Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Actually It's worse than that. The BIG SWITCH (tm) powers up an arduino > controlled sequential switcher. The keyboards are switched on first,then the > computer(configured to run when power appears). Once the switcher sees the 5V > from a USB socket it steps through and switches on all the other kit (amplifier > last). Closing down the computer means the loss of 5V tells the arduino to > switch all the gear off including the supply to the computer (amplifer first > this time). I can re-start by pressing a button on the switcher. So the > only standby power is a 10W switchmode PSU :) Oh my. One of my complaints I've had with this modern era of DAW recording, and also with the fact that I'm now actually able to afford gear better than when I was younger (hence I have more of it), is that whereas in the old days I used to be able to just hack together something in an Ensoniq on-board sequencer and a couple of drum machines, and send it to 4-track tape, now I'm always griping that making a song takes prior planning and lots of equipment setup and software configuration. Songwriting feels like planning a Space Shuttle launch. You have a big mission book, and an initialization procedure, and there needs to be a countdown with contingencies in case of launchpad failure. Sometimes you forget that you were writing music, and not trying to land on Mars. But damn, man...you take the cake. :) -- - Brent Busby + =============================================== + "The introduction of a new kind of music must -- Studio -- + be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for -- Amadeus/ -- + styles of music are never disturbed without -- Keycorner -- + without affecting the most important political -- Recording -- + institutions." --Plato, "Republic" ----------------+ ===============================================
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