Freeganism

My wife was watching an Oprah show about this so I looked it upon on good ol’ Wikipedia.

Wow, these people make vegans look like ultra-right-wingers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegan

Dumpster diving – . . . → Read More: Freeganism

Musician’s Friend – Save up to $150 until March 4

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Buying an Apogee Duet

I think I’m going to buy the Apogee Duet as my Firewire audio interface:

I’m going to try to use a 10% off code from GuitarCenter.com even though Apogee doesn’t seem to be on the allowed . . . → Read More: Buying an Apogee Duet

Audio interfaces

Ah, what audio interface to buy for doing some simple 2 channel recordings into my MacBook Pro?

There’s the Presonus Firebox ($300), which I borrowed from a friend. Sounds pretty good, although the preamp gain (45 dB) is not stellar and no inserts for sticking something like a compressor. It seems to work pretty well in Leopard, . . . → Read More: Audio interfaces

Quick little jam with Logic Express

A few days ago I tried Logic Express for the first time and here’s what came out of a few minutes of noodling with the drum loops and some of the guitar effect plugins.

Marc messing around with Logic Express

The drums are loops, but the bass and guitar are me.

I’m planning to spend more time with . . . → Read More: Quick little jam with Logic Express

Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3

WordPress 2.3.3 has been released.

$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3
U wp-includes/gettext.php
U wp-includes/version.php
U wp-includes/pluggable.php
C xmlrpc.php
U wp-admin/install-helper.php
Updated to revision 6736.

This release has security fixes so I suggest you do the same ASAP if you’re a . . . → Read More: Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3

XO Wave Free

While cruising freshmeat the other day, I stumbled upon a free multi-track digital audio program called XO Wave.

I played with it. I didn’t care for the UI, which was very un-Mac-like and looked like it might’ve resulted from porting the app from another platform. I also found the latency to be pretty poor (this is with . . . → Read More: XO Wave Free