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GUS Musician's Digest       Thu, 31 Mar 94 15:45 PST     Volume 5: Issue  48  

Today's Topics:
                       Concatenating MIDI files
                     how to sequence drum tracks
                             MPB problem
                          Multi-MIDI Driver

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 19:23:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Emory Menefee <em@crl.com>
Subject: Concatenating MIDI files

Does anyone know of a way, outside of working through a sequencer like
PowerChords Pro (et al.), to concatenate MIDI files?  DOS concatenation
(copy file1+file2 file12) doesn't do the trick (only works for DOS files,
presumably).  I suppose a short C or BASIC program to do it in binary
would be needed, but I would be happier if one that works were already 
around.  Midi thanks,   Emory Menefee.                                

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 11:03:50 SST
From: FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: how to sequence drum tracks

hello

My GUs is hooked up to a Sy22 synth, my Sy22 is regretfully not GMidi, so the
drum kit on the Synth is totally different from the GUS, so i've been having
extreme difficulty trying to sequence drum tracks, firstly i use winjammer,
when channel 10 is selected, the drums on the GUS dun play using the Midi thru
only when i load patch manager then i can play it, however, if i switch back to
winjammer, it's silent ! i tried the winjammer, update patch cache (or
something) function, but still no go...

i also tried the demo version of Cakewalk Pro 2.0, same story, am i doing
anything wrong ?

also the drums on the GUS seem to be one full octave below my keyboard, in
other words, some of the keys are not reached by my keyboard... is there a way
to shift the keys higher ?

i hope someone knows what i am talking about and can help..

cheers

JErry
/======<Jerry Koh aka FLAT^^TOP at National University of Singapore>======\
|Email: kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg, MsWin, GUS, Terbo 19.2 & Microcomm 28.8 user|
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 14:54:03 -0500 (EST)
From: apervazo@sas.upenn.edu (Andrian Pervazov)
Subject: MPB problem

I downloaded the MPB and 2pat pograms. They are really great - especially
the Patch Browser is indispensable for evrybody who wants to use multiple
patch banks. I have a problem, though. On my system (I have a MIDI
keyboard connected to the computer through a MPU 401 compatible interface)
whenever I play a note on the keyboard, it gets sustained - probably the
Note Off message is not recognized. Moreover, instead of Note Off I
apparently get another Note On Message, since the note sounds again when I
release the key. Does anybody else have that problem?

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|	Andrian Pervazov 	                |
|	University of Pennsylvania              |
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 09:36 -0500
From: WADLEIGH@PROCESS.COM
Subject: Multi-MIDI Driver

There is a need for a "super-driver" to split MIDI output among devices.  At
present, high-end programs like Cakewalk and Encore support two devices, but
even that may be inadequate for some setups.  What I had in mind is a driver
for Windows which resides "above" other drivers.  In the setup, you could
assign channels to devices.  For example, if you have a GUS and an SCC-1 in
your system, you actually have four output devices: the GUS synth, the SCC-1
synth, the GUS port, and the SCC-1 port.  You could have a Yamaha DX-1 on
the SCC-1 port and a drum machine on the GUS port.  To make best use of the
setup, you might want channels 1-4 to go to the SCC-1 port, channels 5-9 to
the GUS synth, channel 10 to the GUS port, and channels 11-16 to the SCC-1
synth.

It shouldn't be too tough as drivers go to split the midi data and dispatch
it to the regular device driver, but it seems that no such driver exists.  I
don't know if there are any problems I'm not aware of in this, but I'm sure
that it would be a useful piece of software.  Any Windows developers
interested?  Any problems I should know about?

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