Apple has announced the first of their laptops that have intel chips called “MacBooks.” These are about 4x faster than the old ones. Good thing I just bought one about 4 months ago.
For probably the first time ever, I bet Apple’s laptops are faster than their desktops.
Better dump your old powerbooks on ebay fast.
And how dumb sounding is “macbook?”
Hello fellow musicians and friends! It has been since September 2005 that the Pro Sound Blog Forum has been running. A hacker brought the site down completely. I had the same thing happen to two other forums I ran on the same forum software. One forum was quite large and I HAD to figure out how to recover it.
Long story short, I’ve recovered all the users and posts and installed a different forum software that is less “popular” and hopefully less prone to hacking. The only items missing are most likely attached image files and avatars so you’ll need to reload them. Other than that all is working! I’ll be working to make the “look” into something better down the road.
This board was never the biggest on the web, but it was a great spot for some very talented and smart musicians to talk about their trade. So I invite you to come back to the forum and let’s get this board rolling again!
The forum is now in a new web location: http://forum.prosoundblog.com
Since my switch from the dreaded blogger lame ass blogging software to Wordpress I’m now able to take advantage of some new features here.
I’m now working on categorizing all the posts. I have 8 categories currently:
Boneheads: A category dedicated to stupid people and the things they do.
Gear: Recording gear, musicial instruments, computers or any gear I deal with.
Gigs: Stories about my gigs or other peoples gigs.
Random: A blanket category when nothing else works.
Rants: When shit pisses me off I use this category.
Recording: Recording studio war stories, recording techniques etc.
Uncategorized: Means I have yet to decide what category to put the post in.
Now some posts may have multiple categories. For example: A dumbass musician jumps on my stage and plays my drums. He’s drunk and he breaks my snare head and won’t get away from my kit. That post alone could be a combined boneheads, gear, gigs, musicians and rants. I can already see that the boneheads and musicians categories will be selected together many times.
I’m about 25% of the way through categorizing the old posts so be patient.
Back in the old days at my favorite drum shop (no longer around), my buddy had a drum pad there with a pair of sticks. Drum customers would grab the sticks and play that pad as fast as they could for 60 seconds and challenge the drum salesman. Very seldom did anyone beat the drum salesman in this speed duel. I may have once or twice.
Now there’s a box you can pick up which can measure up to 99,999 strokes over time to measure how many strokes you can actually play. There’s even a world wide contest called the WFD (world’s fastest drummer). The contest even has it’s own babes, “the girls of WFD.” Maybe if I enter the contest I can get a babe. I might be able to beat it even faster with the help of the “girls of WFD.”
The world record is held by Mike Mangini, with 1,274 strokes in 60 seconds.
Back in the beginnings of analog synthesis there was a brilliant guy named Nyle Steiner. He was a genius at building modular analog synthesizers. He also built many analog synthesizer based wind instruments. His creations looked like they were straight out of Frankenstein’s lab.
Now YOU can be a modern day Steiner and build your own synths with do-it-yourself kits from Music From Outerspace .com.
They’re cheap too.
Guitar maker Brian Moore is now making a USB guitar.
Why USB?
Just plug the iGuitar into the USB port any computer and get direct access any your favorite computer based recording program or guitar effects program.
- Built-in USB digital audio connects your guitar directly to you computer
- Record instantly in your favorite application such as Garageband. Logic or Cakewalk
- Play directly into the latest software programs such as Guitar Rig by Native Instruments and Amplitube Live by IK Multimedia
- Line level signal – No external audio-interface pre-amplification required
- Class Compliant – No need to load special software drivers
- Bus powered- no 9V battery necessary
- Available on all models (most are in stock)
Remember the Mellotron? It was keyboard built in the 60’s which played tape loops of samples like strings, voices etc. The machine would roll a tape loop and vary the speed of the tape depending on the pitch of the key played. They sounded very cool on old Beatles and Genesis albums.
Here’s a modern day version of the Mellotron. All those tiny little black items are individual walkmans. Very cool.
Here’s the guy’s site: http://mysterycircuits.com/melloman/melloman.html
Good grief what the hell is this thing? I thought that Sony in the last post was cool but this Aaton Cantar-X rocks! 8 simultaneous channels of recording onto an internal 127 gig 2.5″ hard drive or flash memory. It has tons of controls including having actual faders for those touchy feely type engineers. Up to 96Khz sampling and built in CDR burner? Wow. There’s no price on their site…that means it is sssspendy.
How about the cool bluetooth remote? Awesome.
