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polyslax wrote:

forge wrote:all these great ideas I had about making tunes in a forest or whatever in reality it stays in the one spot 99.9% of the time

Sorry, can't stop laughing at that making tunes in a forest line... I'll be ok.

Marquis wrote:Hi folks.

I just wanted write a quick story about my weekend. Hope you don’t mind.

I had a fantastic time on the weekend.... mostly.

It began with a nice brunch down by the lake for my girlfriend’s birthday.

Then, I took part in the Rat Patrol freakbike “float” in a big Street Parade, DJing off my laptop from the top of a tandem tall bike (that’s two bikes, each built out of two bike frames – so twice as high as a normal bike - side by side with a tray between them on which we placed a generator and a PA system. Audience jaws dropped a plenty!

Then after the parade, arrived at the Fringe Festival stage, still on the tandem tallbikes, still pumping out tunes, for a dramatic entrance before playing a gig with my band!

And then, after driving to my place to drop off the band gear, we prepared to head back into town to have an impromptu party at a local park, again with me DJing from the top of the tall bikes, when disaster struck.

I asked the taxi driver to open the trunk so I could put things in. He started climbing out of the driver’s side and accidentally bumped the gearstick into reverse. He was halfway out the driver’s side, and got dragged under the door, narrowly missing the front wheel. I jumped sideways out of the way, only just avoiding the rear wheel.

The cab reversed across the (very fortunately empty street) and up the kerb on the other side, and started heading towards the garden and house of the people who lived there. The driver chased after it, and climbed back in and stopped it.

Luckily the car was relatively undamaged. The driver was, aside from a few bruises and scratches, unhurt. I was shaken, but physically ok.

The only casualty was my backpack, which went underneath the cab. It contained my laptop, my UC33e, my Trigger finger, and my FW410. All of them now crushed and unusable.

So – how was your weekend?

Mark

Marquis wrote:Update: The cab's insurance company have agreed to pay my claim in full, plus all costs associated with it (i.e. postage and costs of reair quotes etc).

So a big old cheque coming my way next week with which to buy toys. Hmmm toys.

Still not sure on the macbook pro idea. There's a lot of reasons to go PC, not the least of which is compatibility with my desktop PC.

Anyone know anything about building desktop power, semi-portable rack mount computers?

Marquis wrote:Forge & Hambone: Yep. I won't replace the squished FW410 with another one. Just gotta work out what interface to get. The Presonus stuff was looking good, but I saw some negative commentary popping up lately, so I'm not sure.

My mac was really struggling to cope with the workload, too, and Iw as already talkign abotu upgrading, so I need to decide now if I replace it with a macbook pro (very early days, I know), or if I go the PC route.

Really, this could be a blessing in disguise.

Cryptic UK wrote:

Marquis wrote:Hi folks.

I just wanted write a quick story about my weekend. Hope you don’t mind.

I had a fantastic time on the weekend.... mostly.

It began with a nice brunch down by the lake for my girlfriend’s birthday.

Then, I took part in the Rat Patrol freakbike “float” in a big Street Parade, DJing off my laptop from the top of a tandem tall bike (that’s two bikes, each built out of two bike frames – so twice as high as a normal bike - side by side with a tray between them on which we placed a generator and a PA system. Audience jaws dropped a plenty!

Then after the parade, arrived at the Fringe Festival stage, still on the tandem tallbikes, still pumping out tunes, for a dramatic entrance before playing a gig with my band!

And then, after driving to my place to drop off the band gear, we prepared to head back into town to have an impromptu party at a local park, again with me DJing from the top of the tall bikes, when disaster struck.

I asked the taxi driver to open the trunk so I could put things in. He started climbing out of the driver’s side and accidentally bumped the gearstick into reverse. He was halfway out the driver’s side, and got dragged under the door, narrowly missing the front wheel. I jumped sideways out of the way, only just avoiding the rear wheel.

The cab reversed across the (very fortunately empty street) and up the kerb on the other side, and started heading towards the garden and house of the people who lived there. The driver chased after it, and climbed back in and stopped it.

Luckily the car was relatively undamaged. The driver was, aside from a few bruises and scratches, unhurt. I was shaken, but physically ok.

The only casualty was my backpack, which went underneath the cab. It contained my laptop, my UC33e, my Trigger finger, and my FW410. All of them now crushed and unusable.

So – how was your weekend?

Mark

HaHa

Cryptic UK wrote:

Marquis wrote:Hi folks.

The only casualty was my backpack, which went underneath the cab. It contained my laptop, my UC33e, my Trigger finger, and my FW410. All of them now crushed and unusable.

So – how was your weekend?

Mark

HaHa