Prior to this month, I was grappling with a bit of dilemma. On all of my 4 functioning workstations (MacPro, Mac mini, and two laptops), I had different versions of command-line job tools installed. So when I call up a tool – say, “jQuote” for assessing/quoting Japanese VO scripts – it’d behave differently across workstations… … Read more
After years of pondering over, we finally went Source-Connected (“Standard”… and not that pesky “Now”, if you know what I mean). Yey!! We look forward to more real-time, fast, and sure collaborations!!
May the new year be filled with opportunities, positive ideas, and happiness!皆様の新しい年が希望と喜びに満ちた年になりますように。令和3年度も何卒ご贔屓のほどよろしくお願いいたします! Best regards,Oki – m2pi
A new mic preamp is here in our studio: BAE 1073MP: Sonically speaking, it’s a significant leap forward from Focusrite ISA One that we used for 11 years (!). Now with my beloved AKG C-414 XL-II, my voice sounds PRISTINE to say the least! After using this 1073MP for an hour or so, I switched … Read more
TTM – Telegraphic Transfer Middle. I came up with this command line tool, to download the month-end list of TTM rates for specified year. Here’s how it looks: You are welcome to download it, and use it if you’d like: https://m2pi.net/ready/miscellaneous/getTTM.zip
First of all, we now have a new recording room. The room is fully tuned, and is VERY quiet to the point that silence hurts my ears! I thought we were ready to grapple with the COVID-19 crisis … but I was wrong. The wave was so huge! Due to the coronavirus-related lockdown of the … Read more
… of broad beans. You have to eat right, to do good jobs. No photos of broad bean pottage is available; we were so hungry that evening that the soup disappeared instantaneously.
Until today I kept wondering how I should get to my trusty old Dashboard apps … then found out that the feature is stripped off entirely from this new Mac OS (“Catalina”): It took me a while to figure this out myself. Oh well…
It took me some courage to finally jump off the cliff, to get a Catalina-installed machine. Phew!! Since my main task is voice production, I really had to make sure my audio tools run flawlessly. I must make sure my main audio interface – UA Apollo Twin Duo – functions well via Thunderbolt 3 ports. … Read more
Wow! Year 2019 is already gone. Such an awesome year it was, eh? We relocated to this new place closer to Tokyo (an 1.5 hr. drive away). We have a better, faster, more accurate data processing framework, with drastically less errors in our products. I am much healthier than ever, with my right Achilles … Read more