I just needed a place where to ramble and dump all my crazy stuff
After losing almost another entire day due to erroneous information on the interwebz, I decided to write a small guide to help you understand (and convert) this old dinosaur known as “MIDI Sample Dump”, sometimes referred as MSD or MDSD. Now, a quick crash course/refresher about Decimals, Hexadecimal and Binary formats. Decimal is the system … Read more
I used to DJ a lot between 2009 and 2012. In 2011 I even landed a one-time job at new year’s eve in an amazing place which was excavated through big rocks underground and seemed like an ancient catacomb. Back then I used to play with a small, cheap Hercules DJ console and VirtualDJ, a … Read more
Following the suggestions of several people I know, I decided to (re)watch Slam Dunk, the original 101 anime episodes. I already watched some of it when it first aired in Italy on MTV, but unfortunately I missed most of the beginning and the ending and lots of episodes in between. It was also a lot … Read more
There’s a recurring question in my life which never seems to find a proper answer: “Why?” Thanks to a certain someone on Twitter, I got the itch to get my hands on a PowerPC Mac and while browsing the various wikis and websites about vintage macs, I already had in mind what I was looking … Read more
How do you compile static binaries on macOS? You don’t. Thanks for reading. In other news: on Linux you can easily compile static binaries because, as you might be already aware, most software on Linux is open source. That’s not the case on macOS because there are some system libraries which are, obviously, closed … Read more
Since I’ve bought my 49″ Philips ultrawide screen, I’ve been unable to play the only game that I’m aware was specifically made for a 32:9 aspect ratio: Dariusburst. Back when I was using 4 monitors (2 vertical at the sides, a big central one and another smaller one at the top center) with my Mac … Read more
There’s nothing more disheartening than working for an entire week on a track and then finding out that your sound module completely forgot all of the settings of the various instruments you carefully altered, layered and assigned a certain effect to (oh right, all the various effects settings are gone as well). Of course, that … Read more
I honestly think that Yamaha XG is one of the most underrated MIDI systems ever made. It got the bad stigma of being just a “better General MIDI” box (isn’t that the case with Roland GS as well?) without people realizing how flexible and powerful this system is. And not just for playing back MIDI … Read more
This post was triggered after the shitstorm that hit social media in the previous days and was directed at the art direction that Return to Monkey Island took. A quick TL;DR for those unaware: yes, Monkey Island is coming back, and in great style. Made by its original creator, Ron Gilbert, along with all the … Read more
EDIT: Looks like the posts are back up. I swear I’m just as confused as you. Oh, well. Today I woke up to discover that Facebook has decided, out of the blue, to nuke my latest two posts on my page. Just like that. Poof. Gone. Those were two posts linking to this blog’s articles … Read more