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GUS Musician's Digest       Tue, 8 Mar 94 15:11 PST      Volume 5: Issue  30  

Today's Topics:
                            Cakewalk Help
                         Enhancing the sound
                     GUS Musician's Digest V5 #29
                        Patch Description form

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 18:28:50 -0800
From: pauln@subzero.sbay.org (Paul Nguyen - KD6OCZ)
Subject: Cakewalk Help

I can not get the Gus to work with Cakewalk for windows. 
Everything is there , I don't get sound though. In the settings
everything is there. The GUS synth , The Midi out, and the mapper.
I have read the manual, and readme's. Please help !

-Paul
pauln@subzero.sbay.org


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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 00:48:45 -0500 (EST)
From: dionf@ere.umontreal.ca (Francois Dion)
Subject: Enhancing the sound

Okay, i'm about to buy a high-end sound processing unit and a sound maximiser
unit. Anybody has tried these with the GUS:

sound processing: Yamaha SPX-900
maximisers: Aphex Aural Exciter III with Big Bottom
            BBE Sonic Maximiser

I've tried the SPX-900 already, and unless there is an equivalent unit,
i think i'll go for it. Anything cheaper but comparable?

As for the maximisers, i've tried older Aphex products at the radio and
also a BBE maximiser, but not with the GUS and my other synths. Any
recommendations here? I know they dont have the same purpose, but what
should i buy to enhance my mixes for boomboxes, car stereo and other
less performant systems (i've tried them on a 10KW club sound system with
good results)? Other products i may have missed?

Ciao,
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 23:56:59 CST
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Re: GUS Musician's Digest V5 #29

Clarke Brunt writes:
> 
> 
> However many devices you highlight, the port number will cycle round
> them repeatedly up to 16, e.g. if you have 3 devices, then port 4
> is the same as port 1.

BUT!! You may change the patch names for each port - so for instance
port number 4 may go out to the same device as port number one, but
you might want to put an MT-32 setup on this port (in case you have
a Sound Canvas, for instance, which will do GM AND MT-32).
> 
> Maybe our MIDI experts know - is this 'port number' thing actually stored
> in a MIDI file? I thought not, but I see that the chris mid with the
> latest GUS updates loads into the CakeWalk demo with two different
> ports selected (admittedly, one of the ports is only on the 'comment'
> or 'title' tracks).
> 
'Meta 21' is a 'Port advisory' message containing a single byte. Cakewalk
and Winjammer both use this to set up the port for the track that the
message is in (note that the data is 0 for port 1, 1 for port 2, and so on).

John
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 11:09:55 +0100 (MET)
From: cape@diku.dk
Subject: Re: Patch Description form

> +------------------[ Ultrasound Patch Description ]--------------------+
> NAME:           < filename of this patch >
> RELEASE DATE:   < date, in MM/DD/YY format >
> REVISION:       < revision level >
> REPLACES:       < filename of patch it replaces, if any >
> INSTRUMENT:     < patch category, use GM categories or subdivisions >
> GM PATCH:       < if it corresponds to a standard GM patch, state here >
> RANGE:          < range of notes supported >
> SAMPLE SIZE:    < 8/16 bits >
> SAMPLING RATE:  < sample rates for groups of waveforms >
> PATCH SIZE:     < total patch size >
> WAVES:          < number of multisamples >
> VOICES:         < number of voices this patch was created for >
> CREATED BY:     < author >
> DESCRIPTION:
>   < description of patch, if there are individual waves larger than 64K,
>     please state so here >
>   Source - < where the waves were obtained, eg sampled, converted, etc >
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Nice format and a good initiative!
But I have just a minor change.
If there are multible revisions of a patch with different filenames, you
have to be up to date with the newest patchrevision to get your old patch
version replaced.
So maybe REPLACES should contain a list of filenames instead of just a
single name.
Contra: The Ultrasound Patch Description (UPD?) would expand in size, and
     you have to use an endmarker to know where the list ends.
Contra contra: The size is neglectible compared to the size of the data.


I'm out...
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