A string of annoyances

[mdlbear]

A major string of annoyances in the recording/editing workflow:

1. The hard drive in my recording machine (harmony) died.
2. I've had the devil's own time getting it up and running with the old 40GB drive it used to have, in part because I stupidly tried to add a third memory stick to it. Turns out it can only handle two of whatever I already had in it.
3. The soundcard in my main workstation (trantor) doesn't have the bass response I need to detect excessive booming in my guitar.
4. The Linux sound system (ALSA) appears to get massively confused when I try to log in simultaneously on two different machines with different sound configurations. Which means I can't easily use harmony for editing the way I was a few weeks ago when it still had its old disk.
5. Harmony doesn't have enough compute power and RAM anyway, and it's a little too noisy to keep in the studio bedroom in any case.
6. Although I could swear that I had my USB audio interface (an Edirol UA-25) working on Linux at one point, it doesn't seem to be working now. So I can't use it on the workstation. (It's possible that I could use it if I could figure out the right magic config stuff to use with ALSA.)
7. I've wasted much of yesterday evening and all of this morning finding all this out.

For now I'll record on harmony, edit on trantor and use dead reckoning on the EQ, but it will probably be worth my while to either move the good sound card to trantor, or get another like it. And right now the office is almost quiet enough to record in, so that may actually work.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping your string doesn't become a frayed knot.

[mdlbear]

Well, it's already become a bad joke. Does that count?