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GUS Musician's Digest       Thu, 25 Nov 93  3:38         Volume 2: Issue  23  

Today's Topics:
                               MOD2PAT
                           New Piano Patch?
                   Patch Caching and MIDI questions
                     Patch caching windows driver
                            Volume Mapping

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Date: 24 Nov 93 08:27:43 EST
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: MOD2PAT

> 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.

This program is great - I was playing around with it last night and had a lot
of fun. Can it play the samples before extracting them? Please continue work on
this.

Eric

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 15:28:28 +22319819 (CST)
From: Al Morrison <amorriso@systema.westark.edu>
Subject: New Piano Patch?

I'm a GUS newbie, so this may have been answered before.  The Grand Piano
patch which came with GUS is not very convincing.  Is there a better
replacement out there somewhere?

Also, I've tried to get to epas via FTP for some time with no success. I'm
assuming that "anonymous" is correct, right?  Any help would be appreciated.

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 12:04:58 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Patch Caching and MIDI questions

Someone said that loading patches with Patch Manager is only
any use if you know what patches are used in a song...
This is what the "Load from MIDI file" in patch manager is for -
I assumed that was how people loaded e.g. load1024.mid, but I
suppose you could be using Media Player for that.

How to play using your MIDI keyboard with Patch Manager?
Just make sure you have selected MIDI Thru, and click on the
required patch with the mouse (so you can play with the mouse on
the dummy keyboard). Make sure your keyboard is not sending
Program Change messages for patches which you haven't loaded.
I don't know if Patch Manager selects the Patch on all channels -
if it doesn't select it on the channel which your keyboard is
transmitting on, then you would have to experiment changing
your transmit channel, or sending a program change for the patch
you want (possibly difficult if its just a piano and doesn't send
program change messages).

Most sequencer program will play MIDI Thru, e.g. Recording Session,
WinJammer, CakeWalk.

Try getting to grips with MIDI Mapper if you want a way of mapping
selected channels onto different output devices or modifying the
volume, although e.g. CakeWalk can do this by itself

Volume level too low can be improved by using the 'linear' option
in the new Windows drivers.

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 10:11:36 -0500
From: jgamache@AIX1.si.usherb.ca (Jerry Gamache)
Subject: Re: Patch caching windows driver

From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
TG> song the first time, but after that you would have all the
TG> necessary patches in memory. Using the Patch Manager only
TG> works fine if you happen to *know* which instruments and
TG> drum sounds are present in a song.
TG>   A different suggestion: I think it would be nice if the
TG> Patch Manager was able to export a midi file like
TG> load1024.mid, providing an easy way to restore your own
TG> favorite collection of sounds using the media player. Should
TG> be easy, I guess.

	The Patch Manager has the option "Load from midi file" if I
remember well. So if you want to load all the patches in foo.mid
before using a non-caching editor you can do it quite easily by
telling Patch Manager to load all the patches in the file.

						Hope this helps
						Jerry Gamache
						jgamache@aix1.si.usherb.ca

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 19:15:41 EST
From: kildayb@db.erau.edu
Subject: Volume Mapping

Hi, I'm having problems not getting enough volume through my keyboard and midi box into the ultrasound.  Is there some volume trick I can use.

oh yeah, I have an odd error that occured with the new drivers, occasionally I'll get get write to AUX error..no clue why it started, any ideas?

thanks

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