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GUS Musician's Digest       Mon, 21 Feb 94  3:24         Volume 5: Issue  19  

Today's Topics:
                                  hi
             Internet sample archives, clicks in patches
                    Using GUS with dosemu in Linux

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 07:05:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Laura Jean Moss <lmoss@tenet.edu>
Subject: hi

I'm in need of a mod/mid/or Voc of THE DOORS song, " People are Strange."
Could someone steer me in the right direction?

I'd prefer mod, but anything would do.

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 11:03:34 -0800 (PST)
From: jtcapps@netcom.com (John T. Capps)
Subject: Re: Internet sample archives, clicks in patches

>Does anybody know of any internet ftp archives with drum loop
>samples, or any other instrument samples that I can convert to
>patches?

	About 2 days ago I posted the info on the GUS Patchmaking 
Reference.  Basically, it should point you to all the archive sites you 
could ever want.  Pick it up from archive.epas.utoronto.ca in 
pub/pc/ultrasound/submit--filename patref23.zip

>When I convert patches to samples using Patch Maker ver 1.10, 
>some samples give me a a click at the start and at the end when
>played back on the keyboard. Is there any way I can get rid of this?
>The actual sample which I convert does not have any clicks in it.

	Clicks mostly come from the GF-1 chip in the GUS trying to 
play a waveform with large jumps in amplitude.  I don't know where you 
got the original waveform from, but if you converted it from "foo" to a 
WAV, you may have left some extraneous data at the beginning or the end 
(many sample formats have headers at the beginning or end).  So just use 
a waveform editor like GoldWave, examine the wave form, and chop it out.  
Another thing you'll want to do is make sure that the sample starts on 
the "centerline" (0 amplitude).  You can fudge this with GoldWave by 
using the "Crossfade" option.
	Hope this helps!

John

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 13:56:14 -0800
From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds)
Subject: Using GUS with dosemu in Linux

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Well, this message is some of both general and music related, so I'll
send it to the music channel, as the general channel seems to be pretty
much game noise anyhow.

First, I'm using my GUS most of the time under Linux, but as most of the
good software seems to be for DOS, I'd like to be able to use it under
dosemu.  I've tried the following config lines in my dosemu config file:

# setup for GUS
ports { 0x200 0x201 }				# joystick
ports { 0x222 0x322 0x220 0x22d 0x22e }		# GF1
ports { range 0x228 0x22c }			# Ad Lib / Sound Blaster
ports { 0x388 0x389 }				# Ad Lib
ports { range 0x320 0x325 }			# MIDI interface
ports { 0x226 0x327 }				# undocumented

With this, the GUS is detected, and ultrinit.exe runs fine.  The setup
program even runs and makes the appropriate, friendly "Welcome" (and so
on) sounds.  Unfortunately I either must be missing something, or the
GUS' use of DMA or interrupts must be incompatible, as nothing else
works.  Perhaps it is a conflict with the Linux sound driver?  This
could be, I suppose, as the card doesn't work under Linux after this
until I reboot.  Does anyone have any ideas that might help?

Second, even if I can't get the GUS itself running, it would be nice to
use a composer under DOS.  I'd like suggestions (and ftp locations) for
your favourite composer for MIDI and/or MOD files, preferably that
doesn't need to be able to find the GUS to function.  I've tried
ProTracker 4, and it seems to work fine without the GUS, but the
interface seems a bit clunky to me.

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  Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci) aka Jubal@tmi-2         / SCA: Bardas,OFLT
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/home.html      / Lions Gate, AnTir
---Matthew-Sweet--The-The--REM--Leslie-Spit-Treeo---/___inux spoken here

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