May 9, 2012
Various Things...
by Chris Randall
Been a busy few days 'round here.
1. I went to L.A. yesterday. While I was there, I got a tour of NI's LA office. They have a nice office. It's just like the Audio Damage offices, except in a big building on the Sunset Strip, and with no empty monster cans lying about, and as far as I can tell, no cat hair.
2. Tattoo is now 32/64-bit on all platforms, and version 1.1.2 is in the AD store for download. The only one of our commercial products left to do now is... uh... I know there's one left but I can't think of which one it is, because I just woke up and there's no caffeine in the house. Dr. Device, maybe?
3. New set from Standard Beat Company, called Doom Dub. This is is, in my opinion, one of Wade's best collections. US$29.00, and a bargain at twice the price.
4. The vinyl of Unsuspected Sounds should be here today or tomorrow. As soon as it arrives, I'll begin shipping the pre-orders, in order of ordering. That should be hilarious. I'll also put up the numbers so far. I haven't added everything up yet at this juncture, but I'm not losing my shirt. Only a tank top and a pair of socks.
1. I went to L.A. yesterday. While I was there, I got a tour of NI's LA office. They have a nice office. It's just like the Audio Damage offices, except in a big building on the Sunset Strip, and with no empty monster cans lying about, and as far as I can tell, no cat hair.
2. Tattoo is now 32/64-bit on all platforms, and version 1.1.2 is in the AD store for download. The only one of our commercial products left to do now is... uh... I know there's one left but I can't think of which one it is, because I just woke up and there's no caffeine in the house. Dr. Device, maybe?
3. New set from Standard Beat Company, called Doom Dub. This is is, in my opinion, one of Wade's best collections. US$29.00, and a bargain at twice the price.
4. The vinyl of Unsuspected Sounds should be here today or tomorrow. As soon as it arrives, I'll begin shipping the pre-orders, in order of ordering. That should be hilarious. I'll also put up the numbers so far. I haven't added everything up yet at this juncture, but I'm not losing my shirt. Only a tank top and a pair of socks.
11 comments:
When you refresh plugs do you refresh the installers? I break shit a lot, and re-installing all the AD plugs is a job that involves entering Serial #s a couple of different ways, and circumventing different default target directories. There's always a couple of plugins that don't end up where I want them, somehow. Like the older plugs go into e.g. c:program filesvstplugins which on Windows 7 64-bit is the 64-bit program files directory.
Never tried it but I wonder if zipping up the AD plugin directory and unpacking it on the new machine would do the trick... which is to say I don't know if you take the registration code and cunningly hide it in the Windows Registry somewhere...
Never tried it but I wonder if zipping up the AD plugin directory and unpacking it on the new machine would do the trick... which is to say I don't know if you take the registration code and cunningly hide it in the Windows Registry somewhere...
Yes, Ronin.
@chaircrusher: There is stuff cunningly (well, not cunningly at all) hidden in the Registry, yes. When you move the plugs to a new machine or whatever, they need to be re-installed. Technically speaking, an update doesn't require the installer, but to save multiple points of confusion, we go ahead and just do it that way. It's a bit of a pain if you have multiple products (I know, because I just installed all 28-odd on my new Windows machine) but honestly, it only takes a minute or two per. Compare that with something huge, and you have multiple huge things, and it's really quite mild in the scheme of things.
-CR
@chaircrusher: There is stuff cunningly (well, not cunningly at all) hidden in the Registry, yes. When you move the plugs to a new machine or whatever, they need to be re-installed. Technically speaking, an update doesn't require the installer, but to save multiple points of confusion, we go ahead and just do it that way. It's a bit of a pain if you have multiple products (I know, because I just installed all 28-odd on my new Windows machine) but honestly, it only takes a minute or two per. Compare that with something huge, and you have multiple huge things, and it's really quite mild in the scheme of things.
-CR
For the record, the Rocky Mountain R&D branch of Audio Damage has no empty cans lying around. It does, however, have a lot of Japanese tea pots and tea cups. It also has far too much cat hair.
All plug-ins that have 64-bit versions on Windows (which is to say all of them except Ronin now) have new installers, which offer (out of necessity) different default directories for the 32- and 64-bit versions. At some point I tried to make these installers more intelligent about picking these default directories by examining an entry in the registry, as suggested by someone here (sorry, I've forgotten who that was). Which installers have that feature and how successful it is, I can't say with any certainty off the top of my head. However, I believe that the problem of older 32-bit products being put in the x64 program directory has been eliminated.
And that reminds me that I have to install our installer-maker software on my new PC, a task that makes installing the entire AD product line pale by comparison.
--Adam
All plug-ins that have 64-bit versions on Windows (which is to say all of them except Ronin now) have new installers, which offer (out of necessity) different default directories for the 32- and 64-bit versions. At some point I tried to make these installers more intelligent about picking these default directories by examining an entry in the registry, as suggested by someone here (sorry, I've forgotten who that was). Which installers have that feature and how successful it is, I can't say with any certainty off the top of my head. However, I believe that the problem of older 32-bit products being put in the x64 program directory has been eliminated.
And that reminds me that I have to install our installer-maker software on my new PC, a task that makes installing the entire AD product line pale by comparison.
--Adam
Cat hair neutralizes standing resonances in the listening environment, enabling more accurate discernment of the effects of changes in the DSP code.
Somehow I'm glad to hear that you're both Cat People... I am, sort of, and definitely was, were it not for the Allergies.
Suffice it to say that a good work space is also to some extent a living space, and not a show-how-trendy-we-are space.
Damn. I miss almost everything about being a software developer, except for that part about being a software developer.
Suffice it to say that a good work space is also to some extent a living space, and not a show-how-trendy-we-are space.
Damn. I miss almost everything about being a software developer, except for that part about being a software developer.
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