There's been somewhat of a debate concerning acpiano,piano,piano2.pat.
I wasn't going to add anything to that but that the ultimate piano patch has yet to be seen...
However there's more than pianos in the world. I read someone asking for better
VoiceOohs and ChoirAaahs and I can only agree.
Have any one tried the Harpsichord? Any one that have a guess about what it is that has been sampled can send a note, but whatever it is, it isn't a harpsichord (or may a harpsichord sampled from a sheap Casio?).
Also my smaller brother play the recorder and I really can't see much connection between that and the how the recorder patch sound.
Why I'm just complaining? Well, I just wanted to make a few suggestions to whapeople out there could start working on as soon as the 16-bit sampling daughtercard comes out!
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Am I correct in that the next (so anticipated) Windows driver are going to support a Roland GS - like type of arrengement to allow 128*128 different patches?
At first thought I would have prefered some kind of Sysex containing a patch file-name but after thinking a bit about it I saw that some complications arose, so maybee the choosen (?) course is the right one.
However, I would like a way to do more low-level patch-manipulation from within Windows, how for ex. would you create 'real-time' patch editor?
This could be implementeed with a MIDI-syseq API but that would probably become very complicated and generally not a good idea. Since such a thing would be Ultrasound specific and so require Ultrasound specific support in all programs that
wishes to use it; then you may as well use what already must be there, namely a
'secret' API to the Ultrasound Windows driver, how else could the Patch Manager work?
By making the API public (anyone at Gravis reading this), onyone could make Ultrasound-specific programs under Windows that loads patches et.c. at will.
Maybe Gravis want to be free from the burden of formalising and 'freezing' the API but anyway it's an idea?
That's all my thoughts for now, Keep on GUS'ing veryone!
FMJ/F93/KTH/SWEDEN.
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 15:27:04 +1030 (CST)
From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
Subject: Darth Vader/Dalek voice
Anyone got any tips on how you can modify a normal voice to sound Vader-ish, or
electronic similar to the Daleks of Dr Who? I would guess just modulation would
provide a reasonable result but I haven't found a way to do this that works
properly.
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 21:34:21 -0500
From: art3twg@cabell.vcu.edu (Timothy W. Golden)
Subject: GUS Composers
Well, how about some peoples who like-a da music gettin busy and
postin some decent GUS MIDI files.
I am a jazz studies major at Virginia Commonwealth U. and am p.o.'d
at the appalling lack of music (not transcriptions) being posted.
Of course I suck, too, cause my files were eaten by the great crash
(hard drive, that is) of 92. They were, of course, all masterpieces but
alas, what can one do? ;)
Yours in slack,
tim
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 6:43:38 CST
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V2 #11
Burns Fisher writes:
>
>
> Sorry, that won't work. Tracks are purely an artifact of the sequencer (they
> may have the concept in a midi file...I don't remember). But there is no such
> concept once they get onto the wire, or in the case of a sound card, to the
> driver. What goes to the wire is "event, data, channel". So the GUS driver
> won't know that your program change was only on one track.
