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GUS Musician's Digest       Mon, 10 Jan 94  2:59         Volume 4: Issue  10  

Today's Topics:
                   Envelopes vs. Voices in Windows
                           Linear Playmidi
                          MIDIFIRE trouble.
                              PATCH.EXE
                Patch Maker Lite is . . . kinda cool.

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 12:01:53 +0200
From: iddos@math.tau.ac.il
Subject: Re: Envelopes vs. Voices in Windows

dna@netcom.com (David Altekruse) writes:
> One simply can't make decent patches using the "one-size-fits-
> all" envelope that Lite uses for most instruments, IMO.

Correction: Lite offers TWO (count 'em) sizes - "fast decay" and "slow 
decay". Yes, the NUMBER of available envelopes in Lite is, uh, 
unsatisfactory - but the attitude is cool. I'd like to see more of that 
straight-forward attitude, perhaps a choice of 10 envelope types like 
"drum", "string", "organ" etc. IN ADDITION to full power hi-rez ol' 
fashion envelope tweaking. In HEX, that's how I like it.

Ido Amin
iddos@math.tau.ac.il

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 10:20:54 +0100 (MET)
From: tgakem@chem.tue.nl
Subject: Linear Playmidi

It's possble I missed something, but is there already a version of
playmidi that uses linear volume?

--Eric Meijer

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 01:07:39 +0300
From: Lexy Bekhly <Pol@edito.msk.su>
Subject: MIDIFIRE trouble.

      Did anyone  experience  the MIDIFIER? It dosn't load back
   its own configs! E.g. it writes down a filename.cfg, a  file
   with proper data of settings I've made appears; then openin'
   this config  it  pretends  to load something, "filename.cfg"
   appears on the screentop, but no settings are  picked  up  -
   "none" patches  etc...  The program is a lot of fun but with
   this function disabled it's half-useless. Seems to  be  just
   my problem since no one reported of such things - if someone
   got it to work OK please let me know;  but  well what can be
   wrong?

      F

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:59:45 +1030 (CST)
From: Gavin <SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au>
Subject: Re: PATCH.EXE

>...allows you to modify the patch envelope. Where can I get it?

It's in GUSDK201.zip in ..../gravis/util. There has been an update in the SDK 
which is found in gravis/bbs (or something like that). There's also PatchMaker 
Lite V1.1 found in ../submit or may have been moved to .../gravis/bbs , file 
PMK110.zip (or similar). While you're there get 00Index.All from the base 
ultrasound directory, this is a full list of all files except .../submit.

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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 20:10:13 -0400 (EST)
From: "Matthew M. Nordan" <mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
Subject: Patch Maker Lite is . . . kinda cool.

Thought it would suck, but Patch Maker Lite is actually very useful.  Its
automatic looping is good for melodic patches, and the tuning feature
helped me hone some off-pitch patches from Epas.  While it is a little
too slick for precision tuning, using it in conjunction with PED.EXE gives
me a nice patch editing system for Windows.

Does anyone (Gravis included, i suppose) offer any conjecture as to when a
non-"Lite" version of Patch Maker will be released?  There's not a
waveform display to be a had in the current incarnation--and while it
isolates newbies from actual waveform data, it's a bit of constraint of
techno fiends like myself.

                   Matthew M. Nordan  OOO OOO  
        mnordan@minerva.cis.yale.edu  OOOOOOO 
                                      OO O OO  Yale College heartily endorses
                                      OO   OO  every opinion expressed herein.

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