First release - August 1994


                THE VERY BEST OF MIDI FOR THE GRAVIS ULTRASOUND
                               by CF - ITALY
                        feelings and suggestions to:
                           an74500@anon.penet.fi                        

                     - requires 1 MB RAM on GUS board -
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Yes, I know.... you've already seen so many MIDI compilations for the GUS:
your first tought will be... "oh no ! not again..", but please, before you
throw away the chance to listen to the REAL BEST, consider this: this file 
is a just a few hundreds kbytes long and it will need not so much effort to
be got as others compilations (Megabytes long!)...; there're some really NEW
songs (or at least I've never found them on the net - and I've been hunting
high and low), and - last but not least - if you do own a GUS, you will not
need to waste time in trying to make them sound well: just click-and-listen.

The idea of making this compilation has come after downloading the four 
"BESTMIDx.ZIP" files that you can easily find on the net: I really was
disappointed with the songs that were included: just a few classical pieces
and one or two piano songs were REALLY good... the rest ... IMHO just crap:
I mean that there were some good songs, but in an unmodified form (some didn't
play at all on the GUS without modifications) and nothing really NEW.

So, I carve out in my 20 Mb archive and I grabbed 15 great hits that I
modified some time ago to play at best on the GUS. Note that I mean just a
1 Mb GUS: many (almost any) of these songs need 700-800 k of RAM to load the
patches... 

Just a few words about the patches used in the songs: when I modified
those MIDIs I kept in mind the original version of the song, trying to make
the MIDI version as close as possible to that... but... here's the problem:
some GUS patches sound really terrible - sometimes - (I mean expecially
the Overdriven and Distorted Guitars and all the four SAXs) so the dilemma
was: change the instrument played in this song or change the patch (using
a better one..) ? I decided to use ONLY THE ORIGINAL GUS PATCHES, so
that the songs will sound good for most of the GUS owners (at least those
who still use the original patches...).

Now, here are the songs:


FILE                    TITLE                 

against.mid             "Agaist all odds" by Phil Collins
all_that.mid            "All that she wants" (is another babe) by ???
breakout.mid            "Breakout" by Swingout Sisters
brothers.mid            "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits
dethstar.mid             Deathstar theme from StarWars 
i'llsurv.mid            "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor
iwilllov.mid            "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston
lullaby.mid             "Lullaby" by The Cure
moonlite.mid            "Moonlight Shadow" by Mike Olfield
no_limit.mid            "No limit" by (don't remember)
selfcont.mid            "Self Control" by Raf 
snap.mid                "Rythm is a dancer" by Snap
thatsw.mid              "That's the Way (I like it!)" by ?KC & the
                                         Sunshine Band ???
whatislo.mid            "What is love" (those disco groups seem all the same) 
yoursong.mid            "Your Song" by Elton "the duke" John


I just hope that you'll appreciate the effort... 
My favourite ones are: iwilllov.mid (a masterpiece!) and i'llsurv.mid
(great piano!).

main
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if (you_like_it)   {enjoy}
 else
    {fopen,r,1,"doodle.cmf"}
}

Please feel free to send comments, suggestions, feelings (no flames pls!) to:

an74500@anon.penet.fi


Now a little message to my fellow countrymen:

Ho a disposisizione un centinaio di file in formato GM di canzoni italiane
(Battisti, Jovanotti, 883, Paoli, Venditti, Baglioni, De Gregori etc) che
come qualita' sono paragonabili - se non superiori - a quelle incluse in
questa compilation... desidererei scambiarli con altri - sempre di musica
italiana.

Se siete interessati mandate una mail a:
an74500@anon.penet.fi
e potremmo scambiarceli direttamente via e-mail (dopo il 15 settembre...)

Ciao

Carlo.