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... )

So Julie is trying to figure out how to watch videos on her phone as she falls asleep in her bed while still making sure that the phone has charge in the morning. This is, in theory, simple. You just have to make sure that the phone is plugged in and charging.

This afternoon, Julie told me that the phone was not charging and asked me to take a ( 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... )

So I was thinking about this the other day and decided that it was entertaining enough to me that I wanted to write it up. Your mileage may vary, but this is the story of the televisions that I've owned.

When I headed off for college, my parents bought me a non-descript black and white portable TV for me to have in my dorm room. This was a good ( Read more... )

I would hope to be getting more things done, but it's vacation, I guess. There are a bunch of things that *do* need to be finished up this week and I am gradually getting to them.

Today, we picked up the Christmas debris from the living room. Also, I took advantage of the cleared kitchen table to set up the mixer and connect it to the new ( 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 have concluded that I need to relax and let the supply of Alder Lake motherboards, chips, and DDR5 memory sort themselves out before thinking about upgrading the studio computer. (Having the graphics card situation clear up would *also* be nice, but let's not wait for miracles.)

But there is *nothing* that I need so badly in a studio computer ( Read more... )

I have been running around in so many stupid ways in the last couple of years that I keep acquiring pieces of gear, playing with them a little bit, and then setting them aside before getting anywhere with them. This practice needs to stop.

Thus, today I actually recorded a scratch track with my Spire Studio and iPad. The combo has been sitting ( Read more... )