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Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun, 15 Nov 92       Volume 1 : Issue  20

Today's Topics:
                    Got my GUS/Questions/Comments
                         GUS for salecat txt
                           I need help!!!!
                   More questions on GUS FOR MUSIC
                 Problems with Kbmidi and Midimapper
                              Telemart?
                    Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #19

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 8:57:47 PST
From: [e-mail] (I should be studying)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Got my GUS/Questions/Comments
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

Well, I finally got my GUS from EA yesterday.  Ordered it August 21.
It's now sitting in my computer coexisting nicely with an MPU-401
MIDI card driving my Roland.  The sound quality is excellent.  Most
patches come out as good as, if not better than the Roland.
(Especially the piano).  I can have both my Roland and GUS playing
at the same time in Windows, thus having the ability to choose the
best sounding synth for each channel.  Not bad.

Anyway, I have a few questions, which has been asked before I'm sure
(Sorry).  I assume when playmidi gives a
"load patch failed <path name> - 7"
It means that it ran out of memory on the card?

Why doesn't the "-p" (ignore all errors.  Play whatever will fit in
memory) option for playmidi work?  (It still comes out with the same
error, and refuses to play)

Has anyone gotten ANY demo (other than ones that play mods directly
from an external mod file) to work yet?  There's a little splurge
about Unreal in the README file, and how it must be set to IRQ2,
etc, but I can't get it to go, except for a few sporadic noises.

Finally, anyone gotten the thing to work with Dynamix's "Aces of the
Pacific"?  The options for the Sierra games don't work.

Thanks.

Anthony Tang
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 2:36:33 CST
From: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: GUS for salecat txt
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

For sale:     Gravis Ultrasound (you guys know the specs!).
Price:        $200 Canadian + Shipping
Availability: Immediate! (Shipping depending on how you order it may take max 1
                          week)

If interested mail me : [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 16:55:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Harrison <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9211141626.B12820-b100000@sun>
Subject: I need help!!!!
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

My Ultrasound is locking up in setup.  I get the voice telling me to set
up the card.  And the weird thing is, if the computer has been off for a
while, it locks up when the first window opens.  But once the computer
warms up, it goes all the way to where I can choose the address, except I
never get the chance.  It seems odd that it would lock up in different
places depending on how long the computer has been on.  I think I might
have a bad card.

I tried EVERY base address, dis-abling the joystick, taking EVERYTHING out
of my computer (except the drives and video card), taking everything out
of my autoexec and config files except what's absoultly needed, booting
from a blank floppy (with the system files of course).  Tonight I'm going
to try attacking the interrupts manually.  But so far, NOTHING has made a
difference.  I tried a few interrurpts already, but NOTHING has changed.

I DO get sound.  I played the mididemos.  But setup won't work.
Wolfenstien crashes when I try to open a door, or someone shoots at me.
There's something conflicting somewhere.

Any ideas?  Also, since I can't run setup, I have no idea what I need to
put into my autoexec.bat file.  Right now I have "set
ULTRASND=230,1,1,11,5" and "ultrinit".  What are the ULTRADIR and BLASTER
varibles?  I couldn't find anything in the manuals.  But after 6 hours of
fooling around, I was in no mood to read them too carefully.

=============================================================================
Mark Harrison           |  "We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
[e-mail] |   Our great computers fill the hallowed halls."
              -- Me     |                                    -- Rush
=============================================================================

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Date: 14 Nov 1992   13:04:30 PST
From: chrisw <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: More questions on GUS FOR MUSIC
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

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Thanks for the info, Ken. (I feel a lot better now).

Unfortunately, all my Midi files are set up for my own peculiar uses and in
no way resemble General Midi standards so I can't offer you anything to test
out controller messages. I'm temporarily keyboardless so I can't run off
something just to test, either.

The volume fade sounds promising, though. (I don't suppose you know if it was
a controller (7, 10 ?) based volume fade or a key velocity based volume fade?).

Still not clear on this point: Can you put in your own noises to use in amongst
the `presets'? (I guess we'd be talking 8-bit until this add-on card comes out)
If you can do this, it should give you some idea of what extra bits and pieces
this card has got (re: my questions on filters, envelopes, etc.).

By the way, how do you know what's happening with your 256k/1M ? Is this all
managed by the dreaded playmidi program without human intervention? (Does it
tell you if you load a new sound that it doesn't fit or does it just
arbitrarily scrap something ?)

Thanks again,

Chris

P.S. I couldn't Email to [e-mail] - is this my problem or
yours???

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 23:53:57 -0500
From: KWAN  RICHARD SIK YIU <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems with Kbmidi and Midimapper
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

    Can anyone tell me or show me how I should set up the midimapper for
my GUS. Cause I find difficulties understanding why only part of the effects
(Voice) shown in kbmidi work and the rest have no response or get the wrong
response. (e.g. I chose "Applause" but I got the same sound as I chose "Sea-
chore") I've checked over the midimapper, the voice effects are all found in
the path maps, but I have no idea what went wrong>
    I've set all the 'patch map name' in "Ultrasound" setup to "ultra", b
but I still leave the "Key map name" to "none". Please help me to figure it
out what's going wrong with my setting!

Thanks in advance!

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 17:11:51 EET
From: Lasse Hero <[e-mail]>
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Telemart?
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

Did Telemart actually get their shipment of Ultrasounds in the beginning
of the week? I remember someone reporting that he had received his
GUS from Telemart, but that's about it. Anybody else?

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Date: 14 Nov 92 17:04:26 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V1 #19
To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>

> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 2:49:21 EST
> From: Phat H Tran <[e-mail]>
> Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Making GUS coexist with SB.
> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest <[e-mail]>
>
> - Falcon 3.0 stuff deleted -
>
> the digitized speech almost incomprehensible.  So, I'm working on making
> my GUS coexist with my SB.
>
> I managed to get every feature of both cards to function together except
> the SB's Adlib compatibility.  Games that drive the SB as an SB work fine
> with my GUS/SB setup, but those that use the SB as an Adlib card do not
> detect Adlib compatibility.  It seems that the GUS is hogging port
> addresses 388h and 389h which the SB uses for Adlib emulation.  Is there
> any way to force the GUS to let go of these two addresses?  Seeing as
> how there are many undocumented jumpers on the card, there must be a way
> of doing so.  If not, then is there a utility which will let me map
> addresses 388h and 389h to 228h and 229h?
>
> My two cards' base addresses, IRQ's and other vital stats are as follows:
>
>                     GUS                 SB
> Base Address        230h               220h
> DMA channel          3                  1
> IRQs             (GF1) 11               5
>                 (MIDI) 12
>

You mean you actually got the SB and GUS to coexist, that meaning
your computer actally booted with both cards in? My computer just
refused doing anything at all when I tried that. Great if it works,
though, since that would solve quite a problem for us who already
have got an SB in addition to the GUS

Now, the problem you mentioned about Ad Lib compatability may stem
from an 'Ad Lib comptatability interface chip' I've heard talk about.
This chip was - if I remember corectly - the only solution for geting
the board Ad Lib compatible at all. Some sort of compromise between
hardware and software compatability, you might say.

Anybody know anything more about this?

    -=* Bjorn :: [e-mail]
  ACCESS DATA :: TEL: [phone] 791
                 BBS: 61-97 304/97 945

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