Victor Tarassov's Blog: June 2008

20080630

Smart Car

20080629

New Analog Factory by Atruria will have v.2.0 for Palm Recording Studio

Analog Factory is a powerful, yet extremely easy to use virtual instrument. Loaded with 3500 legendary sounds (instead of 2000 in the first version) carefully selected from the Arturia Classic Synths, Analog Factory provides the contemporary musician with a broad, versatile and instantly striking sonic palette. It is also a very versatile instrument: all sounds are dramatically modifiable, which makes this software stand apart from any sample-based collection of sounds.

USD 249.00 / EURO 199.00 - BUY NOW

Try - Watch - Listen - Press

Discover Analog Factory Experience, the big brother of Analog Factory.

MAIN FEATURES:
3500 analog synthesizers sounds (instead of 2000 in the first version) that have defined the sound of modern music.
All presets are carefully selected from the Arturia Classic Synths (minimoog V, Moog Modular V, CS-80V, ARP 2600 V, Prophet V, Prophet VS and Jupiter-8V). These TAE® powered sounds offer unparalleled audio quality.
Smart Preset Manager. Fast filter the presets to your requirements: by Instrument, by Type (Bass, Pads, Leads…) and/or by Characteristics (hard, soft, complex, simple, short, long…), and find presets according to these filtered choices.
Organize Presets view by Name, Instrument, Type, CPU usage, Favorites, or User Presets.
Straight-forward Editing, with the most essential parameters for personalizing presets: (Filter and LFO sections, 4 Key Parameters differing for each preset, Chorus & Delay mix, ADSR envelope), more....

Break Out Box (What a Great Idea for the Apogee Deut)

I am looking forward to trying one of these out for the mobile rig and see if this can be used live and recording on location. This looks like a fantastic product and it also looks like it is built like a tank. Click the title to see the companies web page. Hear is one of there descriptions.
BREAKOUT

duet:BREAKOUT is an upgrade for Apogees portable interface "The Duet". Providing durability with professional quality the duet break out box replaces the breakout cable that apogee provides. Transforming the duet into the road worthy interface it was meant to be. Whether you are trying to avoid a "rats-nest of cableage", demand a greater distance between your duet and its I/O, require different connectors then the supplied break out cable or you are simply tired of replacing you breakout cable because it just cant stand you abuse. Whatever your reason we are sure you're going to "BREAKOUT".

Each Breakout is hand made and assembled ensuring a hassle free product. we are so confident in our work that we provide a lifetime gaurente. If anthing should happen to your BREAKOUT just send it back and if we cant fix it we will replace it.

Is it time for a SexChange?.......(for your duet,;-)

FEATURES:

Provides quality I/O for any duet without the mess of wires.
Durable road ready housing
High quality cable (Gepco)
No more tangled wires
No more ground buzz
OUR STORY

We purchased 2 duets and used them heavily for 3 months while we were on the road. We were absolutely blown away by their performace. Our only complaint was about the supplied breakout cable. It would become a tangled mess that had to be delt with every time we wanted to use the duet.

After about 3 months of on- the-road use we noticed a buzz when the duet was used with our MacBookpros. When we removed the charger from the labtop the buzz would go away. The first thing we did was to check the breakout cable. As it turned out the grounds in the breakout cable had broken. When we checked our second breakout cable we were surprised to find out that its grounds were broken as well.

We did a little research and found out a new breakout cable would cost us $25.

When we realized a replacement breakout cable is $25 and it only lasted us about 3 months we decided to build our own breakout. One that would last as long as the duet and wouldn't have to be untangled everytime you wanted to use it.

We designed a duet BREAKOUT box and took it on our next road trip. Everyone who had a duet and saw us using our custom breakout asked where they could get one. So we started making them for our friends. When we decided to offer our BREAKOUT box on a larger scale we had our boxes powdercoated and silkscreened with our new logo.

Now you can join us and make you music rig that much better.

Glass

20080628

DeVoe in Mid Aug

From Lester DeVoe

"I'll be able to atart spraying in a week or so then another 5 weeks to dry, put on the tap plate and adjust the action"

Chicago

Nice

Chiago & Doobie Brothers

Ah the way it should be 40 and above Nice!

Gypsy Bar Much Better

Fat Buger Stinks they are the worst don't go there

A Joke

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director
how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.

'Well,' said the Director, 'we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a
teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her
to empty the bathtub.'

'Oh, I understand,' said the visitor.
'A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than
the spoon or the teacup.'

'No' said the Director, 'A normal person would pull the plug.
Do you want a bed near the window?'

20080626

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Originally uploaded by v2or.

Romero Live at Trinity Church ( Picked up this cd today)

Armik - Mi Pasion - Libre آرمیک

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1

Download version 3.1 now! (Tiger and Leopard)

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.

The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.

CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

I am using this CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) on all of my macs HD (Hard Drives) in and out of the studio. Keeps me safe and keeps me going even if there is a problem with the hard drive flopping our (crashing)
Click the title for the link to the software. For Educational institutions its free and if your not an Ed institution they only ask for a donation.

20080625

I miss this place

Our Beach House

Centaurea Opus 2

Centaurea Opus 2
Originally uploaded by fotocitizen.

Awesome picture.

Hygrometer (This one will be with my DeVoe)

HYGROMETER (Humidity Meter)

Your guitar is best kept between 40 to 60% relative humidity. This German made hygrometer is certified accurate 3%. I have tested many hygrometers that are not certified and found them all to be unreliable. This unit is self-contained in a solid brass case 6" diameter. $159.00 Highly recommended.
you can order one of these from Lester DeVoe at http://www.devoeguitars.com/