From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #195 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, September 22 2002 Volume 07 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: OT: live wireless of a different sort [Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: OT: live wireless of a different sort I moved to a very rural place about six months ago -- so rural that we have no street lights, no community water, propane instead of natural gas, etc. Well, no surprise, the phone service is somewhat dodgy. We can't even get caller-ID to work. It's a definate no-go for fancy things like DSL or even ISDN. Regular-old dialup on a noisy phone line wouldn't do, so, being as my husband manages the local ISP, and we're in the flat desert, a wireless solution was found. Until somebody puts up a building in the line-of-sight, we have a pretty good connection. The house is online, and we decided to put a secondhand computer in the barn. (!) So, tonight, CJ and I are talking via instant messenger between our house and barn. I send my missives from my computer, to the office, down to L.A., on to the Internet, then back God knows where through the AOL system, returning through the ISP 20 miles away, where it's carried wireless encrypted to my barn. The only thing cooler than that is I just realized Thomas could write a whole song about my live wireless transmissions which rise, circumnavigate the globe and deposit themselves 20 feet away. Where I could step out the back door and holler instead. Ain't technology great? Oh, and while I'm writing OT -- somebody please tell me if it's okay to be addicted to Changing Rooms. I Cannot Stop Watching This Show. thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:49:04 -0700 From: "Crackers" Subject: Alloy: Kid, you'll poke your eye out. One of the most annoying things abour recording MIDI sequences is laying down the drum tracks. Anyone who has ever tried to get a convincing live drum sound such as a run down the toms using a midi keyboard will know what I mean. The black and whites just don't cut it. Well I've finally taken a step to remedy that by buying a MIDI percussion controller that has seven drum pads and two footpedals on it. The pads can be played with hands or sticks so you can lay down trap tracks or conga with ease. Finally I'll be free of the black and whites for percussion. Of course this brings up a new problem. While I am pretty good with hand percussion, as soon as I stop slapping drums with my hands and clutch two wooden sticks I become a menace to myself and other. Something about holding the two sticks turns me into a complete spazoid and my sense of rythme goes flying out the window. Any drummers on this list who can give me a few pointers to keep me from causing physical injury to myself and my loved ones when I try to play with sticks? Crackers (Moonwatcher from hell!!!!) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #195 ***************************