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Took this photo up in Cairns last year of the windmills.

My next muso machine AMD Athlon™ 64 4400+ Processor Retail (939) Dual Core Thermaltake Blue Orb II (P4 S775, AMD S754, S939, S940) ASUS A8N-SLI- PREMIUM nForce 4 SLI Socket 939 Motherboard 2048 PQI PC3200 400MHz DDR Dual Channel Series (2X1024MB) Western Digital 250G SATAII 7200 rpm HDD Western Digital 250G SATAII 7200 rpm HDD Albatron 128MDDR PC6600GT PCI Express Video LG DVD16X+- Super Multi DVD Rewriter with Software(DUAL LAYER Black )4167BBK Antec Top Quality Sonata II Quiet Black Case

The new year is out and basically DAWs are here to stay. I've been looking for an upgrade from my US-428 which has been serving me faithfully for the last few of years from the time I remembered getting it when it first came out. Frontier designs have done a great job in thinking up really niffy products. Most recently, the wireless tranzport. So which new DAW will I be spending my hard earned money. Magazines like future music and computer music used to have issues for buying studios under a budget and home studio makeovers with limited cash. We probably wouldn't see that much of those articles anymore as home studios are more popular and the choices of products are ridulous. Any studio makeover is bound to be sponsored by the product's company. So where do we start? I normally try to look at products that not going to be discontinued or I'm sure will have a long running support (for my intended use lifespan). Even if there may be a product that has kick ass specs, if ...

The whole CNY cleanup time normally finds other odd items that appear and find their way to a bin. Here's a picture I took of my BNC connectors that I used to rely on for building my LANs. Before I could throw away these precious things, I decided to take a picture as momento. Now presenting. The bnc-vari-spaceship, *pheeuuuuu* .. *zap* *zap*

Earlier this month, I was sitting in a secondary school music technology class and heard MIDI was described as the dinosaur of music technology. Which in actual fact it is, but who doesn't love still it? For people who has moved on to loops (which was what that class was supposed to be about), maybe its not used as much, but should not be disregarded. After the class the teacher told me when we were having the conversation that he loved his VSTs and wouldn't know what to do without them. Instead of looking at full bodied products like the muse receptor or the tc powercores, which only if you had like lots of spare cash can afford and of course stability meant a lot, other methods of distributed processing seems out of reach. For those who dont know that MIDI over ethernet already exists, it does. I think this is a great evolution for MIDI to really make effective use over a bus which everyone has and doesn't use very often. I should actually start a "take pity on your...

I'm not entirely sure, but maybe from this message from dmesg. hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=0, sector=0 ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=63, sector=63 hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: DMA timeout error hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: DMA disabled My colllegue was shocked when I mentioned I buy an average of 2-3 hard drives a year for personal consumption. So I told him that I have more than 3 machines at home with different age groups, it is natural that these drives die and need to be replaced. The most awful thing about this is that you loose your data which I have several times in the past. I'm sure faithful readers of this blog ...

Rebirth is now in a museum and free for downloading. Pick it up now to know what you have missed all this while. Its still fun to play with. Basically the download is just a torrent file, got get on torrenting if you dont already have a bittorrent client. You will need to register and download it at the http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/