
GUS Musician's Digest       Wed, 3 Nov 93  3:29 MST      Volume 2: Issue   3  

Today's Topics:
                   Digest Admin: Getting Connected
                             GusJam Files
                     GUS Musician's Digest V2 #1
                           Keyboard advice
                               piano20
                Piano20 - wish I could get it to work!
                          Print STM file...
                             Ultrasnd.ini

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, 2 Nov 1993 12:15:34 -0700 (CST)
From: ddebry@grue.dsd.ES.COM (Dave DeBry)
Subject: Digest Admin: Getting Connected

1] New FTP site for all your favorite GUS software:

	theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de    aka    gopher.uni-konstanz.de

	This machine mirrors epas & wuarchive at 03:00 localtime
	(GMT+1) currently.

2] GUS talk on IRC.

	There seems to be some call for realtime chatting about the
	GUS.  I've usually got a window somewhere on my screen scrolling
	IRC babble in the background, so I'll try from now on to keep
	the channel #GUS open.  I'm "Z_Grue" on IRC, so keep an eye out
	for me.

-- 
Dave  ddebry@ debry@   \ "In summing up, the moral seems
DeBry dsd.    peruvian. | A little bit obscure...
      es.     cs.utah.  | Whatever you do, 
      com     edu      /  Take care of your shoes."

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 10:27 -0500
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: GusJam Files

Has anyone downloaded either of the two "GusJam" files from
the submit directory on EPAS?  The idea seemed to get a good
response, but nobody seems to be actually doing it.

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 07:22:21 -0800 (PST)
From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V2 #1

Not the GUS Musician's Server once wrote...
$  
$  ------------------------------
$  
$  Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 14:21:36 +1030 (CST)
$  From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
$  Subject: Re: Sesamet.669 - it's too big!
$  
$  >Presumably, it plays fine on SB's and PAS's, but
$  >takes a lot of CPU overhead to shove the samples at the DAC.  Is there no
$  >way to operate the GUS in "CPU intensive" mode, playing samples out of
$  >main system memory?
$  
$  Actually this brings up something else, MODEDIT 3.? runs ok with the GUS using 
$  SBOS but the sound quality is disgusting. Upping the mixer rate helps a tad 
$  (maybe) but the poor program is flat out and the KB and mouse don't respond too 
$  well then. 
$  My question is does the real SB sound awful playing MODs too? If so then I would 
$  have thought that 669's are beyond the SB.

No, there are plenty of 669 files that will play and sound fairly good on
most any card.  The GUS synth is way ahead of the SB FM synth, but modules
play through the DAC, and the difference between SB and GUS is not so
great here.

The exact error I get from gmod under Linux is "No more space on device"
as it tries to load the last two samples.  You can add up the sizes of the
samples that came before, and sure enough - it exceeds 1Mb at that point.



-- 
Mike Batchelor      |
mikebat@netcom.com  |                  This space for rent
mikebat@qdeck.com   |

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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1993 17:31:33 -0500
From: davidm@marcam.com (David MacMahon)
Subject: Keyboard advice

A co-worker of mine has offered to sell me a Yamaha DX100 for $100US.  From 
what I know of it, it is a very low end midi keyboard.  That doesn't bother 
me too much (I'm not a keyboard player, anyway).  Is that a good price for a 
used Yamaha DX100?

Dave

David MacMahon
Systems Administrator
davidm@marcam.com

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 22:16:52 EST
From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Subject: piano20

>The piano20 program is a terrific idea. I'm going to contact the author....

Thank you... *grin*   I'm not the author of this program but I was the one
who suggested that he make it work as a MIDI input keyboard.

I was surprised as hell to find that he took my idea to heart and actually
went so far as to write a driver for it!

BTW, he said a bug fix 2.01 should be out by the time you get this message
hopefully.
--Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >>

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 10:41:01 PST
From: pawhite@okanagan.bc.ca (Phil White)
Subject: Re: Piano20 - wish I could get it to work!

Piano DOES work with Midisoft Recording Session.  I can't remember exactly what
I did, but I think I loaded Midisoft first, then Piano.  Enable MIDI-Thru in
Midisoft, and give yourself a lead-in measure.  Set Piano to always be on top.
Start recording, and quickly give Piano input focus.  You must have Piano's
output channel the same as the Session channel, and have a patch assigned in
Session to that channel.  This is the patch you will hear.

Hopefully what I just described (a) makes sense, and (b) is what I did this
morning to get it working.  I was happy with the results.  I haven't yet tried
it with Power Chords.  If I get it going, I'll let you all know...

-Phil White
pawhite@oksun1.okanagan.bc.ca

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 18:19:56 -0400 (AST)
From: Gravis Ultrasound Lover <markus@Info.UMoncton.ca>
Subject: Print STM file...

G'day human GUSzoids,

	I have a little problem. I hope someone can help me.
	I composed this STM file a few years back.  Now that I have a 
Gravis Ultrasound with which I can use more channels and higher quality 
samples, I'd like to transport my STM file to FAR, MTM, ULT, 669, etc...
Bot for that, I'll have to print the patterns on paper.  I downloaded 
Scream Tracker 2.24 from Internet and it doesn't have the PRINT feature.
	Can anyone point me to a program that will help me print my 
patterns on paper from an STM file?  I don't need to rip the samples as I 
want to use fresh high-quality new ones.
	Thanks in advance for any help. :)

                            Marc Y. Paulin
     - 1:255/200 - markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca - (506)856-9518 -
               APICS Programming Contest Winner of 1993
            -=* GUS won over SB by a score of 32 to 11 *=-

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 22:50:11 -0500 (EST)
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Subject: Ultrasnd.ini

This text is about the making of an universal patch map of melodics and
percs in 128 banks of 128 instruments for the GUS but could be used on
configurable synths if one comes out and allow that many configurable banks.
Please read if you think you may have suggestions.

I have been working on banks in anticipation of the bank switching on the
forthcoming windows driver and i was wondering how people want to see these
banks allocated. For example, on the Sound Canvas GS, the GM set is in bank 0
(like the GUS) and is called capital tones. bank 8 is the GS variation bank.
Now here is what bank 8 looks like:

4=Detuned EP 1
5=Detuned EP 2
6=Coupled Hps.
14=Church Bell
16=Detuned Or. 1
17=Detuned Or. 2
19=Church Org. 2
21=Accordion It
24=Ukulele
25=12-str.Gt
26=Hawaiian Gt.
27=Chorus Gt.
28=Funk Gt.
30=Feedback Gt.
38=Synth Bass 3
39=Synth Bass 4
48=Orchestra
50=Syn. Strings3
61=Brass 2
62=Synth Brass3
63=Synth Brass4
80=Sine Wave
107=Taisho Koto
115=Castanets
116=Concert BD
117=Melo. Tom 2
118=808 Tom
125=Starship

I have a church bell, the italian accordian is the gus one (and the gus one
would be replaced by accrdeon - a french accordian at pos 21 in bank0), i
have synth bass3 and synth bass4, orchestra, brass 2 is the gus hitbrass and
61 bank0 would be replaced by brasshit, for synth brass 3 and 4 a prophet and
sci patch would do, sine wave, concert BD, melo tom2 and 808 tom. Now for
the detuned instruments, i need to know how much detuned they are and same
thing for the organs. Oh, i also have church_o for church organ 2. Also, i'll
redo the Solina IV string ensemble for syn strings 3. Now, the guitars are
one real pain in the butt to make (the accoustic guitar took me a while to do)
so i dont think i'll do these. Anyway, we already badly need better guitars
in bank 0...

So as you can see there are not that many that i lack to complete the GS
melodic variation bank. But i have no idea what to put (if anything at all
should be put there) for the rest (there is nothing specified on the SC GS).
Also, for bank 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10 etc... to 127, how will they be assigned?
Like a variation bank so that the first 8 must be pianos, the next 8
chromatic percussions etc..?

Personally i think it would be a good idea to have banks 1 to 8 arranged as
variation banks of 0 (GM) and should cover most real instruments and classics
(64 instruments in each section: piano, chromatic percussions, organs, guitars,
bass, strings, ensembles, brass, reed, pipe, synth lead, synth pad, synth
effects, ethnic, percussive and sound effects). Then banks 9 to 127 would
be assigned one way or another which i have not really pinpointed. First
come first serve? By styles? Like a few banks for techno, a few for ambient,
a few for rap, a few for dance, a few for industrial, etc... And what will
happen to those samples not in these categories or that fit in several? this
is one serious problem. A good chunk of banks could also be left blank so that
people can use whatever custom patches they want to use (maybe 32 banks, 64
banks maximum).

So basically we have to allocate 128 banks of 128 instruments... But also 128
banks of 128 drums!!!

Same question here, how do we assign the drum banks? Again, here the GS uses:

0=Standard
8=Room
16=Power
24=Electronic
25=TR-808
32=Jazz
40=Brush
48=Orchestra
56=Sfx
128=CM-64/32L

But other drum machines use totally different schemes like Alesis and some
machines have drumsets which are in conflict like the D4:

0=Standard Stuff
1=Articulation
2=Classic Hex
3=The Ballad Set
4=Scratch/House
5=Dry Acoustic
6=Jingles / Pop
7=Ambient Rock
8=You Procss 'Em
9=Assorted R&B
10=Jazz/Fusion
11=Country
12=Cut,Copy,Paste
13=Aggressive
14=Techno-Logic
15=Hard & Rockin'
16=Industrial
17=New World Perc
18=Chromatic #1
19=Tribal Stuff
20=Chromatic #2

So Power and Industrial is not the same thing... But it is not all to agree
on the 128 bank names, you also have to agree on what goes on each note!
Major nightmare, i know. However if somebody feels courageous enough...
I'd really like to get a lot of suggestions.

Ciao,
-- 
Francois Dion
    '  _   _   _ 
 CISM (_) (_)  _) FM       Montreal , Canada       Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA
      (_)  / . _)             10000 Watts          Telephone no: (514) 343-7511
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