Revisting the “The Planets”
I have previously shared about Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” a magnificent and expansive orchestral work that encompasses nearly every aspect of composition imaginable. In an earlier project, I used source files from MuseScore.org to create a digital performance, which mainly involved correcting errors in the MuseScore files and then producing a MIDI output for Cubase. This time, my approach was different. I imported what I could into Dorico using MusicXML and manually entered the rest.
The latest in video technology.
The Latest in Video Technology: Jellyfin and Plex Video Servers Pros and Cons of Jellyfin and Plex I recently updated my home video system to a new 4K capable TV and now a new 4K/8K Home theater AV receiver. MY existing AV receiver was pushing 30 years old and though capable of Dolby Digital and DTS Digital, it is not capable of handling the newer uncompressed audio formats and height capable formats such as
Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
Wow – what a weird title. If you’re an anime fan, I guess it makes sense. So, what were the issues that brought about Windows 3.0? Let’s dial the time machine back to 1990, back when Windows finally became successful, became king and Lorded it over OS/2 and the other wanna-be UI systems like Digital Research’s GEM, IBM’s text-based TopView and even the Macintosh. I was there. The story below is a great vignette of
Today a fool, tomorrow a prophet
I just finished watching the first season of Dune: Prophecy and am beside myself. Having read all of the many books in the Dune series from Frank Herbert, and on to his sons, this is the first time that I’ve ever felt that a visual production matched it’s literary equivalent. It was magnificent. The story is told from the perspective of the Bene Gesserit around the time of it’s founding following the Butlerian Jihad
Notation Must Die!
I just came across one of Tantcrul’s videos explaining how musical notation came to be, and the never-ending quest to improve things. TL;DR Nothing is worse than the current state of musical notation, except for all of the alternatives. Great show – worth the watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4
New NAS
I recently put out the cash to purchase one of these new NAS (Network Attached Storage) systems for use at home. These are somewhat different than the usual USB-attached hard drives we are all familiar with. I’ve use an external USB-attached drive as a backup target for many, many years. I’ve had 2,4,8 GB versions and so on and they’ve all done OK over the years for the most part. The last one, though started