home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Experimental BBS Explossion 3
/
Experimental BBS Explossion III.iso
/
gus
/
digestv4.zip
/
V4N21M.TXT
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-01-21
|
9KB
|
237 lines
Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com
GUS Musician's Digest Fri, 21 Jan 94 3:10 Volume 4: Issue 21
Today's Topics:
GUS Musician's Digest V4 #16
newest windows drivers drop midi prg changes
Nice lasting, really basy kickdrum sample.
patch quality degrades as GUS fills up
sample limit - 64 or 256K?
Sampling under Windows etc.
subscribe
unsubscribe
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 22:23:46 MST
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V4 #16
> > for all of it. I suggest we dispense with the palettes, and use the desktop
> > itself, or perhaps just one big window, for a palette. The icons identify an
> > object as a drum rhythm or melody or whatever, so having separate palettes is
> > unnecessary and wastes time.
>
> NO! I may have 10 drum rhythms, about the same in bassline, plus chords...
> it all add up and would clutter the desktop in a crazy way. I really like
> the way it is done. BTW, run in 800x600 if you are lacking space (or 1024x768).
I know - but I'm still using a Hercules card, if you can believe that, so
enhancing the resolution isn't an option.
>
> > You've got a foundation for a great product, but I'd sure like to see lots of
> > improvement on the next version.
>
> You want powerchords pro to have all it's current features plus all the
> features of cakewalk pro, for the same price. Isn't that a bit non realistic?
Not really. Just watch and see if it doesn't eventually happen! You might
have been surprised ten years or so ago, as a Wordstar user for example, if
I had suggested some of the neat features that today's word processing
programs have. Yet prices continue to stay about the same. As a developer
one must continuously improve to compete.
> From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
> Subject: Power Chords Pro has the features u want
>
> An interesting idea. Power Chords Pro alleviates this problem by having scroll
> bars in the palettes. A button bar allows you to quickly locate the palettes
> and windows you want to access.
That'll work.
>
> > 3. The so-called "instrument" window (which is really used to create chords
> > and should be labeled as such) should show a keyboard as well as the guitar
> > strings, or be switchable. In either case it should simultaneously show the
> > staff view too; thus the separate staff window could be eliminated.
>
> The so-called instrument window is reconfigurable in all versions but the GUS version (up to 12 strings, 24 frets) so it wasn't labe
>
> Power Chords Pro has a keyboard window in addition to the stringed instrument
> window.
Great!
>
> The simultaneous staff view is a good idea!
>
> > 4. Do you really expect me to enter pitch bend information one data item at
> > a time?
>
> No I don't. String bending is recordable in Power Chords Pro to any part type.
> There still is no graphical editor for this though.
Recordable, as in you can manipulate something with the mouse while it is
playing, or recordable as in you need an external MIDI device? I'd like
to see the software/GUS package be as self-contained, yet expandable, as
possible, naturally.
>
> > There should be a graphical view for controllers of all kinds, with a
> > "controller fill" feature like Cakewalk has.
>
> Yes, I agree, and we will be putting this in in future.
>
> > 5. You've got to add the ability to put more than one melody track in a
> > bar!
>
> Power Chords Pro has 16 melodies per bar.
Good.
> Thanks for all your input!
No problem. Thanks for listening to us lowly users.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 8:52:52 CST
From: Don Eller <don.eller@inst.medtronic.com>
Subject: newest windows drivers drop midi prg changes
Has anyone else noticed that the new drivers that came with pmaker
lite, work quite a bit differently than the old drivers with regard to
prg change midi messages? I discovered this while trying to re-record
some midi files that I'd recorded earlier, because in general
everything sounds so much better now. Apparently I was dropping more
notes than I realized with the old drivers. Unfortunately I found
that a few midi files where a single track with the prg changes to
switch to new instruments, to add interest to a solo, was failing to
change voices. After discovering that the prg changes had the same
midi time stamp as a midi note on, I tried changing the midi time
stamp on the prg change to precede the first note on of the melody,
and voila, the prg change was now being seen. It appears that in
Forte's effort to guarantee that notes are not dropped, as caused
there drivers to miss prg changes if they occur with the same time
stamp as a note on.
Since, the old drivers didn't have this problem, and I have already
found several midi files where this occurs, I must assume that the
midi drivers should not miss prg changes when they occur with the same
midi time stamp as a note on. Therefore, I'm wondering if I should
notify Forte of this problem, but I thought I'd bring it up with the
experts on midi files first to make sure this is a valid complaint
with the midi drivers and not just a case of some poorly created midi
files. Does anyone know what the midi specification says about
priority with multiple events have the same midi time stamp?
By the way, I used pmaker lite to retune many of Forte's original
patches which I found to be slightly out of tune. I was quite pleased
at how much better overall the GUS sounded to me re-playing my
favorite midi files. Anyone else tried this?
Gravis, any comments?
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 19:29:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Struthers McCallum <andrewm@io.org>
Subject: Nice lasting, really basy kickdrum sample.
You know those cars that drive by, and have Rap music playing
really loud, and all you can hear from a distance is the really, really low
kickdrum that seems to hit and then slowly dissapate? I need a kickdrum like
that in some raw sample format. (not a .PAT file) If anyone has a nice one
in 8 or 16-bit format, please mail it to me! Also, if anyone has any nice
hihat's for hihat rhytms in techno/trance type songs, email them too.
Thanks! (maybe we can trade samples, too)
---
Andrew McCallum / 50 Feet of Mental Floss (Sonic Ecstasy Composer)
** finger andrewm@io.org for info on SE music, and/or my upcoming demo tape **
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:59:50 EST
From: fergusos@jeff-lab.QueensU.CA (Ferguson Stephen)
Subject: patch quality degrades as GUS fills up
Hi,
Question 1: where can I find the FAQ so I can avoid asking any FAQ's in the
future.
Question 2: The sound quality of my patches degrades noticeably as the
DRAM fills up. I've noticed this in Windows and also in some DOS games.
With the 1meg almost full, some percussion patches develop awful clicks and
pops, and yet the same patches sound fine if the memory is only half-full.
What's causing this?
Stephen
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 13:36:28 +0200
From: iddos@math.tau.ac.il
Subject: Re: sample limit - 64 or 256K?
james@maths.exeter.ac.uk writes:
>
> Note that pmaker110.zip has new drivers in it that allow the use of 256k
> samples, patch.exe doesnt support these.
Mine (from some pmak??.zip) don't. I can do 256 multi-sample patches, but
not 256K samples.
Could you specify the length in bytes of the drivers?
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 21:30:37 MET
From: Martin Olsson <marols@ulmo.stud.slu.se>
Subject: Sampling under Windows etc.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 15:20:39 -0500
From: Shepherd B Kendall <sbkendal@uncc.edu>
Subject: subscribe
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 10:49:38 GMT
From: Flynn Peter R BSc 1 Mod Comp 93-94 <P.Flynn@teesside.ac.uk>
Subject: unsubscribe
------------------------------
End of GUS Musician's Digest V4 #21
***********************************
To post to tomorrow's digest: <gus-music@dsd.es.com>
To (un)subscribe or get help: <gus-music-request@dsd.es.com>
To contact a human (last resort): <gus-music-owner@dsd.es.com>
FTP sites: archive.epas.utoronto.ca /pub/pc/ultrasound
wuarchive.wustl.edu /systems/ibmpc/ultrasound
archive.orst.edu /pub/packages/gravis
theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de /pub/sound/gus
nctuccca.edu.tw /PC/ultrasound
FTP mail server: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
Hints:
- Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server.
- Mail to <gus-music-request@dsd.es.com> for info about other
GUS related mailing lists (general use, programmers, etc.).