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Frederic Petitpas

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  1. It doesn't bring any VSTi, that's bad.

    So what should I look when I buy a Interface? For me they look all almost the same.

    Buy some ?

    Interfaces; I don't like most of them. I decided to invest a few more dollars to get everything right away (I have a FA-66 from when they were made in Japan by Edirol); ¼ inputs, XRL inputs & phantom power, RCA inputs, s/pdif (optic input/output), MIDI in/out, 4 outputs with direct monitoring and FireWire.

    What I really needed, that you won't find on every product out there around 100-200$, was FireWire, direct monitoring, midi i/o and 4 balanced outputs. You have your normal 2 outputs (left right) where the volume knob on the interface affects the volume of those outputs (to your speakers/monitors) and the 2 other Left Right outputs are not affected by the volume knob. It's perfect to feed a mixer. Personally what I do with that is route those 2nd outputs to the RCA input and can therefor directly manipulate the sound from my computer. For instance, I can watch YouTube or play CoD and downtune the sound as I'm watching/playing (for fun) or simply just record something off the net directly where downloading isn't possible.

    Anyway, depends of your needs. FireWire was what I needed because I wanted the processing to be done by the unit itself, not the computer CPU like with USB interfaces.

    I'll go with Focusrite eventually, when I'll upgrade.

  2. Also, you reason that it must be old because of wattage?
    No, I reason that's either old like when hardware sucked less juice OR a POS from Walt-Mart that will need to be upgraded as soon as you'll upgrade anything else (which you are doing ?).
    Computers off the shelf are usually only going to come with as many watts as they actually require. It's not even one year old.

    Of course, Walt-Mart/Staples/Whatever will use the smallest PSU required to lower the price of the "off the shelf" computer.

    That's like reasoning that a guitar amp must be old because it only has X amount of watts.

    Not really. It actually doesn't make any sens. But that was like reasoning that you built your own PC or wanted to, for music/gaming, for which a 350W was insufficient.

    Aren't you an electrician? :razz:

    No, they buy computers at Walt-Mart and pass wires in walls, I went a bit further :wink:.

    But I don't see the link with that and the fact that your hardware had a 50% chance being old..

    The problem is a windows issue - basically something went wrong with an update or something. It was a case of timing, not an issue with part installations. Just need to get the recovery discs from ASUS and recover the hard drive.

    You were saying you had a black screen, but if it was just a Windows issue, your computer did POST and should have been able to enter the BIOS.

    Hard to figure when not in face of the PC tho...

  3. I think tuning the drum is the key to a great song. Not only the snare, but I mean the choice of the cymbals and toms.

    Having a tom tuned to a semiton higher than a note in your main scale(s)/key will create a dissonance and this is overlooked ALL the time.

    Change the pitch, by a semiton, of ONE tom in Phil Colin's "In the air" when the drums enter (highlight of his tune/entire show) and well, lol...

    So yeah, I say tune to the main key :)

  4. Calculus is the best part of maths. Put some jazz and dive into it. You do have to learn a few tiny formulas, but after a series of exercices it should be just like learning A B C. Straightforward formulas where one takes you to another one, and you just follow the established rules. The only thing that's hard about calculus is finding the time to practice what you study IMO. But that applies to anything else, like learning a DAW... One must forge to become a blacksmith :)

  5. I'll admit that I'd rather not have her watch tv, and I think people who don't have a tv are somehow lucky, but it's so embedded in my habits that I can't just stop watching tv like that when eating. I'm used to that distraction, but I generally don't watch tv at all except with my morning coffee or supper time. What is wrong with that digital screen tho ? I have a pretty big screen (55") in a small living room..

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