Lone in the night

In Visio, the text on the connector is always horizontal by default. When the page becomes crowdy, it might be useful to set the text alongside the connector path. On, in a more general way...   How to... In the option menu, enable the Developer Mode: File → Options → Advanced → General , check Run in developer mode Now you can left-click on any link to display the ShapeSheet In the ShapeSheet , go to the Text Transform section In the TxtAngle setting, replace the current angle (0 deg) by this formula: =ANGLEALONGPATH(Geometry1.Path,1)+IF(COS(ANGLEALONGPATH(Geometry1.Path,1))>=0,0,180°)

Pour ne pas tomber dans le piège... Je reçois depuis quelques jours des courriels très bien faits m'invitant à consulter mon compte Paypal ou m'indiquant qu'un colis n'a pu être délivré par UPS. Et le hasard fait que je reçois ce courriel justement le lendemain d'un achat. Ces courriels sont faux et ne sont que des tentatives d'hameçonnage (phishing) afin de récolter des informations personnelles. Vers où veut-on m'amener ? En passant la souris sur les liens (SANS CLIQUER !), des détails s'affichent en bas de l'écran. Le lien nous amène vers epl.paypal-communication.com/... ou epl.ups-delirery.com/... Alors, des vrais ou des faux ? Les noms de dommaines sont gérés de manière internationale, en collaboration entre les pays. Tout en haut de la pyramide se trouve un organisme américain, l'ICANN. Pour vérifier un nom de domaine, on peut recourir au service whois de l'ICANN. Est-ce que UPS est vraiment UPS ? Interrogeons l'...

A new folk reach my studio: an EMU Proteus 2500. Comprehensive design with many bells and whistles (layering, multi-track sequencer, arpeggiator, 2 FX engines) and a huge user manual - 356 pages. I only scratched the surface so far; the built in patches are weak by nowadays standards, but the filters are still simply ... wow!

The rackmount version of the Roland Jupiter 6 was the MKS-80, released in 1984. A dedicated programmer was then available, the MPG80. 30 years later, the MKS-80 is a sought after intrument and the MPG-80 is even rarer. My project is to recreate a MPG-80, based on modern components, Because of the position of the MPG-80 in the MIDI chain, I take this opportunity to add some goodies: - a main power switch to swith on/off both units - a upper/lower toggle switch which avoids to select it on the MKS-80 - an arpeggiator syncable on MIDI and External trigger - More memory to store paches and tones - Menu switches & LCD display to add further goodies In the original MPG-80, there is no feedback from the MKS-80. Hence, no protocol is possible (ie the MPG-80 cannot read the settings from a patch; it only sends the new values to the MKS-80). In the new version, there are 2 MIDI IN, which allows a feedback from the MKS-80. The MPG-80 can request the parameters from a...

Recently found, an up-to-date wiki on the old faithfull Atari: http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

This the very early stage of my new project : to sync the arpeggiator with MIDI Time Clock. Update: this project is still (slowly) evolving. The MIDI board (KLM605) is based on a 63B03 (IC4), where a 2764 (IC2) contains the program (8K EPROM). My first idea was to get the MIDI flow after the PC900. But now, I wonder if I can decompile the 2764...

I purchased my Roland SC55 in France circa 1992. It worked very well until a few weeks ago, when I noticed the unit always resets when it receives MIDI notes. I first suspected the power supply, but it was working just fine. So, it's time to open the unit.. Hopefully, I could grab the Service Manual quite easily on the web, and I have an oscilloscope. What is going on? Ok, here is what I can see: - the unit boots up just fine - when it receives a few MIDI notes at low velocity, it still works fine - when it receives MIDI notes with high velocity, it reboots - when it receives other MIDI data (such as pitch bend), no problem. - when I try to play a demo song, it reboots From what I observe, the unit resets not when is has to process MIDI data, but when it has to generate a waveform with high volume. Also, after a certain amount of time, obviously when the unit gets warm, it starts resetting in loop. My guess is something wrong with the power line (bad regulator,...