Ouch, McKinnon extradition emminent…
Who the fuck were they trying to kid anyway — trying to prevent the USA from getting their scapegoat: Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to US.
If he is prevented from committing suicide, and if he’s technically any good, he is most probably going to end up working for the US army.
Either way, good [...]
nekobee — mapping the controls to the M-Audio X-Session Pro
 by in Computers & Hardware, Music, Software |
I was tinkering with Nekobee today and wanted it to respond to the top two rows of 4 knobs each on my M-Audio X-Session Pro MIDI controller. This, so I can easily tweak the sound using those knobs rather than using the mouse…
I had to use ‘midimon’ to find the correct values and changed [...]
The Art Of Noise feat. RAKIM
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
Wow, under what stone have I been living?
As a young kid I bought almost all the Art Of Noise’s music. Likewise, Rakim (of Eric B and Rakim fame) has been an inspiration as well…
And I only just now discovered they once did a collaboration together… Sweet!
knobs-20091116 (Mixxx)
| by in Computers & Hardware, Software |
I once decided to create new skin for Mixxx a long time ago.
But never gotten further than the actual script that generates all the different states of a “volume knob”:
As I never shall get around to finishing my own skin anyway, I have posted a sample of these knobs to the Mixxx mailing list [...]
Native Instruments AUDIO4DJ & jackd & mixxx
| by in Computers & Hardware, Software |
I’ve been trying to optimise my laptop so I could get Mixxx, an open source DJ-ing application, to run on it smoothly. The only thing I hadn’t tried yet was using the JACK Audio Connection Kit, i.e. JACK. Word is that audio applications using JACK have very low latency.
The best I could get Mixxx to [...]
NVIDIA nvagp/agpgart module woes…
| by in Computers & Hardware, HOWTOs, Software |
So I was trying to optimise a laptop for audio playback and wanted the NVIDIA driver to use the its own NvAGP rather than the linux supplied ‘agpgart’ module. The reason being that the performance may be better, and I have this obsession with optimisation…
This wasn’t as easy as it seemed as for [...]
