the Great Reinstall of 2009

Stories will be told, songs will be sung… many a campfire will be lit and… Oh, never mind. The music software on my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) computer was getting unstable, I think because I messed in the registry. Rewiring Project5 into Sonar 8 would crash both every time, and several of my virtual instruments wouldn’t [...]

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New DAW is working…

Finally dealt with MOTU (Mark of the Unicorn) tech support and confirmed that the driver was choking on the machine having 4 Gig of memory… took one 2G stick out (and placed it carefully in one of those anti-static bags) and restarted, and viola! I’m now getting sound from my music programs. Hopefully soon they’ll [...]

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Various updates.

Well, the Players band had a busy day yesterday… we played the main stage at artscape 2007 (pics here) in Baltimore, opening for the Isley Brothers, and then rocked on over to Annapolis to open for the Pietasters at the Whiskey. There may even be quicktime movies in the offing at some point if Angie (who [...]

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Home

Not much going on… the DAW is running well, except for the fact that my MOTU soundcard drivers are not co-operating: they’re not producing any sound. I get meter activity, but no sound comes out. I know the speakers are working, I know the cables are wired correctly, the music software works if I use [...]

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The new DAW… Pics!

The photos of my progress building the computer (on which I am now typing) are here on Flickr. The build went well except for PSU confusion. It seems I didn’t need to go out and spend an additional $100 on a dual-PCI-e connector PSU because the cards I got don’t need additional power. I had [...]

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The new DAW

Was well enough today (friday) that I went ahead and built the computer. Working well, got Vista installed also. Will update with a long post with (hopefully) pictures. Till then? Nitey nite.

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Quite a chassis…

…. if I do say so myself. Came UPS today. An Antec Take 4 rackmount computer case (or ‘chassis’). Looks gorgeous. Size seems to be perfect to fit in a standard full-size audio rack, as I was repeatedly assured by a number of people. Not too heavy, in spite of it’s solid construction. Actually lighter [...]

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Odd sort of limbo

…is what I’m in. I’ve looked carefully at my finances and it’s clear that I can’t simply buy new parts and build the new computer (the old one died). I’m going to have to do it slowly and carefully, laying in the tall grass for a part to be available at the lowest possible price, and [...]

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