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Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com
GUS Musician's Digest Sat, 8 Jan 94 3:02 Volume 4: Issue 8
Today's Topics:
GUS Musician's Digest V4 #7
Is it a bug, daddy?
Midisoft
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- 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: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 11:00:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V4 #7
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 14:26:12 -0800 (PST)
> From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
> Subject: Midisoft
>
> I have search the faq and epas files in vain for a possible answer to
> the following problems with the Midisoft Recording Session. There isn't
> much about this software at all, perhaps because Gravis only recently
> started shipping it.
>
> 1. After a few weeks of satisfactory operation, I discover that I
> have lost definition for instruments. For example, nos. 0-15 all sound like
> electronic piano, 16-23 like a reed organ, 24-31 like piano again, etc.
> I have tried everything I can think of short of reinstalling, including
> checking .ini files, etc. Does anybody have any suggestions? It bothers
> me that it happened in software, or at least I think it did.
Make sure that you're using the Ultrasound setup in Midi Mapper and not
any of the Ultra256k, Ultra512k, etc. setups since they are only for
non-caching apps. Essentially, they map similar sounding instruments to
one instrument so that you can use a subset of the GM patches, preloaded,
with games or apps that do not cache patches on their own.
Phat.
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 10:03:35 CST
From: chuth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Cornel H. Huth)
Subject: Re: Is it a bug, daddy?
> Why not find out for yourself? It will only take you a couple minutes. Set
> the number of voices in windows to 14 voices. Restart Windows (which you have
> to do for the setting to take effect). Load a patch that has a nice long decay
> you can easily time, and then hold down a note. Let's say you pick the
> electric piano (#2). You'll get a time of about 8 seconds. Now change the
> voice number to 32 and restart Windows again. Play the same patch and note.
> If you selected the electric piano, you'll now get a release time of 18
> seconds. (For this test I used the latest Windows drivers in pmake110.zip.)
>
> Is this a bug? Does Gravis plan on adding voice/envelope scaling to the
> windows drivers in the future? If anyone knows, I'd be most interested
> in finding out.
Are you saying you changed the patch to 32 voices, or the GUS Windows
driver to use 32 voices? If you changed the patch (without fixing-up the
rates) then what you are doing is the problem. You can't change one without
changing the other since the envelope rates are based on the number-of-voices
value in the patch header. The voice-number is used as a baseline for making
changes to the rates when the actual voice count differs from the voice-number
in the patch header.
Now, if you simply changed the GUS driver to 32 voices, then it is a bug. I've
got a feeling you just changed the patch. I seldom use Windows, let alone the
GUS in Windows, so I really couldn't vouch for the GUS driver (but I'd sure
like to think it was doing the right thing).
--
chh
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 10:46:10 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Midisoft
> ...In Recording Session... I discover that I
>have lost definition for instruments. For example, nos. 0-15 all sound like
>electronic piano, 16-23 like a reed organ, 24-31 like piano again, etc.
Sounds like you have output via MIDI Mapper selected in Recording Session
and in MIDI Mapper itself have one of the setups with a name like
'ultra1024' (for non-patch-caching apps) selected. These setups are
designed to map all the GM instruments onto a smaller set, just like
you describe. So either select setup 'ultrasound' in MIDI Mapper, or
choose 'don't use MIDI Mapper' in Recording Session.
>I have been entirely unsuccessful in writing triplets. The sign comes
>up on the screen over the cursor note, but triplets do not happen.
>Also, I've found the only way I can write a long held note underlying
>shorter notes is to give it a separate track, which looks like hell.
I seem to remember triplets not working also. I would have thought that
you problem of a long note accompanying short ones was more a case of
the program just notating erratically, and that the note was really
still long internally. Have you tried any other sequencers, such as
the shareware WinJammer (doesn't do staff notation, just piano roll),
or the demo version of CakeWalk (can't save results, but very good).
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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 12:38:55 EST
From: mkalisia@electrical.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
>1. After a few weeks of satisfactory operation, I discover that I
>have lost definition for instruments. For example, nos. 0-15 all sound like
>electronic piano, 16-23 like a reed organ, 24-31 like piano again, etc.
>I have tried everything I can think of short of reinstalling, including
I found to have the exact same problem with PianoMan v2.1 (haven't tried
previous versions). Don't know of a solution.
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