Blogging to Paradise

Well, I’m still working on SonicMood next version, alpha 12. My computer died about a week ago and it took a few days just to track down the problem (bad video card). I took a shot at just buying something from Best Buy (bad idea) but of course that video card didn’t work (Mac Pros are pretty particular about which video card you can use…) plus it wasn’t even as described on the box (only one DVI connector, not two). So I bought one that I knew would work (a very nice ATI Radeon 3870 HD MAC/PC edition) from Amazon with next day shipping.

Anyway, long story short, I’m back up and working on SonicMood again. I doubt I’ll make the “early June” hoped-for release date since I haven’t even started beta testing of this version. I’m also still struggling with the audio recording. Parts are looking pretty good, but I’m stuck at needing to use something like “Soundflower” (www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower) to get the recording input to work right. I may have to go with that this go-round and get something that works better for the next release.

That’s it for now - back to work!

Cheers,
John

I’ve been working hard on the next SonicMood update. I have the undo/redo working and also “digital recording” is coming along well. With this version you should be able to record both the instrumental sounds and the nature sounds to an audio file that you can move to iTunes and then upload to an iPod, etc.

There’s still more work to be done as I’m not yet happy with everything on the recording side.

I’m shooting for an early June release, but that could change depending on how long testing takes (and how many bugs show up…)

Cheers,
John