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So I have looked at the bespoke keyboards for FL Studio - they look great but are a little pricey at around £79 -£99 so I did a bit more digging and came up with something similar - a Bluetooth keyboard with matching shortcut overlay for a little under £25! The picture above shows what... 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 →
If you have any old Windows laptop or tablet running Windows 10 then this can be a real lifesaver and give you extra "real estate" for your DAW. In the above image I am sharing my Jupiter 8 (Roland Cloud VST) from FL Studio 20 onto a spare PC - a bonus being because the... 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 →
Back in the day my go to Drum Machine was a Roland TR-707 and I still favour those sounds. (though like to have the flexibility of auditioning other kits when I get close to mix down). In the past for me this has meant standardising naming conventions and simply copying kits around on my PC's... Continue Reading →
While Capturing old video footage (as outlined in a previous post) I hit an issue resulting from the old beam splitter having a rather large bit of fluff on the left hand mirror when the footage was taken. While it is still possible to enjoy the footage this proved to be very distracting and I... Continue Reading →
So as is often the case, I start a blog post with something that I want to do - but at the time have no idea how to complete (until the blog post is finished of course!) I am using FL Studio 20 as my DAW and want to map my Nektar controller with the... Continue Reading →
So I have around 30 old tapes and an old Sony Digital 8 Camcorder that I want to utilise to save / preserve old family videos to watch on a 3d Theatre setup and in VR on my HP Reverb. So I set about doing the following: Cataloguing tapes according to date and format (ie... Continue Reading →
