Monthly Archives: October 2006

Adobe Soundbooth

  By glacial23 | 10/27/2006 - 1:54 pm | GarageBand, General Leave a comment

Adobe recently announced the Beta of Soundbooth, a Cool Edit/Audition-lite-y kind of audio editor. I had some good hopes for this, since I’m an old-school Cool Edit Fan who has since moved on to better Operating Systems. While I like Audacity, it does crash a bit more often than I’d like.
So far the beta sucks. Maybe. I can’t tell because I can’t get it to run, since it’s incompatible with SoundFlower, which I’ve been known to use on occasion. It’s also only available for x86-based Macs at present. (Why? do they just not get the concept of Universal Binaries, or are they doing something really dumb like using x86 assembly language subroutines from the Audition codebase?) That of course rules out trying it on my wife’s iBook G4…

Update: Apparently Adobe has a fix ready for the SoundFlower incompatibility, which will be ready in the next beta release. Also, from what I’ve been reading, it does sound like some hand-assembled and/or SSE2 specific code (likely borrowed from Audition) is in the Soundbooth code, explaining its non-Universalness (which is still kinda lame).

PTB – 10/25/2006

  By glacial23 | 10/27/2006 - 12:42 pm | General, Press The Button Leave a comment

This was a halloween mix, with lots of Halloween-related content. Next week (even though it will be post-halloween) will probably be more of the same.

PTB – 10/18/2006

  By glacial23 | 10/19/2006 - 8:01 pm | General, Press The Button Leave a comment

This was a “musical” show that was plagued with problems. Since Neal had guests (Travelogue – who are really quite cool), setup was a bit hurried, and required playing a bit of ReDada while we got things ready. There were also some volume issues (coming from running the DJX through a bass effects pedal) and at 11:56pm, my MacBook Pro crashed (it seems to be an actual crash rather than a random shutdown) when it was the only thing playing! More ReDada to the rescue ;-) . Garbs was a bit late, so we played mash-ups until he came in.
The podcast should be back in order now, though the quality may be weird.

Update(10/20/2006) – Turns out the podcast wasn’t quite fixed. The WRUW streaming peeps changed the URL I grab the MP3 from. I’ve fixed my script and I’m re-running it. Should be good to go by 2:30pm Eastern. (Note to self – It takes 20 minutes to download the archive??)

PTB – 10/11/2006

  By glacial23 | 10/12/2006 - 2:24 pm | General, Press The Button Leave a comment

The first hour was a pair of four-elements based compositions widget and I wrote for the most recent Recycled Rainbow – however they were not played at the event, so we kept them for the show. Mine was a fifteen minute piece called “Air”, and widgets was a bit more all-encompassing (and 40 minutes long).

The second hour was a bit more diverse, consisting of the best of “Do or DIY”, some mash-ups, some chiptunes, and some other stuff.

Unfortunately, WRUW’s weekly archive is a bit hosed up at the moment, so there is no podcast this week. We suspect it will be back next week.

A few changes

  By glacial23 | 10/6/2006 - 3:12 pm | General Leave a comment

So, I’ve done some autumnal cleaning around here: