In what I can only describe as the most horiffic moment in the studio, Saturday night while installing the software for the new akai mpd16 and the drivers for the oxygen 8 (so that it would also function over usb), the hard drive errored. Essentially the mac equivalent of the file allocation table got corrupted. I never quite reached the point of panic, but I was pretty close by Sunday morning.

Thankfully some of the guys at twelvestone were able to help me out. For $99 It looks like on the surface I’m going to be able to get back at the very least the cubase files for all the current tracks in production. So for about four hours last night I sat with Data Rescue pulling material off the drive. It’s looking like I’m only going to have to search for one track on a backup elsewhere (maybe i’ll be lucky and a copy of it still exists on another partition). If I can’t find it, I’ll have to sit down with the audio file for “Simulated Stimulation” and begin resequencing it. To me it’s not a huge loss as I was already contemplating doing some drastic things to it anyways given it’s original conception is no longer a influence.

Now the drive (made by lacie which i’ve never had issues with) is at most three months old which begs the question of why did it happen. Was it my own fiddling with the OMS studio set up while Cubase was opened? I’ve done that before with no issues.

so now we are up to 3 rules in the studio:

1. No beer past this line. You spill on it, you buy it. More for others than us.
2. Turn off the heat upon exit.
3. Create a cd of all related files for the track worked on that evening before leaving.

Xipetotec was able to get all the effects processors to step through their programs by changing the setting on the 8024, but also discovered that the newest effects processor (the behringer virtualizer pro) has a piss poor midi implimentation. factory presets are in the first 100 slots, and there is no way to jump to the user stored presets. So it and two unused old effects processors (the alesis microverb 3 and lexicon a|ex) were pulled from the effects rack to be traded in for credit on a lexicon mpx-1.

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