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- GUS Musician's Digest Wed, 24 Nov 93 3:37 Volume 2: Issue 22
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- Today's Topics:
- Fade a note?
- GUS Collaborative songs
- MOD-samples
- Patch caching windows driver?
- samples
- Several MIDI-Questions
-
- 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: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 15:14:32 -0500
- From: jericho!gord (Gord Wait S-MOS Systems Vancouver Design Center)
- Subject: Fade a note?
-
- Is there a way to fade a note using midi controllers or something?
- I want to fade a long drawn out viola note in a song, and I haven't
- a clue how to do it..
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 10:32:56 MST
- From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com>
- Subject: GUS Collaborative songs
-
- >Date: 21 Nov 1993 10:19:00 PST
- >From: chrisw@leland.Stanford.EDU
- >Subject: Sofunky.*
- >
- >------------
- >
- >Hi. Just thought I'd say a quick congratulations to all involved in
- >Sofunky.*. It's greatly increased my interest in collaborative GUS projects.
-
- Thanks! I think I speak for the other GUS'ers who were involved when I
- say that it was a very enjoyable project. Paul Tucker suggested that
- we get a name for this "Internet GUS Band" -- he mentioned "The
- Electrons" as a possiblity :-) :-).
-
- >A few comments: I'm not sure if the midi file has volume and pan controller
- >messages on all channels. It's reasonably important to do this because
- >otherwise if you play another midi file before this one you'll end up with
- >the previous songs volume and pan messages which might sound very odd.
- >Ignore this if I'm wrong, but that was my impression when I had a quick
- >look in Cakewalk.
-
- I'll be sure to do that on my next song. Just tell me how to do it!
- I'm a MIDI newbie (heck, why be shy? I'm a sequencer/soundcard newbie
- also!), so *PLEASE* tell me more! I have Cakewalk, but I used it in a
- rather crude manner to "clean up" the MIDI file. The song is actually
- a Power Chords Pro based file which I exported to MIDI, so that could
- explain some of the MIDI anomolies. In any case, let me know what I
- should do!
-
- >BTW, I think the .txt file should probably have Email addresses of everyone
- >involved. How else am I going to be able to contact Ken next time I'm
- >in need of a funky horn line?
-
- Okay, here are the names and email addresses of the participants:
-
- Name Email Address Instrument
- -------------- ------------------------- --------------------
- Stuart Yoshida yoshida@fc.hp.com Rhythm keys/
- Sequencing producer
- Paul Tucker tucker@fc.hp.com Drums
- Eric Bell 71333.2166@compuserve.com Bass rhythm
- Ken Goach ken@austin.ibm.com Keyboard solo/horns
-
- For the bass track, I actually took a bassline which Eric Bell had in a
- Power Chords sample song called "Things that Go Funk in the Night" and
- rewrote it for my song. What I used (with his permission) was the bass
- "rhythm" (with my own notes). A rather cool concept, I think.
-
- Keep on GUS'ing!
-
- --
-
- Stuart Yoshida
-
- Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com
- Voice: (303) 229-2324
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 12:13:16 +0100
- From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se
- Subject: MOD-samples
-
- Hi folks,
- Just to let ya know, I put a file/prog called MOD2PAT.ZIP on epas in the
- ultrasound/submit directory. It will allow you to extract samples from
- MOD files and painlesssly save them as GUS patches.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 09:32:43 +0100 (MET)
- From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
- Subject: Patch caching windows driver?
-
- A suggestion to Gravis (anyone listening?). Using the gus with patch
- caching applications is of course most convenient. But lots of programs
- don't do this. I don't think the conserve memory option combined with
- the load256.mid, load512.mid, or even load1024.mid is a really fancy
- solution (have you ever heard the replacement of the fret noise? it took
- me quite some time to find out where these weird notes came from...).
- Would it be possible to design a mode for the windows drivers in which
- the driver checks wether a patch is in memory, whenever it gets a
- program change message, and then subsequently loads it if necessary? Of
- course this would lead to substantial delay in playing a song the first
- time, but after that you would have all the necessary patches in
- memory. Using the Patch Manager only works fine if you happen to *know*
- which instruments and drum sounds are present in a song.
- A different suggestion: I think it would be nice if the Patch Manager
- was able to export a midi file like load1024.mid, providing an easy way
- to restore your own favorite collection of sounds using the media player.
- Should be easy, I guess.
-
- Happy gussin' --Eric Meijer
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 11:52:09 GMT
- From: james@maths.exeter.ac.uk
- Subject: samples
-
- Some of you were asking for samples of 'normal' instruments a while ago.
-
- Ive been getting into csound synthesis package lately and
- look what I just found on cecelia.media.mit.edu in /pub/Csound/Samples:
-
- -rw-r--r-- 1 304 system 4024320 Feb 28 1992 Bosendorfer.tar
- -rw-r--r-- 1 304 system 2252800 Mar 9 1992 Guitar.tar
- -rw-r--r-- 1 304 system 1249280 Feb 28 1992 TRUMP.tar
- -rw-r--r-- 1 304 system 7229440 Mar 9 1992 Violins.tar
-
- No I havent tried any of them out, but Csound is a well respected music
- package so they should be good. I guess they will be in aiff format- if you
- cant sox them then strip off the first 1024 bytes and treat them as 16bit
- signed.
-
- Csound can do mean 'analogue' synth samples BTW- full discussion with examples
- coming your way soon...
- --
- James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Nov 93 14:06:44 +0100
- From: "Alexander Majarek, Sascha, SAM" <Alexander.Majarek@uibk.ac.at>
- Subject: Several MIDI-Questions
-
- Hi there! (Long list of QUESTIONS!)
-
- I just installed my new drivers for the GUS (linear).
-
- Sound (.MID) is great, but I ran into some problem which some of you
- might have run across and therefore could help.
-
- 1. I succeeded in playing samples selected via PATCH-Manager when I
- pressed keys on my external midi-keyboard. But I don't know how I did
- this and now I can't get it to work again. Any suggestions?
-
- 2. Is there a SW/PD-prog available which achieves that (i e playing
- patches with notes entered on an ext. synth).
-
- 3. Are there any progs available (even commercial) which are able to
- 'simulate' a synth including rhythms, etc. For example I'm playing a
- song on my midi-keyboard (actually it's a digital piano with 4 piano-
- voices and midi in/out) and the PC plays the notes with PATCH X, and
- generates a (let's say) TANGO-rhythm which is mixed with the patch x.
-
- In one simple sentence, everything a synth can, should be achieved by
- the GUS, based on MIDI IN-signals.
-
- 4. The MIDI-volume sent by my keyboard seems way to low, any hints
- how to change that, or are any filter-progs (setting MIDI-IN-Vol +
- 20, etc.) available ?
-
- 5 Is it possible to route only one programm or one channel to the
- external synth and the rest of them to the GUS-synth ? (f.
- example let my dig. piano play the piano-notes, and the GUS
- should play the rest) How?
-
- Any help greatly appreciated.
-
- SAM
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