UltraWave(tm) Patch Library Piano Patches Quick Install:

Patch Manager V1.5 (ships with V3.5x UltraSound software) now has a Patch
Bank Manager which allows setting up and nameing your own custom General MIDI
set(s) according to your own preferences. This is made possible by UltraSound's
breakthrough RAM based Wavetable synthesis system.

What follows here is just enough information to get you started with your new
UltraWave(tm) custom piano patches, without going into a detailed explanation
of Patch Man V1.5's many new features. For a complete description of Patch Man
and the new 'Patch Bank Manager' feature, please refer to the UltraSound
User Guide.

- First, copy the patch files into your /Ultrasnd/midi directory.
- Run Patch Manager V1.5 and click on the 'Bank Manager' menu item. 
- Click on the 'Selected bank' list box arrow and select 'melodic bank 0' from
  the patch bank list.
- Next, select (click on) 'gppiano.pat' in the right column named 'patches
  available'.
- Now select 'acpiano.pat' in the left '# name, and patch' column. Now that the
  destination patch and source patch have been selected,
- Click on the  the '<<' button between the list boxes. 
- Click the 'Patch Manager' menu item to return to Patch Manager. Double click
  on 'Acoustic Grand Piano' to load it, and audition it with your MIDI keyboard
  or with the mouse cursor on the Patch Man piano keyboard.

When 'ACPIANO is selected in Patch Man or a program change in a MIDI file asks
for an Acoustic piano (General MIDI patch #1), GPPIANO.PAT will load and play
instead of the original ACPIANO.PAT.

UltraSound uses initialization files in Windows and DOS to find the default
patches it uses. In Windows, this file is 'Ultrasnd.ini' which can
be found in your \UltraSnd\Windows directory. In DOS, 'default.cfg' in
the \ultrasnd\midi directory is used.

To use new patches, the 'Ultrasnd.ini'(in Windows) or 'Defaut.cfg (in DOS)
file is altered to point to the new patch's name, instead of the standard
patch. The entries look like this: '0 = acpiano'. When you do the patch
substitution, the Ultrasnd.ini' file is altered to look for the newly assigned
patches when requested by the software or user; eg: '0 = Newpatch.pat'.

In Windows,  UltraSound's Patch Bank Manager for Windows looks after this
mapping for you, allowing new 'Banks' of patches to be assigned and named
as desired; eg: 'Jazz GM set #27', 'Garage Rock #6', Al's Funk House'  etc..
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Also included in this .ZIP:

The included MIDI file 'The Last Days of Summer' (c)copyright  by Tracy Hurst
is provided to demonstrate the GPPIANO patch. This .mid can be played on any
UltraSound with 512K RAM or more, or on a 256k GUS with the 'conserve memory'
option selected in the UltraSound setup dialog in Windows' Control Panel
'Drivers' applet.

Advanced Gravis is continually adding features to and improving UltraSound
software. Recent updates include the addition of the Patch Banking feature,
simultaneus digital recording and playback, and more. If there is a GUS
software update included, unzip it into a temporary directory, and follow the
instructions in it's zip file on how to install the update.

              ***  Enjoy Your New UltraWave(tm) Patches!  ***