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Mid-July already? Inconceivable. It’s been busy around here. Here are some random bits of recent news: I’ve been mired in the AudioUnit version of Audio Damage’s new product. Actually it’s not entirely new; it’s a reissue of Ronin, one of our earliest products. We shelved Ronin several years ago because it pre-dated our current methods [...]

It was announced late last week that Cycling ’74 has discontinued Pluggo and related plug-ins. Since I had a hand in the creation of Pluggo, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect and reminisce a little. My own involvement with Pluggo ended six or so years ago when I left Cycling ’74, but I [...]

Yeah, it’s been sparse on this blog lately. That’s because the blogger has been stupid-busy. The kittens have some sort of digestive ailment and are quarantined to main-level bathroom, with forays into the kitchen for exercise. Yes, this is rather a PITA, but they should be all better in about a week. Paper Jade should [...]

Dear Lazyweb: help a fellow audio geek and tell me where I can download a freeware (or inexpensive shareware) audio file editor for Windows XP that doesn’t suck as massively as Audacity. I need something to review the 24-bit audio files I’m recording while on vacation. I have SoundForge at home so I’m not looking [...]

Tracie and I are leaving for Japan early Thursday morning for a much-needed vacation. This time I’m not committing to blogging regularly, or even at all. On our last excursion, blogging started to feel more like a burden than a pleasure, so this time I’m not forcing myself to do it. I probably will put [...]

I mentioned awhile ago that I’ve been hand-soldering rather small SMT parts. I received my latest batch of PCBs from BatchPCB.com last week and populated the most interesting one over the weekend. It has two MSOP parts on it with leads on 0.5mm centers. Here’s one of the chips next to a drafting triangle; the [...]

It’s a question that comes up on virtually every gear-oriented mailing list: “should we have a sub-list for buying and selling stuff? Or a website or something?” Someone decided that there should just be one such site, so they put it here. At the very least it might be easier to wade through than eBay. [...]

UPDATE: Everything listed here has been sold. This is probably about the worst time in recent history to sell gear. Not only are we in the post-Christmas, pre-NAMM lull, the economy is Bad and heading towards Worse. Nonetheless, I have some gear that I’d like to sell. To wit: Studio Electronics Omega 8 Very good [...]

Hmm, Sunday afternoon already. I could really use another weekend day. Last week was one of those stupid weeks dominated by stupid events. In retrospect I’m not sure why it was as tiring as it was, but several days ended with me feeling like I’d been busy all day and yet hadn’t really made any [...]

There’s a very amusing and informative post here [read the first post, scroll down to the third response] which compares and contrasts the Symbolic Sound Kyma DSP system, Cycling ’74′s Max/MSP, and Clavia’s Nord Modular synthesizers. I have quite a bit of experience with the latter two and have always been curious about the former. [...]