Mac v. PC Ads are Pissing Me Off

OK, so I loved the one with the bloated PC, because it's true.

Maybe I shouldn't hate the one I saw tonight about how "Macs don't get those cryptic error messages" as much as I do, but I have to tell you, I'd rather get an error message than nothing.

I say this because at the Mesa studio tonight, all I wanted to do was burn a CD of my ProTools project, and the stupid Mac not only wouldn't let me, but kept "not-crashing" - meaning it wouldn't crash, but it wouldn't give me an error either.

Is that really better?

I'd rather see something that let me know something was really wrong and KNOW I had to reboot than see a message that said, "Oh, hold on for an indefinite amount of time..." and then finally accept that I had to reboot.

Consequently, the much-touted Mac never did let me burn that CD.

LTJ Bukem in San Diego Friday 20 April, 2007

From the Giant mailer, Drum n Bass legend LTJ Bukem is spinning at Belo this Friday night. Hopefully it will be a better experience than when Kaskade rocked the, um, plastic there about a year ago. My friend Tony called him out for not spinning a single record.

And hopefully he won't bring the awful, dreaded MC Conrad with him. Yee-uck.

LTJ Bukem in San Diego - click here for the discount list,

Mesa Studio

I've been working in a studio at Mesa recently, and I have to say that it's actually pretty decent. I'm not big on Macs, nor am I very impressed with ProTools itself, but it's nice to work with a different platform. It's also really nice to finally have some validation on the stuff I've been doing in the studio for the last eight years. Also, it's nice to work with a Mackie board. It's got some nice features.

There have been a few moments in lecture where I've thought, "Ah ha! So that's what that is!!" Although those moments are few and far between these days. I think I learned more at the very beginning of the class and I'm learning less and less as time progresses. I guess that's ok. The one class I missed was all about electricity and how it travels, I really wish I would have been there for that one, but I think the prof did a good summary of that class at the beginning of the next one.

We finished our first project, a cartoon, complete with dialog. We didn't have a lot of time to add music, so it's pretty sparse on that front, but I'll post it here when I get a copy of it next week.

I'm excited for the next projects, both individual free-form, except that one has to use only Digital Performer 4 (and sound modules). Not sure what I'll do yet, but you can bet I'll post the final product here when it's ready.

Track - Conversations With God

I wrote and recorded this one in about two hours using:

Live 6.0.5
Guitar Rig 2
Battery 3
Absynth 3
My Ibanez locking-neck guitar

Dark, downtempo, twisted fun

Conversations With God