ACGUIT - Advanced Gravis Ultrasound patch

(C) 1993 Copyright IdMEDIA and Fran‡ois Dion

Description
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      ACGUIT is the 4th patch of the REAL patches serie. In this serie,
all patches are of real instruments. It is distributed in an archive called
ACGUIT.ZIP. In the archive you should have:

Directory of B:\
ACGUIT   PAT    408177 08-16-93   7:35p
ACGUIT   TXT      4583 08-16-93   7:35p
        2 file(s)

      If a file is missing or is not of this length, please ask the person
you got it from to erase the archive and get the correct version from one of
the official distribution points (see end of file).

      ACGUIT.PAT is a real accoustic guitar multisampled (9 samples). The
range covers G1 to G6, just a few notes more than a real guitar. ACGUIT.PAT
is not meant to replace ACGUITAR.PAT from Gravis, because it is very large.
It is however quite superior sounding. Each string is sampled (E2/A2/D3/G3/
C4/F4) plus additional notes in the higher octaves (A3#/D4#/G4#) so you will
see changes in harmonics at certain points on the keyboard, which will
simply be a change of string. Note also that each sample has it's own
enveloppe with a standard metal/nylon combo release rate. The raw samples
(16 bits 25KHz) were taken from a sysex dump on a 4mm tape (DAT) from a local
music studio (since the original samples were over twice the current size,
i couldn't use the original loop points).

What's next
===========
      
      If you dont have them already, go and grab ACCRDEON, 808DRUMS, 808ADD1,
ANASYN2, ANASYN3 (ANASYN1.ARJ was just a test, really), STEELDRM, 727DRUMS,
MILIDRUM, GUNS and TTONE (and probably a bunch more, depending on how long
ago this has been written...)
      More real instruments (B3, piano) are ready, but require support of
layering and > 64Kb waves, so they will be released when the drivers support
these options.
      If they do not sound better than the ones distributed by Gravis, i will
not bother to release them, but i think they will be worth it. In parallel
i'll be doing a PERCS patch serie (percussive sounds), an ANASYN patch
serie (analog synths) and an FX patch serie (various sound effects).

Legalities
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      Ultrasound is a registered trademark of Advanced Gravis Computer
Technology.

      A lot of work went into creating these files. This is why i have put
a copyright on them. What this means is that they are provided for a
personnal use. Any public performance, recording or commercial use is
forbidden unless an written agreement is signed between me (Francois Dion)
and the user of these patches.

      You can redistribute this archive provided that you keep all the
files in the archive. You cannot rename the archive to anything else
than: ACGUIT.ext, where ext is the extension of the archiver. You
cannot modify the patches (including the name) without my permission.

      No fees can be charged to distribute this archive except for
the direct cost of the media on which it is distributed, limited to
3$ in Canadian funds. For CDROM, contact me.

      By using or distributing the patches you agree to these conditions.

The future
==========

      This patch set is released to the GUS community to try out and is
free. You can however send me any contributions ( postcards, money,
floppies, beers, cars =) ) to keep me motivated in developping new patches
(and applications) for the GUS community. A big THANK YOU to people who
have sent me notes of appreciation (be it for patches, tutorials, articles,
programs, etc...).

How to contact me
=================

      Snail mail:
      IdMEDIA
      c/o Francois Dion
      P.O. Box 312
      St-Lambert, QC
      Canada
      J4P 3P8

      Phone:
      514-671-4933 or 514-343-7511

      Internet:
      dionf@ere.umontreal.ca or cism@ere.umontreal.ca

      Fidonet:
      Francois Dion
      1:167/228

Where to get the goodies
========================

      By FTP: archive.epas.utoronto.ca  in  /pub/pc/ultrasound
              wuarchive.wustl.edu       in  systems/msdos/ultrasound
              archive.orst.edu          in  pub/packages/gravis

      By email: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
                subject: help

                (you can also use an email-ftp to get the files
                from archive.epas.utoronto.ca)

      By Mail: the address of IdMEDIA in the previous section.

      By BBS: Check your favorite BBS, it'll get there...

Thanks,
Francois Dion
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