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- GUS Musician's Digest Thu, 11 Nov 93 3:30 Volume 2: Issue 11
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- Today's Topics:
- A coupla questions.
- Bank Switching and the Drum Channel
- Better Brass intruments & Re: bank swithing
- GUS Musician's Digest V2 #10 (2 msgs)
- Pow Xmas tunes - no unzip
-
- 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: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 13:04:11 -0400 (EST)
- From: "Matthew M. Nordan" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
- Subject: A coupla questions.
-
- (1) WHAT is the "GUS MAX" and WHERE can i get it.
-
- (2) WHEN will the new driver set be available.
-
- And a couple of answers . . .
-
- (1) For the guy who can't get his keyboard to play in Recording Session until
- after the notes are recorded--have you connected your keyboard to the
- Gravis with Midi In, Out, and _THRU_? You will not hear notes in real
- time until you connect thru to thru.
-
- (2) For the guy looking for a guitar patch . . . there's one on ftp.wustl.edu
- in the METAL.ZIP archive. You'll need to edit the envelopes in PATCH.EXE
- or PED or something, at least i had to . . .
-
- Matthew M. Nordan OOO OOO
- mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu OOOOOOO
- OO O OO Yale College heartily endorses
- OO OO every opinion expressed herein.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 09:04:40 EST
- From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 10-Nov-1993 0906" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Bank Switching and the Drum Channel
-
- >From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
- >Subject: Bank Switching and the Drum Channel
- >
- >Does anyone know how bank switching will work with drum patches from
- >different banks? If I want to augment the standard set with 2-3 drums
- >from another bank, for example, could I create a separate track (or tracks)
- >for the additional drums and put a bank switch command in that track only,
- >associating that track, and the original track, both with channel 10.
- >Is there any other technique to associate a bank switch with a note, rather
- >than a channel?
-
- Sorry, that won't work. Tracks are purely an artifact of the sequencer (they
- may have the concept in a midi file...I don't remember). But there is no such
- concept once they get onto the wire, or in the case of a sound card, to the
- driver. What goes to the wire is "event, data, channel". So the GUS driver
- won't know that your program change was only on one track.
-
- Having said that, I am a bit confused about "who" it is that thinks channel 10
- is special and whether it is changable. I know on a Roland D-110, channel 10
- default to the drum kit, but it can be changed. It would be nice if you could
- do that with the GUS drivers so that you could either use ch 10 for non-drum
- sounds, or use another channel for a different drum bank.
-
- Burns
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 14:21 MET
- From: hst@mh.nl (Klaas Hemstra)
- Subject: Re: Better Brass intruments & Re: bank swithing
-
- >From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
- >Subject: Brass instruments
- >
- >Does anybody have better brass samples than the ones the current patches
- >have? I'd especially like to see a better brass hit.
- >
- >Phat.
- Yes i would like some better brass instruments. I play Trumpet (this
- one is not completely unusable) which could of course be made better.
- My brother plays Tuba and is not content either. My sister plays
- Flugelhorn and can find a resembling sound. My other sister plays
- soprano sax and is not really interested in Synths, but the ridiculous
- Sax that comes out of most of them does not really sound anything like
- a Sax. My other brother plays Tenor Sax and is not impressed either.
- Of course this it is not fair to compare your own (wind) instrument
- with a synthesizer, but the brass instruments could be improved a lot.
- When is get my new Motherboard i will give it a try to make some
- patches, i do own a number of CD's with Brass music.
-
- Then the Bank switching thing:
- >From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
- >Subject: Bank Switching and the Drum Channel
- >
- >Does anyone know how bank switching will work with drum patches from
- >different banks? If I want to augment the standard set with 2-3 drums
- >from another bank, for example, could I create a separate track (or tracks)
- >for the additional drums and put a bank switch command in that track only,
- >associating that track, and the original track, both with channel 10.
- >Is there any other technique to associate a bank switch with a note, rather
- >than a channel?
-
- I have seen a number of messages about bank switching.
- Everybody is guessing en giving suggestions.
- I had the intention to start a discussion abouw possible ways of doing
- back-swithcing, but have not had time to make the kick off.
- Couldn't someone at Gravis post a description of the way they are
- implementing back-switching at the moment ?? Maybe they could use a
- few suggestions, but this way its difficult to provide meaningfull
- ones.
-
- Klaas.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 6:36:52 CST
- From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
- Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V2 #10
-
- Ivan Strom writes:
- >
- > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 13:51:06 EST
- > From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
- > Subject: Bank Switching and the Drum Channel
- >
- > Does anyone know how bank switching will work with drum patches from
- > different banks? If I want to augment the standard set with 2-3 drums
- > from another bank, for example, could I create a separate track (or tracks)
- > for the additional drums and put a bank switch command in that track only,
- > associating that track, and the original track, both with channel 10.
- > Is there any other technique to associate a bank switch with a note, rather
- > than a channel?
- >
- > Gravis - any comments?
-
- Cards such as the Roland SCC-1 implement this by allowing you to have two
- different channels for drum sounds. You may select MELODY, PERC.1, or PERC.2
- for each channel (using sysex). You may have only one of each of PERC.1 and
- PERC.2. The default is PERC.1 on channel 10 and no PERC.2 - and then you use
- patch changes to set the drum set that you want.
-
- I have reason to believe that the Yamaha 'Come On Music' card is the same -
- can anyone confirm this?
-
- For now, you should have no problems, since there are many unused notes
- in the drum-map. Just edit the ultrasnd.ini file and add the extra drum
- voices using unused note values.
-
- John
-
- --
- John Cowles cowles@hydra.convex.com CompuServe: 72074,451
- Convex Computer Corp. 214 497 4375
- 3000 Waterview Pkwy
- Richardson, Tx. 75080
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 13:55:54 GMT
- From: james@maths.exeter.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V2 #10
-
- GUS Musician's Server wrote
- >
- >Subject: We need to get the FAQ into here...
- >
- >Morning all
- >
- >I think we need to get a FAQ in place as soon as possible. I would hate to
- >see the efforts put in place to filter out the 'how-do-I-get-the-GUS-to-work-
- >with-the-latest-aardvark' questions from the gamesters, be undermined by a
- >rash of more musically focussed pleas for help along the lines of
- >I'm-running-out-of-my-1-meg-memory-when-I-include-program-changes-on-
- >channel-10'
-
- The FAQ is nearly ready- its a 31k file so I wont be posting it to the digest
- The people who wrote bits of it will be set a copy in a minute..
-
- --
- James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 10 Nov 93 08:09:54 EST
- From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
- Subject: Pow Xmas tunes - no unzip
-
- I downloaded the Power Chords Christmas tunes, but they won't unzip. Can you
- check them please?
-
- Thanks
-
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