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Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com
GUS Musician's Digest Mon, 11 Apr 94 16:52 PST Volume 6: Issue 11
Today's Topics:
Cakewalk/Windows and patch caching
GUS Musician's Digest V6 #5
GUS Musician's Digest V6 #8
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 10:11:55 EDT
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering 11-Apr-1994 1015" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Cakewalk/Windows and patch caching
When I got home Friday, I found an envelope from Twelve-tone systems waiting
for me. They had sent me (without my asking for it!) the CW/Win 2.01 update
which is supposed to have the patch-caching bugs fixed (among other things). I
have not had time to try it, though.
Burns
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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 94 00:02:00 PDT
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V6 #5
A note about MIDI files -- Compuserve's MIDI forum recently pulled almost
all of its MIDI files offline because they are being sued over them!
Apparently, some composers & publishers feel that MIDI files are derivative
works, and that they're entitled to royalties.
What do y'all think?
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 14:42:52 GMT+1
> From: "Viktor" <VIKTOR@kge.bme.hu>
> Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V5 #46
>
> > Subject: Re: '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!).
>
> I begun the same way like you, dear Gusser!
> Now I'm full of them...
>
> > Please send me infos about good MIDI files you have come
> > across! They should sound good on a GUS, of course.
>
> I started to collect .mid files for some month. Now I have
> over 10Megs of zipped(!) MIDI files. I've heard enough
> (too much). If it helps you I can give you these files.
> (It'll be hard to get heard every song. It's over x100hours
> of continuesly music :) ).
>
> > I would also greatly appreciate any infos about FTP sites
> > where I can get these or other MIDI files.
>
> Try: archive.cs.ruu.nl pub/MIDI/SONGS
> or: gus /sound/midi/files
> and there's still more
>
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Gerd.
>
> Viktor
>
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Date: Sat, 09 Apr 94 22:49:00 PDT
From: n4zfd!frodo@rylos.n2idf.ampr.org ("James M. Blakely")
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V6 #8
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 13:47:04 GMT
> From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
> Subject: Encarta MIDs
>
> I just got Encarta '94 yesterday (MicroSoft Multimedia Encyclopaedia
> on CD-ROM if you don't know). I see that it has quite a lot of
> MIDs on it - mainly the National Anthems of the World.
>
> When I first played a few of these (being MicroSoft, all output
> goes via MIDI-Mapper), the tunes were accompanied by what I
> describe as a 'low-pitched grunging noise' which I tracked
> down to being due to percussion scored on channel 16 being
> played on Acoustic Piano!
>
> It turns out that, like canyon.mid that comes with Windows, these
> MIDs are scored for either base or extended MIDI, so you can
> play them either on channels 13-16 with perc on 16, or 1-10 with
> perc on 10, but preferably not with ALL the channels enabled
> at once. There is very little documentation about this with
> Encarta - I saw the suggestion to select Adlib setup in
> MIDI-Mapper (this is a channel 13-16 setup). I added such
> a setup to the UltraSound midimap.cfg, with channel 16 vectored
> onto channel 10, but then found that patch caching didn't work.
According to the MPC specification, the Ultrasound is an extended-level
synth, and should only have 1-10, percussion on 10 enabled. My original MIDI
Mapper entry had this -- Gravis appears to have changed it in one of the
recent software revs -- they should not have!
All that you need to do is turn off (uncheck the Active box) for the
Ultrasound setup in the MIDI Mapper item in Control Panel.
There is very little documentation about this in Encarta, because you're
supposed to have an MPC compliant computer...
> Just activating channels 1-10 was better - at least the caching
> works. Has anyone else played around with these Encarta MIDs?
That's the way it's supposed to be.
>
> While experimenting, I found another of these anthems sounded
> rather strange (unfortunately I don't know whose anthem it is -
> the MID just has a nonsense name so I'll have to play all the
> anthems from within Encarta until I find it). It features
> glockenspiel, strings, and percussion. The glock sounds as though
> is is playing two bars ahead of everything else. Also, the glock
> channel had two program changes at time 0 - one for glock and the
> other for strings - the MicroSoft stuff plays glock, while
> WinJammer and CakeWalk play strings (the second program change of
> the two), so it looks like some of these MIDs haven't been
> tested too well.
>
> No problems however with the videos and animations with sound - all
> seemed to play OK. The .wav sounds hiss a little though, presumably
> 8-bit data.
Encarta .wav's are 8 bit to save space. There's an awful lot on that CD.
+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Jim Blakely, MCSE | Co-Author of |
| Blakely-Signature Associates | "Windows Configuration Secrets" |
| Bonita Springs, Florida, USA | with Valda Hilley,MCP |
| | Coming in May '94 from IDG Books |
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+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 20:59:31 -0300 (EDT)
From: Lawrence Hammond u <hamm7950@mach1.wlu.ca>
Subject: Re: your mail
NOw available on archive.epas.utoronto.ca
pub/pc/ultrasound/submit
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* *
* lAWRENCE hAMMOND'S GUS SAMPLe BANKS!!! *
* V1.0 *
* *
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The Patches Contained in this file are not instruments, they are
sound-bites, and so they are not really recomended for anyone who uses the
GM patch set for game playing. Future versions of drivers will be able to
support patch banks, and so there will be no more conflicts with the GM
patch set. It is also recomended that the user of these patches use an
external midi controler and have atleast 512K (1meg best) on the board
as some of these patches are as long as 340K.
Detailed info:
2001.pat 340KB 8-bit unsigned 22050 hertz
-"The radio is still dead, dead, dead..."
-"Now I'm sure you're all aware of the extremely grave potential for
cultural shock and social disorientation contained in this present
situation"
-"Yes, I have a good track"
-"Have you any idea how much longer this cover story will have to be maintained?"
THAT.pat 220KB 8-bit unsigned 22050 hertz
-"Give me some of that!"
-"The atack, presumably by a lone Lybian pilot has resulted in a massive
movement of US millitary might."
-"In the summer of 1981, 2 Lybian jets..."
NEWS.pat 255KB 8-bit unsigned 22050 hertz
-"The heat seeking misiles virtually disintegrated the plane on contact."
-"Very, very, corporate company"
-"Very presidential"
-"I did want you to be aware of this very serious situation"
NORDER.pat 63KB 8-bit unsigned 22050 hertz
-"you bastard"
-"you have to cry"
-"reverence"
HAUNT.pat 97KB 8-bit unsigned 22050 hertz
-"creeping loathing"
-"This is the beginning of the story"
-"absurd"
SET.pat 26KB 8-bit unsigned 22050 hertz
-Wardrum, looped (sounds a bit like an army marching when held down, or a
canon firing in the Grand Canyon when "hit")
-tight snare
-Depeche Mode bass hit
-"HA!" from Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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