Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . .
… will only get you so far ….
The wall in question (removing a picture revealed the power supply, albeit one from a light fitting) Assuming that I am competent with a drill and can manage the TV mounting bracket here are the main issues: Power to the TVAudio out from the TV into my existing 5.1 amplifierCoaxial connection for standard TV signal... Continue Reading →
FL Studio already has a great "MPC -like" drum editor called the FPC (more info here) but this uses the drum samples that sit on your hard drive so what happens if you want to utilise the kits from an MC-101 - and specifically audition the kits at Mix Down to see if other kits... Continue Reading →
I have my MC101 connected to my PC using a USB Cable with the audio out connected via my Audio Interface (Scarlett Focusrite in my case) The whole process is deceptively simple: Midi Setup for my MC101 (Port Number is not important as long as it is the same for input and output) Step 1... Continue Reading →
Now 25 years old an enterprising developer has been recreating the UI and functionality of this classic O/S as a runnable App.Its an on-going project but has reached a level of maturity that makes it worth a look for anyone curious to try it! Go on - give it a go, you know you want... Continue Reading →
So at some point after my Father retired he told me a story about when he was on one of his holidays with my Mum and the guide made reference to recounting early childhood memories (detail below) - this got my Dad thinking and when he returned he decided to recount his own - this... Continue Reading →
The follow up to Roland's classic D-50 I had been keen to take a look at exactly what a "Super L.A. Synthesis" Synthesizer can do for some time .... Symptoms were the classic "No RAM Card" and also loss of internal pre-sets as a result of a dead internal CMOS battery (but little did I... Continue Reading →
So I happened to be down the end of our garden this morning when I spotted these two. They carried on like this for several minutes (I have more footage!). At first I assumed that they had found something that they were both eating but then they moved around the garden performing similar moves -... Continue Reading →
At some stage the latch that allows one to open the bonnet on our Toyota Yaris has broken. While this hasn't been a major inconvenience (the car was off the road pending a new exhaust) I have, over the last few weeks tried various methods and jiggery pokery to get the bonnet open! Here is... Continue Reading →
Although I have had this mower professionally serviced before now it has always been quite a long winded (and expensive) operation involving the service centre ("Cheltenham Mowers") dispatching a van to both pick up and then re-deliver the mower after the work has been done. On this occasion the mower blade had become warped as... Continue Reading →
Another Covid-19 project - we have a large area in our garden that some 25 years ago was indeed a vegetable patch but has now got so hopelessly overgrown that it cannot be described as anything anymore. I decided to see if I could turn a piece of it into a new vegetable patch and... Continue Reading →
