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GUS Musician's Digest       Sat, 6 Nov 93  3:31 MST      Volume 2: Issue   6  

Today's Topics:
                             Patch banks

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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 08:50:33 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Engineering  05-Nov-1993 0852" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Patch banks

One concern I have about multiple banks:

Windows is already mightily slowed down in startup by the GUS driver, apparently 
reading through the config file to set up its patch/file correspondences.  If we 
have 1024 banks, I don't think I can wait long enough!

I hope Gravis will consider this in their new drivers.  In fact, I hope they 
will look for a way to speed up the startup with only a single bank.  I'm still 
not clear why the disk cache doesn't work better to solving this.

Burns

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