Thanks, Metroland Readers!

http://metroland.net/features.html The readers of Metroland, the venerable arts paper of the Capital Region, have voted: Best Local Solo Musician:  Mike Grosshandler Best Local Rock Band:  The Velmas (second place) Thanks to everyone who voted!  Hope to see lots of you out at Sage College on 3/27 4/24 (new date)!

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Experiencing technical problems

On Friday, I thought it was a good time to finally upgrade Pro Tools from 7.4 to 8.0.  8 has some cool new plug-ins and it seemed like as good a time as any to go for it.  Or so I thought.  I haven’t been able to get any work done since Friday. Upgrading PT broke my amp emulator plug-ins  (Amplitube2, Ampeg SVX Uno) and a synth that I might use (Analog Factory).  It also…

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Cleaning a keyboard

I’d been having some trouble with the left Alt and Windows key on my keyboard sticking the last few weeks.  That’s trouble in programs like Pro Tools where those keys can be very useful.  I got some compressed air and tried blowing out whatever dirt was in there, but it didn’t help.  So I decided to pop off the keys to see if I could clean out the keyboard a bit and fix the problem. …

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Windows 7 – What happens after August 1?

So, this Windows 7 beta expires August 1, 2009.  I, like many, was curious what would happen then, so I changed the date to Sunday, August 2, 2009 on my Win7 virtual machine. The first time I tried it, I got some error screen alerting me that my license had expired (or something to that effect) shortly after resetting the date to 8/2/09.  There was a red “X” to close the window, and a “cancel”…

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