Six Songs in 90 Days!

Wow, I didn't even come close. Only six songs and then I just quit. I'm such a quitter. How did I get this way?!

Since President Bush was kind enough to give me $600 over the summer, I took that money and went on Newegg to buy the components I needed to build me a new Core2 Duo machine! This machine replaces my Internet Surfing/Gaming machine, which was a lowly Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz with 1 gig of memory.

My new machine runs Vista 64 on the Intel Core2 Duo E7200 cpu, which is their value line, but still--it is wicked fast for me--way more so than the old P4.

My DAW remains the Athlon64. Everything is working fine on that, so I see no reason to muck it up, although part of me wants to run Vista 64 on that as well so I can run Sonar 64.

Today I installed my old copy of Cool Edit 2000 on Vista, and it works with no problems. That was the best wave editor ever, hands down. I needed it because I was working with a recording of a lecture that had an irritating hum, and Cool Edit 2000 removed it fine without leaving any warbly artifacts. That program was well worth the $69 I paid for it back then.

It makes me sad that Adobe bought them out, got rid of the value edition, and then turned Cool Edit Pro into the $300 monstrosity known as Adobe Audition. I miss those old programs--programs like Homesite, Cool Edit, Paint Shop Pro. I can't blame them for cashing in and selling to a bigger company, but man, those programs really worked. Those were the days!