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GUS Programmer's Digest     Wed, 6 Apr 94 18:01 PST      Volume 10: Issue   3 

Today's Topics:
                       GUS as an EPS substitute
Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson's address' - Not an April Fools Joke

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Date: 6 Apr 94 08:37:00 MET
From: "VISX80::GRECNER" <GRECNER%VISX80.decnet@musx53.zfe.siemens.de>
Subject: GUS as an EPS substitute

>>
Just a few questions about GUS patches: I'm hoping to eliminate the
need for my Ensoniq EPS.  First, I need to find a way to convert my EPS
samples into some format the GUS can use.  Second, I would like to
know how those samples will be loaded into the GUS.  For instance,
I have an EPS patch called African Drums.  The EPS keyboard is split
into 8 sections with a different drum on each section.  My guess is that
I will have to make this 8 different GUS patches, right?  I suppose that
also follows for the velocity sensitive timbre changes from the EPS,
each change will require a different patch?
<<
I'm thinking about the same thing, but for EPS 16+. I don't know if you talk now
about the EPS classic, or 16+, but it shouldn't matter. I already converted
succesfuly some EPS 16+ instruments to GUS patches. I did it like this.
On ftp.reed.edu in eps/incoming (or upload or submit) there is a program
for IBM PC called instedit. This works on EPS .ins files which you can get
with utility called epsdisk in eps/utils, I suppose. You just put in your
EPS floppy and extract the instrument you want to. The instedit splits then
this instrument file into separate wavesamples stored in .wsd files,  which
can be later converted to .snd with enclosed wsd2snd utility. .snd files
can be converted into .wav files using winconvert (comes with GUS), but since
it was crashing with some files (I suppose longer than 64 kB), I used sox
program (can be found on any GUS archive). The .snd files have 16 bit signed
format (I'm not sure about it, you have to find correct options for sox).
So now you have .wav files for each wavesample in your EPS instrument.
If you let instedit "display instrument info", it prints out virtually all
the information you need about the wavesamples. Mainly loop points, key ranges,
root keys, sample frequencies (I have yet to find out what they exactly mean
since they are not print out in kHz, but in code values representing some
fixed sample rate values suported by EPS, thet's what I think). But you can 
find the sample rates easy since you have your EPS at home. So, all this info
is enough for creating a GUS patch. However, it has much more info than
GUS MIDI driver for windows is able to handle (Filters, 3 envelopes usable
as a modulation source for anything as filter frequency or pitch, multiple
layers, LFO applicable as a modulation source for anything as volume, pitch
loop point position and so on, then some random generator...). But basically
you can take one layer, from the layer map you can see what wavesamples are
in it, you import those .wav files into patchmaker for GUS, assign them
to the right keyboard positions, set looppoints (they are printed in hex
and are in bytes, so you have to convert them to decimal and divide by two
for patchmaker), then set envelopes (here you have not very much to choose from
in  patchmaker) and that is it. Try, if you have problems, contact me directly.

						Martin

P.S. I'm working on a program that makes this automaticaly, but it takes some time

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Date: 2 Apr 1994 01:27:13 GMT
From: mbergen@iastate.edu (Margaret Bergen)
Subject: Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson's address' - Not an April Fools Joke

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
To the best of my knowledge, the addresses I posted are real addresses.  I
don't know what an English address should look like, so I wouldn't really
know if they were real or not.  Does anyone from England know?  And please
no April fools jokes, because I sent this address to quite a few people who
asked for it, and I really don't want to waste my time writing them back to
tell them they are not real.  They were sent to me from a person who had
gotten them off of an autograph newsgroup, I'm not sure of the name.  I'm
not sure if they are their home addresses, or agents, or what.  If anyone is
concerned that they are not real, I did get an address out of a book of
directors where Kenneth Branagh could be contacted.  
British Acadamy of Film and Television Arts
195 Piccadilly
London W1, England

This is not an April Fools Joke!!! I just wanted to be helpful.  
-- 
Margaret Bergen        Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold
Iowa State University  Her early leaf's a flower, but only so an hour 
mbergen@iastate.edu    Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief
       Robert Frost  >  So dawn goes down today, Nothing gold can stay.
         
 

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From: gboyle@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Saccard Associates Ltd")
Subject: Re: Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson's address' - Not an April Fools Joke
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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 06:04:35 GMT
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The post codes were real English ones, although why anyone would want to 
contact such a pair of self loving.........................


Geoff

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