Take a look at the picture below.

Yep. It became this:

Gerador Zero - Washing Machine
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And a happy new year to you too, sir.

Mash-up novo do MECHUPA, Kiss my Queen.

MECHUPA - Kiss my Queen

Tá faltando update, eu sei, mas eu estou trabalhando pacas e quase não conseguindo tempo para encaixar um podcast. Fora isso tem Twitter, né? Acaba dando preguiça de escrever no blog.

Já faz um tempo que eu preciso dar uma rearrumada no site e estou trabalhando nisso. Por enquanto, siga os links ali do lado esquerdo.

Até 2009!

Yep, the new MacBooks are here. They’re beautiful, glossy, made of aluminun and actually worse than the previous batch for music and video producers.

This has been all over the place this week, but here’s an executive summary: Apple has dropped the firewire ports from the lower-end Macbook without adding a viable alternative. You’re stuck with only two USB ports and absolutely no way whatsoever to add more ports, as the ExpressCard slot is only available on the more expensive MacBook Pro.

I could live with the lack of Firewire if I had more USB ports to boot. Before you say “buy a USB hub, n00b!’, let me say that hubs don’t work when you’re using external audio interfaces. They introduce huge latency problems, which makes them impossible to use. Hard disks also don’t work too well. I’ve had random disconnection issues with all external enclosures I’ve tried.

I currently have a white MacBook, which comes with two USBs and one Firewire port. I’ve just bought an external firewire enclosure so I can free one of my usb ports in order to leave my soundcard plugged along with a HD plus a USB hub with two MIDI controllers and a mouse.

The fun part is that I also have an old Toshiba Pentium M 1.5 notebook with 3 USB ports. As you may have already guessed, I WOULDN’T have to buy any additional hardware to accomplish what I want if I was still using it.

Here we have a supposedly higher-end hardware which introduces connection problems that I wouldn’t have with an older, low-end hardware released over three years ago.

Makes you think, doesn’t it? Apple is hurting their most loyal customers choosing form over function. Truly a shot in its own foot.

O GZ apareceu no Podbility dessa semana, yay!

Podbility, para quem não sabe, é o podcast da Bullet, produzido pelo Maestro Billy. Além da propaganda gratuita (thanks, guys!), no final eles incluíram um trecho de oggenc -q 6 $x na versão do Concerto para Harpa e Notebook.

Clica lá que vale!

My beautiful kid open-source VST plugin Single Knob Filter appeared on Create Digital Music, making me really proud. :-)

It made the news because it’s being shipped with the Ableton live presets for the Aurora open-source DJ mixer/controller. That’s the beauty of open-source projects: you really never know where they will end showing up.