Hi, all

After some excessive lurking on Wayback Machine I've learned about the existence of a few patchsets for GUS cards and ICS Wavefront (Tropez/Maui) cards. However, I've been unable to track down the actual files so far. I'm posting detailed information hoping someone has the files or can help me with some pointers.

For Turtle Beach it seems there was a John Cafarella's GM set on University of Hawaii's FTP (at ftp.hawaii.edu/outgoing/Maui/patches — unfortunately, it's not archived and I wasn't able to find a full mirror). Files are:

1jc_gm1.zip
2jc_gm2.zip
3jc_gm3.zip
4jc_gm4.zip
5jc_gm5.zip
6jc_gm.doc

This patchset should come in a form of 20 WFP patches and a WFS file (should be a patchset ini file, supported by patchmanager and SetWF), here are the names of the patches:

1SOLOGRND.WFP,p0     From a Gravis Ultrasound patch
2BRIGHTPI.WFP,p1     From Hawaii.edu
3EPIANO2.WFP,p5      From a Gravis Ultrasound patch
4SOFTORG.WFP,p17     From the Beachcomber
5ROCKORG.WFP,p18     Rom sample, altered to get rid of excess tremolo
6RUTHTAKA.WFP,p25    Sampled by me.  Not the same as on ftp.hawaii.edu
7DREAMGTR.WFP,p27    From a Gravis Ultrasound patch
8DISTGTR.WFP,p29     From a Gravis Ultrasound patch
9GRUNGE.WFP,p30      Can't remember !
10TREM.WFP,p44        Rom sample, altered balance/level
11TIMPANI2.WFP,p47    From a Gravis Ultrasound patch
12ENS1.WFP,p48        Rom sample, altered balance/level
13ENS2.WFP,p49        Rom sample, altered balance/level
14SNYSTR1.WFP,p50     Rom sample, altered balance/level
15SYNSTR2.WFP,p51     Rom sample, altered balance/level
16BRITBRAS.WFP,p61    Can't remember
17PAD1.WFP,p88        Rom sample, fixed detune problem 
18FX1.WFP,p96         Rom sample, fixed detune problem
19FX2.WFP,p97         Rom sample, fixed detune problem 
20BALLAD.WFD,p128     Sampled by me off Alesis D4

The other is Da Red Ear's patch. This one doesn't look to be GM, but might still be useful. It was distributed as a multi-volume archive on ftp.pinknet.cz with the following filenames:

1WFPFILE1.ZIP
2WFPFILE2.ZIP
3WFPFILE3.ZIP
4WFPFILE4.ZIP
5WFPFILE5.ZIP
6WFPFILE6.ZIP

There are also names of the individual WFP files on the patch homepages.

For GUS — I've found mentions of guspro, guspro2, Megabank by Kevin Boye (essentially the predecessor to the Utopia soundbank) and Pilabank.

I've found guspro on Oldskool's FTP, but not guspro2. If it's anything like the original guspro, it's not collection of just patches, but other addons to the ultradir as well. There is a mention of guspro2a.zip, which seems to be a conversion of pat files into Interwave format. There is a possibility that it's ProPatches 2, but it's small (ProPatches is bigger than 8MB and not really a patchset, just a collection of individual instrument patches, not meant for GM playback due to size of some samples).

Megabank 1.3 had the following filenames (source):

1megadrum.exe - Megabank Ver 1.3 patches
2megadrum.r00
3megadrum.r01
4megadrum.r02
5megadrum.r03
6megainst.exe
7megainst.r00
8megainst.r01
9megainst.r02
10megainst.r03
11megainst.r04
12megainst.r05
13megainst.r06
14megainst.r07
15megainst.r08

Apparently Utopia authors pulled the soundbank from every FTP after they started working on, well, Utopia.

Pilabank was made by Pawel Pila and was hosted by Utopia team here. I haven't been able to find the filenames.

Before anybody mentions — I did try to contact authors of almost every soundbank on the list.