Now all of this was supposed to work fine on Mark’s dual-quad core Mac Pro with 16gig of memory. However the problem with apple marketing lends you to believe that 10.5 is a 64bit operating system allowing you to use 16gig of memory in a program. It is actually true, however one problem is that Logic IS NOT natively a 64bit programme, hence you cannot use more than about 3.9gig of memory. Logic alone takes up approx 1.9gig of memory, not leaving a\lot of the 3.9gig left for samples.Įnter Plogue Bidule. This is a fantastic program that can be rewired into Logic. This allows you to use another set of 3.9gig on top of the 3.9 gig in Logic. Not too bad. However some problems when changing Logic sessions with rewire crashing, and some performance issues with Play (East West’s sample playback engine) led us to go back to our original concept of running separate computers to generate different sounds. The holy grail of one computer, one programme, producing all sounds is still a far off dream it seems. At least until the migration to full 64bit systems and 3rd party software are realised. It’s looking great! This week saw us purchase a new Inte I7 Nehlam 2.6ghz Computer. This was due to Mark purchasing East West’s Composer Collection. Now the background with this has been, for years Gigasampler was the primary source for orchestral sounds for the projects we did. With Tascam now discontinuing support for Giga, and Vienna Symphonic Library require a lot of $$$ to update to the new Vienna system, the choice to change over to East West’s Orchestra was made. We would still use the VSL on the Giga computer as a supplement. New furniture, new wiring, new Digi Icon D-Command Control surface plus a new lick of paint on the floor. You have your very own sea-bed-view.I have been in working with Mark McDuff renovating Farmhouse Studio. Now it’s definitely dry, stick the porthole edge over your picture, et voila. OPTIONAL: When you think it’s dry, try holding it upright: stick back on everything that falls off. I also cut a few fish from some orange foam I had lying around, but you could add anything- submarine, mermaid, Atlantis, that kind of thing. Smother your blue paper plate in the afore-mentioned liberal amounts of glue, then stick on your ‘beach bits’ to create your sea-world. Just draw small circles at intervals around your porthhole. Once dry, I added rivets with a marker pen. Paint your full plate in bluey-greeny sea colours, and the other plate (porthole) a contrasting colour. First, cut the centre from one of the two plates- this will be your porthole. You need a couple of paper plates, paint, marker pens, glue, and random beach bits (see above!)ġ. In this instance, ‘proper craft’ involved liberal amounts of gluing. Studying shells is such fun: you can categorise them, draw faces on them, make animals from them and, as we did, use them to print with.Īnd when you’ve finished, and your little sister is all tucked up for her nap, you can do ‘proper craft’. Once I’d had a sneaky sort through the more general of the detritus, and we’d cleaned the shells, we got busy. We came home with buckets rammed to the brim with shells, sand, seaweed, bits of driftwood and general beach detritus. We do that most weekends, to be fair, but this particular week, Little Big Girl was intent on finding shells, and DA was happy to join in. Added to which, with the days getting shorter, the weather getting colder and the Back to School vibe in the air, I know that soon enough the weather will get all wintery and dark and wet, and our activities will become a lot more home-centred.Ī few weekends ago, we had a lot of fun on the beach. That’s probably why I like to get out with the Girls as much as possible: the fresh air will tire them so that at least bed will be a simple procedure. By the time we hit breakfast, I’m ready to go back to bed. I’m exhausted just typing it, although that may have something to do with the fact that the Dimpled Assassin likes to start the day early, and when I say that, I mean a time with the number 5 in it. Try saying that after a couple of drinks: how to make a paper plate porthole picture, how to make a paper plate porthole picture.
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