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My site is a place where I will share the things I find interesting. There is a slim chance you’ll find it interresting, too. If you wonder, these things will be music, making music, computers, making music with computers, and gaming, playing games with computers, and miscellaneous other things, probably related to computers, using computers, and perhaps even building computers.
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I am John Sandlin.
Currently I am learning Piano using Playground Sessions. You’ll find me lurking in the Facebook “Playground Sessions Community” and occasionally posting videos of my progress in my quest to learn to play piano.
I use Cakewalk SONAR Platinum when I’m working on music not related to Playground Sessions. If you’ve heard of SONAR before, you might have heard that Gibson Brands, the parent company, closed it down. A new company, BandLab purchased the intellectual property and is planning to bring it back. Their announcement is here.
Now that BandLab has released an Early Version of their replacement for SONAR, called Cakewalk by BandLab, I very well may be using that instead. I’ll have both installed for a while. The extras that come with SONAR work in the new Cakewalk by Bandlab – which does not come with the extras.
I started a new project to make a MiniDexed synth. The little synth recreates, to a large degree, the famed Yamaha DX 7 Synth (minus the keyboard and “front panel”). The MiniDexed uses a Raspberry Pi as the base, with a couple of knobs and a simple text display. I’ve ordered a project box to …
I’ve been playing Starfield. At this point I have nearly 150 hours in the game. Without spoilers, or at least not many, I want to tell you what I found in this game. The game starts out (so this isn’t much of a spoiler) with you riding a mineshaft elevator down to the current active …
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Long ago I put a few stories up on a site called Ficly The point of the site, in the words of the Ficly admin: Ficly is about creativity. When I was originally thinking about this idea, I was looking for something creative I could do for the last fifteen minutes of my lunch break …