#84

Huh, maybe it’ll come back. Thanks for that.

#85

A software update, and a question:

First the question: Is there a good Windows 10 English language dictionary application anyone might recommend? I didn’t realize how much I use the one built into the Mac. I never really depended on the Mac one, but it was/is a useful tool.

Typora: So far, this is the best Ulysses replacement I’ve found for Windows, at least for me. This is based on my specific use of Ulysses, which focused mostly on how it allows you to break up a document into subsets. Typora isn’t quite there, but the “table of contents”/Outline feature is close enough, that at least for mid-form if not truly long-form writing, it’ll due for the time being. (Scrivener is very impressive, and as soon as Scrivener 3.0 comes out I will more likely push through to employ it, but the antiquity of the current interface is really showing.)

#86

I was wondering: what do you all use to navigate/organize your sample libraries?

Also, had anybody else the problem that most media players (VLC, Foobar, etc.) won’t play audio or plain crash when having only the USB audio interface plugged in (and the internal one disabled)?

#87

VLC is working fine for me. Only audio-related crash I’ve had so far was in Adobe Audition: I was jumping around the waveform very quickly and it froze up. I thought I’d lost the file and/or had to reinstall Audition, but after rebooting all was well.

#88

I’ll have to investigate that…
Anyway, I can happily report to have found an answer to my first question. Just discovered this application here: https://resonic.at/
I wish I had known about this earlier! It’s a pretty straightforward audio file manager with previous and all.

#89

Cool. Does the free one do what you want, or did you splurge on the Pro?

#90

I’m just using the free one.
By basic needs are just previewing, moving, renaming, copying, deleting files. Not sure I really need any of the more advanced features.

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#91

That makes sense. Checking it out now.

#92

Well … looks like I am returning this Huawei Matebook X Pro. I’ve had trouble with the audio and video drivers since I got it, resulting in freezing and crashes, and despite the help of Microsoft Windows support (a terrible experience I won’t go into details on) and Huawei (excellent after the first hour, but the first hour was a nightmare), I’ve been told the best thing to do is to return it. Wiping the drive now. Not sure what I’m going to do next, either try another Windows laptop or wait until the next MacBook Pro (and hope for a better keyboard). Anyhow, thanks for this thread. I hope to have reason to participate again.

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#93

Thanks for your input on the matebook as a pro audio computer too!

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#94

Interesting. So, the issues I noted have been there from the start. To clean the hard drive before returning, I did a full system reset. Oddly, the issues that existed when I first turned on the laptop no longer seem to exist. I may push the machine hard for a couple days before returning it.

#95

Is there any bloatware on the computer pre-installed by Huawei ? (And if so, did you reinstall that as well?) That’s a huge deal breaker for me I like as few system softwares as I can on any machine I have.

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#96

It’s pretty limited. There’s a PC Manager that handles drivers, and then some hardware-specific stuff from Intel, NVIDIA, Realtek, and Dolby.

#97

I’ve been quite happy with my “Porsche Design Book One” bought it in 2017 for 2600€ but you can get it now for 1200 €. It’s basically a surface book but with usb-c and thunderbolt. Only 3 downsides are the 1) 3200x1800 resolution which from an aspect ratio perspective make it not that great for reading and annotations. 2) there’s a slight rattle noise when you tap the track pad, as there is no screw underneath it to hold the bottom tight. 3) the bottom part holding the second battery and keyboard has a high pitched noise when it is not attached to the upper part.
Imho as long as there’s no new surface book, I would still get the Porsche one (plus it looks good :blush:)

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#98

Yeah, everything now seems to be working, so I’m pretty sure I’m going to keep the machine. It does seem like all the issues related to that one extra piece of software, this GeForce thing that I’ve seen a bunch of complaints about online. In retrospect, the issues with the Ableton installation were specific to the graphics of the machine, so it makes sense that in the fresh install when I just didn’t use this GeForce thing, Ableton installed on the first try. I just re-installed pretty much everything, and it works fine, including the new Reaktor Blocks stuff that just came out. Within minutes of installation I had Blocks running, using a Launch Control for MIDI and my Scartlett 2i4 to get the audio out of my laptop and, via a mixer, into my monitors. This is great.

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#99

OK, two recommendations now that this machine is running well:

Hourglass is the simple timer I’d been looking for. And it’s free: https://chris.dziemborowicz.com/apps/hourglass/.

OneCalendar is the simplest way I’ve found to have multiple Google Calendars appear in one clean (if very colorful) Windows 10 calendar. The default Calendar app doesn’t allow you to invite people to events, and the Outlook one is, well, it’s sorta overkill for my basic needs. (I may move up to Outlook at some point.) It’s in the Microsoft app store. I paid for the $4.99 upgrade for some bells and whistles, and to support the developers.

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#100

Can anyone recommend a Windows replacement for Loopback / Soundflower on the mac? I’d like to be able to route audio between applications. I thought Windows 10 supported this natively, but it’s not working the way I thought it would?

I googled and see a couple of options, is there a tool that people have used and trust that you can recommend?

#101

I’d be curious too. I suspect that this was intentionally made difficult as a sort of misguided attempt to prevent music piracy. It’s been a while, but I seem to recall giving up and using physical cables to route audio back into analog inputs on my interface.

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#102

For that I used Jack, not most user friendly interface but it worked fine!

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#103

My specific use case is I’d like to route Ableton output to Open Broadcast Studio for Twitch streaming. My current work around is to route my Kmix physical audio out through another USB sound card. This isn’t a terrible solution, but I’d rather just route inside the machine.