AWE 2 Mb GM bank - first release. 
Ivan Blumenschein - Rio de Janeiro - BRASIL 
ivsalati@omega.lncc.br

      Altough the AWE32 has a good hardware, most samples are not so fine.
This bank is an effort to make this great board sound better, using Gravis
Utrasound Max , Roland, Kurzweil, Ensoniq and even other samples I collected 
in many sites and BBSs. I made this bank for AWE users with 2Mb onboard, so 
you must have at least 2 Mb to load it (it's worthy - the sound quality in-
crease is huge) and the bank is full 2Mb large.
	I spent about 2 months downloading samples, selecting the best, resam-
pling what was possible, tuning instruments, matching loop points and envelopes
and choosing what would be and what would not in the bank.
	This is a GM bank (with brush set -40- just to make sense), and I tried 
to improve the weakest spots of AWE. It contains 113 samples, and the
changed instruments are:

Acoustic Grand Piano
Acoustic Bright Piano
Honky Tonk
E. Piano 1
E. Piano 2
Rock Organ
Church Organ
Reed Organ
Steel str. Guitar
Jazz guitar
Clean guitar
Muted guitar
Overdrive guitar
Distortion guitar
Guitar harmonics
Fingered Bass
Picked bass
Slap bass 1
Slap bass 2
Synth bass 1
Synth bass 2
Contrabass
Pizzicato strings
Voice ohhs
Syn vox
Orchestra hit
Trumpet
Trombone
Muted trumpet
French horn
Brass
Tenor sax
English horn
Clarinet
Piccolo
Flute
Pan flute
Bottle blow
Fantasia
Reverse cymbal
Guitar fret noise
Seashore
(drums)
High Q
Slap
Scratch push 
Scratch pull
Sticks
Side stick
Kick drum 1
Kick drum 2
Snare drum 1
Snare drum 2
Handclaps
Closed hihat
Pedal hihat
Open hihat
Crash cymbal 1
Crash cymbal 2
Chinese cymbal
Ride bell
Tambourine
Splash cymbal
Cowbell
Cabasa
Short guiro
Long guiro
Muted cuica
Open cuica
Shaker
Jingle bell
Belltree
Brush tap
Brush slap 
Brush swirl	


	These instruments were tottaly changed, but I also changed many others
using the original samples, to make the dynamics get closer to Roland's
  (for example, the timpani's volume was too low, the tremolo strings had too
much tremolo etc.).

	There are two ways to use this bank as your main bank (I'm sure you won't
want to use that CC0 1 hassle. If you have the 2mb, use it as default bank):

	1. Copy the USER.SBK bank to your SFBANK subdirectory (maybe 
         c:\sb16\sfbank). Edit your \WINDOWS\SBWIN.INI file. Below the 
         [AWE32], in the line
         user ....
         complete it:
	   user=c:\sb16\sfbank\user.sbk
         Run windows. In AWE Control Panel, choose USER CUSTOM BANK
         All your windows applications will now use this bank as bank 0 (no 
	   control changes needed).

	2. Just copy the USER.SBK to your SFBANK directory with the name
	   synthgm.sbk. It overwrites your old gm bank, so backup it!
         (I suggest you to use the first way)


	To improve sound quality, add in the same place (below [AWE32]) these two
lines:

	   Bass=5
	   Treble=5
	
	This minimizes a strange treble gain the AWE automatically produces (it's
hardware stuff), making samples sound sharper than they should. Adding this, 
they'll sound more like they should (this applies to the ROM samples,too).
	There are many things in this bank that can be improved. I'm still trying
to make it better, but as I didn't find any bank so complete as this one,
I decided to upload it without finishing the make-up.
	You are totally free to make any changes, and if you do and it sounds
better, PLEASE LET ME KNOW, send me an e-mail.
	If you tried this bank, please don't forget to send me your comment/
question/suggestion/flame.

Ivan Blumenschein
ivsalati@omega.lncc.br