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    Need New Seqencing Software

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Sonar is probably going to fit your needs just fine. What you might think about doing though is a hybrid approach, where you do your arrangement in Sonar, then record/render out individual lines for final mastering/mixing in straight audio format in something like Reaper or Acid.

    That is what I did for years until Acid finally got midi (albeit rather basic) support for VST/DXis. This gives you pretty infinite flexibility toward the final sound of your track.

    Feel free to contact me via IM if you want a more in-depth description of that type of set up.

    PC randomly freezing

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I had trouble with a machine doingbthe same thing and memtest not running correctly. An older version of memtest worked and scrolled the screen with ram error. He problem was fixed was bumping up thr voltage on the ram a bit.

    Mame cabinet

    in General Discussion

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    Wow, cognitive dissonance++ :(

    I had never heard anything negative about X-Arcade sticks before now. I'll have to do more research into it. I've looked around and seen people saying "overpriced", "sucks", and "lags on consoles". But nothing I've ready really seems to quantify those sentiments in a way I should know what to look for in an alternative. What about the components is so terrible? Why don't concave buttons make sense? It's never going to be hooked up to anything but a PC, so I don't think that lag is an issue.

    I'm not much of a fighter player, the first game I fired up on it was Magical Drop III. That's about as twitchy as I get playing a game. I plan for this machine to be something my kids can play growing up, so at 16 months and -6 months old I've got plenty of time to redesign the controls in the future if need be.

    With access to the woodworking place here, that small amount of wood and the tools to do whatever I want with it are basically free, so you've got me thinking about building my own deck. Of course when I start thinking in that direction it makes me want to go wild and build a 4-player deck, but that starts pushing the price of the components up quite a bit. Looked at some encoders and controllers over at LizardLick.com and for just two players after shipping it was already up to $175, and that's not including a trackball.

    Either way thanks for the feedback and suggestions.

    edit:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16879994002

    8 buttons, Hori made, $45 free shipping. It's a PS3 controller but it's suppose to work on the PC out of the box.

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    Mame cabinet

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I didn't make it clear that the console style controls sitting there are just a placeholder until I get some sort of arcade controls.

    I looked through the site that Drack posted and didn't see any other two-player sticks with a trackball at that price point. Kinda made me sad, as I have no attachment to that specific controller, and was hoping to find something at a better price.

    As for covering the KB drawer, I thought about various ways of having that covered so the front was solid but decided it would be too frustrating to have a fully functional computer sitting there that couldn't be actually used as a computer at a moments notice.

    A few construction details:

    The layout was designed in Autodesk Inventor 2009 to fit a Tankstick and that specific 19" monitor in as small a footprint as possible. The side panels were each cut as one piece from 3/4th inch MDF board with a CNC router, and all the interior boards holding it together were cut out of the scrap left over from those boards. It's very very solid. (:

    All the wood was cut and assembled over at one of my employers sister company:

    Sawtail Architectural Millworks / http://www.sawtailproducts.com/

    A few other pictures here:

    http://brahmsbbs.servebbs.org/store/cabinet/

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