Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Earlier this week I finished wiring up my bedroom studio and I'm now able to record from my external hardware. After I was done, I realized my first mistake. All of my external gear is routed into a Behringer mixer and the mixer outputs to the line-in on my PC ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
I've been deeply involved with my new Korg ER-1 drum machine. I bought a Behringer Xenyx 1202FX mixer to plug all my toys together and I've been having a great time learning how to program the Korg ER-1. Without a sequencer, it's difficult to put together an actual song, but ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Korg EA-1 arrived first today. Overall the cosmetic condition was good, but a few of the pots were glitchy and the selection jog wheel skipped around. That's no good. One of the glitchy pots was the main volume knob. It would cut out one of the voices intermittently. Also ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Tomorrow my ER-1 and EA-1 synthesizers arrive. I would have had them today but, it's MLK's Birthday so no deliveries. It's not been so bad waiting as I had my Casio CZ-101 to play with.
Yeah, I got it after all. It was totally worth the wait. I met up ...
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Just a few steps closer to a full production studio. I purchased a Korg ER-1 and Korg EA-1. These two stand alone machines fill the same role as a Roland TR-808/909/606 and the Roland TB-303. Of course they aren't REALLY analog and nothing can really replace the Roland units, but ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Yesterday I bought Mario Kart Wii. Needless to say, we've been racing each other and trying to unlock characters and tracks ever since. I love the "Mushroom Kingdom" universe so much that I've decided to try to collect as many games featuring Mario and friends on as many systems as ...
Posted in Gaming, Life, Music, Tech | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Recently I purchased a Clavia Nord Lead 2 and I love it. The only snag is that I want to integrate it with Ableton Live and other synths, but I just don't have a beefy enough PC. So it seems I need to build a new PC before I can ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
First, watch a bit of this:
Then watch this:
Repeat with any other Songsmith videos you can find. You're welcome.
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Earlier this week, my father packaged up seven older laptops in two boxes and shipped them to me. In addition to other Christmas presents that I'm sending my parents, I planned on refurbishing the best laptop for my mother to check email and read my blog. Friday, the first package ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Our fantastic friends at the Elisa project have reached the 0.5.1 version mark. The media center is offically released, but the deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu have yet to hit the repos. As soon as they are put up I'll be updating my media server.
In the meantime you can ...
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