Archive for February, 2001

TiBook!

Wednesday, February 28th, 2001

TXT:: Finally it’s here…I’ve spent the last day transferring over files and installing applications to my new powerbook. It’s unbelievably quiet! with the exception of the internal fan which kicks in on occasion when it starts to run a bit hot. As you can see, Reason runs fine on it!
This latest site update is also […]

AMIII Digital Input Behavior

Sunday, February 25th, 2001

TXT:: I discovered something interesting recently with the AMIII card and Reason and the Digi 5.01 drivers. If you have an external digital clock source connected to the S/PDIF inputs, set the Digidesign control panels to synchronize to the digital inputs, and the Reason CPU usage drops dramatically when set to Sound Manager Output. It […]

Hellfire

Wednesday, February 21st, 2001

I received a new aquisition today: a Metasonix TS-21 Hellfire Modulator. This was the thing I ordered through the drum machine museum a few weeks ago. First, let me say this thing is f*cking PHAT. The Vacuum Tube circuitry makes a huge difference in warmth and fidelity, and amazingly this translates to the digital realm […]

Troubles with Spectrasonics

Thursday, February 15th, 2001

Well, I’ve been busted… I received an E-mail from Eric Persing at Spectrasonics asking me to remove the Archer24Public.RPS file from the web because using a ReCycle’d drum loop from the Retro Funk sample Library is a violation of their licensing policy. I mentioned this might occur in the last newsletter, and it took all […]

Drum Machine Museum

Friday, February 9th, 2001

I was up in SF today, and dropped in to visit the Drum Machine Museum. This loft studio space in the middle of San Francisco is loaded with wide variety of analog devices as well as collectable beat boxes. Mickey T. was kind enough to allow me and my friend in to check out his […]

CC Guest Access

Wednesday, February 7th, 2001

Guest Access to Computer Controlled HL Server has been disabled because of a constant barrage of Spam attacks. To login to the server, connect, as usual, to: hotline.computercontrolled.com and use the login: ccguest
For those people with accounts already established on the server, there will be no interruption of access. The FTP access will remain the […]