The modern church has somewhat ruined the Bible talk of “spiritual warfare” – the verses are repeated too much. Yet, recently I released that the absolute best way to handle some strange bits of thinking (scrupulosity, OCD) are to immediately classify it as a spiritual attack. Identify it as such and move on immediately.
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Parenting
When a child is egregiously rude, what to do? Demand an apology? Punish? Maybe as a child that works but as they get older it can often drive away. Some older children may respond well but what if you know from past experience you are dealing with a child who will not back down and …
Removing silent wav files
I use the following script to copy files from my 16 track stems. The script copies the files over, then uses sox to find “silent” files and remove them.
Behringer UFX 1604 mixer shows “nac” when trying to record to usb
If your Behringer UFX mixer shows “nac” when inserting a usb you need to move the switch in the back to the middle position “Stand alone” mode. If the mixer is in usb or firewire mode the standalone mixer will not function. Once in stand alone the message “FSE” (or maybe “FOR”) means the drive …
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Patch Notes
4ms Stereo Triggered Sampler plays a user recorded sample of a marimba type sound playing a musical phrase Hemispheres LowerRentz (the first time I’ve used this in a patch) : Freq 234Rho 22X goes to Mutable shades with 2 o’clock attenuation, then to 4ms Start Pos CVY goes to Mutable shades with 12 noon attenuation, …
Compiling Mutable Instruments Peaks on osx Sonoma
Very rough notes on modifying peaks using a 2025 era apple os. edit the peaks/makefile and the stmlib/makefile.inc and
OP1 midi input/ouput with iConnect Midi
I recently decided to connect my OP-1 to din midi via the iConnectmidi USB host. However, despite recalling this working fine in the past, I ran into various problems. In this post I will outline a few problems and solutions. However first, let’s confirm how this setup should work when all is correct: You should …
Mutable Instruments Beads remix patch
This will create an automated remix/blend of two tracks. Play two bits of stereo audio track1 followed immeidatly by track2 press freeze Density at 2pm Pitch at noon Time at 9pm size at 5pm shape to taste peaks random lfo to time, attenuate at 3pm (optional – you can use the internal randomizer) (optional) peaks …
Compiling phazorville
Notes on the steps I took to add my apps to phazorville. I believe the first time I used the arduino ide and the “old” method to create a firmware then likely manually uploaded it. I tried today to use the “new” way. I did the following: curl -fsSL -o get-platformio.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core-installer/master/get-platformio.pypython3 get-platformio.py Which installed …
Future Retro Mobius battery change
I replaced the battery on my Future Retro Mobius. The installed one (I assume from the factory was a 3V CR2325. All I had to replace was a 3V CR2330. It fit and worked. Here are some photos from the inside: