A blog about my thoughts regarding music, technology and philosophy. You will read about production methods, some tools that I like and a strong opinion about certain things.
Last night I finally got arround to start wiring th Studio. As I want to separate power, audio and data networks as much as possible I thought it might be a good Idea to start with the power cables since they are most unlikely to change once plugged in.
There is one thing european island folks have to deal with: different plug standards :/
I Always wonder weather this has an effect on audio at all. In any place I lived so far I never heard or measured anything in my audio signals, so I assume not. Gotta research that. Since I only have one Phase in this house there is little I can do about power and sound. If anyone has tips or advice please comment.
Just opened up the amazing Create Digital Music blog while sipping my morning coffee and was impressed by the Project of Alex Pleninger mentioned in this post:
A few years back I had a simpler idea than that, never got around to work on that though...
I thought that I might just post my old idea here, hoping someone will build something similar.
The idea is simple, just add a case on top of and existing c64 with a hinge to make it portable. That case shall contain a screen (got an old playstation screen for that), paddle controllers, a mixer, some stomp box circuits and a patchbay.
Two satelite c64 will be connected to the "master" machine with a multiline cable carrying audio, din sync and power. Software was supposed to be prophet 64. All c 64 shall be modified with sid2sid.
No time to write any more about this, gotta rush to work. Hope someone picks this up :)
Moved house with my family, closer to work now. Of course the whole home equipment has to be wired again.
I thought that it might be a good idea to create a plan this time, so I came up with the below.
The S5000 is probably not getting connected at all since it will drag down the overal sampling rate to 44.1k if I gonna stick to optical. Unfortunately this year I do not have a lot of studio budget, so no new converters for me to add AD.
Power is another headache, I only have limited Europe mainland socket extensions, the rest has to be UK connectors...
Found the Blogger mobile app, so I might be back every few weeks or so :)
Anyhow, just got an e-mail saying Native Instruments Reaktor 5.8 has been released as a free update for existing owners. If you see me online late today, you know why ;)
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Wondering about the lack of updates? Well, I switched Jobs. My new Job is full on datacenter stuff, leaving little time for media related activities. But it might be worth to keep this blog in your feed, there are some unfinished articles in the making.
update: changed the filename to .command to make it easier to start.
Wow, another Logic post. I really got to apologize for the lack of diversity and updates here, but my brain is currently occupied with virtualization stuff rather then music.
Nevertheless I thought it might be a good idea to publish a logic maintenance script I wrote for my personal use.
It really does nothing special, but runs a few commands to remove files and packages. You can open it with a text editor to see what exactly is going on.
A shell script ain't the most user friendly choice on a mac, but that's what I do. Also it might come in handy if you are working for a school or studio and want to nuke LS over apple remote desktop quickly.
WARNING: RUN THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK!!! This is the first version and only tested on one of my systems, so it might most likely break something. Especially if you have standalone compressor 4 or any other pro app installed. I suggest therefore to use it only for reinstallation/trouble shooting purposes (files deleted will be back in place after reinstallation)
To run it, unzip the file and doubleclick the unzipped file.
AGAIN: Use this on your own risk, not recommended to run on a productive system!
