarm. Suitable for game show wrong answers. ALARM_3 Electronic phone ring sound. FACTDOOR Big factory door closing. IND_SWIT Industrial strength switch. MET_DOOR Metal door sound. SUCKMACH Self descriptive. Don't get too close, it sound very real. TAPEPULL Tape pull. TIKTOKMC Nice looping machine sound with ticking aspect to its timbre. D:\PURE\STRINGS DEEPSTR Beautiful lush solo string sound, great in chords. DEEP_SEC Full strings, in octaves. LOWSECT Low string section. MIDSECT Middle string section. HISECT High string section. PIZZASTR Reverby pizzicato strings, lots of character. HORA_STR Reservations for 1 at the Bates motel... IMP_STR Big big sound when used in chords. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\ATMOS These amazing atmosphere patches are put together with true TLC and genuine Fitzpatrick sound engineering talent. Any one of them can inspire a complete mood in your music. Nicely done, Jason. DASINDRA Powerful but far airy, hangar like decay WINDISLE Sneaks up like a cool autumn wind, and blows strongly. CHINAVOX Slow attack with china whispers in background. SATN_FLU Satin Flute. SLOWGLAS Smooth finger rubbing glass sound. Excellent resonance in chords. DREAMS Low but solid, from the depths of the id. MAGNETIC Wow! Amazing Atmosphere patch. Great depth and detail. Ominous. MEANMOOD Dark, resonant and woody. OASIS Big breathy start resolving in an airy tone. SOFTLY Slowish start, slowish decay. VOXYLOOP Cool stringlike sound with weirdo backwards processed voice haunts. SLOWMOOD Throbby synth tone. SOFTEKY Warm vocally sound. BEHIND_U There's something other worldly on your shoulder. Awesome! GALAXIS Incredible soft pluck resolving into a beautiful tone. OVERLOAD Oscillating overloaded razzy synth brapp sound. SPECTRUM Dissonant (13th) haunting metallic patch. XORON Sweeping metallic. ATMOSFIA Fairly warm with interesting overtones. LANDSCAP Major 5th deep gut-grabbing power patch. OVERTONE Weird singing overtones are still smooth sounding. VOCHORD3 Has basic sustain, and then gorgeous overtone series upon release. CRYPTONI Background mood-setter. GORKY_PK Vocally and smooth. HOLD_ON Relaxing, round tone. NITEMARE Dark, mysterious, and worrying. ALIENATM Wicked and brooding. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\RAVE Piles and piles of deep, interesting rave pads, patches, leads and chords. FACT_LNG Swirling pad. GRINDER Grinder in an empty pool? AXE_LEAD Harsh, cut-thru-the-mix lead sound. D_TOON Subtle organ sound, with a hidden overtone. DORGAN Electric organ. DROID_BS Smooth synthy bass. FACTORA Swirling pad like FACT-LNG, with slower resonance in sustain. KAWORDIA Creates a rush played low, throbs when played high. PLAY_LOW Computer bong with dissonance. TECHBASS Very analog bass. TEKNOLOG Super Synthy techno bass/lead patch. TWINHORN Yoppy horn stab. Full of character. PLAY_HI Golliwog chime. SAW_WAVE We came, we saw, we played a little synth. TECHBELL Open fifth glockensynth. VOCHOIRF Minor chord vocorder choir. Rings nicely. RAVE_LSO Interesting cloudy maj chord with emphasis on 5th of chord. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\LEAD The creativity of Jason Fitzpatrick shows in these examples of outstanding synth voice design. TOO_FLOO Echoed breath punctuates this floaty voice. SERMON Starts bright and strong to cut through, nice breathy clear sustain. BLOWLEAD Human warmth lightens this melodic patch. GUIZZARA Complex and mysterious, yet very playable. DELAYDAY Delay effect rhythmically punctuates this warm sounding instrument. MS6_SEQN A rezz sound starts this patch with a bright attack, then smooths. NILONCOR The warmth of a silicon string. SPACE_LD Resonances speed up in the vastness of harmonic space. SYNDICAT Delay effect in octaves for more depth. SYNDILD Bounces once, hard, then resolves to a steady tone. BELL_ORG Very bright and near to a pure tone. BELL_STR Attack of a bell, with synth string sustain. Great happy lead sound. BELLY Glockensynth. CATSCZY Wah effect. That cat is high! CHANGLIN Neat rezonance, almost like a synth Leslie. COARLEAD Straight forward lead synth, slight buzz to the timbre. HARSHESH Edgy 4th_set of the night rasp to this voice. EXOTIC A rainforest drum sings. SEEZEDS Short, plucky. CZ_PHERE Tense forboding sound for slow leads. DARKBASS Great analog synth bass. DISTRORT Great analog synth bass, with great analog synth distortion. SINICLIK Cutting sine with click attack ROUNDA Its got a detuned rezz feel thing to it. Neet! LUSHTONE An extended lovely pingggg. EMPTY_ST Melodic buzz. GLSPIANO Glass piano. A warm synthy electric piano. MEANIE Suspense rasp yet pleasant. STAMEN Attack contains bright octave, then resolves into lower tone. TEMPERED Ringing buzz. TOYBRASS Synthesized wind-up toy brass stab. TOYPIANO Mini-rhodes. TUNED Chimey with long decay. TWANGGY Attacks low, and zips an octave up. WINETIME Melodic and mysterious. WINEGLAS Finger on glass. SEQSTRNG Martian sunrise strings. JUPFLU Singing sattelites of alien origin. MONSTA Great synth lead patch. GARDLINE Really interesting great attack, noise burst in sustain. MATERIAL Unbelievable attack, mid changes, end chord. Mountains of potential. BELLQUAR Bell turns into synthy pad. ARPEGGY Simple mono-timbre. FAZED Rich woody lead tone. GLASWAVE Clean attack and right-on vibrato. INSTAHIT Subtle hit. SANCTURY Elegant tone, with rocking vibrations. WAVEHARP Plucked wave. WHISPER Pure mood. Breathy and organic. MR_ACOUS Acoustic string sound, guitar like. MELODIAN Laid back, subdued, but clean. TONEBELL Irie silky overtones. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\BASS There are over 75 bass patches in this group, from moog-y to boogie, mellow and mild to wild. A solid assortment of Moog bass patches well represents that classic instrument on your sound card. There's lots of patches for acid and techno, hip-hop or experimental, in fact there are useful sounds in this part of the set for most any style of music. DEKAYBAS Medium full in sound, medium complex. Good solid foundation sound. LOTATOP Synthy with a nice bite in the attack. SOLIDMOO Standard must-have moog bass. RESOMOOG Cool resonance effect. MEANMOOG Mean 'n nasty, a slight hard edge to its sound. WETMOOG1 More overtones and meat to these two party basses. WETMOOG2 Nastier version of WETMOOG1 HARDMOOG Good and solid. FLABMOOG Blahsta of noize, the flabbiest moog around. ACIDMOOG Great nasally moog bass. MOOGY1 Nice attack and flare. MOOGY2 Simpler moog sound with light snap attack. SUBMOOG1 Super sneak low moog bass 1. SUBMOOG2 Super sneak low moog bass 2. MADMOOG1 Nasty noisy, with click repetition. MOOGEFEC Echo chiff and other things on start resolve into heavy tremolo: Wild MUTABASS Mutated bass. Like a moog thunder clap in the distance. MOONBASS Round and unassuming. Quiet and low. SHAZBA Reedy in a vibro-synth way. 101DAFUL Full of interesting resonances, slowly churning and resolving. BIGBADPD Nice bouncing attack with a rezz pad. EMU_BASS Fat and thick. HARD_VFX Short air blast bass sound. IPD_BASS Hard little gated snap bass. MUTALI_8 Rough 'n ready dwah attack bass. SINISTER Awesome Dr. Sinister patch. WETALOG Dripping wet fazzaah bass. ZZT_BASS Big Woww. EMUDECBS Rich and raunchy emubass. BADBASS Badass Synth Mutha-bass BOGUSBS Smokey and smooth bass. DAWNBASS Super short tone bass. DW_ACID Resonance sweep deluxe. FLUIDBAS Super long resonance sweep sustain - very nicely done. SENSI_BS Airplane engine bass. BASS_ORG Organ style bass with cool detuned attack. BASSED FM organ style. BASSIX Smooth rattling mondo-bass. CZ_BASS1 More pianoey in the spectrum with a bright brap on the attack. CZ_BASS2 Another more pianoey CZ style bass, smooth attack. ANAWOODY Well done analog version of a fingered bass. BOBALI Quite reverby wah-bass. DEEPER Good layering on this smooth bass patch. WETBASS Need a good bass lead sound? Here it is. DUBLETEC Awesome, huge synth sound. ANATEMPT Sort of chirpy, sort of fun. Meaty but light. DIGITASI Great reverby complex live sound. BELOBASS Very sine-wavy. DOPPBASS Light airy doppler shape. HORABASS Short copper string attack - bright. ORGOBASS B3 type bass. PALLBASS Octaves, a bit edgy. SPACEBAS Digital delay decay in orbit -or- Sputnik lands on a trampoline. WARKBASS Can you Wark like a Warkrus? Animalistic. AHAYBASS New mown hay on a summer's eve. FECTBASS Pluck it deep in a tunnel. HARMBASS Swirling glassy texture. A tangible timbre. ACIDISH Somewhere there's a 303 missing this acid sound. AJUNO_BS Well rounded 106 sound. OWCHBASS You'll be inspired to pound these notes out. PULSE_BS Percussive beginning useful for lead bass then pulses nicely if held. SMOOTHIE Smooth like a melted malted. SPITBASS Nice and nasty to hold down the bottom. STIKBASS A bit o' the old thumb snap on the attack. WET_RESO Great stock synth bass sound with res. ATAKOBEY Clicky and good. MOMESSBS MOR Synth Bass. SIMPLE_B Simple, an easy fit into many styles. BOW_BASS Soft but strong. CENTX_BS Cyborg metal-bass. HD_BASS In the groove, lightly layered, full but not over-blown. HOUSE_BS Smooth but meaty. KNOCK_BS Techno-click bass. LEO_BASS Ballad like, elastic tone. Quite nice to listen to. SM_STAND Good for holding down an electro-groove. SYNWOOD Played sensitively in slow passages, this one's very responsive. SUN_BASS Pretty sound, bass layered with rainbow strings. MEGAWET Mega wet. ECHO_VFX Special effect type bass, with white noize burst repeating in decay. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\STRINGS Jason Fitzpatrick has a talent for delicately blending sounds to create a new palette for musical expression. Many of the string samples here demonstrate the results of his work in the way timbres are combined to make the final product. There are also, of course, some outstanding pure string section sounds. BOTTLEST A beautiful glassy chime blended with silky strings. CHIF_STR Chiff at the start of a low clear deep string section. DING_STR Lush section mixed with phantasmagorical wind chimes. HORN_STR Horns meshed perfectly with clean clear orchestral strings. CINE_STR Cinematic suspense strings SYMP_STR Full symphony section. PIZZ_STR Full section pizzicato BEG_STR Strings mixed with click-breath attack CZ_TEKST Synthesized string section CZDUBSTR Falsely bright string patch CASIO_ST Synthesized string section, bright flute mixed in ALBERT Full bow strings ATK_ORCH Hard attack with the bow on this string patch SINE_STR Sine wave string sound STRINGZY Interesting synthy string section. INTOFUTE Slowww attack strings with background echo-chirps in loop. Nice. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\KEYS Here is a selection of beautifully sampled keyboards - organs, the stock DX sound (a must have for ballads), and a great key-flute patch. CZ_BORG CZ inspired solid organ patch. DX_PIANO Classic chimey DX piano sound, nice clean sample. CZ_FLUTE Very clean flute sound, no air chiff, no vibrato. Pure and warm. DNC_ORG1 Cool organ with super low bottom end register. DNC_ORG2 More meaty organ, middle overtones. A bit dirtier. DNC_ORG3 Nicely balanced octave stop organ. ORGAN_1 Clean Sunday afternoon sound. ORGAN_2 Subdued flutey sounding organ. D:\PURE\SYNTHS\VOX Some of the most haunting and beautiful sounds in the Howling Dog Systems Pure Energy UltraSound Patch CD-ROM Vol. 2 are in this bank. Pick any one of these patches, and play it, work with it. You'll find many ways of building intros or entire pieces around these magnificent patches. See the All Howling Patch Set for our favorites. FARELITS Smaller version of the Airy Farelite patch KAWAAH Slow attack on this ahhh sound, with swirling sustain. GLASSVOX A glassine slowly evolving voice. CHORUS Chorusing minor chord sung by ethereal voices. NICE_D50 Scoop attack, with deepening resonances folding over and over. VZ_PRELU A more synthy vox voice, sort of oboe-y in timbre. ANGELS Gossamer tone, subtle interplay of overtones when used in chords. INNAVOX Incredible blend of judgement day winds and imagination choir. KAWVOX Wonderful processed vocal sounds, gentle but awe_inspiring. FARELITE Airy, delicate and haunting, a stunning yet subtle sound. S_H_VOX Very interesting patch with some low drums and other sounds mixed in. ELEGANCE Deep patch working on at least 3 layered octaves VOCHOIR Echoing minor chord vocoder choir. VOCHORD1 Slow attack, smooth sound VOCHORD2 Awesome when used as a strummed sound D:\PURE\SYNTHS\ACID These patches all have a common sound to them - that acid synth sound - but vary from poppy to toney, from nasally to fat, from clean to nasty. If theres an analog sound you need for dance music, you'll find it here. 202EVX9 is has a really neat double bawah in the decay. ACID_13 ACID_14 ACID_15 ACID_16 ACID_17 ACID_18 ACID_19 ACID_20 ACID_21 ACID_22 ACID_23 ACID_24 ACID_25 ACID_26 202EFX1 202EFX2 202EFX3 202EFX4 202EFX5 202EFX6 202EFX7 202EFX8 202EFX9 202EFX10 D:\PURE\SYNTHS\PADS These patches are so well put together that you will want to hook up a MIDI keyboard to your sound board, and just *play* them. An outstanding job of sound creation. HOLYLAVY Rich, full, synth patch with other timbres peeking from background 106_STR Earthy yet synthy, great sustain. ATMOSPHR Air organ. DARK_STR Throbbing, vibro_synth string pad. DEVILSTR Low, its Lucifer's strings, high, its the organ from Hell! DULLBRAS Smooth brass tone with subtle attack. For low solo TV mystery lines. HARSHHH Annoying turbo-violin, different uses in all octaves. MUTETONE Flute like, clean. MELLOW Gorgeous and haunting, echo like decay, very beautiful. PHUTURE Patch with that 'Lost in Space' timbre. REZZISH Rounded tone, more complex than it sounds at first. ARCORIFF More like a loop, has rhythmic tones in octaves from the fundamental. STRANGZ Super tremolo synth. SIGNES Mermaid harps. UNO_JUNO classic analog Juno sound SEQUENCE ort blip from the old analog sequencer machines. SOFFNICE Starts at cotton balls and cumulous clouds and goes from there. ALL_LOVE Very complex patch with more than a dozen elements- one note love-in. ETERNITY Great minor chord tour-de-force. FUTURE Didjeridoo meets chinese bells? Lovely! PADDING Pizzicato space voice. SLOWSAWA Super slow attack saw wave. SUSPFLU Wild haunting sound mixed with echoed chiff at beginning. Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems ------------------------------ From: bc@vtf.idx.com (Bryan Cass) Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:53:37 -0400 Subject: Midisoft software Does anyone have the phone number, ftp site, or email address of Midisoft (the makers of the famous Midisoft Recording Session/Studio ;)? I'd like to either update my Recording Session software, upgrade to Studio, or find a similar sequencer for Windows (with mixing board graphic, etc). Thanks, Bryan - -- Bryan Cass bc@vtf.idx.com Burlington, VT, USA IRC name: Bryan1 ------------------------------ From: -Vince- Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:08:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: GUS for sale Gus 1 meg (rev 2.4) for sale - $100 or Best Offer with all docs, box, latest software. Buyer pays shipping... If interested, please e-mail me. Thanks. Cheers, - -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering GUS Lists Maintainer ------------------------------ From: -Vince- Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:09:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: GUSMax for sale GUSMax 1 meg (rev 1.8) for sale - $160 or Best Offer brand new with all docs, box, latest software. Buyer pays shipping... If interested, please e-mail me. Thanks. Cheers, - -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering GUS Lists Maintainer ------------------------------ From: Daryl James Date: Fri, 26 May 95 09:47:49 TZ Subject: RE: GUS and updated drivers (&Win 95) Blake Patterson wrote on the digest... >Subject: GUS and updateed drivers (&Win 95) > > I am running Windows 95 currently. > > BEFORE I installed Win95, however, I lost Windows-based-MIDI |and MOD4Win use on my GUS. This is due to the installation of the ~3mb >GUS411.ZIP (4.11 I suppose) drivers. Are these supposed to work? I get fine DOS performance -- PLAYMIDI, MOD players, games, etc. Why >does it not work under Win? > > It did not START working when I installed Win95 (imagine that). I get sound -- but no MIDI (and no DOS session sound, of course, until >Gravis releases Win95 drivers -- which will prob. fix this whole mess (Are they going to release some, or is it going to be like it has been w/ OS/2 drivers??)). > > Can anyone give me some pointers/help? Thanks. > >bp >bpatters@pcs.cnu.edu >blake@vigsun1.larc.nasa.gov Here's my 2 cents worth.. I just installed Windows 95 for the first time and I am having the same problem. (Pretty disappointing to see so many supported sound cards- but no GUS) Of course I had to resort to trying the 16 bit (Win3.x) drivers we already have. Digital sound is OK, but no MIDI. However, I think the problem is not really the driver, but the way the MIDI Mapper works. I was able to load patches with PatchManager and play them- all seemed to load and play correctly except for one- acpiano.pat (Channel 0). Once I loaded a few patches, I got got Drums/Percussion when playing CANYON.MID that ships with Windows95- but no other instruments played. So it appears that there is a problem with the mapping. I tried editing the instrument mapping by hand, but it made no difference (but then again- I was only experimenting since I don't really know how Windows95 uses the midi mapper.) I also noted that the new MIDIMAP.CFG file that ships with Windows95 is only 1 byte. I tried copying the MIDIMAP.CFG file from the GUS driver disks but no joy. Well its been fun trying to get the GUS going with a BETA operating system, but I guess we'll have to wait for Gravis to release new drivers when Windows95 ships - unless someone else has any pointers/ideas? 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