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Well, 2021 has been a bit of a downer in a number of ways.

Enlightenment is a very underrated window manager choice, in my opinion.

This is a simple description of how I work 99% of the time, as I am a simpleton.

The Problem As of the day of posting, Plex Media Server has a suboptimal handling of Various Artists compilations.

I have recently been in hospital and been diagnosed with a condition that might mean I need to return quite a bit, at least in the short term.

Sometimes as a DJ you may want to reconstruct the Twitch stream you have streamed into a video format to send to other people, for promotional purposes, or just to have a record of what you’ve done.

As a DJ it is important to listen to the music in your collection so you get an idea of what would work in particular sets, and you have a memory of how the tracks progress.

Setup your new Turntable Follow this and only this guide.

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Updated: 25-11-22 My music library is around 24k files, mostly FLAC and some 320kbps MP3s.

I have retired the Novation SL Zero Mk1 MIDI controller that was causing me a lot of grief when I was running Resolume and Ableton Live at the same time, as its Automap functionality was locking on to the Ableton Live mixer in session view now and then, a…

I recently found a good price on a Vestax VCM-600 controller.

I think, for obvious reasons, 2020 has been a year that no-one could really have expected.

After the last post I have added Ableton Live and my Eurorack modular to my DJ setup, with a master clock being sent via MIDI cables from my Roland TR8 drum machine that syncs with Ableton.

The classic!

I thought I’d write a bit here about my Twitch DJing setup and some of the hardware and software I’m using.

Journalism has deteriorated to a huge degree in the online age.

The three sections Left 9U section Right 9U section Middle 9U section So.. finally my 27U Eurorack modular synthesiser is complete.

In our house, seperate to my main PC (see the tab above) we still have two Ivy Bridge-based PCs: Conny’s PC i7-3770K 16GB DDR3 RAM Nvidea Radeon 970 Graphics Card 250 GB SSD Windows 10 My wife uses this as her main PC, and plays quite a few games with it.

I have made some considerable modifications to my modular since my last post.

I thought I’d update my blog to reflect recent changes in my life, and review what was good and bad about them, as I was doing before.

I have been gradually adding parts to my PC so that it functions better for watching movies and gaming.

Finally I have finished my Eurorack synthesiser!

I couldn’t find a concise guide to setting this up quickly so thought it was worth a post.

In January 2015 I put in an order for my first Eurorack case.

Looking at my past posts, you may notice that I didn’t set myself any goals for 2016.

This is my current studio setup.

I am currently moving the blog, which was formerly hosted on Dreamhost, to Wordpress.com hosting.

In 2017 I want to build a relatively static hardware-based workflow.

With my current setup, I’m trying to make as much music ‘out of the box’ as possible, away from the computer as I find it more fun.

When I first started getting into computer roleplaying games in the 90s/00s I remember playing the Infinity Engine games by Bioware and Black Isle, such as Baldur’s Gate 2, the original Fallout games, and of course Planescape: Torment.

So.. the problem, as so many people have said, with getting into building a Eurorack modular synthesizer is that it becomes addictive, and you inevitably spend more than you can really afford.

These functions are quite handy, and allow you to do things such as copy and paste errors and google for them without having to manually open a browser.

I use a heavily customised setup for vIM, the text editor that annoys me the least in ~30 years of using a computer.

More adventures with Fish shell.

For my own benefit as much as anyone elses, I thought I’d document my PC audio setup.

A few months ago I switched across from Bash onto the Fish shell , on my main development machine.

So I got given a Digi 002 console version, which looks like this: A fairly old style digital audio interface and mixer, which was all the rage back in 2002 when it first came out, but now is often found sitting in the skip.

I thought it might be of some interest to describe how I use my Eurorack, at lot of the time, in making tracks.

At the start of 2015, I wrote down some goals for 2015 .

I have made a lot of different upgrades and modifications to my PC, as you can see here .

Recently I had noticed I’d been having quite bad problems with my fingers based on the fact that I had been scrolling the mouse wheel too much when scrolling through web pages.

As you can see , I buy a lot of bits and pieces for my PC.

I’ve just recently bought a Macbook Pro for myself, after having used a MBP at work for 4 years.

So, I have totally bought in to the home automation craze that is currently ’the next big thing’ in the technology world in 2015.

If you haven’t seen If This Then That.com then I encourage you to check it out.

I am learning JS for work.

Whether you agree with Myers-Briggs personality profiling or not, like fellow BBC’er Ian Forrester I have found them a useful frame of reference from which to discuss my personality, because I see similarities between my perception of me, and the classifi…

I’ve finished my 6U Eurorack case.

Some things I have been meaning to investigate in my own time, but haven’t, because life just gets in the way.