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Perfecttunes could not connect manual#
At the time CD metadata providers didn’t have many of the discs, so a great deal of manual cleanup was needed. While iTunes’ eject-after-import feature facilitates disc swapping, the workflow was selecting a stack of CDs, inserting them one at a time, then manually validating tags and artwork. My previous ripping operation was performed with a dual CPU PowerMac G5 and iTunes.
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Perfecttunes could not connect software#
(This format was chosen for compatibility with my currently preferred software and hardware players, and being lossless can easily be transcoded to other formats as needed.) Now that storage is cheaper and I have some time, and before data rot sets in, I wanted to re-rip the collection to archival-quality Apple Lossless format. This was a great achievement, and for the last 12 years I’ve enjoyed having all of my music in a central digital format.
Perfecttunes could not connect Patch#
Conveniently I had an old analog oscilloscope and quality multimeter, things which are surprisingly useful when troubleshooting why a patch isn’t doing what was hoped. This setup also allowed me to connect some of my older DIY gear stuff that I’d been longing to hear for a while. As of now I’ve mostly settled on a suite of modules, with just enough stuff that I’ve still got loads of learning to do and lots to explore. With some self-built gear sitting around on the shelf and a newfound empty space in my closet, I decided to put much of it back together, but this time acquiring something that’s much more hospitable to experimentation: a eurorack-format modular synthesizer. This ranged from the Electrix suite of effects, some drum and synth modules (Yamaha TX81Z, Alesis D4), self-built x0xb0xes, some MIDIbox SID-NUXXs (where I learned the basics of PCB layout), but they all seemed too oriented around song composition and didn’t work well when I simply wanted to play with sound. Over the years I’ve ended up owning, and in many case building, a number of piece of music equipment. I remember using the shaft of spinning electric motor pressed against the mic of a cheap cassette recorder to simulate chainsaw sounds, putting my ear against different parts of my sister’s Casio SK-1 (where I also learned about ADSR) as the case vibrated and tone changed, and intently listening to The Downward Spiral picking out samples (puffing a drinking straw, fingers brushing over metal grating). While I love great music, sounds themselves are most interesting to me. For pretty much as long as I can remember I’ve been interested in experimenting with sound.