Cementing your Workout
A few months prior to the new year, I decided to get a leg up on exercise. Something about seeing yourself on a video camera for several days in a row helps to show you where your weak spots, and fluffy spots are.
As soon as I got back from my Lynda shoot, I decided to get a gym membership, and purchase some sessions with a personal trainer. This was a truly wonderful experience considering the only fitness instruction I'd ever received had been from drill sergeants yelling at groups of us, aside from a few sessions with a really, really fit Sergeant Major that I used to work with that showed me the 'Abs of Steel' workout once. And believe me, that was some time well spent there, even when my abs have appeared to get fluffy over the years, they've remained rock hard underneath the cotton, only because I continued this workout somewhat through the years. Read More...
G.W. Childs Lynda Course
Recently, I was given the chance to write and create my first video course, and I couldn't have asked for a better partner. Lynda.com and I worked together over the later part of last year in putting together a really cool course on 'Using Reason and Record on Stage'. In this course we actually got a live band together, Kelly's Lot, and talked about some of the things that you'd need to know in order to bring your laptop on to the stage with you. I also got to spend time in a wicked, cool isolation booth creating some tutorials for sound creation, as well as practical Reason patching with live performance in mind.
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Hot Swapping Audio Devices
Over a few weeks I’ve had some strange crashes on my Macbook Pro.
It all started after l had installed Pro Tools 8 LE on my system. After a while of sustained usage, or being on for several hours, suddenly, the machine would give me a complete kernel error or “You need to reboot, to do this, hold the power button...’.
Not a fun message, especially if you are writing a blog like I am now and suddenly... Yeah, you get the picture.
After this really messed me up, I finally sat down and started checking out my system report after the crash. The root of the crash was the ‘digi.core.audio’ driver. Mind you, I had forgotten about the Pro Tools installation at this point and this served as my reminder.
After looking around on the Digi forums and a little here, and a little there, I discovered the cause, effect and solution.