I’ve been playing a lot of funk, and funk inspired music on my kit lately and I really wanted a small muffling pillow for my drum.

I’ve tried just shoving a pillow in there, blankets, tape, foam and all the other random things. They all muffle the drum way too much! Clearly we need a custom solution, so that’s what I’ve done.

I made some quite decent turning tools in the style of the Easy Wood Tools for less than 1/3 the price. I also think mine are much prettier.

I documented the process so perhaps you too can have some great turning tools at a low cost!

How to setup and use ‘track template’ functionality in Digital Performer. I think this workflow surpasses anything I’ve seen offered in other DAWs.

That’s it. I’m done with Studio One for now.

I wish I could have continued this blog about my evaluation of it, but the number of crashes I’ve encountered is just mind-boggling. A lot of these crashes are reproducible and in areas that surely are commonly used.

I also really miss chunks, POLAR, the commands window, the huge number of useful commands for navigating, far superior zooming capabilities and some of the MOTU plugins that are included. Especially the Masterworks Leveler.

Maybe I’ll try it again at version 3.5 or something. I don’t know. Good luck to Presonus.

Back to my beloved Digital Performer!

So I’ve been using Studio One for 5 days now. These are my impressions so far…

So I found out that you can download old versions of Studio One quite easily in your user account by clicking the “View Previous Versions” button right below the “Download Installer” button.

So now I’m going to run 3.2.0 unless I find out there’s a solution to the bug I was dealing with. The bug I was dealing with is as follows:

How to record arm/record enable multiple sequential tracks in Digital Performer. Easy, elegant and simple.

I have a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 that is setup as part of my live rig. To change the master volume, it requires that I reach down and blindly grab the correct one of about 30 knobs. If you haven’t guessed, I rarely get it.

The solution is simple. Make a bigger knob out of sapele, of course.

So I wrote a little bash script this morning to make creating a new jekyll post easy for my blog.

~~~ array=( $@ ) len=${#array[@]} _first=$1 _last=${array[$len-1]} _rest=${array[@]:1:$len-2} _filename=$( printf “%s-%s” “$(date +%F)” “$_first” ) _postname=$( printf “%s %s” “$_first” “$_rest” )

echo $_rest

for var in $_rest do _filename+=”-“ _filename+=$var done

cat «EOF > _posts/$_filename.md

layout: [‘post’, ‘reader’] title: $postname comments: true date: $(date +%F%T) categories: $_last tags: [’’] image: description: —

So I thought I’d try Studio One for a month, instead of my normal, and beloved, Digital Performer.

My issue is pretty big though. I immediately tried to setup a blank document to use for fiddling around, but renaming audio i/o in the Song Setup window crashes Studio One very reliably.

Well, that pretty much ruins it for me.

Maybe they will fix it soon, then I’ll look again.