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- GUS Musician's Digest Thu, 25 Nov 93 3:38 Volume 2: Issue 23
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- Today's Topics:
- MOD2PAT
- New Piano Patch?
- Patch Caching and MIDI questions
- Patch caching windows driver
- Volume Mapping
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- - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
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- Date: 24 Nov 93 08:27:43 EST
- From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
- Subject: MOD2PAT
-
- > 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.
-
- This program is great - I was playing around with it last night and had a lot
- of fun. Can it play the samples before extracting them? Please continue work on
- this.
-
- Eric
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- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 15:28:28 +22319819 (CST)
- From: Al Morrison <amorriso@systema.westark.edu>
- Subject: New Piano Patch?
-
- I'm a GUS newbie, so this may have been answered before. The Grand Piano
- patch which came with GUS is not very convincing. Is there a better
- replacement out there somewhere?
-
- Also, I've tried to get to epas via FTP for some time with no success. I'm
- assuming that "anonymous" is correct, right? Any help would be appreciated.
-
- ------------------------------
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- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 12:04:58 GMT
- From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Patch Caching and MIDI questions
-
- Someone said that loading patches with Patch Manager is only
- any use if you know what patches are used in a song...
- This is what the "Load from MIDI file" in patch manager is for -
- I assumed that was how people loaded e.g. load1024.mid, but I
- suppose you could be using Media Player for that.
-
- How to play using your MIDI keyboard with Patch Manager?
- Just make sure you have selected MIDI Thru, and click on the
- required patch with the mouse (so you can play with the mouse on
- the dummy keyboard). Make sure your keyboard is not sending
- Program Change messages for patches which you haven't loaded.
- I don't know if Patch Manager selects the Patch on all channels -
- if it doesn't select it on the channel which your keyboard is
- transmitting on, then you would have to experiment changing
- your transmit channel, or sending a program change for the patch
- you want (possibly difficult if its just a piano and doesn't send
- program change messages).
-
- Most sequencer program will play MIDI Thru, e.g. Recording Session,
- WinJammer, CakeWalk.
-
- Try getting to grips with MIDI Mapper if you want a way of mapping
- selected channels onto different output devices or modifying the
- volume, although e.g. CakeWalk can do this by itself
-
- Volume level too low can be improved by using the 'linear' option
- in the new Windows drivers.
-
- ------------------------------
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- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 10:11:36 -0500
- From: jgamache@AIX1.si.usherb.ca (Jerry Gamache)
- Subject: Re: Patch caching windows driver
-
- From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
- TG> song the first time, but after that you would have all the
- TG> necessary patches in memory. Using the Patch Manager only
- TG> works fine if you happen to *know* which instruments and
- TG> drum sounds are present in a song.
- TG> A different suggestion: I think it would be nice if the
- TG> Patch Manager was able to export a midi file like
- TG> load1024.mid, providing an easy way to restore your own
- TG> favorite collection of sounds using the media player. Should
- TG> be easy, I guess.
-
- The Patch Manager has the option "Load from midi file" if I
- remember well. So if you want to load all the patches in foo.mid
- before using a non-caching editor you can do it quite easily by
- telling Patch Manager to load all the patches in the file.
-
- Hope this helps
- Jerry Gamache
- jgamache@aix1.si.usherb.ca
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 19:15:41 EST
- From: kildayb@db.erau.edu
- Subject: Volume Mapping
-
- Hi, I'm having problems not getting enough volume through my keyboard and midi box into the ultrasound. Is there some volume trick I can use.
-
- oh yeah, I have an odd error that occured with the new drivers, occasionally I'll get get write to AUX error..no clue why it started, any ideas?
-
- thanks
-
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