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Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com
GUS Musician's Digest Thu, 4 Nov 93 3:29 MST Volume 2: Issue 4
Today's Topics:
Banks
FAQ inclusions?
MODEDIT playing with SBOS
New Pianos
Piano20
piano20/Power Chords > known incompat.
PIANO v2.0 BUGS - ANSWERS
PIANO v2.1
Standard Info:
- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 23:59:54 -0500 (EST)
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Subject: Banks
Something may complicate the bank assignments: there are not only 128 banks,
but 1024 banks (or so i'm told). But i'm not 100% sure and if it's the case
i dont see how you can have that many banks selected thru controller 0 since
it is a midi controller and the value is probably 1 byte with parity which
means 128 values... In any case this should be cleared soon, when the drivers
come out. For now, except for bank 8 people seem to say "assignment as the
patches come out"...
Ciao,
--
Francois Dion
' _ _ _
CISM (_) (_) _) FM Montreal , Canada Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
(_) / . _) 10000 Watts Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
_______________________________________________________________________________
Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-...
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 0:21:22 MST
From: Steve "Bongos" Larson <larson@ee.ualberta.ca>
Subject: FAQ inclusions?
Hi GUSicians.
I posted this to the other digest, but it's probably more relevant
to the _high_fidelity_ group :).
Many of you who recently received texts on ground-loop-isolators,
dram, or volume-control requested I put these things in the FAQ.
I have not read the FAQ since February, nor do I know who maintains
it. If some kind in-the-know would enlighten me, I will get right
on it. It would be nice to receive some feedback on the texts, as
I would like all information to be as consise, accurate and relevant
as possible before FAQ consideration. In the meantime, I will ftp
the latest FAQ from epas (at 2400baud!!!) to do some catching up.
For newcomers, I currently have a manual volume control text which
shows you how to use your old speakers with the GUS *and* not blow
your head off, *:-) a ground-loop-isolator text which shows you how
to realize the GUS's awesome signal-to-noise ratio on your stereo,
and a newer text on drams upgrade for your GUS (what, where, why,
how, how much). At Phat Tran's suggestion, I will include info on
power consumption considerations of drams; I should have a revised
dram text by Sunday (sorry for the delay). BTW, my apologies to those
who received several or wrong texts! I'll blame the local mailserv...
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Steve Larson, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Univ. of Alberta
larson@bode.ee.ualberta.ca or larson@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 11:37:47 +1030 (CST)
From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
Subject: Re: MODEDIT playing with SBOS
> but modules play through the DAC, and the difference between SB and GUS is not
>so great here.
So I would have thought. But why does Modedit sound so bad when playing
mod/samples? You have to run SBOS to get it to play but I don't know why you get
such poor D-A quality, is it to do with the quality of mixing modedit does?
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 21:49:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: New Pianos
I found the envelopes in piano2.pat still a little too "dry", and I also
didn't like the way notes are resurrected at note off, so I edited the
envelopes a little to give the piano a little more warmth, and to remove
the note resurrection. I've uploaded to Epas piano2a.pat and piano2b.pat.
The b version has shorter sustain and decay for occasions where the ample
"reverb" effect of piano2a may muddle up the music. Tell me what you
think.
As a side note, the samples in piano*.pat seem to be very hard key hits.
The way they sound, I would think that they are the loud layer of a
velocity-switching patch.
Phat.
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 00:11:04 +1100
From: adriano ennio raiola <adrianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU>
Subject: Piano20
I use piano20 with winjammer and for all intents and purposes it works
beautifully, except, i check and instrument, then record it with winjammer,
play it back, it comes out cool, then the next time i try to record i
no longer hear anything, i have to check and uncheck the local echo in
piano to re-hear the sounds, umm anyone know of a setup to fix this?
otherwise, cool program!
adrian
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Date: 03 Nov 93 08:31:15 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: piano20/Power Chords > known incompat.
Those who are trying to get Piano20 to work with Power Chords - don't
spend any time on it just yet...
I've been in contact with the author and have determined an incompatibility
between the Power Chords code and the piano program. However, we will be able
to resolve the trouble easily, although it is not yet decided who will make
changes.
Anyway, there will either be a Power Chords fix in the future, or a new
version of the piano program very shortly to allow it to work with Power
Chords.
Great program, Gregor!
Eric
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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1993 13:46:17 +0100
From: bojan.rijavec@uni-lj.si
Subject: PIANO v2.0 BUGS - ANSWERS
> The problem using Session is that both Piano and Session try to use the
> Midi Mapper for output. They can't both use the Midi Mapper, so that
> one's definitely out.
Not really. True, they can't both use the Midi Mapper, but the
Piano doesn't really need the Midi Mapper when used with other
sequencing programs. Although it can't send MIDI messages
directly to Midi Mapper, they are still sent to the Piano
Driver. The driver then transmits them to the Session, and the
Session forwards them to the Midi Mapper.
The only thing is that the Piano won't be able to do patch
caching, that means you will have to select an instrument in the
Session BEFORE you push the record button.
One more thing: Start the Session Manager before the Piano, just
to make sure the Session gets the Midi Mapper first.
> ...And hopefully he will re-compile it soon to fix the naming bug and get
> it to work with Cakewalk.
I've fixed the bug and the Piano works perfectly fine with
Cakewalk, but is still having some problems with the Power Chords,
I'll release the new version as soon as I fix this.
Gregor Brecko
<bojan.rijavec@uni-lj.si>
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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1993 23:24:18 +0100
From: bojan.rijavec@uni-lj.si
Subject: PIANO v2.1
Ok, the last bug has been fixed; Piano and Power Chords now
understend each other. (Thanks Eric)
Since there are no more reasons for delaying the release of
Piano 2.1 any further, I am happy to say that
___________________________
Piano 2.1 is waiting for you on
archive.epas.utoronto.ca
in file
PIANO21.ZIP
___________________________
Guaranteed to work with with WinJammer, Session Manager, Power
Chords, Cakewalk and many others
Have lots of fun,
Gregor Brecko
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