Grand Slam 3/Grand Slam 3.iso/026/v15n18m.arj/V15N18M.TXT

Text File | 1995-05-28 | 33KB | 840 lines

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: <[e-mail]> (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" <[e-mail]>
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: [e-mail] (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                 [e-mail]           Burlington, VT, USA
IRC name: Bryan1


------------------------------

From: -Vince- <[e-mail]>
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- [e-mail]
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
GUS Lists Maintainer




------------------------------

From: -Vince- <[e-mail]>
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- [e-mail]
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
GUS Lists Maintainer





------------------------------

From: Daryl James <[e-mail]>
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
>[e-mail]
>[e-mail]

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?

Daryl James- Australia





------------------------------

End of The GUS Musician's Digest V15 #18
****************************************

To post to tomorrow's digest:  <[e-mail]>
To (un)subscribe or get help:  <[e-mail]>
To contact a human (last resort):  <[e-mail]>

                       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 Archives:   http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~itam/digest.html
                       http://www.student.adelaide.edu.au/~godfathr/gus/gus.html

MailServer For Archive Access: Email to <[e-mail]>

Hints:
      - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server.
      - Mail to <[e-mail]> for info about
        other GUS related mailing lists (general use, programmers, etc.).