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i did, but my mum said if you've nothing good to say, etc. etc.

bah, no shockwave player for linux

that's a groovy looking website i wonder if the designer would do our one for free

unless of course you mean north east peripherals at the top of george street (http://www.nepcomputers.co.uk)

that song made me want to clear my throat repetitively it's a good song though

cool site.

i too was blown away by gatechien, really, really excellent

there's a few walk in tailor type places in town, the most notable i can think of is at the top of holburn street, just short of the tsb bank. my mate asked them to fix something of his, can't remember what exactly, but it may have involved zips. it cost him about 7 quid i think.

if you want to make modifications, first have a look to see if your band is listed on the bands pages. if it is, click on your band, and there will be a link through which you can submit modifications. if your band is not listed, then please add it! edit: oops i should read to the bottom of the page first

i once wrote a program to make the wildhearts (or was it silverginger) win a poll on the nme website about 5 years ago. remarkably, people haven't really got wise to this. if you remove your bbc cookies you get to vote again on that poll. better still if you write a 10 line http client that simply posts the stroszek result to the offending webpage, you can win in about 4 seconds, probably. i think i managed to register about 100 votes a second in that nme poll.

this is an acoustic track al recorded round at my flat about six months ago. i think it's a great track, but i'm really interested to hear what other people think of it. there's two mixes, the first is the latest mix, the second one is the original done at the time of recording. i think the first is better, but it's all a bit subjective really, innit. anyway, enough chat. oh and the song's called "end of the show". end of the show - mix 1 end of the show - mix 2 thanks for listening, if you do.

tis true', indeed. god knows how i'm getting 240kbytes/s sustained on a 512kbit service then....

that album cover is really really cool, that face thing is freaky as hell

Hmmm.... Who are we talking about again?

hey, who's your ISP? mine recently jumped stupendously in speed too, though not that much. i was on 512kbit before!

i think it was that thread about yer maw and the milkman

!!!!!!! there is no seek time for any kind of solid state memory, and access times are measured in nanoseconds, we are talking several orders of magnitude less than a single millisecond!! it is definitely fast enough!

just thinking about it all, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just use flash memory? if they can make a 4gb ipod for a couple of hundred, then surely at bulk you could integrate 8gb of flash into something for about the same.

That's got to be irony. I'm praying. Having listened to Radio 1 a lot in the past few months, i can say i've never been so saddened and ashamed for both sides as when I heard foo fighters cover an oasis song on jo whiley's show. i agree whole heartedly that she is a shit dj, it's like her sole inspiration is the playlist she's contracted to play. she can't even speak properly without creating an awkward silence

i'd say more important than 2 hard drives is a proper audio interface and a decent amount of memory. if the point is to be portable, two hard drives constantly spinned up are going to drain battery power pretty quickly and will add an extra noise factor, though if you are going to be constantly plugged into a mains source and/or are not recording live audio tracks then this may not matter to you as much. you need a good audio interface to try to achieve a reasonably low latency factor. latency matters a great deal when you are using soft synths on something like reason (or anything else that is naturally CPU intensive). if you have ever had a good laugh trying to use the PCs at the foyer for keyboard work in cubasis with a VST, then you know all you need to about latency - it makes it incredibly difficult to record MIDI work with a keyboard. an acceptable latency is around 35ms, though you will usually need ASIO drivers or equivalent to achieve this. anything more than this and you will find yourself adjusting your playing style to the latency time between note pressing and sample sounding - which totally screws up your recording. if you're struck on getting a laptop, then try to look for either a PCMCIA or firewire solution. USB is prone to latency because it is a shared and low bandwidth bus, though USB2 may be better if the soundcard can support it. if your audio interface doesn't get include a MIDI interface you can buy a simple USB MIDI interface, like m-audio's Midisport devices - they come in different varieties, e.g. 1in-1out, 2in-2out, 4in-4out, etc. etc. You can then connect up any midi device (not just controllers) to this interface. Alternatively, you could buy a MIDI controller (i.e. keyboard) that comes with an onboard usb interface - these are a lot more common now - you simply plug the controller into a usb port on your PC/Mac, and it appears as a MIDI device in your sequencer of choice on your PC/Mac. Personally, I prefer to have separate MIDI interfaces, because i have some gear that accepts MIDI IN (nord rack, line6 pod pro) as opposed to just MIDI OUT (e.g. keyboard controller, fader control surface, etc.). but your needs may differ and for the most part a simply MIDI keyboard controller with a USB interface is perfect. edit: with regards to choice of DAW, i would use whatever you find easiest, or whatever is available. i haven't seen the very latest version of protools, but i'd say it has a steep learning curve, and isn't any better than any of the other programs you mentioned if you are just starting out. i'd be inclined to go for something like Cubase, more user friendly, better VST support and is a midi sequencer. Last time I checked, Logic didn't have MIDI support, but that may have changed now Apple own it and the new version has come out (version 7?).

from on top of a speaker stack at rico's album launch

Martin Grech DJ Signify The Twin