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by Rick Cornish
Sat May 11, 2024 10:52 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Plug-in Updates Sticky Topic
Replies: 313
Views: 2543284

XLD Update

SoundForge has updated XLD to version 20240511. XLD is a tool for transcoding lossless audio files. I think it’s indispensable. “X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks ...
by Rick Cornish
Sat May 11, 2024 10:52 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Plug-in Updates Sticky Topic
Replies: 313
Views: 2543284

XLD Update

SoundForge has updated XLD to version 20240511. XLD is a tool for transcoding lossless audio files. I think it’s indispensable. “X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks ...
by Rick Cornish
Wed May 01, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: Mac "cleaning" app?
Replies: 14
Views: 590

Re: Mac "cleaning" app?

I use Find Any File to track down fragments of uninstalled programs. It may take a bit longer, and there is no automation involved, but one is in complete control of the process and you get a very clear map of where the files are installed. +1 on Find Any File… it will even find invisible files if ...
by Rick Cornish
Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: General Recording
Topic: Building an External Music Studio Building
Replies: 11
Views: 391

Re: Building an External Music Studio Building

Your location (with woods in the background) doesn't appear to demand a lot of acoustic isolation, which makes things easier. Drywall would provide superior isolation, but if you don't need it, who cares? Unless you're doing 2-layers of drywall plus high-density fiberglass in the wall cavity, drywa...
by Rick Cornish
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: General Recording
Topic: Building an External Music Studio Building
Replies: 11
Views: 391

Re: Building an External Music Studio Building

I didn't do any of the construction, but I did lay carpet, etc.

Also, I learned it's cheaper to do the interior walls and ceiling with prefinished tongue-and-groove pine than to do drywall (by the time you do tape/mud/paint), so I saved some dough there.
by Rick Cornish
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:42 am
Forum: General Recording
Topic: Building an External Music Studio Building
Replies: 11
Views: 391

Re: Building an External Music Studio Building

HCMarkus wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:37 am That's so lovely, Rick.
Thanks! (Old interior photo before I got a bigger monitor and Mac Studio.)

(Cost was about $30k, which included the cost of trenching in clean power from the pole.)
by Rick Cornish
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: General Recording
Topic: Building an External Music Studio Building
Replies: 11
Views: 391

Re: Building an External Music Studio Building

Here's a plan view of the studio I built in 2014 along with a couple photos.
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by Rick Cornish
Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:50 pm
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Troubleshooting/Criticism
Topic: Sonoma 14.4 crash/kernel panic/reboot with Kontakt 7
Replies: 176
Views: 12238

Re: Sonoma 14.4 crash/kernel panic/reboot with Kontakt 7

Looks like OS 14.5 beta 3 has dropped. and we are back to no more Kontakt crashes, fingers crossed. I just did the update and found the same thing: No crashes in DP, Logic or external monitors. The GUI window flickers on my external monitors but again, no crashes even when I change libraries in a s...
by Rick Cornish
Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Cursor Hand Goes Missing
Replies: 8
Views: 651

Re: Cursor Hand Goes Missing

I've been experiencing some cursor weirdness, since going to v11.3, as well.

Specifically, the cursor stops changing to the little bracket icons when trimming audio in the Sequence Editor. Sometimes, clicking off of DP (like on the Finder desktop) and then coming back to DP fixes it.
by Rick Cornish
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: Digital Performer [MacOS]: Usage, Techniques, Tips & Optimization
Topic: Plug-in Sales and Special Deals Sticky Topic
Replies: 2219
Views: 623526

Straight Ahead Samples Sale through 3/31

If you’re looking for jazz-oriented samples and instruments, you can’t do better than Straight Ahead Samples. They have a few proprietary features that really help their instruments groove.

Get 20% off through 3/31 with code:
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by Rick Cornish
Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: AU validation bug in Sonoma 14.4 fixed
Replies: 0
Views: 1079

AU validation bug in Sonoma 14.4 fixed

Just got this in an email from Oeksound: “A few weeks ago, we were informed of a serious bug regarding AU plug-in validation in Logic Pro on M2/M3 Macs. The issue presented itself with macOS Sonoma 14.4, which involved security updates that temporarily broke compatibility of all iLok-licensed plug-i...
by Rick Cornish
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:32 pm
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: SOLVED—Computer People: How to erase an SDD I can't mount?
Replies: 3
Views: 1169

Re: Computer People: How to erase an SDD I can't mount?

mikehalloran wrote:Good. You don’t want to buy one of those OWC boxes for AHCI SSDs for that one use. Those boxes can’t be used for anything else and vice versa.
Yep…. the reader would have cost more than I’ll be getting for the Mac.


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by Rick Cornish
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: SOLVED—Computer People: How to erase an SDD I can't mount?
Replies: 3
Views: 1169

SOLVED — How to erase an SDD I can't mount?

Well, just on the off chance the machine might boot (even though it had been dead since late December), I plugged it in and got it to fire up in recovery mode so I could erase the internal SSD.

Whew!
by Rick Cornish
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:27 am
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: SOLVED—Computer People: How to erase an SDD I can't mount?
Replies: 3
Views: 1169

SOLVED—Computer People: How to erase an SDD I can't mount?

Weird problem: My old Intel Mac Pro died… will not boot up at all. I found a buyer for it, but I need to include the original 1tB Mac blade in the machine. I don't have a way of mounting that blade in any of my other computers (won't fit in my Envoy Express), so I have no way to erase what's on it b...
by Rick Cornish
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: General Macintosh
Topic: Sonoma 14.4
Replies: 70
Views: 5979

Re: Sonoma 14.4

James Steele wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:14 pm M1 systems (like mine) don’t seem to be suffering many of this issues.
That’s exactly what the post from Oeksound says.