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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.
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Date: 8 Mar 95 14:38:58 EDT
From: John Griggs/MSL <John_Griggs@newman.microstar.com>
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
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Info: cade@microstar.com
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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
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 95 10:35:41 MST
From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com>
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
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 22:10:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Loren Kling (that's me) <lkling@rohan.sdsu.edu>
Subject: Software for my Roland D10
Does anybody know of sites that I can get Roland stuff, in particular,
for my D10 keyboard?
Thanks.--
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
| Loren Kling |
* lkling@ucssun1.sdsu.edu *
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY |
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