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my mind was 2001-02-25... Sound Forge 5.0 has finally crossed my way, I installed it this morning but just had a chance for a brief look. Seems like the perfect match for Cubase 5.0(which is solidly installed, of course), since it now handles both 24bit and 32bit floating point-audio ! Great. I guess I will be using these two together for a while now, and leave Cool Edit out in the cold. I experimented some by improving the quality of one of "Oneliner":s(linked yesterday) mp3:s I grew found of: "Solid thing". I lowered the internal output of his mp3 by 5% and added a +3-value of Sonic Foundry 5.0:s built in "enhancer"(great stuff). Voila ! All the sudden the rough edges where gone, and this home-made mp3 started to sound very, very professional. I don´t have time for more playing around right now, have to go out, but I´ll come back - hopefully with something I have made ;) 2001-02-24 "Oneliner" is the artist-name of the guy I was debating Mac vs PC with, some gloomy day over at the idg-forum(linked in the right sidebar). Despite each other´s potential liking/disliking, so have I taken myself the freedom to share a small link to mp3.com here, where you can find some of his work as mp3:s(and even buy a CD). I hope he doesn´t get mad at me for this, but I think they´re worth listening at 'cause they are a good example of what a single guy can accomplish with "just" a home-computer. So here´s the link: "Oneliner" , I believe he´s quite talented indeed ;) For myself, I´m going to take a look at the movie "The talented Mr. Ripley" right now(Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow). I
can just make a quick note, that I´ve been running some different
Whistler/XP builds lately(2428 was the latest) - they work/look great,
really quick start and snappy handling which get betters build by build,
but I sincerely think MS should be taking a serious re-think about their
"product activation"-feature. May be a good cause(mabe not),
but as all Windows share some similar problems which requires occasional
re-installs and since the idea of a PC is to change/upgrade parts of
it(especially if you are a musician) - so does the idea of a feature
which requires you to call MS by Phone for a activation
number after every big move on your PC(yes, they can control
the entire functionality of your personal copy of Windows just by using
different activation codes*brrrrrr*) look purely silly, not talking
about how disgusting it is that MS want´s to control and monitor
the entire usage pattern of your workstation ! If MS don´t find
for good to skip this so called "feature" before Windows XP
goes gold, then I can never recommend anyone to use any later Windows
versions than those we are stuck with today. In that case; Windows Me
and Windows 2000 will be the work-horses we´ll be stuck with for
a considerable amount of time('til MS bans their own "feature"
in their first service-pack for XP or 'til Linux get´s good enough
at multi-media for everyday use). Sad to see that MS is getting so desperate
to generate a steady income, that they focus more on binding up costumers
than to produce attractive software/services that people choose by free
will, mabe a sign that MS has reached and passed the middle-age of company
and has no real innovation left to benefit from. Looking for innovation
? Look at the Linux-community and the philosphy of GPL:ed-software... 2001-02-11 Back in Dreamweaver 4 ! What a great program, at this incarnation I can´t think of many features missing. Pitifully, so have it been quite bloated as Macromedia have added stuff. Now it is very slow during some manouvres with my old PII-300, it´s obvious one is expected to use at least a Celeron or Duron 800MHz to sport this program. Sad, as dreamweaver was pretty fast up to version 3. Not such a big trouble anyway, as it is still fast in edit mode, and it´s great to have a double pane with a real text-editor. And I can always shut down some other programs to make the computer slightly faster, but a warning is still in it´s place, if you know you have an old computer like me: use one of the old versions, if you can get by. Probably, there will be a 4.01 with trimmed code wich should be faster. And probably it will be faster with the new Windows XP, when it arrives, as it has much better XML-support(Dreamweaver is to a great extent written in XML) and XP is based on the NT-kernel with much better memory management than the stoneage Windows Me I´m using at the moment. I do have Win2k on this computer, as you know, but I haven´t had time to move much programs to it - it´s easier to boot up in one environment and continue using it with different apps. I know that is wrong. My first priority should be my music apps, and i should have used Windows Me clean with music apps alone. Win2k should have been the programming environment. Of course I´ll figure it out better next time I do a clean install, probably when XP arrives, I guess I have to keep Me a while "after XP" because of the music apps - even though XP is said to have much better compability with older apps I´m not personally so sure when it comes to music production stuff. That will eventually clear out itself as newer apps starts to be Win2k/XP ready. Right now I´m using four(4) OS:s on this same computer, starts getting a little confusing to track what I´m doing myself haha.. Now, I don´t think I have time to do the update on this site today, I´m a little eager to make some "root rock" on the computer instead. I was listening to old sabbath stuff earlier today, and now I´m listening at Mike Scott:s album "Still Burning" on the computer. Real simple rock. I was thinking of using a microphone on my garbage guitar-amp and absolutely no effects. Just drums and bass. I like a naked guitar sound, and less is more as you all know...( I had a discussion this week on an online forum with some dude who was bragging about how many simultaneous channels he could record on a Mac G3, mabe he is right - mabe a G3 can record more channels than a PII-300, but frankly: I don´t care. I don´t have time to manage more channels than those I have single-handedly. And I do know that I should really concentrate more on making songs instead of playing around with my computer. And I know I should concentrate more on finishing programming projects when I do use this computer than writing a site or dead-surfing or chatting. There is so much more I should do in my life....) See Ya / Per 2001-02-05
Update ? It will come, not just yet...Anyway, incomplete and an
always ongoing project as this site might be, so have I been "linked"
from the eminent Swedish guitar-mag Fuzz.
This small detail gives me strong motivation for the future, I really
have to shape up, just time that keeps spanking me. As always. I also
have to mention what seems to be a great guy, who happened to write
in my guestbook: He has a site called Guitarland,
and have done some progress on his site way beyond myself. Itīs really
worth a visit(Aah - good to have a competitor...rises motivation). Hmm,
a couple of links actually...reminds me of the fact that I have to look
over my link-pages for a major update...like the rest of the site, of
course. Whatever the shape of things, so do I think Iīve come to the
point where Iīve gotten enough positive feedback to rest assured Iīm
on the right track with this site. I just have to be more of a "doer"
than a "dreamer", but that should be easier at this stage
than earlier when I was just confused over the direction of my web-presense.
Keep checking back for the much needed updates...(written in perfect
boredom at work) 2000-12-28
So here I am !
I strongly suspect you havenīt missed me ? Ok. I can handle that. Iīve
had some other fun stuff going on lately instead, forget that Christmas/New
Years Eve crap. I once again surrendered and reinstalled Win2k on my
system. It was a while since. So now I triple boot; Windows Me/Win2k/Mandrake
7.2. Itīs just FreeBSD 4.2 still missing there. So what forced me to
this drastic move to once again embrace Win2k ? Well, curiosity killed
the cat, they say. I found a download site for Service Pack 2 RC2.52
for Win2k. I couldnīt resist to test it, of course. So I pulled in my
not so beloved Win2k disk, installed the shebang after 12 hours of low-level
formatting NTFS ??? And then came SP2. And ? Nothing, it just works,
and this is still a beta-version. Works just fine, thatīs it. Mabe,
just mabe, Windows NT have found a home on my hard-drives ? And more
? Ooh, I just have to tell you I found this really great notepad replacement
I naturally used to make this small update.
"Programmers Notepad"
. Itīs amazing. Itīs about the best and easiest source-code editor Iīve
used, it does have some useful features, but basically it is how it
handles and formats pure source code which really sticks out ! Iīve
never been hacking pure HTML this fluent as with this editor. Donīt
forget to hide all itīs disturbing, if helpful, extra windows and just
use the text input area cause thatīs the excellent part. I wonder where
they found the text engine for this ? And, Yeah, I almost forgot: Itīs
Freeware ! Sure, good old "Ultra Edit" could give this editor
a run, but never for free. And, excuse me, I even think this shit is
better as for the shear text editing part. Lucky me. Oh Oh....I have
to go home from work now.... 2000-01-15 2000-01-021999-12-261999-12-181999-12-111999-12-03(
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