Not once I got my Mac IIsi. Suddenly all the tech was secret.

Now, every time I sit in front of an “up-to-date” sequencer I think, I could get so much more *cool* stuff done if I didn’t have to sit behind a one-size-fits-all console.

By chance the day i had set for us to finally commit to a size and format and put the order in had us sitting on the floor with cardboard cutouts of the footprint of our live rig gear. Its hard juggling the real gear around so the cutouts worked well. Had a laugh when Jaymis called to see whats up and i told him we were playing the sizing game and he was on his way over to pick up a flightcase anyway, so it worked out well. Given the gigs we do it soooo overdue. If all goes to plan, i will have some pics of everything and a story of the full process for CDM so everyone can share in our “messy cables to hard shell robotwars” journey. Minus the robot wars… that bit is just because im about to see Transformers and am excited.

It plays movies and games (optionally over your TV) and a version of pd!!

http://mccormick.cx/projects/gp2xPd/page/install

quote from ConsoleSource:
* PC Programming:
Basic Programming: Linux
Windows: Programmable by installing Cygwin

* Open SDK and SDL:
Supports software development library : SDL(Simple Direct Library)
Basic Library
Graphic library (Sound library)
Hardware I/O library

Now I just have to talk my wife into believing that its for music and not for the games.

Amen brother! I felt a wave of relief wash over me as I read this.

The tools are not the thing.

1) We wore space suits because, erm, no reason. Its not really the norm to wear space suits in progressive house i assure you but, erm, again, no reason. Cost: $80 AUD

2) It was the last gig where it takes us half an hour to set up all the gear. That might not seem a lot but we have been doing this for a long time and would win some kind of medal at the “Setting up an electronic live act with routing complexity and midi chains in the dark” olympics. Finally the flight cases come by the next gig end of this coming week so we can turn up, take the lids off, plug in two things and erm…. hmmm… havent thought that far. Now im a little scared. Cost: Under $500 each band member for large custom fitted case.

Any ideas what we should do with our spare time
Peter, or anyone else? Maybe berate (CDM contributor and Segue’s VJ) Jaymis for not coding any Jitter for us yet??? Maybe go out and get in line for the new Apple iPh… erm.