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- From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
- Subject: Re: ULTRASOUND OWNERS, PLEASE HELP!!!!
- Message-ID: <Bxxwu2.Ly1@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov17.122734.1@wharton.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:44:25 GMT
- Lines: 38
-
- In article <1992Nov17.122734.1@wharton.upenn.edu> poe@wharton.upenn.edu writes:
- >Hello World.
- >
- >My friend went out and bought a Gravis Ultrasound as I'm waiting
- >for mine to arrive from EA. From what we've seen so far, the SB
- >emulation is _scary_.
- >
- >WOLF3D seems to lock up a lot. the manual stated a particular option
- >to load SBOS wiht, but it still locks. The music sounds radically different
- >from an SB. Is this normal?
- >
- >STUNT ISLAND starts ok, but all of the voices/music/sfx are staticky.
- >
- >I brought over some of the EuroDemos (like UNREAL) to try. Since he
- >uses DR-DOS 6.0, we tried HYSTDEMO (overload). The music was EXTREMELY
- >static filled. If I chose a high mixing speed, it came out very garbled
- >and slow.
- >
- >Is all of this normal behavior for the GUS, or does he have a defective
- >card. Will I get these symptoms when my card arrives?
- >
- >Any information or tips would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Yes, erratic SB emulation is "normal behaviour" for the GUS, but don't
- forget that superb wavetable synthesis is as well. If you have an SB,
- you can very likely make it coexist with the Ultrasound and bypass
- SBOS altogether.
-
- I suspect that if Gravis had decided to not even attempt to make the
- Ultrasound SB-compatible, they would be receiving much fewer complaints.
- Nobody ever gripes about the MT-32's complete lack of SB emulation.
- But when Gravis releases a $150 soundcard that sounds almost as good as
- $500 Rolands, with the potential to sound increasingly better (through
- updating of soft patches and drivers), plus the added bonus of
- being somewhat SB compatible, the resounding whine has been "the SB
- emulation SUCKS!" Please, let's keep things in perspective.
-
- Phat.
-