GUS Musician's Digest Mon, 16 Jan 95 11:30 PST Volume 12: Issue 12 Today's Topics: PATCH CACHING Play Audio CD digitally via GUS Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 09:26:35 CET From: vtosta@VNET.IBM.COM Subject: PATCH CACHING Hello, I am using a GUS together with Wincake as a sequencer. Patch caching works fine with Wincake for melodic patches. However, what do I have to do to load a percussion patch (where each key is assigned to a different instrument) ? Greetings from Volker ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 11:01:46 GMT From: Clarke Brunt Subject: Re: Play Audio CD digitally via GUS >[...] I can read the data off of >CD from my Panasonic 562-B CD-ROM drive using a program >like READCDA and store the data in a .wav file. I can >then play the .wav file through the GRavis using a >wav file player (such as Windows' Media PLayer) [...] I too have wondered whether any software could read CD audio and play it digitally through the GUS without first saving to disk (rather than just routing the analog audio from the CD through the GUS). I'm not sure why one might want to do it, except that it sounds interesting. I suppose if the software could keep up, you could implement some real-time filtering on the data. The various programs for reading CD audio (I have seen various ones for DOS, and there is one for Windows bundled in Corel SCSI II), seem to have difficulty in reading the data as fast as it should be played. Some of them take several times longer to record the sample than it takes to play. From the docs, I guess that this is because the CD keeps having to be re-positioned between each sector read, rather than reading the data as a continuous stream (as I assume they do when just playing in Audio mode). I don't know if the newer (2x, 3x, 4x) models of drive are able to utilise the higher speeds when reading audio data - if they were, then this would leave more spare time for positioning etc. I guess this post isn't very 'music' related, but I'm just following up yesterday's item. I wonder how many subscribers to gus-music there are - it seems to be nearly dead? ------------------------------ End of GUS Musician's Digest V12 #12 ************************************ To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: ftp.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound Main European Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound Main Australian Site: ftp.mpx.com.au /ultrasound/general /ultrasound/submit South African Site: ftp.sun.ac.za /pub/packages/ultrasound Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound ftp.st.nepean.uws.edu.au pc/ultrasound ftp.luth.se pub/msdos/ultrasound Gopher Sites Menu directory ------------ -------------- Main Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound WWW Pages --------- Main Site: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~debry/gus.html Main European Site: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ultrasound/ Main Australian Site: http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/general/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/submit/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/gravis.html Mirrors: http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/ultrasound/ MailServer For Archive Access: Email to Email to New Submit Files Mailing List: Email to with content "subscribe epas-list " Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (general use, programmers, etc.).