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- From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
- Subject: Re: GUS 2.4 board?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Dec12.080507.9247@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:22:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.080507.9247@cc.umontreal.ca> lebeld@JSP.UMontreal.CA (David Lebel) writes:
- >
- > I just saw someone posting about a 2.4 revision of
- >GUS board; is this board really different from the 2.2
- >revision, or it is just a re-worked board to take less
- >components? I would like everyone to take a look at
- >'ragtime.mid' midi-file found in archive.epas.utoronto.ca
- >to check if there as much static as I have on my GUS.
-
- Some of the patches sound good during the attack, but then
- get staticky a little into the note. I hope that these
- will be redone.
-
- >After a meeting with Francois Dion, we ended up with the
- >fact that some of GUS patches truly need to be re-worked as some
- >of them (noticiably acpiano1.pat) brings static and/or clipping
- >when playing a note with a high volume or playing many notes
- >at the same time. But, in general, the drumkit is incredible from
- >some of the .mid files I have here, just hear the drum
- >part of 'justify.mid' on media player (on playmidi, its being
- >played only on the right speaker, dunno why).
-
- I did the conversion for that song from justify.rol, and I was
- fooling around with the panning, not knowing that the Windows
- drivers were only in mono. I panned the drum track to the right,
- but since I didn't notice any difference in Windows, I forgot to
- pan it centre again.
-
- >Saxophones need
- >to be revamped but sound generally good (those patches are
- >the most difficult with the acoustic piano to create IMHO).
- >
- > I posted a message to GUS Digest about it, so
- >just take a look at it BTW.
- >
- > After some testing with module players for Windows
- >on my 486, WinMod PRO (dispite some major bugs) sounds
- >the greatest (I'm an ex-Amiga user, die-hard of Amiga sounds),
- >and I can assure you that at 22khz, WMP shines... (ok, I don't
- >know if a 386 can deliver this speed w/o bringing Windows to a crawl,
- >but on my system, its ok . . . sorta)
- >
- > All in all, dispite _some_ really bad patches (on
- >the MIDI side of the card), the GUS is a damn good beast,
- >and hopefully Gravis will (I truly hope) fix the patch problems,
- >and some third-party programmers will bring out module players for
- >Windows and DOS that will take advantage of GUS' capabilities... There
- >must be a way to avoid the CPU mixing and let GUS do all
- >the dirty job... Even with a 486/33, my Windows slow-down
- >noticiably when playing a mod-file...
- >
-
- Windows MOD players still do all the mixing in software, so they'll
- slow down the system even when used with the GUS. A game like Star
- Control II plays MOD files, but uses the GUS's mixing hardware
- instead, and shows what could be done when developers start supporting
- the GUS in its native mode.
-
- Phat.
-