Monthly Archives: December 2009

Abstract

Posted on December 31, 2009 by midiguru

What better way to ring in the new year than by listening to a bunch of extremely abstract computer music? I can’t think of one. My copy of The Csound Book is ten years old. (It was a review copy … Continue reading →

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Hammer, Saw, Wrench

Posted on December 28, 2009 by midiguru

One of my Internet friends is putting together an online tutorial on TADS 3, a programming language for interactive fiction. I approve. I’ve written games in both TADS 3 and Inform 7 (and in Inform 6, come to think of … Continue reading →

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The Never-Ending Story

Posted on December 28, 2009 by midiguru

Wrote a review for Electronic Musician last month of Ableton Live 8.1 in the Max For Live incarnation. I’m not going to rehash the review here … the editors of EM wouldn’t like that. They want you to buy the … Continue reading →

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Sound Code

Posted on December 27, 2009 by midiguru

Now and then I decide to fritter away a few days poking away at Csound. I don’t know that I’ll ever complete a piece of music using it, but I get in certain moods where working with it is fun. I … Continue reading →

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That Deaf, Dumb & Blind Boy

Posted on December 25, 2009 by midiguru

On my local network here at home, my OS X 10.5 Macintosh can see the Shared folder on my older Windows XP laptop. But it can’t see anything on the new Windows 7 computer. Nor can the Win7 computer see the Mac. … Continue reading →

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Novel Possibilities

Posted on December 25, 2009 by midiguru

I sent my new novel off to my agent several weeks ago. Today I got around to printing out a complete copy of the final draft. I print out chapters as I write them, in case of computer disaster, but in … Continue reading →

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Laptop Orchestra

Posted on December 23, 2009 by midiguru

Yes, a laptop really is a musical instrument, or can be if you add the right software and a couple of hardware peripherals. A laptop orchestra, though? Check it out over at Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music site. What concerns … Continue reading →

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The New PC

Posted on December 22, 2009 by midiguru

Two weeks ago my MusicXPC laptop, which has been my main studio computer for the past year, started showing signs of instability. So for Christmas I bought myself a new Windows 7 tower machine (from Hewlett-Packard). Migrating to a new computer, … Continue reading →

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There & Back Again…

Posted on December 22, 2009 by midiguru

I took a break from blogging for 2-1/2 months. The reason being, I was working on a novel. I just didn’t feel a need to do any more writing than that! But the novel is now in the hands of … Continue reading →

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