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GUS Programmer's Digest     Sat, 5 Mar 94 19:35 PST      Volume 9: Issue  21  

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                    GUS Programmer's Digest V9 #20

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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 15:18:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Programmer's Digest V9 #20

On Thu, 3 Mar -1, GUS Programmer's Server wrote:

> Date: 3 Mar 94 11:05:00 MET
> From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
> Subject: GUS summary volume
> 
> I'm trying to understand how does the GUS maintain the summary digital output.
> Am I right that if I make 31 dummy instruments with maximal volume and than
> try to play the 32nd instrument, I get only 11-bits of dynamic resolution 
> for this voice ? Or is it so that when the instrument is not playing,
> its volume doesn't count ? And when it starts playing then the other instrument
> is made more quiet ? That wouldn't be very nice...

The GUS doesn't do anything like that.  It simply sums the voices.  Because
of partial cancelling (some of the samples will be positive, while others
will be negative), clipping rarely occurs when typical voice volumes are 
used.

Phat.

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