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