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GUS Musician's Digest       Wed, 24 Nov 93  3:37         Volume 2: Issue  22  

Today's Topics:
                             Fade a note?
                       GUS Collaborative songs
                             MOD-samples
                    Patch caching windows driver?
                               samples
                        Several MIDI-Questions

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 15:14:32 -0500
From: jericho!gord (Gord Wait S-MOS Systems Vancouver Design Center)
Subject: Fade a note?

Is there a way to fade a note using midi controllers or something?
I want to fade a long drawn out viola note in a song, and I haven't
a clue how to do it..

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 10:32:56 MST
From: Stuart Yoshida <yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com>
Subject: GUS Collaborative songs

>Date: 21 Nov 1993   10:19:00 PST
>From: chrisw@leland.Stanford.EDU
>Subject: Sofunky.*
>
>------------
>
>Hi. Just thought I'd say a quick congratulations to all involved in 
>Sofunky.*. It's greatly increased my interest in collaborative GUS projects.

 Thanks!  I think I speak for the other GUS'ers who were involved when I
 say that it was a very enjoyable project.  Paul Tucker suggested that
 we get a name for this "Internet GUS Band" -- he mentioned "The
 Electrons" as a possiblity :-) :-).

>A few comments: I'm not sure if the midi file has volume and pan controller
>messages on all channels. It's reasonably important to do this because 
>otherwise if you play another midi file before this one you'll end up with
>the previous songs volume and pan messages which might sound very odd. 
>Ignore this if I'm wrong, but that was my impression when I had a quick 
>look in Cakewalk.

 I'll be sure to do that on my next song.  Just tell me how to do it!
 I'm a MIDI newbie (heck, why be shy?  I'm a sequencer/soundcard newbie
 also!), so *PLEASE* tell me more!  I have Cakewalk, but I used it in a
 rather crude manner to "clean up" the MIDI file.  The song is actually
 a Power Chords Pro based file which I exported to MIDI, so that could
 explain some of the MIDI anomolies.  In any case, let me know what I
 should do!

>BTW, I think the .txt file should probably have Email addresses of everyone 
>involved. How else am I going to be able to contact Ken next time I'm
>in need of a funky horn line?

 Okay, here are the names and email addresses of the participants:

Name		Email Address			Instrument
--------------	-------------------------	--------------------
Stuart Yoshida	yoshida@fc.hp.com		Rhythm keys/
						  Sequencing producer
Paul Tucker	tucker@fc.hp.com		Drums
Eric Bell	71333.2166@compuserve.com	Bass rhythm
Ken Goach	ken@austin.ibm.com		Keyboard solo/horns

 For the bass track, I actually took a bassline which Eric Bell had in a
 Power Chords sample song called "Things that Go Funk in the Night" and
 rewrote it for my song.  What I used (with his permission) was the bass
 "rhythm" (with my own notes).  A rather cool concept, I think.

 Keep on GUS'ing!

--

  Stuart Yoshida

Internet: yoshida@elektra.fc.hp.com
   Voice: (303) 229-2324

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 12:13:16 +0100
From: f93-maj@nada.kth.se
Subject: MOD-samples

Hi folks,
Just to let ya know, I put a file/prog called MOD2PAT.ZIP on epas in the
ultrasound/submit directory. It will allow you to extract samples from
MOD files and painlesssly save them as GUS patches.

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 09:32:43 +0100 (MET)
From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
Subject: Patch caching windows driver?

A suggestion to Gravis (anyone listening?). Using the gus with patch
caching applications is of course most convenient. But lots of programs
don't do this. I don't think the conserve memory option combined with
the load256.mid, load512.mid, or even load1024.mid is a really fancy
solution (have you ever heard the replacement of the fret noise? it took
me quite some time to find out where these weird notes came from...).
Would it be possible to design a mode for the windows drivers in which
the driver checks wether a patch is in memory, whenever it gets a
program change message, and then subsequently loads it if necessary? Of
course this would lead to substantial delay in playing a song the first
time, but after that you would have all the necessary patches in
memory. Using the Patch Manager only works fine if you happen to *know*
which instruments and drum sounds are present in a song.
  A different suggestion: I think it would be nice if the Patch Manager
was able to export a midi file like load1024.mid, providing an easy way
to restore your own favorite collection of sounds using the media player.
Should be easy, I guess.

Happy gussin' --Eric Meijer

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 11:52:09 GMT
From: james@maths.exeter.ac.uk
Subject: samples

Some of you were asking for samples of 'normal' instruments a while ago.

Ive been getting into csound synthesis package lately and 
look what I just found on cecelia.media.mit.edu in /pub/Csound/Samples:

-rw-r--r--  1 304      system    4024320 Feb 28  1992 Bosendorfer.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 304      system    2252800 Mar  9  1992 Guitar.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 304      system    1249280 Feb 28  1992 TRUMP.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 304      system    7229440 Mar  9  1992 Violins.tar

No I havent tried any of them out, but Csound is a well respected music
package so they should be good.  I guess they will be in aiff format- if you
cant sox them then strip off the first 1024 bytes and treat them as 16bit
signed.

Csound can do mean 'analogue' synth samples BTW- full discussion with examples
coming your way soon...
-- 
James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept

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Date: 22 Nov 93 14:06:44 +0100
From: "Alexander Majarek, Sascha, SAM"  <Alexander.Majarek@uibk.ac.at>
Subject: Several MIDI-Questions

Hi there! (Long list of QUESTIONS!)

I just installed my new drivers for the GUS (linear).

Sound (.MID) is great, but I ran into some problem which some of you
might have run across and therefore could help.

1. I succeeded in playing samples selected via PATCH-Manager when I
pressed keys on my external midi-keyboard. But I don't know how I did
this and now I can't get it to work again. Any suggestions?

2. Is there a SW/PD-prog available which achieves that (i e playing
patches with notes entered on an ext. synth).

3. Are there any progs available (even commercial) which are able to
'simulate' a synth including rhythms, etc. For example I'm playing a
song on my midi-keyboard (actually it's a digital piano with 4 piano-
voices and midi in/out) and the PC plays the notes with PATCH X, and
generates a (let's say) TANGO-rhythm which is mixed with the patch x.

In one simple sentence, everything a synth can, should be achieved by
the GUS, based on MIDI IN-signals.

4. The MIDI-volume sent by my keyboard seems way to low, any hints
how to change that, or are any filter-progs (setting MIDI-IN-Vol +
20, etc.) available ?

5 Is it possible to route only one programm or one channel to the
external synth and the rest of them to the GUS-synth ? (f.
example let my dig. piano play the piano-notes, and the GUS
should play the rest) How?

Any help greatly appreciated.

SAM
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