Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

I’ve realized that all of my favorite songs utilize the Fairlight CMI synth, or at least attempt it’s abilities with a hard hit, with a reverb of the same programmed tune, downtoned with a slight volume envelope shift downwards..

Oh dear.. does this mean… could it be.. have I been downsampled?

I think I’ve just given up. I’ve been trying to discern this song for years! Now that I’ve found it, I think it’s one of my favorite 80s songs. I feel old. Too old.

Take On Me? A-Ha? Well, here’s the one we all know and love:

Ok, now, don’t click below unless you want your illusion shattered (It...

I find myself seriously lacking hardware, and soon, to be stuck supporting several new systems of various OS.

The joys of VMWare

How do you support it? Software! I’m in the process of creating several various production systems through the joy of virtualization: Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. This is nothing new – i...

DSP Worx has released a wonderful little shim which uses BASS to allow MOD/S3M/XM and other formats to Windows Media Player.

My laptop has been feeling like it was ‘slowing down,’ quite progressively over the last two weeks.

Of course, it’s been rather warm, and I thought it might have been due to the thermal sensors, but, no, the CPU fan really wasn’t running that hot, and this model laptop has no HD dedicated fan.

H...