The GUS Musician's Digest Thursday, 1 June 1995 Volume 15 : Number 021 Today's Topics: using the gus as a guitar effects unit Re: The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #17 Re: The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #17 Howling Dog Patches - how to audition? Howling Dog patches Computer Music bibliography Midi files/software archives on the Internet 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: james@noether.ex.ac.uk Date: Wed, 31 May 95 9:55:36 BST Subject: using the gus as a guitar effects unit The GUS Musician's Digest wrote >From: H8441Gal@ella.hu >Date: 30 May 95 12:52:15 +0100 >Subject: Guitar processor with GUS ? Can someone make it ? > >I had an idea for GUS, but I'm not sure if it's really working: > >The GUS can simultanously use the DAC and ADC (the SB cannot). There are >really good guitar processor which can produce very cool effects. Theh use only >digital (as far as I know) functions to make these sounds. So if I plug >a guitar to the GUS mic in and have the effect functions I can execute them >on the incoming data, and send them to the GUS output. It must be workin'. >I've never tried it but if someone can please ANSWER me ASAP!!! >Or is the GUS or the computer too slow to calcute the effects realtime? get a copy of apollo.zip This is a 'digital delay program' It only works at 8 bit sampling resolution and so is a bit 'grungey' but it has various settings and can produce some quite groovy delay/reverb/echo effects on a sound source. You can find it on any of the ultrasound software sites in subdirectory util/dos - -- James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept ------------------------------ From: "Vacura Miroslav (IN)" Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:10:12 GMT+100 Subject: Re: The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #17 > 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 I am using Win95 with GUS with no problems, i get sound and also midi, but I don't know how to install gus drivers because i just upgraded from Win. f. Wg 3.11 with drivers installed and it continued work. MV ------------------------------ From: "Vacura Miroslav (IN)" Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 13:10:12 GMT+100 Subject: Re: The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #17 > 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 I am using Win95 with GUS with no problems, i get sound and also midi, but I don't know how to install gus drivers because i just upgraded from Win. f. Wg 3.11 with drivers installed and it continued work. MV ------------------------------ From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@compuserve.com> Date: 31 May 95 10:26:09 EDT Subject: Howling Dog Patches - how to audition? Hi Emory and all, > However, for some of us $135 is still a fair amount of cash to lay out for > unknown quality. I wonder if Eric could post one or two of the patches that > he thinks represent a big improvement, so we could hear for ourselves. I can certainly understand your concerns. First off, there are 1200+ different sounds on the two CDs and they are vary greatly. There is all kinds of stuff on there. So they are not replacements for the GM set per se. There are certainly a lot of patches that are GM sounds though. You've probably heard some of Francois Dion's stuff, especially the drum patches that are publicly available. These versions are improved from those - cleaned up a bit and tweeked according to Francois, but in any case that gives you an idea of a fraction of the Vol. 1 sounds. And if you've come across any of the Pure Energy samples (like WILLOW.PAT) than you have an idea of the quality of the synth patches on Vol. 2. However... I need to find a way to let you folks here these patches. They are very large to upload. And you could only hear a fraction of them that way. The best alternative to me seems to be the production of an audio tape, or a phone-in system that would let you hear a variety of sounds. As we release the patches in more formats we could justify the production of such a tape. Would you guys pay $5.00 for a sample tape? (the $5.00 would be redeemed if you purchased the CDs). Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems ------------------------------ From: eraadr@scs.leeds.ac.uk Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:23:51 +0100 Subject: Howling Dog patches > From: Emory Menefee > Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:21:59 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: Howling Dog patches > > I for one am very happy to see Eric Bell's announcement of new patches for > the GUS. However, for some of us $135 is still a fair amount of cash to > lay out for unknown quality. I wonder if Eric could post one or two of > the patches that he thinks represent a big improvement, so we could hear > for ourselves. I think that's a very good idea, I was interested in the patch CD-ROM too but I would never buy it without having heard at least 5-10% of the patches considering how much it costs. So an upload of some patches representative of the CD-ROM contents would be very welcome (I think they would increase sales a lot if the patches on the CD are really good...). Cheers, Arne .-----------------< Arne Di Russo >-----------------. | Leeds, UK eraadr@scs.leeds.ac.uk | | Roma, Italy mc8189@mclink.it | `---------------------------------------------------' ------------------------------ From: Piet van Oostrum Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 01:11:16 +0200 Subject: Computer Music bibliography There is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject. NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used. The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers archives around the world, in music/midi/bibliography. Version: $Id: bibliography,v 1.34 1995/05/23 14:14:27 piet Exp $ ------------------------------ From: Piet van Oostrum Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 01:11:15 +0200 Subject: Midi files/software archives on the Internet There is a list of ftp and mail server archives with MIDI documentation, programs and music on the Internet. Also enclosed is a list of MIDI and electronic music related mailing lists. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/archives or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used. The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers archives around the world, in music/midi/archives. 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