Ronin Now Available....
Okay, that was an exciting morning. I thought I found a bug in Ronin, but it turned out to be a bug in the driver for my audio hardware. Yikes. Anyhow, Ronin is now available for purchase. Go forth and git you some. A…
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The Book Of Faces...
I finally bowed to peer pressure (well, family pressure, more to the point) and opened a Facebook account. My justification for not doing so, which has served me well since the service's inception, was as follows: I…
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We Few, We Happy Few...
Seems everything is sorted and done with Ronin, and we're doing something we hardly ever (well, never, so far) do at AD, and that's a wide beta. If you were a previous owner of the original Ronin, the new one is now in…
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Hail Hail Rock And... Errr....
Oh, god, there's two of 'em. Now, Rick Wakeman is the single most pompous person in the music industry, and pomposity is a trait I can get behind. Also, he can play circles around me and everyone I've ever met, by at…
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The Usual Monday Bullshit...
Just a general update on the State Of Things 'round these parts. In no particular order: 1\. The AU port of Ronin is hideously problematic, as we feared. (This is the main reason we deprecated it in the first place.)…
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Emotional Release...
I have to admit I'm a bit amused by the reaction to Roger Linn's announcement that the LinnDrum II has become more vaporous than it was before (as if that was possible.) One commenter on Create Digital Music said the…
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Up From The Depths...
As was guessed by several people when I recently touched upon this topic, we've trekked down in to the cobwebbed cellars of the Audio Damage IP Storage Bunker with the special low-illumination blue-beamed flashlights…
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OOTO Open Thread...
It's time for my yearly pilgrimage to the High Desert of central Oregon, so I'm going to be out of the office from Sunday morning until Tuesday afternoon. In that light, what we have here is an Official Open Thread. The…
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And So It Goes...
My work on the next AD release is pretty much done, and now it's all up to Adam. This one should be fairly quick, though. The Windows side of things just needs a couple little issues ironed out, but it is otherwise…
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Chains of Chains...
One of the things that makes Jeremy a fun collaborator is his militant insistence on running virtually every sound through his seemingly bottomless arsenal of analog effects. If it can alter a sound and doesn't have…
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O Purple, How Do I Love Thee?
Purple Audio hooked a brother up with some custom-machined aluminum knobs for the World's Most Expensive CS5. Much thanks to Andrew + Ed, and now the little feller (the which definitely needs a name by now) has controls…
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Pre-Visualization...
Back when I was thinking about maybe getting in to maybe possibly playing live one day, I used to fill reams of notebooks with pencil drawings of stage set-ups. I think I visualized how the stage would look long before…
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What He Twat...
As I spent a lazy afternoon munching on the soft pretzels my wife made today, I let my eyes glaze over as I stared at Twhirl, with its never-ending parade of "I am here, doin this" comments. (Guilty as charged.) Then…
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Memorial Day Bullshit...
For our foreign readers, today is a holiday in America. It is ostensibly the day when we're supposed to honor all the US soldiers that have died in various wars. Truthfully, though, it is generally understood to be the…
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Wave Your Nerd Flag...
Had a brief RT60 session this morning, but I don't have anything new to show you this time, as we only did some overdubs on an existing song using gear I already took pictures of. We did track some drums for a new song…