Slacking Mumbles

Yikes, I have been seriously slacking in the blog department - haven't written here in quite while. I apologize. Been a distracting few days with some other projects going. Been trying to do a little research on my music gear. No gig last Wednesday - which was good as I wasn't able to locate an amp to use. My keyboard and rack use floppies to load sounds (720k ones even). It has the ability to use a SCSI hard drive, although getting that to work is a major pain. One problem is this unit is very fussy about what drives will talk. Second problem is I have an outdated version of the firmware which has real problems talkng to hard drives. Now the good news is that after about 6 years of promises, a site which supplies parts and pieces for these keyboards FINALLY has the new firmware for sale. So I'm going to try to get that as soon as I can. I du through the boxes this last week and located my 2 scsi drives I had set aside for this project. Hopefully they still work are being bonced around in storage for the last 2 years. I still need to find the custom SCSI cable I wired (hopefully correctly). It's an odd mix - 25 pin female D connector to 50 PIN IDC for the drive is a very hard combination to find. If I can make all this work, I can replace about 6 boxes of 720 disks, and be able to quickly load complex sounds and combinations live, not to mention leaving the 720k floppies in the closet. We'll see how that goes.
Been doing a lot of work with video lately. Still learning and refining the process to see what can be done. It's pretty amazing. In this day and age, with all the various software tools out there, we're getting real close to getting a complete video broadcast station in a box with ability to switch sources, put up stills, play movies, show multiple camera views at the same time - etc.. I see a real future in video and expect some exciting things down the road. More on that later.
Well it looks like the PSU Mobilization Alpha is a go. Still unsure if I can attend but I will continue to investigate options. A lot of things would have to come together and I am very doubltfull, but we'll see. A big hat's off to Trigger for all here hard work in getting this all organized.
Ok will wrap this out for now. Beautiful day here in the state of Maine today. Wife just walked in so off to spend time with here. L8tr peeps.