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Back in 2008 I read “the most amazing piece of software I have seen so far” by vowe where he described software that was able to do Direct Note Access (DNA) on recorded sound, effectively giving you the tools to change the notes (pitch or timing) of complex pieces of music. Yesterday I stumbled upon it again and downloaded the demo version of Melodyne and used it to correct some of my horrible singing on a recording (as well as correcting a few wrong notes in the guitar part) ...

Today my computer alerted me to no more room on the main disk - strange, because there were over 140 GB free. I fired up Activity Monitor to check for disk and memory and lo and behold - something was very very wrong… No idea what UserEventAgent was doing - I forgot to check for which files it had open but 50GB of virtual memory seems just a bit excessive… ...

What a ride the BTC vs any other currency has made in the last 48 hours. I don’t envy the people that have invested in Bitcoin (and especially those that have gotten on the bandwagon in the last few weeks) Tonight I was a virtual guest at one of the german Pirate Parties and spent around 2 hours talking and discussing about Bitcoin: “Was ist Bitcoin”. There should be a recording of the event and I will post a link as soon as I have it. The PiratePad contains some more questions and answers that were discussed after my talk. ...

Slept way to little tonight, so no blog post from me. Instead, checkout this list of good advice: https://siavoshb.tumblr.com/post/47005180661/14-lessons-after-five-years-of-professional-programming

What a Wonderful World | Playing For Change from Playing For Change on Vimeo. This song never fails to bring tears to my eyes - specially not in a version like this (via vowe who linked to “Stand by me”)

Thanks to Lutz Korte I have a ADA MP-1 MIDI controlled Tube guitar pre amp on loan (to see if I like it). Unfortunately, the power chord is a fix installed german one, and I didn’t have the necessary connectors or tools handy to change it. But I opened it up and saw this wonderful electronics board (Pic will be replaced with an own picture as soon as I have better light) Pic: https://en.audiofanzine.com/guitar-preamp/ada/MP-1/medias/pictures/a.play,m.68494.html ...