Automatic, Systematic, Hydromatic...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
Movin’ right along around these parts. Various things, in no particular sequence:
1. In order to facilitate the 64-bit OS X versions, we apparently need to use the bleeding edge VSTGUI 4.0. I’m pleased to report that Adam has successfully built Discord 3 using VSTGUI 4, which required a lot of changes in our internal GUI code that took him the majority of last week. The only thing remaining is updating the compatibility layer we use to turn VSTs in to AudioUnits. This layer uses something called HIView, which is the Carbon API windowing system. We need to change it to something called NSView, which is the Cocoa windowing system, as there is no 64-bit Carbon. We don’t know exactly how complex that’s going to be, but we’re sanguine about things at this juncture.
As soon as the 64-bit OS X versions of Discord 3 are out, we’ll have a fairly rapid update to Axon, then turn our attention to the rest of the catalog. I’ll update as is necessary.
2. A bit outside the purview of this site, but for those of you that find my photography explorations interesting, I opened a Deviant Art account, the which you can find here. I’m only putting my current run of “serious” works (my dip- and triptychs, basically) up there; the majority of my photographic output will still go in my Flickr account as always. Slightly related: I got one of these the other day, an example of which you can see above. Fun little camera, and a hoot at a party.
3. Yes, the other Axon videos are coming.
4. Musically, I’m mixing the last RT60 song this week (it is, in fact, open on my music PC right this minute.) This record needs to be released on vinyl, but due to the heavy front-loaded costs, we’re exploring various options in that regard. One idea we’ve had is to have a separate Bandcamp item that gets the download, with a pre-order for the vinyl. If anyone has any different ideas in that regard, I’d love to hear about them. I’ve also got the next Micronaut EP, Capacitor, on deck (it’s about half way done) and the Many Moons (Selections 1998 - 2008) LP, which contains new-mixed versions of several Micronaut tracks, plus some unreleased stuff from the early days, is nearing completion as well.
5. And finally, today is the 7th Anniversary of the founding of Audio Damage, Inc. Yay, us, and a huge thank-you to anyone that ever bought a plug-in from us!
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Happy Anniversary AD! Thank YOU for making the last 7 years so full of techno [as well as 7 years of making me feel like a lazy and dumb asshole :]. You guys are great!
Happy Anniversary Chris.
May Audio Damage keep going for many years to come.
Now stop slacking reading this and get back to work.
Happy Anniversary AD! Thank YOU for making the last 7 years so full of techno . You guys are great!
Congrats to you and Adam on the milestone and beating the seven-year itch (or is that what comes at the seven-year mark?).
Given your research on the front-loaded costs of producing vinyl, might there be an AI post on the matter in the future?
Happy Anniversary, Chris and Adam!!!
happy birthday AD!
Happy 7 years guys. You've certainly had an impact on my musical output during that time.
As a now former label owner who released several things on vinyl I'm very curious to see what you come up with as a viable solution. I think this sort of things shows one of the last vestiges of the viability of the old-style record label conglomerate. Aside from the taste-maker aspect of a lot of smaller indie labels, one role that a profitable (or better yet, a for-proft) corporation (to use that word loosely) can play is as a specialized investment bank, and in many cases that's what record label is. It spreads financial risk among a larger pool of participants. If you can't spread the risk around than the investment becomes a lot less attractive. At least it did with me, as you pointed out, vinyl costs quite a bit to do properly, even a small run of it, and as a small label my profit margin was so low it couldn't absorb the potential loss if my pressings didn't pan out...
Good luck on the vinyl thing. I heartily recommend Archer Record Pressing in Detroit -- they're cheap, they do good work, and are good guys besides.
You do end up spending $1500 for ~500 records no matter where you go. Archer at least will do a good job. I think they have their own cutting lathe now, so you don't have to go somewhere else to get a lacquer cut.
Wow, 7 years old. Getting to be a young man now.
=o]
That instant camera looks interesting.
Congratulation AD!
Hugo
@chaircrusher: Archer doesn't appear to do sleeves, other than the plain ol' black w/ hole. What's the normal acquisition method there?
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