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GUS Musician's Digest       Mon, 14 Mar 94 15:47 PST     Volume 5: Issue  34  

Today's Topics:
                            GUS's 1Meg...
                           Keyboard to GUS
                   Percussion Patches / Banks, etc
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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 22:44:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Christy G McCartney <cmccart@eis.calstate.edu>
Subject: GUS's 1Meg...

	I was just thinking...  I have a GUS with one meg. of memory.  I 
have a 486DX/50 with 8Megs memory.  Does anyone know if it would be 
possible to use, not only the GUS's memory for MIDI patches, but the 
computer's memory as well??  That would allow more flexibility to patch 
sizes and the MIDIs that use them.  Would this be at all possible or is 
there someone who is currently working on this?  If not... I might be 
interested in such a project.  Just a thought...

	..DAM..

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 09:38:05 -0500
From: "Anton Komar" <anton@gold.sni.ca>
Subject: Keyboard to GUS

Hi,

    I have recently acquired a GUS card and decided to add a keyboard to it.
Based on the good recommendations of this group I decided to get a
used Roland D-10 rather than a new PC-200 for almost the same price.
(I'm very happy I did !!)

    Anyways, After connecting it to my MIDI adaptor, and playing it
using the GUS as my sound source the volume is very low in comparison to the 
rest of music. What do I "Tweek" to get louder playback.

Thanks.
-- 

Anton Komar

Sietec Open Systems
2235 Sheppard Ave. E
Suite 1800
Willowdale, Ontario
M2J 5B5 Canada

Phone (416)-496-8510  E-mail : anton@sni.ca
Fax   (416)-496-8524

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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 15:29:11 -0800
From: chrisw@popserver.stanford.edu (Chris Wilkins)
Subject: Percussion Patches / Banks, etc

                
Some general thoughts on arranging banks....

The system that I've been using for my own use is to have seperate
'drum set' sections (which are the first twop octaves of the GM set,
and 'percussion' sections (which are the octaves above that). The
basic idea is that 'drum sets' should basically be able to be switched
without having to muck around too much (a snare is a snare and is
always found on a particular key), while percussion are generally not
interchangeable and have to be modified for particular use (a tabla is
not a conga and I have no idea where it should go on the keyboard).

Unfortunately, I still haven't solved the problem of how to arrange
sets with lots of standard drum set drums. For example, most drum
machines typically have A LOT of snares. Say somewhere between 5 and
40. Similarly for kicks. They generally only have maybe a couple of
hi-hats (generally based on the one sample) and only one ride and
snare sample. So how should this be arranged? Maybe as a single drum
set down the bottom with an enormous variety of snares and kicks in
the percussion section up the top?

Also, none of this fits very well into the Gravis framework. Even with
bank switching, it's not clear how I can keep my drums/ percussion
division.  Would I need a bank for each possible drums set /
percussion combination?

I guess the fundamental problem is that I'd like to choose drums in an
arbitrary way during the writing process. i.e. choose a basic kick and
snare combination and then add other things as the need arises. But
it's not clear how this can be done without worrying endlessly about
where notes should be positioned on the keyboard, etc. etc. I guess I
don't really want to choose a 'bank' of drum noises. I want to choose
drum noises one by one. Why should I only use percussion noises of one
type at a time (eg. electronic, rock, etc)?

What I probably need is a drum setup contained in a sysex message
attached to each midi file I write and a nice editor with which to
modify this setup whenever I feel like it during writing of the song.
Also this drum setup whould be automatically loaded and saved along
with the midi file. This would require substantial changes to the
windows drivers and a new program to provide the user interface.

I don't know. It's a difficult problem. Anyone else got any ideas
about this? The current system is pretty bad. I find I tend to not
write stuff on my GUS simply because it takes hours to set everything
up and by then I've lost any inspiration anyway. It's not clear that
bank switching is going to solve this problem completely. I'm still
going to be trapped within banks and will have to spend hours whenever
I want to do stuff across banks. I guess I'll end up setting up a bank
for each new track I want to write. But then how will I distribute
anything?

Chris. 

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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 18:00:01 PST
From: ua369@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (George Walker)
Subject: unsubscribe

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