Well, there's nothing like research.

Having determined that DDR5 is going to carry a substantial price premium over DDR4 memory for at least a year -- assuming that you can *find* it -- and that the observed performance benefits from having it are sharply limited; and having determined by observation that the available motherboards tend to only have ( Read more... )

The studio computer continues to misbehave in various ways. When I fired up Cubase today, I got a lot of nasty, blocky video, despite having cleaned up the Nvidia drivers earlier. I checked the cable connections, which did something to improve the blockiness, but then Cubase crashed out while playing audio, which wasn't encouraging. I set Cubase ( Read more... )

I took a load of laundry to the basement today and figured I would spend a bit of time in the studio today looking at some Cubase features and seeing if I could learn a few things. I learned a few things, but they weren't what I intended to learn.

The video on the studio computer has been a little glitchy in the Chrome browser lately, for reasons ( Read more... )

I had planned to build a new studio computer over Christmas break, but various parts shortages prevented this. I've concluded that I could probably go ahead and build the computer now, but it is not going to be cheap and I can't get all of the parts that I want anywhere from the look of things.

I want the unlocked i7 Alder Lake chip. That's ( Read more... )

Happy New Year!

Today is the next-to-last day of my vacation and there are still *way* too many things that aren't done the way that they should be. But I continue to work on moving the pile.

Today, I have washed two weeks of my shirts, which keeps me up-to-date there. I also have washed the lightweight comforter so it can be packed up until the ( Read more... )

There are a great many things being dangled in front of me by the various Black Friday, Cyber Monday, please spend money ads that are showing up in my mailbox. So far, I have resisted pretty much everything except the $49 upgrade to one of my software suites down in the studio.

I think this is a serious show of resistance. :)

I am downloading and installing the latest updates on the recording computer. A bit of investigation indicates that it is twelve years old, which explains why it seems to be slow. The computer in the studio is, if I recall correctly, at least seven years old and being a bit long in the tooth as well.

I foresee new computers in my future, although ( Read more... )

The new DVI cable has replaced the mess of VGA cabling that used to connect to the monitor in the studio. It looks a lot better now. :)

So I was down in the studio doing some more mixing today. We'll see how that comes out.

Unfortunately, in a fit of "let's make a small adjustment here" to the angle of the monitor that sits nearly flat in front of the keyboard, I managed to dislodge the VGA cable. Nothing I have managed to do will get it back into the plug.

So I have ordered a DVI ( Read more... )

Today, despite a monstrous big thunderstorm this morning, I have taken K to pick up her supplies at school, dropped off a bunch of comb binding materials at the church where we early donated the rest of the comb binding materials, had lunch with Gretchen, and gone down to the studio and mixed down five tracks, which I *think* sound promising.

I ( Read more... )