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- GUS Musician's Digest Wed, 17 Nov 93 3:36 Volume 2: Issue 17
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- Today's Topics:
- JUST TO LET YOU KNOW
- new drivers - skipped notes buglet
- New Windows Drivers
- Patch Maker Light
- Portamento (again)
-
- 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: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 8:44:07 -0500 (EST)
- From: Bryan Cass <BC@VTI.dnet.idx.com>
- Subject: Re: JUST TO LET YOU KNOW
-
- Sorry to waste bandwidth on this...but I got so excited reading yesterday's
- digest I just have shout YAY! THANK YOU, GRAVIS!
-
- Bryan
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 21:32:36 EST
- From: ivan@molson.ho.att.com (Ivan Strom)
- Subject: new drivers - skipped notes buglet
-
- Gravis - re new windows drivers:
-
- If a note_on is immediately (same tick) followed by a controller 7 message,
- the note_on will not sound, resulting in "skipped" notes.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 09:38:44 +0200
- From: Vesa.Karhila@fmi.fi (Vesa Karhila)
- Subject: New Windows Drivers
-
- Some comments about the new windows drivers:
-
- - The linear volume is nice. Certain midi files sounded much more
- balanced than before (I suppose those files were made for SCC1).
- On the other hand some of my own "works" lost their sound
- balance. Confusing! Is either of these volume methods a standard?
- Is either of them some how technically superior? Should we agree
- to compose using only one volume method? Which????
-
- - The previously missing 8th octave is now present. Nice!
-
- - Midi notes were still dropped every now and then! I tested with
- one of my own "works", originally made for AdLib (only 6 melodic
- voices and 3 percussive voices), and I got dropped off notes (or
- perhaps they are notes that start too late?) both in WinJammer
- (uses the plain windows driver) and in MediaPlayer (uses the driver
- via MidiMapper). I cross checked the midi file with DOS PlayMidi:
- no drop outs there!!! (I have an old and trusty 33MHz 386DX.)
-
- - 'debug 0/1' - feature (disabling the patch checking) should be
- nice althought I did not take any timing measurements, yet.
-
- Except for the note drop outs I feel the new drivers are just the
- thing I have been waiting for. Thanks.
- --
- Vesa Karhila (vesa.karhila@fmi.fi)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 16 Nov 93 12:24:21 +0100
- From: "Alexander Majarek, Sascha, SAM" <Alexander.Majarek@uibk.ac.at>
- Subject: Patch Maker Light
-
- Any idea where (on INTERNET) to get Patch Maker Light which was
- announced in John Smith's "Just to let you know" ???
-
- Thanks in advance for any hint.
-
- SAM
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- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 06:19:32 PST
- From: deraud@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com (Robert Lee DeRaud)
- Subject: Portamento (again)
-
- >From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
- >Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V2 #13
-
- >On most synths, you can set the pitch-bend sensitivity, with the usual
- >default being 2 semitones, and the ability to set the sensitivity from one
- >semitone to 24 semitones. Pitchbend itself is divided into 8192 steps, with
- >the middle being at 4096 - so the default of 2 semitones will allow you
- >to go from -1 semitone to +1 semitone in units from 0 to 8191. It would be nice
- >if GUS would have a 'settable' pitchbend sensitivity
-
- I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that the GUS was
- General Midi compatable as far as controllers were concerned, and pitch
- bend sensitivity is one of the controllers called out by GM. Has anyone
- actually tried this?
-
- >From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
- >Subject: Portamento
-
- >I had no idea what 'portamento' meant, indeed I still don't have
- >much idea. I doubt very much that the GUS supports it, buts it's
- >really the drivers that dictate which portions of MIDI the GUS
- >'supports', the hardware itself being quite versatile.
-
- >So what exactly is portamento supposed to do, and is it something
- >for the wishlist for the new Windows drivers? Mind you, if it
- >involves sliding the pitch of notes (sort of automatic pitch bend)
- >it sounds tricky to implement.
-
- OK: portamento (at least as implemented on synthesizers, as opposed to a
- formal musical definition) is a smooth transition ("slide") in frequency
- between adjacent notes. Usually the speed of the transition can be
- controlled also. Some synths (my Yamaha FB01, for one) have an
- 'automatic' type of portamento (switchable in the patch) which turns on
- the effect if the notes are played close together (legato) and turns it
- off when a gap is present - very handy for string bends.
-
- As far as implementation is concerned, actually DOING it is fairly easy;
- the hard part is deciding which notes are 'adjacent' in a polyphonic
- sequence - the effect itself makes more sense for a solo (monophonic)
- instrument.
-
- >From: chrisw@leland.Stanford.EDU
- >Subject: Tonguing vs Portamento
-
- >Just to straighten things up: portamento has nothing to do with tonguing
- >woodwind instruments (or `slurred notes' for that matter). Slurring
- >refers to the type of noise (in particular the sound of the attack) not the
- >pitch of the noise.
-
- Dunno about this 'tonguing' thing (although I SHOULD: I've been a Herbie
- Mann fan for about thirty years..:-) but isn't a 'slur' a half-tone slide
- up to or down to the desired note on attack?
-
- >By the way, the GUS doesn't support portamento, either. (Moreover, it
- >only has one tone pitch bends - as far as I know, anyway).
-
- The older I get, the worse my ears get: I could have sworn that several
- of Chris' mids had pitch bends greater than two semitones!
-
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