The GUS Daily Digest Monday, 15 May 1995 Volume 22 : Number 013 Today's Topics: Two versions of Ultrinit GUS ACE and joystick port 512k GUS enough for games? Product info GUS + Cubase Solution ? re:The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #7 Re: Product info Re: Product info Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #12 11th Hour / Rebel Assault Re: GUS SDK 2.22 MegaEm 3.03b and MAXSBOS Re: The disappearing mouse pointer Re: Product info (fwd) Re: Product info Cakewalk Pro 2.0 -- help! 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: c2a_vesn@aelmg.adelaide.edu.au (Adrian Vesnaver) Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 20:28:50 +1000 Subject: Two versions of Ultrinit I don't know if anyone's noticed but the version of Ultrinit which comes with v4.11 of the gus software is v2.29a, while the one that is in the gus0045.zip file on EPAS is v2.31, yet this was released before v2.29a. What gives? Adrian - -- ,-_|\ Adrian Vesnaver MAIL: godfathr@student.adelaide.edu.au / \ Adelaide, SA c2a_vesn@aelmg.adelaide.edu.au \_,-*_/ Australia PGP Key: finger godfathr@student......... v Check out my home page at http://www.student.adelaide.edu.au/~godfathr ------------------------------ From: ian@theden.com Date: Sun, 14 May 95 11:11:59 EST Subject: GUS ACE and joystick port This may be a little bit late, but here goes: To the person who is experiencing problems with a game card and an ACE in the same machine: Your ultrinit program is outdated. Get the newest one from one of the many GUS ftp sites, listed at the end of the digest. ------------------------------ From: csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace) Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 11:46:44 -0500 (CDT) Subject: 512k GUS enough for games? Is 512k on a GUS MAX enough for most DOS games? Thanks. - -- (John Wallace || csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu) && Team OS/2 ------------------------------ From: Chuck Robey Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 14:03:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Product info Could somebody please tell me the exact name I should hunt for, if I'm trying to buy a GUS card? Is there some add-on I should look for, I see notes about memory changes in the FAQ (256k-512k-1024k) but no actual product names that I can use when calling mail order places. Thanks! (If anyone knows of the location of a Gravis marketing type blurb, I'd like that pretty well, I think.) - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: spives@sv.span.com (Steve Ives) Date: Sun, 14 May 95 16:12:43 GMT Subject: GUS + Cubase Solution ? Thierry Loo asks about getting the GUS to work with Cubase. I don't have Cubase but I have played with Cubasis. Cubasis appears to blindly load patches in order from 0 until it runs out of GUS RAM, so its possible to force loading of the patches you want by creating custom banks with bank manager .. either (i) Stick all the patches you want at the start of the bank - not too good as you don't end up with a GM standard mapping ! or (ii) Assign the 'blank' patch to instruments you don't want or better still assign the closest sounding patch of the ones you do want. Thankfully a patch file is only loaded once when it is assigned to multiple instrument numbers ! (The load1024.mid file is a good start for a working out a subset of patches that will fit into 1Meg.) This way you don't need to bother with the MIDI mapper (midimap.cfg) at all. I hope this is of interest, Steve Ives (spives@sv.span.com) 1MB Ultrasound (Rev 2.4) with 16Bit D/Board ------------------------------ From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 11:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: re:The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #7 On Sun, 14 May 1995, Chris Bennett wrote: > Vince> Hmmm, is the $199 for the 1 MEG Version of the board and > Vince> is the > Vince> GUSmax really worth it over the regular GUS since I understand > > The GUSmax comes with the full 1MB and also includes up to 48kHz, 16-bit > sampling and three CD-ROM interfaces. I think there's more software > included as well... Hmmm, let see... Does the GUSMax sound better than a GUS and do you know if the new Ensoniq SoundScape Elite board is any good since Ensoniq makes Musical instruments... Cheers, Vince ___ System Administrator \|/ bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU ___ | The California Unix Public Access (o o) Systems, Inc. (CUPA) | | root@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU -oOO__(_)__OOo- San Francisco, California USA | | __ __ __ __ __ _____ _____ UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering | | ( )( )( )( ) ( )( ___)( ___) Los Angeles, California USA | \(__)/ ( )( )\| )( ) ( )_ E-Mail: vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu, \ / ( )( ) \ )( )__ ( )__ mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu, \/ (__)(__) (__)(_____)(_____) mailserv@mail.nws.orst.edu, I.S.A. Class of 1992 vince@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU, International Studies Academy High School vince@archive.epas.utoronto.ca, San Francisco, California USA vince@axposf.Stanford.EDU, GUS Digest/Mailing List Administrator vpoy@freenet.scri.fsu.edu, Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The VINCEP@axpvms.cc.utexas.edu, ultimate in computer soundcard technology upoy@physics.ucla.edu FreeBSD - Real Berkeley Unix(tm) for Free! BSD (tm)(c) 1995 - The Regents of | -=oOO There are many forms of science the University of California | | but only physics is the quantum leap of the 21st century OOo=- | | Harvard/Yale/MIT/Princeton/Berkeley Student in the making | |___ Copyrighted (c) 1995 by Vince. All Rights Reserved. ___| ------------------------------ From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 11:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Product info On Sun, 14 May 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > Could somebody please tell me the exact name I should hunt for, if I'm > trying to buy a GUS card? Is there some add-on I should look for, I see > notes about memory changes in the FAQ (256k-512k-1024k) but no actual > product names that I can use when calling mail order places. Thanks! > I think GUSMax with 1Meg is what you should be looking for :-) > (If anyone knows of the location of a Gravis marketing type blurb, I'd > like that pretty well, I think.) > Hmmm, there is a 800 number for Gravis but I forgot what it is.. > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 7608 Topton St. | > New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx > (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Ahhh, a fellow FreeBSD user :-) I wonder if Matthew Mead ever got his GUSMax to work right under FreeBSD since mines works fine except for recording... Cheers, Vince ___ System Administrator \|/ bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU ___ | The California Unix Public Access (o o) Systems, Inc. (CUPA) | | root@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU -oOO__(_)__OOo- San Francisco, California USA | | __ __ __ __ __ _____ _____ UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering | | ( )( )( )( ) ( )( ___)( ___) Los Angeles, California USA | \(__)/ ( )( )\| )( ) ( )_ E-Mail: vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu, \ / ( )( ) \ )( )__ ( )__ mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu, \/ (__)(__) (__)(_____)(_____) mailserv@mail.nws.orst.edu, I.S.A. Class of 1992 vince@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU, International Studies Academy High School vince@archive.epas.utoronto.ca, San Francisco, California USA vince@axposf.Stanford.EDU, GUS Digest/Mailing List Administrator vpoy@freenet.scri.fsu.edu, Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The VINCEP@axpvms.cc.utexas.edu, ultimate in computer soundcard technology upoy@physics.ucla.edu FreeBSD - Real Berkeley Unix(tm) for Free! BSD (tm)(c) 1995 - The Regents of | -=oOO There are many forms of science the University of California | | but only physics is the quantum leap of the 21st century OOo=- | | Harvard/Yale/MIT/Princeton/Berkeley Student in the making | |___ Copyrighted (c) 1995 by Vince. All Rights Reserved. ___| ------------------------------ From: Chuck Robey Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 14:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Product info On Sun, 14 May 1995, Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Could somebody please tell me the exact name I should hunt for, if I'm > > trying to buy a GUS card? Is there some add-on I should look for, I see > > notes about memory changes in the FAQ (256k-512k-1024k) but no actual > > product names that I can use when calling mail order places. Thanks! > > > > I think GUSMax with 1Meg is what you should be looking for :-) > > > (If anyone knows of the location of a Gravis marketing type blurb, I'd > > like that pretty well, I think.) > > > > Hmmm, there is a 800 number for Gravis but I forgot what it is.. > No, I was unclear, when I said 'marketing type blurb' I meant something written by Gravis. While they are going to tell me a lot of incredibly marketing type stuff, marketing stuff is usually clear on the actual name of the specific product (I am wary of doing something stupid, like buying a daughtercard, thinking it was the main card. I really don't know what to call the thing!). > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > > 7608 Topton St. | > > New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx > > (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > Ahhh, a fellow FreeBSD user :-) I wonder if Matthew Mead ever > got his GUSMax to work right under FreeBSD since mines works fine except > for recording... > > > Cheers, > Vince > ___ System Administrator \|/ bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU ___ > | The California Unix Public Access (o o) Systems, Inc. (CUPA) | > | root@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU -oOO__(_)__OOo- San Francisco, California USA | > | __ __ __ __ __ _____ _____ UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering | > | ( )( )( )( ) ( )( ___)( ___) Los Angeles, California USA | > \(__)/ ( )( )\| )( ) ( )_ E-Mail: vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu, > \ / ( )( ) \ )( )__ ( )__ mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu, > \/ (__)(__) (__)(_____)(_____) mailserv@mail.nws.orst.edu, > I.S.A. Class of 1992 vince@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU, > International Studies Academy High School vince@archive.epas.utoronto.ca, > San Francisco, California USA vince@axposf.Stanford.EDU, > GUS Digest/Mailing List Administrator vpoy@freenet.scri.fsu.edu, > Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The VINCEP@axpvms.cc.utexas.edu, > ultimate in computer soundcard technology upoy@physics.ucla.edu > FreeBSD - Real Berkeley Unix(tm) for Free! BSD (tm)(c) 1995 - The Regents of > | -=oOO There are many forms of science the University of California | > | but only physics is the quantum leap of the 21st century OOo=- | > | Harvard/Yale/MIT/Princeton/Berkeley Student in the making | > |___ Copyrighted (c) 1995 by Vince. All Rights Reserved. ___| > > > - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! - ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Sam Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 22:08:33 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: The GUS Daily Digest V22 #12 > Subject: problems with FastTracker 2.03 (approx.) > > Howdy. > I'v gus GUSMAX, and I'v tried to do some composing, but I aint got no > good software. > > Is FastTracker supposed to work? When I try to record midi notes from my > Roland E-30, something ruins rythm and notes disappear. I'v tried > everything, but it it just doesnt > work. Anybody got it working? Also do you know any laternative sortware. FT2 only accepts MIDI Note Off to stop notes. Many keyboards (inc. your E-30 and our Korg M1) send Note On, velocity 0 instead, and FT doesn't accept these. > REcording session that came with card is RIP-OFF. 10 minutes before > system-halt is currend record. (I'v got 386 & 8 Mb ram) It's crap, but, well, it was free (kinda). Anyway, it works as specified on our machine - no crashes - so must be something wrong with your setup. Sam [] http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <[ Web pagE ]> *NEW* Sysex Manager ! [] [] For Software Forge program information and downloads [] Including [] [] NETRIS 1.1 best Tetris game <[ For Win 3.1 ]> Sysex Manager 1.0S [] ------------------------------ From: mark.leung@cyberstore.ca (Mark Leung) Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 19:32:26 GMT Subject: 11th Hour / Rebel Assault Is 11th Hour has native GUS support? Is there a way to fix the super slow down on Rebel Assault? Mark.Leung@Challenge.com ------------------------------ From: Wee-Keong LIM Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:22:55 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: GUS SDK 2.22 Lance (kqy5125@is.NYU.EDU) asked where the SDK was recently. I just downloaded it from ftp.mpx.com.au in the submit directory. I guess it's in the same place at epas. Thanks, Keong - -- Wee-Keong Lim University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia keong@ecr.mu.oz.au Engineering Computing Resources keong@ee.mu.oz.au Electrical Engineering ------------------------------ From: Wee-Keong LIM Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:27:43 +1000 (EST) Subject: MegaEm 3.03b and MAXSBOS I downloaded MegaEm 3.03b the other day and it works great for games requiring SBOS (esp. protected mode games). I was wondering, though, what's the difference between this MegaEm and MAXSBOS? What does MAXSBOS offer that isn't in SBOS? Does the new MegaEm also offer these features? Also, will there be any new SBOS releases? Thanks, Keong - -- Wee-Keong Lim University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia keong@ecr.mu.oz.au Engineering Computing Resources keong@ee.mu.oz.au Electrical Engineering ------------------------------ From: Andy Turner Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:45:42 GMT Subject: Re: The disappearing mouse pointer > I had this problem until I upgraded my Ultrinit to 2.31, and then "All my > troubles just vanished!" (TM) - worked for me..... > Ultrinit 2.31 available from any EPAS mirror in GUS0045.ZIP in amongst > the gravis directory somewhere I expect..... > Jason It worked for me too. Cheers Jason! AndyT ------------------------------ From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 20:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Product info (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 22:34:54 -0500 (CDT) From: John Wallace To: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Subject: Re: Product info > > On Sun, 14 May 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Could somebody please tell me the exact name I should hunt for, if I'm > > trying to buy a GUS card? Is there some add-on I should look for, I see > > notes about memory changes in the FAQ (256k-512k-1024k) but no actual > > product names that I can use when calling mail order places. Thanks! > > > > I think GUSMax with 1Meg is what you should be looking for :-) > > > (If anyone knows of the location of a Gravis marketing type blurb, I'd > > like that pretty well, I think.) > > > > Hmmm, there is a 800 number for Gravis but I forgot what it is.. > Gravis: Phone: 800-663-8558, 604-431-5020 Fax: 604-431-5155 BBS: 604-431-5927 - -- (John Wallace || csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu) && Team OS/2 ------------------------------ From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 21:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Product info On Sun, 14 May 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 1995, Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 May 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > > Could somebody please tell me the exact name I should hunt for, if I'm > > > trying to buy a GUS card? Is there some add-on I should look for, I see > > > notes about memory changes in the FAQ (256k-512k-1024k) but no actual > > > product names that I can use when calling mail order places. Thanks! > > > > > > > I think GUSMax with 1Meg is what you should be looking for :-) > > > > > (If anyone knows of the location of a Gravis marketing type blurb, I'd > > > like that pretty well, I think.) > > > > > > > Hmmm, there is a 800 number for Gravis but I forgot what it is.. > > > > No, I was unclear, when I said 'marketing type blurb' I meant something > written by Gravis. While they are going to tell me a lot of incredibly > marketing type stuff, marketing stuff is usually clear on the actual name > of the specific product (I am wary of doing something stupid, like buying > a daughtercard, thinking it was the main card. I really don't know what > to call the thing!). > Hmmm, the Daughtercard is called the GUS ACE, the GUS MAX is the one you want... Hmmm, I think if you call Gravis, they will tell you the correct name of the card. > > Ahhh, a fellow FreeBSD user :-) I wonder if Matthew Mead ever > > got his GUSMax to work right under FreeBSD since mines works fine except > > for recording... Cheers, Vince ___ System Administrator \|/ bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU ___ | The California Unix Public Access (o o) Systems, Inc. (CUPA) | | root@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU -oOO__(_)__OOo- San Francisco, California USA | | __ __ __ __ __ _____ _____ UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering | | ( )( )( )( ) ( )( ___)( ___) Los Angeles, California USA | \(__)/ ( )( )\| )( ) ( )_ E-Mail: vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu, \ / ( )( ) \ )( )__ ( )__ mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu, \/ (__)(__) (__)(_____)(_____) mailserv@mail.nws.orst.edu, I.S.A. Class of 1992 vince@bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU, International Studies Academy High School vince@archive.epas.utoronto.ca, San Francisco, California USA vince@axposf.Stanford.EDU, GUS Digest/Mailing List Administrator vpoy@freenet.scri.fsu.edu, Advanced Gravis UltraSound Card - The VINCEP@axpvms.cc.utexas.edu, ultimate in computer soundcard technology upoy@physics.ucla.edu FreeBSD - Real Berkeley Unix(tm) for Free! BSD (tm)(c) 1995 - The Regents of | -=oOO There are many forms of science the University of California | | but only physics is the quantum leap of the 21st century OOo=- | | Harvard/Yale/MIT/Princeton/Berkeley Student in the making | |___ Copyrighted (c) 1995 by Vince. All Rights Reserved. ___| ------------------------------ From: Loren Kling (that's me) Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Cakewalk Pro 2.0 -- help! I am writing this note again because I haven't yet found a definitive solution to my problem. I have a GUS Max with 1 Meg RAM. Everytime I load a song into Cakewalk Pro 2.0 (windows), I get an error message that says that I don't have enough memory and the drums don't work. I don't have the manuals as I am using my friends 2.0 disks (he upgraded but can't help me). Does anybody have step-by-step solutions to this problem? I can solve this problam if I load the midi file through the Patch Manager, but oh what a pain. Thanks.-- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Loren Kling | * lkling@ucssun1.sdsu.edu * | SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ End of The GUS Daily Digest V22 #13 *********************************** To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: ftp.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound Main European Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound Main Australian Site: ftp.mpx.com.au /ultrasound/general /ultrasound/submit South African Site: ftp.sun.ac.za /pub/packages/ultrasound Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound ftp.st.nepean.uws.edu.au pc/ultrasound ftp.luth.se pub/msdos/ultrasound Gopher Sites Menu directory ------------ -------------- Main Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound WWW Pages --------- Main Site: http://www.xmission.com/~grue/gus.html Main European Site: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ultrasound/ Main Australian Site: http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/general/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/submit/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/gravis.html Mirrors: http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/ultrasound/ GUS digest: http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~itam/digest.html MailServer For Archive Access: Email to Email to New Submit Files Mailing List: Email to with content "subscribe epas-list " Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (programmers, musicians, etc.).