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Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com
GUS Musician's Digest Tue, 29 Mar 94 16:02 PST Volume 5: Issue 46
Today's Topics:
'Very Best' MIDI compilation
DX Patches
Help with MID file patch assignments
MIDI to MOD converter
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: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 11:23:06 +0200
From: Gerd Reichinger <greichin@cslab.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: 'Very Best' MIDI compilation
I am making a compilation of the best MIDI files for the
Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) at the moment. When I have the
impression that I have heard enough .MID files I want to
make them available to all GUS owners (free of charge of
course!).
Please send me infos about good MIDI files you have come
across! They should sound good on a GUS, of course.
I would also greatly appreciate any infos about FTP sites
where I can get these or other MIDI files.
Thank you in advance,
Gerd.
P.S. Join me on IRC #GUS - Powergerd.
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 10:02 -0500
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: Re: DX Patches
The patches I'm working on are samples grabbed from my DX-21 (the "little"
version of the DX-7). The reason for it is that I have some music where I
use two voices on the DX and the rest on the GUS. To make this "portable"
so I can post it, I would need to make patches out of the waveforms I'm
using on the DX.
When I capture patches in Sound Recorder, the peaks are at about 60% of the
maximum no-clip value and the patch level is much too soft. These are the
raucous buzzing "synth" sounds that FM does so well. If I use Sound
Recorder's "increase volume" option, I also increase the low-level noise.
I tried feeding the synth signal into an amp, but that turns out to be just
another way to boost the noise along with the signal.
Unless someone has a better idea, it seems that I have only three options:
1. get the daughterboard (which is not a priority now)
2. duplicate the DX setup with CSOUND and build clean patches that way
3. boost the 8-bit patches and try to clean out the noise with an editor
Any other suggestions? M. Dion mentioned mismatched impedence. Any simple
way to match them. BTW, I don't think this is the case, since SOME patches
peak close to max (just not the ones I want).
Hal
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:13:31 -0800 (PST)
From: sjs@netcom.com (Stephen Schow)
Subject: Help with MID file patch assignments
Help please
I am using Cubase/Score 1.02, the absolutely lastest release. Cubase does
NOT support patch cacheing, Therefore, I use patch manager to pre-load the
patches that I want to use into GUS ram. That works just fine. Before you
know it I had a little sequence sounding GREAT(GUS does sound great...when
sounds). Now I used the Cubase 'FREEZE PLAY PARAMETERS' command to freeze
program assignments, volume settings etc.. and then I exported as a TYPE 1
MIDI file. When I load the MIDI file in MEdia Player and/or Session, it plays
the sequence with all the wrong sounds and everything sounds terrible. IF
I then open patch manager to see what patches are in memory, the drum sounds
are all wrong and some of the melodic sounds did not get pre-loaded.
What is wrong here...can anyone help me?
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 09:49 -0500
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: MIDI to MOD converter
There was a MIDI to MOD converter posted to the SUBMIT directory on EPAS
that appears to have disappeared. I think the name was PTMID.ZIP (or
something similar). Does anybody know where it went?
Hal
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