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bassmusicblog ponders The Remix, how to do it, etc. With Slam’s “Positive Education” as a f’rinstance.

Originally published at Do My Eyes Look Scary?. You can comment here or there.

The Sonuus G2M Converter is, at $99 almost cheap enough for me to impulse-buy. But I’ve played around with guitar-to-midi converters from time to time and I’ve always been disappointed, and besides, after paying bills I’m already broke for July.

This thing is, of course, monophonic, and who knows what it does if you play a chord. That is usually pretty comical, and not musically useful with this sort of device. What I liked is the way the sales copy seeks to turn the drawbacks with audio to MIDI conversion into a virtue:

“For optimal MIDI conversion, your guitar playing needs to be clean and accurate. Accidental notes, resonating open strings and other sounds can often be converted into undesired MIDI notes. Often you don’t hear these when playing guitar yourself, but can detect them easily when listening live to the generated MIDI.

“Striving to improve MIDI note accuracy, encourages clean picking and accurate fingering, with good control over non-sounding strings by damping them.

“Not only will your MIDI output be more accurate, your normal guitar playing will sound clearer and more professional. It’s like having a tutor sitting beside you giving you advice. It’s also great fun!

In other words this thing is no better than any other attempt to extract note & pitch information from audio, and you’ll have to practice to build enough technique for it to be even marginally useful…

Originally published at Do My Eyes Look Scary?. You can comment here or there.

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Originally published at Do My Eyes Look Scary?. You can comment here or there.

Happy Friday! Let's see what saucy whites you have today!

Previous Saucy Colors:
Saucy Blues
Saucy Greens
Saucy Pinks

Have fun and bon weekend!

... from Harpers Weekly (1887)

This was one of my earliest machines. I used an old Sony portable TV for a monitor at one point.



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I dont understand why everyone in San Diego seems so miserable and unhappy.

Everywhere I go, drama, anger, tears.  People have turned into even bigger assholes.  I guess I attribute it all to the recession.  I can't think of anyone I know who isn't stressed to the max right now.

 

Does anyone in this city have a happy story to share?  Anyone?  Anyone?

i haven't really said much on here about it, but yeah, finally, life is good. it's so beyond good its unreal. i dont ever remember being this happy before? its scary! follow me on twitter, it's been pretty obvious over there, lol!!

i moved in with tarrah awhile back and got out of a sketchy living situation. she was looking for someone to help with the rent and i needed a place to live. looking with bill for places was taking too long and i needed a place pretty effin quick. my only concern was she has a 9-year old daughter... and tarrah is totally crushalicious. but i'd lived with girls before and kept it platonic.

in fact i tried pretty hard at first to keep it platonic at first. in the end i failed miserably, she is just too awesome!! after a bit she needed time to figure a few things out and i had my own issues, in the meantime we started acting more and more like a "couple" but werent "officially" one. time got the issues mostly sorted out? and earlier this week we became official in the eyes of the almighty facebook--i'm "in a relationship"! yay for internets officialities!

everything is working out great at the house other than we dont have high speed internets. we dropped the dish network and went with netflix and i have tons of shows stockpiled on the computer. its a lot cheaper with netflix, but sometimes we gotta rush and watch something so it can go back. i guess i can copy some and watch em another time? i get by pretty well with the iphone for online access, but cant stream the netflix over it. i tried but it looked crappy like a youtube clip. downloading big files is probably a no-no, at&t has a clause buried in the 100000 page contract that they reserve the right to charge overages on their "unlimited data plan," i love how these companies get to make up their own definitions for words??? i wish i could do that and get away with it!

anyone with netflix suggestions let me know!

i've slowly got to get my stuff out of storage and decide what to keep. i grabbed a few boxes from my brothers and boy, i do have alot of random crap! goodwill will be grateful in any event. i've started weeding out some of my old clothes too and trying to cycle in some new stuff here and there. shirt.woot.com is my friend!!

ren and stimpy!

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Tonight I got a chance to play with color which I have been craving. It ended up ok but was challenging to get there. Partly mood, partly tired.

It was a demanding day at work for me. I was responsible for greeting cyclists when they came in. I used to hate these days but now I actually find them fun though exhausting.

I realized the other day that I had been desiring a more challenging job to go with the move. I seem to have attracted elements in this the job to fit the bill.

That's it for today. Going to bed now.

Have a picture from NZ. This is Split Rock, we saw it on our water taxi ride north from Kaiteriteri.

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Tris wanted to go swimming this afternoon but Alex didn't feel like it. Alex invited us on a walk instead.

I had been weeding, was kinda dirty, wearing my gardening sweats and my plastic, green, Big Lots gardening clogs. Not real glamorous but what the hey, we were just going to stroll around the neighborhood, right?

We walked down Lincoln under Alabama Street, past the mural, then doubled back to King, and went south three blocks. Just as we passed Dairy Queen, Tristan pouted and said "I wish I could have some Dairy Queen." I didn't want to go in because of the state of my appearance, but Alex "happened" to have a paper Dairy Queen coin in his pocket for a free DQ Sandwich. Then after that he "happened" to have a handy wipe packet when Tristan complained of sticky hands. He can be pretty great sometimes, just don't tell him I figured that out.

Then on the way back, we ran into no fewer than three people we knew. While I looked like this. First, Yolanda from World Cup saw us on the sidewalk and came out to say hi. Then Phil Swaab (my former boss' boss! at the bank!) came up the walk there and gave us big hugs. While, you know, I reek of sunscreen. Then we saw Shantelle at Trader Joe's when we were buying three buck chuck, and she said, "Whatcha doing for dinner, gettin' drunk?"

Then we came home. These are the people in my neighborhood.

Now we're off to Marissa's to get Alex a fish.

I've been stuck in bed all week with a janky back. The good news is that I got a TON of yardwork out of the way this weekend...the bad news? I'm OLD. I've had to rely on my mom and M to bring food and beverages, lift and feed children, etc. Sounds relaxing, right? Wrong! I basically spent the week watching wall-to-wall Michael Jackson death coverage while whimpering and spilling food on myself while trying to entertain a baby within a 3-ft radius. Blah. Not the 'break' one would hope for.

I did manage to accomplish one thing - I took some high-falutin' b&w shots of the many faces of Pikachu to frame as individual 8x10s on Owen's wall - shh; I'm making over his room for his birthday, and he's getting a computer and a desk and new paint and such. I'm even going to load the computer with his favorite bookmarks, wallpaper, etc. He's going to spend a day/night at his grandparents' so the whole thing will be like a Trading Spaces reveal! Ah, he's going to hate it and wonder why we couldn't just buy him a crappy Sonic video game instead. Ah, well.

Kids, I have an announcement.

For those who didn't know... I am officially married. nemesisn4sa and I tied the knot at 2 pm. We kept it a secret for a while and finally got the plan in full swing. Mr. and Mrs suicideking

Apparently a bunch of the announcements that I texted out regarding this did not get delivered. My apologies if it didn't get to you... or if it gets to you at 5 am.

Pictures, info on honeymoon and reception all forthcoming.

( Featuring Myrna Loy, Rockefeller Center, The Cotton Club, and International Casino )