The GUS Musician's Digest Saturday, 6 January 1996 Volume 20 : Number 004 Today's Topics: Re: MIDI port and Win95 Re: Win95/GUS MIDI Adapter 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tuomas Koskela Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:42:19 +0200 Subject: Re: MIDI port and Win95 > In fact I get no reference to the MIDI output port anywhere. > If anyone out there is seeing what I am not, please let me know. Do I need > to install ultmport.drv. If so how? Win.ini, sys.ini, registry? >Milton, I am sorry to say but at one point my Roland E86 Keyboard was longing to talk >to Cubase. However, no joy. No outboard MIDI with the W95 GUS drivers. >I went back to the Win 3.11. drivers and now everything is working again. >I have some communication going about it with Kris (from Gravis). >I suggest to make your K2000 happy again, install the Win 3.11. drivers again. You may install those Win95 drivers again; I have an answer to this problem. I had excatly the same problem, and the help came from one of the comp.soundcard newsgroups: 1. Make sure you still have ULTMPORT.DRV in \windows\system\ subdir. 2. Add the following to the [drivers] section of the system.ini file: midi1=ultmport.drv 3. Save it and reboot Win95. And that's it. I was very reliefed when at last Win95 and GUS midi port was working together. Bad thing is that the midi port driver is still the old 16-bit driver, and secondly Gravis in a way bit cheated us on this midi thing; new drivers supposed to have _all_ the functionality of the old drivers. Even Gravis' technical support was a bit confused on this. Maybe on the new update...? Tuomas Koskela e:mail: Tuomas.Koskela@oulu.fi WWW: http://phoenix.oulu.fi/~tkoskela/koo.html Phone: 358-81-5531341 (work) / 358-81-5545805 (home) Fax: 358-81-5531287 Post: Tuomas Koskela University of Oulu Department of Physical Sciences Linnanmaa FIN-90570 OULU FINLAND ------------------------------ From: Clarke Brunt Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 11:49:23 GMT Subject: Re: Win95/GUS MIDI Adapter From: pvh@icl.nl (Pieter van Horssen) >I am sorry to say but at one point my Roland E86 Keyboard was longing >to talk to Cubase. However, no joy. No outboard MIDI with the W95 GUS drivers. >I went back to the Win 3.11. drivers and now everything is working again. I >have some communication going about it with Kris (from Gravis). > >I suggest to make your K2000 happy again, install the Win 3.11. drivers again. I seem to be posting this rather a lot since I found out... It appears that you are supposed to still use the old ultmport.drv driver alongside the new Win95 drivers to access the MIDI port - it should still be in \windows\system. This means that you end up using grvsultr.vxd (Win95), ultrasnd.drv (Win95), and ultmport.drv (Win3.1). You don't use grvsultr.386. Unfortunately the Gravis Win95 install script fails to set it up, so you have to go into SYSTEM.INI and add midi1=ultmport.drv (after the line which goes midi='something else'). If you have other MIDI devices, you may need midi2= midi3= etc. It then works, but I still get an occasional Win95 total hang when I first access the MIDI port (just the same as I used to get with the Win3.1 drivers under Win95). Kris at Gravis has not been able to suggest anything other than "Maybe an NMI problem" (but it used to work fine under Win3.1), or "try different DMAs or IRQs". - -- Clarke Brunt (CCB), Principal Software Engineer, Laser-Scan Ltd, Science Park, Milton Rd, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 4FY, England. 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