I lived in Newburyport for twenty years, and spent a good portion of my teenage years working on a farm in the north-end of town. Having access to the farm was great because it abutted the 400’ish acre Maudslay State Park on like three sides, far at the back-end of the park – away from the main entrance and most of the foot traffic. This allowed my buddies and me to ride our bikes around the park almost every day, getting more and more familiar with the trail system from the inside out. In fact, I even used to drive Hay Rides in the park during the late 80’s and early 90’s.
I have a lot of history in the park, and a lot knowledge about the park itself. People have actually joked with me about giving tours around the park because I spit things out like “Hey, that’s the fairy garden,” or “If look down here you will see the old well,” or “The Castle sat right on the hill here, you can see the steps over there,” and a bout hundred other interesting facts about the park. Well, at least interesting to me…
I recently picked one of these up. I absolutely love it, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a simple way to cut a demo or capture song ideas. The layout is very simple, the quality is good, and for the price you also get a decent mixer to boot! If anyone has any feedback or review, feel free to post about it.
Product Description:
The Korg D888 Digital Recording Studio is an eight-input/eight-output mixer and eight-track hard disk recorder in one easy-to-use unit. Best of all for those used to analog recorders the D888 has a very analog-like look and feel that’s comfortable and very easy to use. The input jacks trim knob three-band EQ controls pan knob and fader are all placed in a straight line for each channel and channel settings are obvious at a glance. A backlit LCD screen provides additional information that’s easy to understand.
Each channel has a high-performance balanced mic preamp with TRS and XLR inputs with 48V phantom power. As a standalone mixer the 1/4″ outputs are configured to provide Monitor Out L & R; Master Out L & R and individual outs for channels 5-8 or you can switch to eight individual outputs.
The D-888 provides 16-bit/44.1kHz uncompressed recording quality with eight tracks simultaneous play and record in WAV format. You also get eight virtual tracks for each track for a total of 64 tracks in addition to a stereo master track. The recording section has easy-to-use tools like punch-in/out copy and swap operations four editing locate points for each song one hundred mark points non-destructive editing Undo and Redo functions eleven types of digital master effects and 3-band EQ on each channel. The D888 also has an assignable metronome two indpendent headphone jacks 40GB hard drive a USB 2.0 connector MIDI Time Code transmit and optical optical S/PDIF outputs.
You also get Cubase LE Recording Software thrown in Free
We have all seen the “Free unlimited access to millions of mp3 downloads” offers that pop up all over net. I never give them much attention, it’s all just spam to me. But I got to thinking about it the other day while going through my MP3 song collection. If this is real, and the offer stands, why the hell would anyone turn this down!?
I mean honestly, do you really need any more time than a week to download all the music you could possibly want? Seriously, I could probably fill my IPOD in like two hours with a decent connection, let alone an entire week. This has to be the best offer I’ve seen yet when it comes to accessing downloadable media.
Stop and think about it. Get the trial, download all the music you can for seven days, and then just cancel. It’s a complete no-brainer! Take a day off from work even. Is there a catch?
Ok, I’m not one to gawk over every ludicrous YouTube clip I get referred to, but this one is just too cool to resist. Someone built a fully-auto, motion-sensing, paintball sentry powered by a laptop. Obviously this person needs some sort of “most dangerous toy” award or something.
Developers continue to argue whether it’s really that important to publish everything using the “Strict DOCTYPE”, or if valid markup code is really even that important. While this is a discussion for another time, I try to publish every site I author in Valid, Strict xHTML. I believe standards are made for a reason, and if you wish to write good code - just follow the standards.
Occasionally I find the need for a page element that is not considered valid xHTML-Strict markup. Once big one that has come up is the good ole’ “iFrame” tag. Granted you can always change the DOCTYPE to “Transitional” and still have valid code, or you can use the “Object” tag to get the same results and be valid. In the past I’ve done both of these, but I’d rather use the Strict DOCTYPE and let’s face it; “Object” tags simply do not play nice across browsers. I’m sure there are other ways to display this sort of content, but I’ve yet to find any useful. Regardless, I found what I think is a MUCH better way to display iFrame content, both technically speaking and considering Search Engine Optimization (SEO; search bots don’t like iFrames). I wanted to share in case someone else finds himself or herself in the same situation.
Note: This outline is designed for people with at least a little or moderate developing experience. Also, this technique is a workaround that is SEO friendly for use when iFrame content is inevitable. It should be noted that iFrames are not valid elements for a reason and should be filtered out if possible.
