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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

I'm enjoying this fresh start - it's been ages since I first installed XP and I've forced myself to dump a lot of data that I had been carting around since 1998 (I'm not joking). I've taken all of my music files and my resume (here's hoping I won't need it now...) and that's about it.

This includes a bunch of audio samples and projects. I no longer have the masters to pretty much and song I ever made - I figure it'll stop me wasting time on tweaking them. I might actually start writing and recording new stuff for once.

I'm downloading Winamp again - in keeping with the Frontier-In-Tedland theme, does anyone know of a decent MP3 player that's not Winamp? I haven't heard of anything else, but I haven't really been looking neither.

7 

After realising that after about 12 months of not really maintaining my XP system, pieces started falling apart, crumbling away at the edges like a mouldy sponge-cake made of, I dunno, computers or something.

First, it was that my system started crashing occasionally when I ran Ableton Live - not good when I'm actually jamming with someone - then it was having trouble remembering that I had a 2-octave keyboard plugged into it (although it likes my 61-key midi controller - weird, no?) - and recently, after having taken Forged Alliance back up, the entire system will arbitrarily die on me either the instant a game starts up, or when they've been running for a few minutes, after which point, I'll try restarting, only to have it switch off by itself when I manage to get back into Windows. It's like I push the power switch, then compy pushes the power switch. Then I push it again, only to have the compy push it again. The machine literally thinks it's the boss of me.

The bootup times have been horrendous lately as well - I have generally been putting my system on standby instead of turning it off since I've been living here in order to preserve settings that I can't be bothered saving. Lazy, amirite? Guess I had to expect my PC to rebel against me at some point.

Hey, since I have a Windows 7 CD that I borrowed from Dan, I might as well wipe my disk and start again, having successfully avoided the catastrophe that was Windows Vista - never had it on my own computer.

So far, so good. I have yet to start installing drivers - Firefox is the first and only thing I've installed as I write this, but we'll see how it goes.

Oh, I have a suspicion that 7 handles IRQs differently, which may resolve my firewire interface's inability to process mic-level signals for recording purposes. Here's hoping - a firewire card I bought sure as hell didn't work.

In conclusion: Unless you skimmed the entire post until this point, I'm sorry I made you read this.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Moar Reggie Watts

Damn near killed myself laughing during the bridge...

Friday, July 17, 2009

Listening to Drukqs, one of Aphex Twin's albums. Awesome.

Just

freakin'

awesome.

That is all.

A Thing... 

...about autotune. I found it interesting.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Learning... 

Scales.

Yeah*. 'Bout bloody time.



*This time I mean it.

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